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: California’s new VC diversity reporting law, EU’s DSA enforcement, and G7’s AI plans. Anthropic, DeepMind, GitHub on product and Cloudflare, AWS on security. New releases by ElevenLabs, more. Technology was supposed to prevent the Hamas attack – what happened?

Policy

Americas:

• California Governor Newsom passes law mandating VCs release investments’ diversity information (more here)
• Sen. Klobuchar, Rep. Clarke send Meta, X letters on AI-generated political ads (more here)
• US reportedly warns EU’s landmark AI policy will only benefit big tech

Europe:

• EU warns X and Meta over disinfo targeting Israel-Hamas war, re: DSA
• Snap’s AI chatbot draws scrutiny from UK regulator over kids’ privacy concerns
• EU sees 'convergence' with Japan on AI at UN Internet Governance Forum

More:

• Southeast Asia mulls more business-friendly approach to AI rules (more here)‍
• G7 to draw up AI code of conduct this autumn, reported to include watermarking

Responsible AI

Product and alignment:

• Anthropic on understanding language models
• Google DeepMind, Anthropic on AI “constitutions”
• GitHub’s Mario Rodriguez on building a $100M ARR product with responsible AI

Identity and safety:

• RunwayML on mitigating stereotypical biases in text to image generative systems
• Twitch adds anti-harassment features to stop banned users from watching streams

Security and cryptography:

• Cloudflare on HTTP/2 Rapid Reset: deconstructing a record-breaking attack
• Google on passwordless by default: making the switch to passkeys
• Bitcoin and Tether funnel millions of dollars to terror groups (more here)

Sciences and health:

• General Catalyst wants to buy a health system as testing ground for new venture
• Early exploration of OpenAI’s GPT-4V reading x-rays
• Munich startup Orbem banked $32M to scan eggs, says humans are next
• Microsoft announces new AI tools to help doctors deliver better care at HLTH 2023

Information and value exchange:

• Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on why the platform is opting out of AI
• A doctored Biden video is a test case for Facebook's deepfake policies
• Researchers, activists try to get ahead of AI-driven election misinformation

Resources:

• How AWS protects customers from DDoS events (AWS)
• Elections best practices guide (Integrity Institute)
• Securing the digital future (Semafor)

Where AI is going

Society and technology:

• Technology was supposed to prevent the Hamas attack. What happened?
• OpenAI’s Sam Altman on AI changing society (more here)
• Databricks' Ali Ghodsi talks about enterprise AI with a16z’s Ben Horowitz
• How Israel’s tech sector is coping with war (more here)

Capabilities:

• Theory’s Tom Tunguz on centaurs and cyborgs: the jagged frontier of AI (more here)
• I’m totally blind. AI is helping me rediscover the world (more here, here)
• Blending training audio/visual for multimodal LLMs is investigated in new ‘FAVOR’ paper
• Reducing computational overhead of diffusion models is discussed in new paper

Compute:

• The future of Moore's Law is inside this Willy Wonka machine
• Tired of shortages, OpenAI considers making its own AI chips and Microsoft may debut its first AI chip to mitigate cost (more here)

Climate:

• The environmental impact of the AI revolution is starting to come into focus

Releases and raises:

• Releases: ElevenLabs’ AI Dubbing, Character.AI’s Group Chat, Cohere’s Coral, Adobe’s Firefly 2, Replit’s new AI model, Nucleus AI’s 22B Transformer LLM
• Raises: Mana.bio ($19.5, bio), Cleanlab ($25M, data stack), Anysphere ($8M, IDE), Gutsy ($51M, security), Observe ($50M, data stack)

Partnerships:

• AMD snaps up Nod.ai, looks poised for bigger deals ahead

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