AI @ Noon | May 31

Google set to invest $2 billion for data center and cloud services in Malaysia.

Singapore aims to boost data center capacity 35%: Nikkei reports the city-state seeks energy-efficient facilities for sustainable growth.

The Wired AI elections project: More than 60 countries are holding elections in 2024. Throughout the year, Wired will be tracking every instance of AI’s use in and around those campaigns. Wired

OpenAI shuts down influence networks using its tools in Russia, China: The startup issued a report on bad actors making use of AI. Bloomberg

OpenAI finds Russian and Chinese groups used its tech for propaganda campaigns: WP reports covert propagandists have already begun using generative artificial intelligence to boost their influence operations.

OpenAI says Russia and China used its AI in covert campaigns: NYT reports Iran and an Israeli company also exploited the tools in online influence efforts, but none gained much traction, an OpenAI report said.

Networks linked to Russia and China useOpenAI tools to spread disinformation: FT reports covert influence perpetrators from Iran and Israel also creating misleading content, says Microsoft-backed group.

Bloomberg: US is slowing AI chip exports to Middle East by Nvidia, AMD

+ License requests from chipmakers delayed for security review

+ US is worried about the technology getting diverted to China

US slows plans to retire coal-fired plants as power demand from AI surges: FT reports new technologies are straining power supplies and forcing a shift in plans to reduce use of the fuel source.

The implications of an AI presidential candidate Robert Moran

Fortune: US intelligence agencies were using generative AI 3 years before ChatGPT was released—but they still think it should be treated as a ‘crazy, drunk friend’

California advances AI proposals on discrimination, deepfakes, jobs: The efforts in California—home to many of the world’s biggest AI companies—could pave the way for AI regulations across the country. FC

How California and the EU work together to regulate artificial intelligence CalMatters

Humanity in 'race against time' on AI: UN: Humanity is in a race against time to harness the colossal emerging power of artificial intelligence for the good of all, while averting dire risks, a top UN official said Thursday. AFP

Who is to blame for AI becoming ever more human? Is it the tech companies? Or is it us? Bina Venkataraman, Josh Tyrangiel + Amanda Ripley

If AI can do your job, maybe it can also replace your CEO: Chief executives are vulnerable to the same forces buffeting their employees. Leadership is important, but so is efficiency — and cost-cutting. NYT

The fog around OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s 2023 ouster is beginning to clear: New revelations about Altman’s honesty—or lack thereof—matter because the world needs to trust that his company takes AI safety seriously. FC

Internal divisions linger at OpenAI after November’s attempted coup: Arguments over safety and Sam Altman’s leadership spill back into public domain as artificial intelligence start-up hit by resignations. FT

A devil’s bargain with OpenAI: Publishers, including The Atlantic, are signing deals with the AI giant. Where does this lead? Damon Beres

Why AI search blew up in Google’s face John Herrman

Meta says generative AI deception held in check -- for now: AFP reports social media giant Meta says its bid to thwart coordinated disinformation campaigns created through ever-improving generative AI is working, despite widespread concerns.

Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI? It has some advantages. But it is entering a crowded field. Economist

Bloomberg: Apple plans AI-based Siri overhaul to control individual app functions

+ The feature will be at the heart of renewed Apple push into AI

+ Idea is to operate features within individual apps using voice

This record stock market is riding on questionable AI assumptions: Just four giant technology stocks added more market value than the rest of the S&P 500 put together this month. More than half of the gain came from Nvidia. James Mackintosh

Hackers claim to breach Ticketmaster, capturing data of 560 million users: FC reports a notorious group of hackers allegedly gained access to names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and partial credit card data. Here’s what to know.

Gemini, the Winklevoss brothers’ crypto exchange, will return more than $2 billion to customers of a now defunct lending program. 

Canva’s radical overhaul aims to destroy Microsoft Office and Google Workspace: FC reports Canva is gunning for the enterprise set with new tools and features that are a direct challenge to the incumbents.

