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A year-end wave of AI releases, Commerce updates China-focused chip rules, and the CDAO’s $100 million deal with Anduril

Alex Friedland
| December 19, 2024

Plus: Trump names AI and Crypto Czar, a Manhattan Project for AI, Pat Gelsinger’s Intel ouster, and the House AI Task Force’s report

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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

Meta’s AI succeeds at the negotiation-heavy “Diplomacy,” Intel’s new deepfake detector looks at blood flow to spot frauds, and the FCC’s ruling on Chinese surveillance tech

Alex Friedland
| December 1, 2022

Plus: A shakeup in the global semiconductor workforce is underway, and state AGs push the FTC to protect consumer data

DARPA showcases its autonomous Black Hawk, chip companies adapt to U.S. export controls with slower chips for China, and U.S. officials work to get allies on board with restrictions

Alex Friedland
| November 17, 2022

Plus: What tech layoffs mean for AI, TSMC considers additional $12 billion Arizona expansion, and AMD’s server CPUs could give Intel a run for its money

An ALS treatment discovered with AI’s help starts human trials, TSMC cuts off a high-end Chinese chipmaker, and even more U.S. export controls could be coming

Alex Friedland
| November 3, 2022

Plus: The DOD publishes its National Defense Strategy (an AI strategy update could be next), Project Convergence 2022 is underway, and interesting approaches to sourcing AI training data