AI-generated phishing emails are getting very good at targeting executives – Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/ai-generated-phishing-emails-are-getting-very-good-at-targeting-executives/
“Holden recently put out a great accessible overview of what I consider THE fundamental challenge of AI policymaking”
https://x.com/ajeya_cotra/status/1879962661225730376
WEF_Future_of_Jobs_Report_2025.pdf
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(2) Note to Our Energy Sucking Overlords – by Michael Spencer
https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/note-to-our-energy-sucking-overlords
(2) Riffing on Machines of Loving Grace – by Stephen Malina
https://an1lam.substack.com/p/riffing-on-machines-of-loving-grace
“I believe AI can be the platinum bullet that solves climate change. Agents will be deployed to optimize the grid and hyperscalers’ demand for power will continue providing R&D capital for green projects. Most notably – there’s a chance AI speeds up fusion development.” / X
https://x.com/reidhoffman/status/1875300240347295892
“For this week’s NLP Seminar, we are thrilled to host @niloofar_mire to talk about Privacy, Copyright and Data Integrity: The Cascading Implications of Generative AI! When: 1/16 Thurs 11am PT Non-Stanford affiliates registration form (closed at 9am PT on the talk day):”
https://x.com/stanfordnlp/status/1879578794354426045
“This seems like a massive improvement!”
https://x.com/_arohan_/status/1877795996815728987
Biden signs executive order to ensure power for AI data centers | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/biden-issue-executive-order-ensure-power-ai-data-centers-2025-01-14/
Cisco Unveils AI Defense to Secure the AI Transformation of Enterprises
https://newsroom.cisco.com/c/r/newsroom/en/us/a/y2025/m01/cisco-unveils-ai-defense-to-secure-the-ai-transformation-of-enterprises.html
“On the environmental cost of AI, this by @simonw is useful. The models we use today have become orders of magnitude more efficient in the last year, and each prompt likely uses much less energy than many think. But the aggregate impact of ever-larger data centers is very real.”
https://x.com/emollick/status/1878170943903646162
“Well done @matthewclifford Please get rid of noncompetes in AI in the UK. California does not allow them and this is why California is more competitive than the UK in AI. Getting rid of noncompetes is the best thing you could do to kickstart the AI industry in the UK, and to” / X
https://x.com/NandoDF/status/1878949902383985105
“Wowww! I found a sick bug for my first day full time hacking. 😱 Aptly, it includes prompt injection: CSRF -> Path Traversal -> access to internal chatbot -> HPP -> prompt injection -> AI outputs XSS which pops on the victim. Shoutout to @JR0ch17 for the collab!” / X
https://x.com/rez0__/status/1880016611568197663
“Is Scoble gonna go doomer? Is this what @ilyasut saw? Yesterday an AI researcher/entreprener came to my home to show off how a new form of AI architecture, that isn’t well known yet, could be weaponized against humans and could cause massive harm to our country, world, and” / X
https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/1879582874497884207
Takes on “Alignment Faking in Large Language Models” – Joe Carlsmith
https://joecarlsmith.com/2024/12/18/takes-on-alignment-faking-in-large-language-models
“Unhappy prediction (40% confidence): R1 will be recognized as the first weapons-grade model, with all the regulatory and natsec headache this invites.” / X
https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1880252602396348467
“🚨 Wall Street Faces Potential Job Losses of Over 200,000 Due to AI, while at the same time banks anticipate a significant boost in profitability Back office, middle office, and operational roles are most vulnerable, with automation impacting functions like client service and”
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1878000128625439065
AI Brad Pitt cons woman into handing over €800,000 after scammer convinced her she was dating Hollywood star | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/crime/brad-pitt-scammer-cancer-con-france-ai-b2679834.html
“FastProtect makes AI art protection instant by pre-training defense patterns instead of calculating them live. FastProtect enables real-time protection against AI mimicry by using pre-trained perturbations and adaptive inference, making image protection 200-3500x faster than
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1878002104633319681
Biden administration proposes new rules on exporting AI chips | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/biden-ai-artificial-intelligence-chips-computer-trade-4495b5b4a48e856dc612e7abe3e47d20
Artificial Intelligence: Plan to ‘unleash AI’ across UK revealed
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr05jykzkxo
“Most of the discussions around AI and energy use refer to an older 2020 estimate of GPT-3 energy consumption, but a more recent paper directly measures energy use of Llama 65B as 3-4 joules per decoded token. So an hour of streaming Netflix is equivalent to 70-90,000 65B tokens.
