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DoD announces “Replicator 2” for counter-drone tech, Newsom vetoes SB 1047, and Commerce’s new (and upcoming) chip export rules

Alex Friedland
| October 17, 2024

Plus: OpenAI’s $6.6B fundraising round, AI data centers go nuclear, the FTC cracks down on misleading AI promises, and OMB’s AI acquisition guidance

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Biden updates AI chip export rules to China, and OpenAI, Adobe and Google headline a big month for Generative AI

Alex Friedland
| October 26, 2023

Plus: AI in the Senate — Schumer’s Forums vs. Thune and Klobuchar’s “Light Touch,” and rumors of custom chips could spell trouble for Nvidia

New Huawei phone causes a stir, DOD launches autonomy initiative, and a first foray into regulating AI-generated political ads

Jack Corrigan and Owen Daniels
| September 14, 2023

Plus: US-China science partnership flounders, Google goes on trial, and a roundup of AI congressional hearings

Biden restricts certain Chinese investments, Meta frees the LLaMA, and AI companies promise the White House they’ll keep users safe

Jack Corrigan
| August 10, 2023

Plus: TSMC postpones Arizona fab plans, researchers break chatbot safeguards, and an NDAA update

Beijing, Washington, and The Hague push chipmaking export controls, Schumer debuts AI legislation plan, and EU-U.S. data flows unclog (for now)

Alex Friedland
| July 13, 2023

Plus: EU companies criticize the AI Act, and a roundup of generative AI news from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Inflection AI

The EU takes a big step forward on the AI Act, an open statement warns of “societal-scale risks” posed by AI, and G7 leaders discuss AI governance

Alex Friedland
| June 15, 2023

Plus: The White House is drafting a “National AI Strategy,” EU and U.S. ministers discuss concerns about generative AI, and the last month in “bad AI”

The EU edges closer to enacting its AI Act, Google debuts AI tools as some worry about its future, and the NSF funds new AI institutes

Alex Friedland
| May 18, 2023

Plus: Mr. Altman goes to Washington, Anthropic’s Claude can read a book in under 30 seconds, and the DOD publishes its S&T strategy

Alphabet combines its AI labs to form “Google DeepMind,” China introduces new rules for generative AI, and a U.S. AI panel releases its first report

Alex Friedland
| May 4, 2023

Plus: Palantir wants to bring LLMs to military decision-making; White House, Commerce solicit feedback on responsible AI; and the FTC, DOJ, CFPB and EEOC pledge to guard against harmful AI

Stopping dangerous AI — two public letters frame the debate, Biden discusses AI risks, Bloomberg trains an LLM on its own data, and White House emerging tech announcements

Alex Friedland
| April 6, 2023

Plus: The DOJ and FTC look to protect competition in the AI industry, Stanford’s yearly AI report, and AI-image tool Midjourney struggles with disinformation

GPT-4, Bard, Claude, Copilot and more — an avalanche of generative AI news, AI and emerging tech in Biden’s 2024 budget request, and the FTC issues another AI warning

Alex Friedland
| March 23, 2023

Plus: Stanford researchers train a ChatGPT knockoff that runs locally, and the Commerce Department proposes guardrails for its CHIPS funds

Meta’s powerful language models leak online, the U.S. Commerce Department opens up applications for CHIPS funds, and a PRC reorganization will impact R&D and data

Alex Friedland
| March 9, 2023

Plus: The Air Force wants to ramp up its “loyal wingman” drone program in 2024, Rotterdam’s biased and inaccurate welfare fraud algorithm, and the FTC warns businesses about overselling their AI products