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-Marc

AI @ Noon | May 30

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

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-Marc

AI @ Noon | May 29

A tiny Mediterranean island wants a piece of the global AI frenzy: Malta is betting artificial intelligence can solve many of its biggest societal challenges and, perhaps, finally establish the island as a tech hub. Bloomberg

Washington pushes for new AI rules protecting artists as Hollywood backlash mounts: Yahoo reports Senators are pushing to introduce a bill as early as June that would set rules governing the use of artificial intelligence in the music and movie industries, an effort that coincides with new AI tensions roiling Hollywood.

+ The NO FAKES Act — which stands for Nurture Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe — is a bipartisan proposal that would stop individuals or companies from using AI to produce an unauthorized digital replica of their likeness or their voice.

Nvidia surges for a third day, adding some $470 billion to its market cap.

SoftBank plans to invest $9 billion per year into artificial intelligence. 

Bloomberg: Ex-OpenAI director says board learned of ChatGPT launch on Twitter

+ Helen Toner spoke about Sam Altman’s firing in a new podcast

+ Toner has called for more regulation around AI safety

Jan Leike, the former co-head of an OpenAI safety team focused on long-term risks, is joining its artificial intelligence rival Anthropic, Leike said in a post on X Tuesday.

OpenAI forms new committee to evaluate safety, security: WSJ reports the move comes after the ChatGPT creator was involved in a legal standoff with Scarlett Johansson over the release of a new female voice assistant.

Bloomberg: OpenAI creates oversight board featuring Sam Altman after dissolving safety team

+ Committee with directors, execs has 90 days to report to board

+ Move follows team exits, criticism from former board members

OpenAI begins training next AI model as it battles safety concerns: Executive appears to backtrack on start-up’s vision of building ‘superintelligence’ after exits from ‘superalignment’ team. FT

OpenAI starts training a new AI model while forming a safety committee: Amid turmoil, the company also announced it is forming a new committee to evaluate the safety and security of its artificial intelligence products. WP

Mistral AI, France’s startup darling, takes aim at the US market: The company’s first US manager says businesses are looking for alternatives to Big Tech. Bloomberg

Reuters: Klarna using GenAI to cut marketing costs by $10 mln annually

AI washing is real. This is how to see through deceptive claims: Similar to greenwashing—false marketing around a product or practice’s environmental benefits—AI washing has solutions that aren’t trustworthy to capitalize on the imperative need for adoption. FC

Top FTX executive sentenced to 7½ years in prison: NYT reports Ryan Salame, the head of FTX’s subsidiary in the Bahamas, was the first of Sam Bankman-Fried’s deputies to be sentenced since the crypto exchange collapsed in November 2022.

‘Atlas’ review: AI shrugged: Jennifer Lopez stars in a sci-fi action thriller that wonders whether artificial intelligence is really all that bad. NYT

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-Marc

AI @ Noon | May 28

Nikkei: China launches $47bn chip fund to counter US restrictions

Bloomberg: China creates $47.5 billion chip fund to back Nation’s firms

+ State-owned banks, firms among major shareholders of the fund

+ China tries to buy tech breakthroughs with heavy investment

Commerce-backed deal with Emirati AI giant sets off alarm bells in Congress: Politico reports some lawmakers fear an unusual deal to wrest an Emirati tech champion away from Beijing could instead leak cutting-edge AI technology to China.

AI is driving ‘the next industrial revolution.’ Wall Street is cashing in. Far beyond the tech sector, investors are finding winners in old-school pick-and-shovel stocks. WSJ

OpenAI's Johansson gaffe pushes voice cloning into spotlight: OpenAI was forced to apologize to actor Scarlett Johansson last week for using her voice –- or something very similar –- on its latest chatbot, throwing the spotlight on to voice-cloning tech. AFP

WSJ: Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in latest fundraising round

Reuters: Elon Musk's xAI valued at $24 bln after fresh funding

Amazon in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in cloud plan, sources say: Reuters reports AWS is in talks with Italy to invest billions of euros in the expansion of its data centre business in the country as part of the tech giant's effort to boost its cloud offer in Europe, four people familiar with the matter said.

