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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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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

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

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