Reuters: Google invests 1 billion euros in Finnish data centre to drive AI growth
Europe sets benchmark for rest of the world with landmark AI laws: Reuters reports Europe's landmark rules on artificial intelligence will enter into force next month after EU countries endorsed on Tuesday a political deal reached in December, setting a potential global benchmark for a technology used in business and everyday life. The European Union's AI Act is more comprehensive than the United States' light-touch voluntary compliance approach while China's approach aims to maintain social stability and state control.
European Council approves 'risk-based' AI regulations: UPI reports the European Council on Tuesday gave final clearance new measure implementing a "risk-based approach for regulating the use of artificial intelligence. Under the Artificial Intelligence Act the bloc will gauge the use of AI with higher risk implementations facing stricter rules, in what it described as a "first of its kind" standard which it said will encourage "safe and trustworthy" AI systems across the European Union market in both the public and private sectors.
Frontier AI safety commitments, AI Seoul Summit 2024: The UK and Republic of Korea governments announced that the following organizations have agreed to the Frontier AI Safety Commitments. Release
World is ill-prepared for breakthroughs in AI, say experts: Governments have made insufficient regulatory progress, ‘godfathers’ of the technology say before summit. Guardian
Bloomberg: ASML, TSMC can disable chip machines if China invades Taiwan
+ Firms can remotely shut off advanced EUV chip-making machines
+ US officials concerned over risk of conflict to chip industry
AP: Now armed with AI, America’s adversaries will try to influence election, security officials warn
Election officials are role-playing AI threats to protect democracy: The job has never been harder, and the threats have never been stranger. The Verge
What can be done to stop AI from damaging the 2024 election? Democrats and Republicans are racing to figure out how to handle artificial intelligence. Alexi McCammond
The AI ‘safety movement’ is dead: Public pressure to rein in artificial intelligence may be waning, but the work of making these systems less risky is just beginning. Tyler Cowen
New Commerce strategy document points to the difficult science of AI safety: The Biden administration seeks international coordination on critical AI safety challenges. Fed Scoop
A lawmaker held an AI roundtable with scholars. Most had industry ties. WP
Vermont’s data privacy law sparks state lawmaker alliance against tech lobbyists: Politico reports state lawmakers from Maine to Oklahoma say the lessons they learned from battling industry over privacy bills can provide a new playbook to fight back.
The Scarlett Johansson-OpenAI dispute is straight out of ‘Her’: The actress says her voice was copied for ChatGPT. Spike Jonze’s movie says a lot about how we got here. Sonia Rao
Exactly how stupid was what OpenAI did to Scarlett Johansson? We ranked it on our list of the 7 most boneheaded self-owns by technology companies. WP
OpenAI promised 20% of its computing power to combat the most dangerous kind of AI—but never delivered, sources say Fortune
200%: The year-on-year revenue growth that Nvidia is expected to announce today.
How Wall Street lenders are betting big on the AI boom: Some of the largest-ever private-debt financing deals are being backed by the GPU chips powering the tech revolution. WSJ
Alibaba + Baidu slashed prices of large-language models used to power generative artificial intelligence products, as a price war in the cloud computing sector heats up in China.
Anthropic hired Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger to be its new product chief, part of a broader push to bring its AI services to more users and businesses.
A French artificial intelligence startup, simply called H, has raised $220 million in initial financing from a slew of billionaires and venture capitalists on the promise of building the next generation of powerful AI tools.
UK employers are offering a 14% wage premium for jobs that require skills in artificial intelligence as booming demand for the technology reshapes the labor market.
Khan Academy and Microsoft are teaming up to give teachers a free AI assistant: FC reports AI assistant Khanmigo can help time-strapped teachers come up with lesson ideas and test questions, the companies say.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella wants us to stop treating AI like humans: The chief executive wants people to remember that artificial intelligence is a tool, not actual human intelligence. Bloomberg
AI models can outperform humans in tests to identify mental states: Large language models don’t have a theory of mind the way humans do—but they’re getting better at tasks designed to measure it in humans. Rhiannon Williams
The big AI risk is not enough people are seeing: Beware technology that makes us less human. Tyler Austin Harper
AI’s black boxes just got a little less mysterious: Researchers at the AI company Anthropic claim to have found clues about the inner workings of large language models, possibly helping to prevent their misuse and to curb their potential threats. NYT
Loneliness is a problem that AI won’t solve Jessica Grose
Enjoy the ride + plan accordingly.
-Marc
