Responsible AI guidelines for startups, enforcing EU rules, new frontier model features, economic cases for generative AI, interviews with Anthropic’s Dario Amodei and OpenAI’s Mira Murati, and more.

Policy

Americas

• Responsible Innovation Labs convenes cross-sector coalition of VCs and experts including the U.S. Dept. of Commerce to develop responsible AI guidelines for startups
• Everything you need to know about the U.S. government’s efforts to regulate AI (Fast Company)
• Senators Thune and Klobuchar team up on ‘light-touch’ AI bill
• California gov. vetoes bill to ban driverless AV trucks (more here)

Europe

• EU warns TikTok and Meta over Slovakia election lies under the Digital Services Act
• UK dials up fight with Meta over encryption in line with the new Online Safety Bill (more here)
• EU tells Apple chief to 'open up' to rivals under the Digital Markets Act

More

• UN deadlocked over regulating AI and here's why it will be hard
• How China’s new AI rules could affect U.S. companies
• UAE wants to disrupt the AI superpowers

Responsible AI

Safety and alignment

• Improving AI with Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei (more here)
• Where we go from here with OpenAI's Mira Murati, CTO (more here)

Information

• “Reversal Curse” paper asks can LLMs trained on A is B infer automatically that B is A?
• Why Google’s VP Elizabeth Reid isn’t rushing AI search
• FCC Chair Rosenworcel proposes to restore net neutrality rules (more here)
• ICYMI: An AI content deluge is coming. Grammarly’s CEO Rahul Roy-Chowdhury wants to help

Sciences and health

• Finding battery minerals with AI, with KoBold Metals’ co-founder Josh Goldman
• Programmable DNA machines offer general-purpose computing
• GE HealthCare awarded a $44M grant to develop AI ultrasound technology, with focus on low-and-middle income countries

Identity, security, and data

• Metaphysic’s CEO Tom Graham wants to arm us in the fight against deepfakes
• DHS announces new facial recognition and analysis policies and proposes one common platform for reporting cyber incidents
• Togo harnesses AI to deliver responsive services in data scarce environment

Resources

• LLMs in Production: A virtual conference (MLOps Community)
• Age Assurance: Guiding principles and best practices (Digital Trust & Safety Partnership)
• The Responsible AI Leadership Summit (Credo.ai)
• Compute and AI: Guide and policy considerations (AI Now Institute)

Where AI is going

Capabilities

• ChatGPT can now search the web in real time and see, hear, and speak
• Spotify can translate podcasts into new languages
• Meta’s AI chatbot plan includes a ‘sassy robot’ for younger users

Economics and competition

• Explosive growth from AI automation: a review of the arguments
• A16z on the economic case for generative AI and Sequoia on its ‘Act Two’
• The FTC just hit Amazon with a major antitrust lawsuit (more here)

Future of work

• Hollywood writers' contract deal includes historic AI rules
• DOD Task Force Lima focuses on responsible use of generative AI in its department

Releases and raises

• Releases: Baichuan’s series of multilingual LLMs, Generative AI by Getty Images, Bard’s fact check features, Cloudflare’s Workers AI, Windows’ AI updates
• Raises: Anthropic ($4B), Pryon (data, $100M), HiddenLayer (security, $50M), Secoda (data, $14M); OpenAI allegedly nears an $80-90B valuation (more here)

Partnerships and splits

• Cisco makes largest ever acquisition, buying Splunk for $28B
• How Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott helped forge the OpenAI deal
• GGV splits off China business following congressional panel probe