Grok 2 (beta) A hotel concierge holds an iPhone toward the camera. The phone screen displays the word “Ethics”. Behind the concierge’s desk is a fire alarm. Landscape aspect ratio.

Amazon’s $650M Data Center Faces Energy Battle – IEEE Spectrum

Universal Music and Meta Announce Expanded Agreement on AI

AI Data Bias, The 2024 Challenge: Solutions for Multicultural Integrity – HispanicAd.com – https://hispanicad.com/news/ai-data-bias-the-2024-challenge-solutions-for-multicultural-integrity/

Gas pipeline operators in talks to fuel AI datacenter demand • The Register

Does AI Deserve A Seat At The Boardroom Table?

California A.I. Bill Causes Alarm in Silicon Valley – The New York Times

California’s legislature just passed AI bill SB 1047; here’s why some hope the governor won’t sign it | TechCrunch

ChatGPT unexpectedly began speaking in a user’s cloned voice during testing | Ars Technica

OpenAI Generates More Turmoil

Chatbot maker Replika says it’s okay if humans end up in relationships with AI – The Verge

AI is mining the sum of human knowledge from Wikipedia. What does that mean for its future? – Sherwood News

Elon Musk to pause X’s AI training on some EU data, Ireland says – POLITICO

Google’s AI Search Gives Sites Dire Choice: Share Data or Die – Bloomberg

Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP, hire lawyers to “clean up the mess” – The Verge

MIT releases comprehensive database of AI risks | VentureBeat

New AI tool enables real-time face swapping on webcams, raising fraud concerns | Ars Technica

“Zico Kolter from Carnegie Mellon joins OpenAI’s Board, bringing technical and AI safety expertise; he also joins the Safety & Security Committee. 

The AI Risk Repository

“Nope. Big difference is you now have a state-of-the-art, largely uncensored AI model directly inside a social media app with x00M users. Flux.1 inside Grok is uncharted territory.” / X

Hollywood Union Strikes Deal for Advertisers to Replicate Actors’ Voices With AI – https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2024-08-14/hollywood-union-strikes-deal-for-advertisers-to-replicate-actors-voices-with-ai

“People aren’t ready for the X hive mind to unleash the power of state-of-the-art, uncensored AI image generation upon the world. Today the day AI image generation went mainstream and said fuck it, we ball. 10 of the most wild and cursed generations I’ve come across: 

“AI reporters” are covering the events of the day in Northwest Arkansas | Nieman Journalism Lab – https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/08/ai-reporters-are-covering-events-in-northwest-arkansas-for-okaynwa/

“SQL injection-like attack on LLMs with special tokens The decision by LLM tokenizers to parse special tokens in the input string (<s>, <|endoftext|>, etc.), while convenient looking, leads to footguns at best and LLM security vulnerabilities at worst, equivalent to SQL injection 

SAG-AFTRA strike: How AI is changing video game development : NPR

CFPB Comment on Request for Information on Uses, Opportunities, and Risks of Artificial Intelligence in the Financial Services Sector | Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

The FCC wants the AI voice calling you to say it’s a deepfake | TechRadar

America & China’s Chip Race – by Joseph Politano

Exclusive | Huawei Readies New Chip to Challenge Nvidia, Surmounting U.S. Sanctions – WSJ

Huawei readies new AI chip to challenge Nvidia in China, WSJ reports | Reuters

California, NVIDIA launch first-of-its-kind AI collaboration | Governor of California

Rodney Brooks’ Three Laws of Robotics – IEEE Spectrum

Judge Advances Copyright Lawsuit by Artists Against AI Art Generators

California driver’s licenses to be available on Apple, Google wallets – Axios San Francisco

Maria Bartiromo interviews lifelike artificial intelligence clone | Fox Business

Reporter admits using artificial intelligence to create fake quotes and stories before resigning, editor says – CBS News

DOJ Considers Seeking Google (GOOG) Breakup After Major Antitrust Win – Bloomberg

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