A stark government building with high security, marble, and bronze statues. A seal reads “United States of America”. An evelope that reads “OpenAI Code” has been slipped under the door and is laying on the floor.
California Legislature Approves A.I. Safety Bill – The New York Times
California legislature passes controversial “kill switch” AI safety bill – Ars Technica
“Don’t believe the SB 1047 hype folks! Few models thus far created would be covered (only those that cost $100M+), and their developers are voluntarily doing extensive safety testing anyway I think it’s a prudent step, but I don’t expect a huge impact either way” / X
“The real problem with benchmarking AI is that it is easy to come up with basic reasoning benchmarks that humans pass easily, but AI fails; and to come up with benchmarks AI passes and humans fail, but we don’t know how important passing those benchmarks are to real-world use.” / X
Can Tech Executives Be Held Responsible for What Happens on Their Platforms? – The New York Times
AI to go nuclear? Data center deals say it’s inevitable | CIO
“If the AI takeover is actually plausible, we’ll need to take costly preventative measures *before* AI comes anywhere close to causing catastrophic harm (probably while it’s super lucrative and beneficial). If we need to do that, how would we tell (and build the will)?” / X
Tom Hanks warns followers to be wary of ‘fraudulent’ ads using his likeness through AI
Elon Musk supports California AI bill from Scott Wiener – POLITICO
“AI Agenda: OpenAI has shown its ‘Strawberry’ AI to national security officials. And, what could a ‘Strawberry’ product look like?
“The information reporting on OpenAI Strawberry 🍓 Their guess is it’s an advanced reasoning mode that you’ll be able to turn on/off depending on how time sensitive your queries are. They’re also reporting that OpenAI has been demoing this capability to the NatSec community.
“we are happy to have reached an agreement with the US AI Safety Institute for pre-release testing of our future models. for many reasons, we think it’s important that this happens at the national level. US needs to continue to lead!” / X
“Being pro AI regulation doesn’t mean someone must be in favor of every AI bill on pain of hypocrisy. If you’re in favor of AI regulation, you should probably want the first iterations of it to be very good. Bad regulation can undermine the case for good regulation going forward.” / X
Most AI avatars look female, young and attractive. Are they a passing trend or here to stay? | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
“This was a cool listen. I think Cloud+AI is increasingly making the @levelsio -style model of a scrappy solo serial micro-entrepreneur viable, allowing one person to spin up and run a number of companies that generate income, possibly well into billion-dollar valuations.” / X
“California’s SB 1047 is due for a vote this week, so I invited @snewmanpv, @_NathanCalvin of @ai_risks, and @deanwball of @mercatus to discuss The situation is super nuanced, but the bottom line for me is this: I were the Governor, I would sign the bill As @TheZvi puts it – and
Exclusive: Google DeepMind Staff Push to End Military Contracts | TIME
Google rolls out safeguards for more of its AI products ahead of the US presidential election | TechCrunch
Chinese firms bypass US export restrictions on AI chips using AWS cloud | CIO
China’s AI Engineers Are Secretly Accessing Banned Nvidia Chips – WSJ
Sweden’s Klarna says AI chatbots help shrink headcount | Reuters
X’s Grok directs to government site after sharing false election info – The Verge
Artificial intelligence: the loss of autonomy of employees in question
OpenAI and Anthropic will share their models with the US government – The Verge
‘Being on camera is no longer sensible’: persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI | Venezuela | The Guardian
OpenAI, Anthropic sign deals with US govt for AI research and testing | Reuters
Feds to get early access to OpenAI, Anthropic AI to test for doomsday scenarios – Ars Technica
Russia Could Take Out West’s Internet, No Good Back up Plan – Business Insider
“As part of the release of Llama 3.1, we also released new trust & safety research including CyberSecEval 3. We’ve published our research on this work to continue the conversation on empirically measuring LLM cybersecurity risks & capabilities. Paper ➡️
Exclusive | Mark Zuckerberg Says White House Was ‘Wrong’ to Pressure Facebook on Covid – WSJ
“I feel like a large amount of GDP is locked up because it is difficult for person A to very conveniently pay 5 cents to person B. Current high fixed costs per transaction force each of them to be of high enough amounts, which results in business models with purchase bundles,” / X
The Report Card on Guaranteed Income Is Still Incomplete – The New York Times
“LLM inference cost vs quality is one of the biggest challenges for many businesses that are deploying LLM tech for solving daily problems. 🤔 And you don’t always need the single, all-powerful model, which will undoubtedly be the most expensive as well. ✨ So a very simple and
Millionaire Nvidia Employees Still Working Until 2 AM: Report | Entrepreneur
“Real Jets, Real Autonomy. In a groundbreaking series of tests this July, Shield AI, alongside partners @KratosDefense and @parrylabs , demonstrated the future of air combat. High-performance, autonomously controlled MQM-178 Firejet drones flew alongside human-piloted jets in
“You can Crawl entire website with Claude 3.5 or GPT4-o with this open-sourced tool firecrawl. 💯 Turn entire websites into LLM-ready markdown or structured data. Scrape, crawl and extract with a single API. Crawls all accessible subpages and give you clean data for each. No
Klarna aims to halve workforce with AI-driven gains
China’s tech giants splash out on AI despite US restrictions
“The traditional Call center is so Done 🤯 The below 👇 statement is from a viral Reddit post and now this happens Bland .ai ‘I work in a call center, so do 17 million people around the world. 95% of costs associated with call centers are due to staffing, and its a 300 billion
Ethically dubious or a creative gift? How artists are grappling with AI in their work | Art and design | The Guardian
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