What's Happening in AI

Executive Order on ‘national security technologies and products in countries of concern,’ state of US AI laws, bionic engineering, democracy reimagined, and more. First, this week’s big story: GPTBot: OpenAI releases new web crawler

• Why this matters
  ‍Current web data can now be used to improve ChatGPT models. Previously, data ended in 2021. This is a first-of-its-kind jump towards being more competitive with search. Companies can use the Robots Exclusion Protocol to block the web crawler.
• Consider
  ‍Should my company block ChatGPT’s access? How might AI-generated data affect model performance at scale? Can it be filtered out?
• Documentation: GPTBot - OpenAI API

Policy

Americas

• The state of state AI laws (more here)
• The White House just announced a new Executive Order to guide rule-making on US investment into ‘technologies and products (e.g., semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum information technologies, and AI) in countries of concern’ (China, Hong Kong SAR, Macau SAR).
• SEC’s Gensler on AI (more here)
• FCC eyes AI role in spectrum usage data

Europe and the Middle East

• TikTok on fulfilling commitments under the EU’s Digital Services Act
• France bets big on open-source AI
• Iran proposes AI surveillance and more in harsh new hijab law
• ICYMI: Do foundation model providers comply with the draft EU AI Act?

Asia

• Japan eyes solutions to combat AI-generated misinformation
• Explained: India’s new Digital Personal Data Protection Bill
• ICYMI: ​​China’s Interim Measures for the Management of Generative AI Services set to take effect Aug. 15

International organizations and more

• NATO launches a €1 billion venture fund
• Opinion: ​​We need smart intellectual property laws for AI
• What spy agencies in the UK and the US are saying about AI data laws

Responsible AI

Security and safety

• The sound your keystrokes make is enough for AI to steal them (more here)
• A new attack impacts AI chatbots—and no one knows how to stop it

Health and biomedical

• This prosthetic limb actually attaches to the wearer’s nerves (more here)
• Google’s team on multimodal medical AI
• AI could transform breast cancer screening

Data, language, and identity

• Clibrain introduces LINCE, the first LLM optimized for Spanish (more here)
• 8 months pregnant, arrested after false facial recognition match (more here)

Climate

• IBM and NASA publish AI model for climate research (more here)
• Is AI the future of wildfire prevention?‍
• Sweetspot's co-founders on an AI search engine for the US government contract maze‍
• Plus: Inversion mindset, explained

Where AI is going

Information, democracy, and open societies

• Interview with Google Jigsaw's Yasmin Green
• Sam Altman is already nervous about what AI might do in elections
• Deepfake speech is getting too good, fooling a quarter of listeners in study
• Re-imagining democracy for the 21st century

Defense, transportation, and space

• Air Force: AI agents successfully pilot XQ-58A Valkyrie uncrewed jet aircraft
• European space agency uses AI for satellite navigation
• How Dallas became the proving ground for autonomous trucks

Economy and workforce

• Will AI be an economic blessing or curse? History offers clues
• Actors and writers aren't the only ones worried about AI, says new polI
• Labor unions in the US and the Australian Council of Trade Unions move to protect workers
• ICYMI: On the future of work in America and US labor shortage

Compute and chips

• Interview with AWS' Adam Selipsky (more here)
• Nvidia H100 GPUs: Supply and Demand
• LK-99 was an online sensation — but replication efforts fall short
• More: Intel Arc A580, Qualcomm’s RISC-V joint venture

Plus: Twilio’s OpenAI partnership, Salesforce’s Einstein Studio, Huawei’s Voice Assistant Cecilia, Alibaba’s open-source models, Apple’s comments, Amazon’s comments