Welcome to this week’s edition of What's Happening in AI, covering the latest in policy, responsible AI, and where AI is going for the Responsible Innovation Labs community.

Below: Regulators back in session, AI alignment, molecules-to-aromas, LLMOps, new releases, and more

Policy

Americas: 

• Senate Committee to hold AI hearing on September 12
• Governor Newsom signs Executive Order on AI in California (more here)
• Senator Cassidy releases paper on AI in health, education, labor (more here)
• Prosecutors in every state push to combat AI child exploitation
• ICYMI: Musk and Zuckerberg are among the tech execs who will attend Senator Schumer’s first AI forum on September 13

Europe:

• UK government sets out AI Safety Summit ambitions 
• 5 things to know as the EU Digital Markets Act ramps up (more here)
• Report: UK Members of Parliament identify 12 challenges of AI governance
• Spain launches AI regulation agency in bid to become industry leader
• Britain admits defeat in controversial Online Safety Bill fight 

Asia:

• Baidu CEO says more than 70 LLMs approved and released in China
• NVIDIA CEO meets with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi 

Responsible AI

Governance and alignment:

• AI will scramble geopolitical power if left unchecked, Inflection AI’s CEO says
• OpenAI’s moonshot: Solving the AI alignment problem
• Survey: Experts favor new U.S. agency to govern AI

Health and science:

• This neural net maps molecules to aromas
• Could AI be the spark that ends the opioid epidemic?
• Sizing up AI's promise and limitations in cancer detection

Climate:

• New AI-generated map of the world’s trees and renewable energy projects

Resources:

• FACET: Benchmarking fairness of vision models (Meta)
• How to foster belonging and inclusion, with Ellen Pao (Multitudes)
• A list of open LLMs available for commercial use (Github Repo)
• Belebele: New benchmark for evaluation of massive, multilingual natural language understanding (Meta) 
• Teaching with AI (OpenAI)

Where AI is going

Society and politics:

• The who, where, and how of regulating AI – and where is the global south?
• Why the West is concerned about the UN cybercrime treaty
• Meet Aleph Alpha, Europe’s answer to OpenAI
• AI and the new digital Cold War

Defense:

• How autonomous drones beat the best human racers
• AI brings the robot wingman to aerial combat

Information and communication:

• New photon polarizer lights way to quantum communications
• The scoop on Gen Z and how they are rewriting the rules of the internet
• US Copyright Office’s public comment on AI and copyright opened August 30

Releases and partnerships:

• HuggingFace’s Training Cluster as a service
• Google’s SayTap: Language to quadrupedal locomotion
• Refact LLM (1.6B code model) reaches 32% HumanEval
• TinyLlama 1.1B parameter project kicked off September 1
• Falcon 180B introduced by UAE's Technology Innovation Institute
• Baidu launches Ernie chatbot after Chinese government approval 
• Tencent’s Hunyuan foundation AI model
• Alibaba Cloud’s Qwen-LM/Qwen-VL
• Salesforce revs its VC engine in the AI race

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