Policy

Americas

• AI cannot hold copyright, federal Judge Howell rules
• SF officials want to stop robotaxis operating 24/7 after traffic chaos
• White House science adviser says safeguards on AI risks will be coming ‘fast’
• Sen. Cantwell’s forum to explore supporting (and regulating) AI (more here)

Europe and Middle East

• Meta confirms AI ‘off-switch’ incoming to Facebook, Instagram in Europe
• Israeli startups are moving jobs, money out of country amidst judicial shakeup
• Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK over regulation

Asia

• China to limit use of generative AI in online healthcare activities
• $1.4B robotics fund to be created by Beijing
• Beijing is coming for the metaverse

Responsible AI

Self-regulation, trust and safety, and more

• InflectionAI’s Mustafa Suleyman on 10 years until chatbots run the world
• Anthropic’s Jack Clark: Why I am confused about AI
• What Google wants from Washington on AI

User testing and information

• Responsible AI user testing of Midjourney's AI-generated images
• Tool: Twilio AI Nutrition Facts: 'Create Your Own Label'

Health and education

• Khan Academy’s Sal Khan: The AI tutor for every child and the next frontier
• Eye scans detect signs of Parkinson’s disease up to 7 years before diagnosis
• ICYMI: AI detects systolic heart failure from wearable devices

Foundation models and methods

• OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 Turbo fine-tuning and API updates
• DeepMind’s reinforced self-training method (more here)
• Allen Institute for AI’s Dolma: 3 trillion token open corpus for pretraining (more here)

Multimodal releases and tests

• HuggingFace’s IDEFICS, an open visual language model based on Flamingo
• Meta’s SeamlessM4T, a multimodal model for speech translation (more here)
• ElevenLabs releases Eleven Multilingual v2 for nearly 30 languages
• Union Square Ventures’ Andy Weissman on AI-native media

Workforce

• What the electric car transition really means for autoworkers
• Cloudwork platforms falling short of meeting basic workers’ rights (Univ. of Oxford)
• 40% of workforce will need to reskill due to AI (IBM)
• 92% of executives agree people skills are more important than ever (LinkedIn)

Where AI is going

Mental models

• Microsoft's Satya Nadella ís winning Big Tech's AI war. Here's how (Fast Company)
• Early days of AI (Elad Gil)
• Opinion: Too much money is going to AI doomers (Seattle Times)

Compute, chips, and hardware

• SoftBank’s Arm said to line up 28 banks for biggest 2023 IPO
• How Index Ventures jumped to the front of the AI GPU line
• Researchers are helping robots teach themselves to open doors and more

Defense, space, and cybersecurity

• Inside the messy ethics of making war with machines
• Chinese firm launches WonderJourney satellite with AI-powered ‘brain’
• Space is the next cybersecurity frontier (more here)

Information, civil society, and more

• Biden admin. announces more new funding for rural broadband infrastructure
• Advocates say the Content Authenticity Initiative would help sort fact from fiction
• Opinion: AI is the new atomic energy. Nationalize it (Politico)
• Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias?

Partnerships and updates

• Google DeepMind testing ‘personal life coach’ AI tool  
• Opera adds Aria (free browser AI) to Opera for iOS
• Youtube and Universal Music Group partner on artist-centric approach
• ICYMI: OpenAI acquires AI design studio Global Illumination

Extra bits

• Stability AI’s Emad Mostaque, upcoming interview
• AI models are powerful, but are they biologically plausible?
• Scammers used ChatGPT to unleash a crypto botnet on X
• IBM taps AI to translate COBOL code to Java