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IDF uses AI to accelerate targeting according to report, the White House releases guidance on federal AI use, and a roundup of the latest computing and funding news

Alex Friedland
| April 11, 2024

Plus: A leadership change at the DOD’s AI office, and the Commerce Department announces billions in CHIPS funding

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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

Bing’s chatbot and the fraught future of AI competition, NASA uses AI to design bespoke parts, and the Go title goes to a human once more

Alex Friedland
| February 23, 2023

Plus: The State Department wants to establish international norms on military AI, and the FTC launches a technology office

A heavyweight AI battle brews between Google and Microsoft, Japan and the Netherlands join the U.S. in limiting chipmaking exports to China, and new AI research on scaling and efficiency

Alex Friedland
| February 9, 2023

Plus: NIST’s Responsible AI Framework, the U.S.-India emerging tech initiative meets in D.C., and the CDAO is tasked with “reinvigorating” DOD experiments

The DOD’s autonomous weapons policy gets an update, using AI to design antibodies from scratch, and the Air Force’s partnership with Howard U to research tactical autonomy

Alex Friedland
| January 26, 2023

Plus: A $2.6B plan for a National AI Research Resource, legal trouble for Google and Tesla, Getty’s lawsuit against a popular AI art generator, and the EEOC’s plans to keep an eye on AI hiring

“Code Red” for Google — How ChatGPT Could Upend AI Development, and chip subsidy decisions in Beijing, Taipei and Seoul

Alex Friedland
| January 11, 2023

Plus: IARPA wants to build AI editors for human analysts, the State Department’s emerging tech office, and China’s new generative AI regulations

OpenAI’s new chatbot takes the internet by storm, China looks to bolster its chip industry, and a NeurIPS 2022 roundup

Alex Friedland
| December 15, 2022

Plus: Emerging tech in the NDAA, the DOD awards its cloud contract, and the U.S.-EU Trade and Tech Council meets for the third time