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What Trump’s victory means for AI policy, chips, and AI development

Alex Friedland
| November 21, 2024

Plus: Reports of an AI wall meet pushback, LLMs for the Pentagon and the PLA, and Anthropic’s Claude can use a computer

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Text-to-video generators from Meta and Google, the White House’s “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” and IARPA’s project to identify anonymous authors with AI

Alex Friedland
| October 6, 2022

Plus: The EU’s plan for AI liability lawsuits, new U.S. tech restrictions on China could be on the way, and Micron’s $20B+ U.S. investment

A proposal to make AI training more efficient, Biden’s EO on Chinese tech investment, and an influential new report on U.S.-China tech competition

Alex Friedland
| September 22, 2022

Plus: What Nvidia’s new GPUs mean for AI, the NIH announces AI grants, and NIST partners with Google to make research chips

The Biden administration restricts high-end chip exports to China, a marketplace for AI at the DOD, and more discontent over JADC2’s rollout

Alex Friedland
| September 8, 2022

Plus: A new at-home AI tool generates art (and concerns), and the Commerce Department releases its plan to spend $50B on U.S. chips

The White House weighs more targeted chip restrictions for China, a warning about ML research reproducibility, and Beijing gets access to dozens of popular algorithms

Alex Friedland
| August 25, 2022

Plus: Russia announces two new AI offices, NIST’s new draft AI safety framework, and the White House’s chief AI advisor steps down

Biden signs landmark tech competitiveness bill, DeepMind models more than 200 million proteins, and Meta’s new chatbot gets a demo (and gets in trouble)

Alex Friedland
| August 11, 2022

Plus: China’s high-end chip takes some observers by surprise, DOD officials express concerns about JADC2 implementation, and a data privacy bill gets out of committee, but will it pass?

Falling chip prices surprise the market, Nvidia introduces a platform to make quantum acceleration easier, and the U.S. Army takes another step forward on its key AI-powered node

Alex Friedland
| July 14, 2022

Plus: The United States wants the Netherlands to cut off China’s chipmakers, the U.S. nuclear regulator grapples with overseeing AI, and how CERN is using ML

Data privacy after the Supreme Court’s abortion ruling, a “Responsible AI” plan for the U.S. military, and emerging tech in NATO’s new strategy

Alex Friedland
| June 30, 2022

Plus: The UK announces a military AI strategy of its own, the Air Force plans to partner with HBCUs, emerging tech in the NDAA, and a CHIPS act update

AI researcher trains “the most horrible model on the Internet,” the DOD’s new AI office is full steam ahead, and AI sentience claims take the internet by storm

Alex Friedland
| June 16, 2022

Plus: AI-monitoring tools in the spotlight after Uvalde shooting, a blueprint for the U.S. AI research resource, and what to expect from a new DOD autonomous weapons policy

DeepMind’s “generalist” AI, Clearview settles over privacy claims, and Congress tries to reconcile its tech bills

Alex Friedland
| May 19, 2022

Plus: U.S. and EU leaders meet to discuss tech and trade, how ICE bought enough data to track most U.S. adults, and what the tech market downturn means for AI

A new EU law to rival the GDPR, the DOD names an AI chief, and the mystery drones in the most recent U.S. aid package to Ukraine

Alex Friedland
| May 5, 2022

Plus: Open-sourcing Twitter’s algorithms, Meta’s open 175B language model, an AI interpretability startup attracts half a billion dollars, and Project Maven gets a new home