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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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Ukraine uses facial recognition to ID dead Russian soldiers, Biden sends UAVs and USVs to Ukraine, and the Commerce Department fills out AI advisory committee

Alex Friedland

| April 21, 2022

Plus: China’s COVID lockdowns and Russian palladium — why the chip shortage could linger, the GAO critiques DOD and Navy AI plans, and some pushback to the Marine Corps’ planned transformation

OpenAI and Google announce impressive new systems, AI in Biden’s budget request, a big DOD news roundup, and data scraping in the South Carolina courts

Alex Friedland

| April 7, 2022

Plus: The EU cracks down on big tech while reopening data flows to the U.S., and Congress’ big tech competitiveness bill is ready for conferencing

Deepfakes, facial recognition and UAVs — AI and autonomy during the invasion of Ukraine, chip news from Nvidia and Intel, and the DOD gets rolling on JADC2

Alex Friedland

| March 24, 2022

Plus: A thought experiment sounds alarm on dual-use AI, Stanford’s yearly AI report, and the NSF’s new emerging tech directorate

AI and the invasion of Ukraine, how an Nvidia hack could help China, tech talk in the SOTU, and the ODNI’s annual threat assessment

Alex Friedland

| March 10, 2022

Plus: The U.S. and allies cut off Russian tech access, Meta’s new AI explainers, and S&T funding in new $1.5 trillion spending bill

Controlling plasma in a fusion reactor with AI, an AI “early warning system” for COVID-19, and the growing push for algorithmic impact assessments in the U.S. and UK

Alex Friedland

| February 24, 2022

Plus: The U.S. Navy leads the largest unmanned exercise in the world, the DOJ ends the China Initiative, and sanctions on Russia could impact critical tech

The U.S. House passes its tech competitiveness bill, OpenAI and DeepMind debut new models, and the IRS abandons its facial recognition plans

Alex Friedland

| February 10, 2022

Plus: The EU announces a chips act of its own, and the DOD’s CTO lists tech priorities while its new AI office gets up and running

Nvidia prepares to ditch its deal for Arm, Intel goes on a spending spree, and the U.S. House unveils a tech competitiveness bill

Alex Friedland

| January 27, 2022

Plus: Beijing’s five-year plan for its digital ecosystem, the White House’s STEM visa changes, and new guidance on cybersecurity for DOD and U.S. intel agencies