Bloomberg: France envisions AI tent big enough for US, China and French startups

Perfect AI not realistic, policymakers need to pursue ‘next best option’: President Tharman: Regulators cannot realistically expect artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver only good as AI development has far outpaced public policy, but they need to go for the “next best option” and maximize the good while minimizing the bad, President Tharman Shanmugaratnam said on May 29. TST

+ Avoiding all risks would stop AI innovation, which has the potential to improve lives, he told an audience of tech industry players, including professionals and world leaders.

+ President Tharman was speaking at the opening gala of the Asia Tech x Singapore conference.

Eight organizations to join Canada's voluntary AI code of conduct: More organizations including Mastercard, Salesforce, and Lenovo, commit to the responsible development and management of advanced generative artificial intelligence systems. News Release

Crypto super PACs get $25m boost: Politico reports Ripple Labs’ announcement follows a surprising month of Washington wins for crypto firms and investors.

TikTok offered an extraordinary deal. The US government took a pass: The app’s executives proposed giving the Biden administration control over its US operations and a kill switch if things went south. The administration declined, setting up an existential legal fight. WP

AI is shockingly good at making fake nudes — and causing havoc in schools: Several states have passed laws penalizing the dissemination of nonconsensual AI-generated deepfake nudes, but when the deepfakes are discovered, what happens next in schools varies depending on the state. Politico

+ Congress has dithered in how to stop them, and even though 20 states have passed laws that penalize the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes, their results vary widely.

AI hype: Nobel Laureate Paul Romer says runaway confidence in AI risks repeating the mistakes of the crypto hype bubble of only two years ago.

AI products like ChatGPT much hyped but not much used, study says: BBC reports researchers surveyed 12,000 people in six countries, including the UK, with only 2% of British respondents saying they use such tools on a daily basis.

+ But the study, from the Reuters Institute and Oxford University, says young people are bucking the trend, with 18 to 24-year-olds the most eager adopters of the tech.

Google research shows the fast rise of AI-generated misinformation: Artificial intelligence has become a source of misinformation with lightning speed. CBC

Mapping AI’s rapid advance: Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt weighs in on where AI is headed, when to “pull the plug” and how to cope with China. Noema

How AI made Mark Zuckerberg popular again in Silicon Valley: After some trying years during which Mr. Zuckerberg could do little right, many developers and technologists have embraced the Meta chief as their champion of “open-source” artificial intelligence. NYT

PricewaterhouseCoopers became ChatGPT enterprise's biggest customer and will also start reselling OpenAI's service to large businesses.

Vox Media just signed a deal with OpenAI that will include content from The Verge showing up in ChatGPT.

The Atlantic announces product and content partnership with OpenAI.

The media bosses fighting back against AI — and the ones cutting deals: As OpenAI and other tech firms make advances, the media industry is split between pushing back and making deals. WP

Here are the companies OpenAI has made deals with to train ChatGPT: In the past month, OpenAI has partnered with Reddit, News Corp., Vox Media, and the Atlantic as it looks for data to train ChatGPT. Here are the deals announced so far. FC

Alpha School, a private school powered by AI, is expanding to Texas. 

Fortune: Sanofi’s CEO is giving OpenAI access to its data in the hope of developing drugs more quickly

A tech ethicist on how AI worsens ills caused by social media: The only cure is to impose change on AI firms’ incentives, argues Tristan Harris. Economist

Google AI’s hilariously bad answers aren’t the big problem: When a search engine is ridiculously wrong, we can deal with it. But AI’s subtler mistakes and general sloppiness are a more serious long-term problem. FC

I’ve read over 100 AI requests for proposals from major companies. Here’s the matrix of guardrails and obligations that is emerging May Habib

Hackers are using AI to find software bugs - but there is a downside: Artificial intelligence models similar to ChatGPT are able to identify errors in computer code, letting people claim rewards for finding them - but others are using the same tools to report bugs that don't actually exist. Alex Wilkins

Reuters: US court to hear challenges to potential TikTok ban in September

Premier League to use AI and ‘force fields’ to cut offside delays: Officials hope new semi-automated system will cut delays in offside decisions by 31 seconds next season with 3D graphics being shown to fans in stadiums. The Times

Enjoy the ride + plan accordingly.

-Marc