https://x.com/emollick/status/1878631677158998285
Wall Street Expected to Shed 200,000 Jobs as AI Erodes Roles – Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-09/wall-street-expected-to-shed-200-000-jobs-as-ai-erodes-roles
OpenAI blueprint urges new policies to edge out China in AI race
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/13/openai-blueprint-china-infrastructure
Statement by President Biden on the Executive Order on Advancing U.S. Leadership in Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure | The White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/14/statement-by-president-biden-on-the-executive-order-on-advancing-u-s-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence-infrastructure/
“thank you to the external safety researchers who tested o3-mini. we have now finalized a version and are beginning the release process; planning to ship in ~a couple of weeks. also, we heard the feedback: will launch api and chatgpt at the same time! (it’s very good.)” / X
https://x.com/sama/status/1880356297985638649
“The U.S. proposed new export restrictions on advanced AI technology, creating a three-tier system for access to AI chips and models. 🎯 Tier 1 nations, including key allies like Japan, retain broad access. 🎯 Tier 2 nations, like Singapore, face strict caps without a security
https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1880341893873033511
“needs a vibe check but the paper looks very solid to me. Another current-gen Chinese MoE design, and the first open model with frontier-class long context support. 1/8 lightning [or other accelerated mixer]/softmax attention mix is about what I’d expect from V4. It has began.
https://x.com/teortaxesTex/status/1879251029084225966
“Process Reward Models (PRM) and online RLHF are the unhidden secret to creating reasoning models like o1. PRMs are used to identify and mitigate intermediate reasoning errors in the Chain-of-Thought. The @Alibaba_Qwen Team just released “Lessons of Developing Process Reward
https://x.com/_philschmid/status/1879101437663154194
“NeuroXess reported two advances in BCI, allowing brain-injured patients to operate robots and communicate through thought In addition, the BCI also achieved to the first real-time decoding of Chinese language from brain signals
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1878488077775028676
OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why | TechCrunch
OpenAI’s AI reasoning model ‘thinks’ in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why
(2) Deepseek: The Quiet Giant Leading China’s AI Race
https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-chinas
“Harvey, the AI for law firms, is raising another round from Sequoia ($300M at $3B). Last round was Series C in July, $100M at $1.5B led by GV. They were estimated to have $30M of revenue then, wonder what revenue looks like now” / X
https://x.com/pitdesi/status/1879982274831347890?s=46
“Or impact of the fact that closed-source players use open-source AI (currently dominated by Chinese players) like open-source datasets? The countries or companies that win open-source AI will have massive power and influence on the future of AI.” / X
https://x.com/ClementDelangue/status/1877767382120255792
“I don’t think people know that making plausible fake videos is now something that doesn’t require a lot of skill or time I made this Veo video of a man trying out a flying skateboard at CES from a text prompt, 2nd try. Notice the shadows, green light, his body shifts for balance
https://x.com/emollick/status/1878987983287967976
(2) AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment – by Zvi Mowshowitz
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ais-will-increasingly-fake-alignment
“Safety guardrails for AI art generation. PromptGuard introduces a safety mechanism for Text-to-Image models using optimized soft prompts, preventing unsafe content generation while maintaining image quality and generation speed. 🚨 Original Problem: Text-to-Image models can
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1878771654471618640
“A controversial view I have is that I don’t think people will stop having jobs just because every productive function in society can be fully automated” / X
https://x.com/fchollet/status/1877535640717504810
“AI is shaping the workforce, with roles like AI Engineers and Consultants leading @LinkedIn’s 2025 ‘Jobs on the Rise’ list. As AI continues to transform industries, there’s never been a better time to gain expertise in this field! Read the full report:
https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1878955184459518297
FACT SHEET: Ensuring U.S. Security and Economic Strength in the Age of Artificial Intelligence | The White House
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2025/01/13/fact-sheet-ensuring-u-s-security-and-economic-strength-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/
“On a serious note, this isn’t going to stop China like the H100 restrictions didn’t” / X
https://x.com/cto_junior/status/1877685041696006345
“Note the gap in the vision of the future of work between large corporations and the AI labs. Half the fastest growing jobs as indicated by companies in the survey are things that the AI labs think they can automate easily. I guess we will learn who is right in the coming years.” / X
https://x.com/emollick/status/1877382012861845518
“Confused about the U.S. plans on AI chips? Here’s the deal: – Biden’s new export rules will limit who gets U.S. AI chips (yes, beyond just China). – Big Tech’s worried – Over 100 countries affected, – Future AI development locations hang in the balance. Let’s break it down 🔍
https://x.com/fdaudens/status/1877834752499073233
Charted: AI’s Perceived Impact on Job Creation, by Country
Biden Administration Adopts Rules to Guide A.I.’s Global Spread – The New York Times
“Just published our Economic Blueprint — policy proposals for how the US can maximize AI’s benefits, bolster national security, and drive economic growth.
https://x.com/gdb/status/1879059072135414236
“Restricting mainstream AI tech won’t strengthen security but risks eroding U.S. global competitiveness and innovation. 🚨 NVIDIA’s statement criticizes the Biden Administration’s “AI Diffusion” rule. → NVIDIA highlights the legacy of the Trump Administration’s approach, which
https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1878804099053027430
Nvidia stock falls after Biden administration releases updated export rule for AI chips
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-stock-falls-after-biden-administration-releases-updated-export-rule-for-ai-chips-151755666.html?guccounter=1
ByteDance appears to be skirting US restrictions to buy Nvidia chips: Report | TechCrunch
ByteDance appears to be skirting US restrictions to buy Nvidia chips: Report
