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U.S. AI policy in Trump’s first month — VP Vance lays out AI plan at Paris summit, workforce cuts hit science and AI staff, Trump’s AI EO, an “America First Trade Policy,” and Stargate

Alex Friedland
| February 20, 2025

Plus: The DeepSeek frenzy — sorting through the takeaways, and OpenAI looks to stay top dog with new product releases and a tease of GPT-5

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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

Sweeping export controls take aim at China’s AI and chip industries, DeepMind’s matrix-multiplying AI agent, and tech implications of the new National Security Strategy

Alex Friedland
| October 20, 2022

Plus: Chip stocks sink in the face of export controls and falling demand, Biden issues an order on EU-U.S. data flows, and autonomy and AI developments at NATO

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

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