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

AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board: For humanity’s sake, regulation is needed to tame market forces, argue Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley. Economist

AI will transform sports betting. It will also increase the risks. Artificial intelligence is set to revolutionize wagering. Problem gambling will rise, too. WSJ - Editorial

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-Marc

AI @ Noon | May 24

The United Kingdom and Canada have pledged to strengthen collaboration on AI safety, building upon their shared commitment to responsible AI development.

South Korea announced a 26trn won ($19bn) support package for the country’s semiconductor industry.

Bloomberg: Macron says he’d prefer that Mistral AI grow ‘on their own’

CNBC: Macron: French AI boom could help EU close tech innovation gap with US and China

Macron wants to make France a 'champion' in AI: Le Monde reports on Tuesday, France's president announced a number of measures aimed at spreading the use of artificial intelligence. Paris plans to host an international summit in February 2025.

Seven hours in Geneva hotel highlight US-China struggle on AI Bloomberg

+ First talks see each side push different vision for governance

+ AI becomes new arena of rivalry as Washington, Beijing engage

DARPA-backed startup seeks $70 million to join AI chip goldrush: Bloomberg reports EnCharge AI Inc., joins the growing technological race to build better chips to power the current wave of AI technology. Computing power has become a scarce and precious resource in the AI world, helping send chipmaker Nvidia Corp.’s market cap soaring past $2 trillion and spurring OpenAI boss Sam Altman to seek billions for chipmaking endeavors.

US intelligence agencies’ embrace of generative AI is at once wary and urgent AP

Generative AI: Friend or foe for US intelligence agencies? Current AI models are not sophisticated enough to handle the complex life-and-death decisions common to the national security realm. FC

The US is forming a global AI safety network with key allies: US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo says the US is collaborating with other countries, including the UK, Japan, and Canada, to manage the risks posed by artificial intelligence. Wired

White House pushes tech industry to shut down market for sexually abusive AI deepfakes: AP reports the White House is putting out a call Thursday looking for voluntary cooperation from companies in the absence of federal legislation. By committing to a set of specific measures, officials hope the private sector can curb the creation, spread, and monetization of such nonconsensual AI images, including explicit images of children.

AI on the campaign trail: The FCC fines political consultant $6 million for AI robocalls that impersonated Biden before the New Hampshire primary.

AI promised to upend the 2024 campaign. It hasn’t yet. With less than six months until the 2024 election, the political uses of AI are more theoretical than transformational. “This is the dog that didn’t bark,” said one adviser to a Democratic donor. NYT

FCC is considering AI rules for political ads CNN

Some of Silicon Valley’s most prominent investors are turning against Biden: Marc Andreessen, Chamath Palihapitiya, and several other tech venture capitalists are increasingly criticizing President Biden and making their disaffection known in an election year. NYT

Colorado passes first in the nation attempt to assess AI discrimination: While antidiscrimination laws exist, those who study AI discrimination say it’s a different beast, which the US is already behind in regulating. FC

Arizona lawmaker says ChatGPT helped draft new deepfakes law: The Hill reports An Arizona state lawmaker said artificial intelligence (AI) system ChatGPT helped draft a new deepfake legislation that was signed into law this week. Republican state Rep. Alex Kolodin said he used ChatGPT to write a subsection of House Bill 2394, which tackles AI-related impersonations of people by allowing Arizona residents to legally assert they are not featured in deepfake videos. 

+ “I used it to write the part of the bill that had to do with defining what a deepfake was,” Kolodin told NBC News. “I was really struggling with the technical aspects of how to define what a deepfake was. So I thought to myself, ‘Well, why not ask the subject matter expert, ChatGPT?’”

OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show: A different actress was hired to provide the voice for ChatGPT’s “Sky,” according to documents and recordings shared with the Washington Post. WP

OpenAI’s Altman on defense six months after surviving ouster: The CEO has issued a series of apologies and mea culpas after criticism from employees and one of the most famous actresses in the world. Bloomberg

OpenAI just gave away the entire game: The Scarlett Johansson debacle is a microcosm of AI’s raw deal: It’s happening, and you can’t stop it. Charlie Warzel

Scarlett Johansson is right: AI companies must be more transparent: A new index shows that they have a long way to go, including on data access and model trustworthiness. John Thornhill

OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson voice fiasco highlights old tech bias Bloomberg

Google’s AI search wants you to glue cheese to your pizza. It’s just the tip of its bad-idea iceberg Fortune

AI relies on mass surveillance, warns signal boss: The AI tools that crunch numbers, generate text and videos and find patterns in data rely on mass surveillance and exercise concerning control over our lives, the boss of encrypted messaging app Signal told AFP on Thursday. Pushing back against the unquestioning enthusiasm at VivaTech in Paris, Europe's top startup conference where industry players vaunt the merits of their products, Meredith Whittaker said concerns about surveillance and those about AI were "two framings of the same thing."

+ "The AI technologies we're talking about today are reliant on mass surveillance."

Futurism: The Washington Post tells staff it’s pivoting to AI

+ "AI everywhere in our newsroom."

OpenAI is making journalism an offer it can’t refuse: There is no opting out of artificial intelligence, so getting paid makes sense, but the deals with publishers don’t bode well for the future of newsgathering. David Lee

Bloomberg: Meta’s Zuckerberg creates council to advise on AI products

WP: Meta’s new AI hides sources and copies sentences from news outlets

CNBC: Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price

Bloomberg: Alphabet, Meta offer millions to partner with Hollywood on AI

+ Studios seek to harness AI’s promise without losing control

+ Warner weighs licensing content; Disney, Netflix say no

Elon Musk’s xAI secures new backing from Andreessen, Lightspeed, Sequoia, and Tribe: FT reports the billionaire’s artificial intelligence start-up closes in on $6bn funding round as it seeks more financial firepower.

Bloomberg: Nvidia’s Huang is now richer Tthan every member of Walmart’s founding family

+ Jensen Huang’s fortune catapulted past Jim, Rob, and Alice

+ Nvidia shares jumped after another bullish sales forecast

Business school teaching case study: Risks of the AI arms race: Competitive haste raises questions about safe development of the technology. Explore the issues with this dean’s case study. FT

Can the AI boom stop the tech exodus from San Francisco? Vast swaths of office space have been left empty after a big shift to remote working. Tabby Kinder

Fallout from cyberattack at Ascension Hospitals persists, causing delays in patient care: For two weeks at the 140-hospital system, doctors and nurses have had little access to digital records for patient histories, resorting to paper and faxes to treat people. NYT

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-Marc

AI @ Noon | May 23

AI and the new way of war: The killer robots are coming. Paul Wood

Second global AI summit secures safety commitments from companies: Reuters reports sixteen companies at the forefront of developing Artificial Intelligence pledged on Tuesday at a global meeting to develop the technology safely at a time when regulators are scrambling to keep up with rapid innovation and emerging risks.
 
Japan aims to curb Apple and Google's smartphone app duopoly: TJT reports a new bill would compel dominant platforms to allow third parties to launch their own app markets and to offer more payment options.

China’s latest answer to OpenAI is ‘Chat Xi PT’: Internet regulator uses Chinese leader’s political philosophy to help answer questions posed to latest large language model. FT

G42 + Microsoft are investing $1 billion in Kenya, funding a Microsoft Azure data center and an open-source large language model in Swahili and English.

TikTok ban is popular with voters as AI stirs privacy fears, poll shows: Swing-state voters worry AI will diminish privacy but are more upbeat about its potential impact on health and education. Bloomberg

The fake AI Scarlett Johansson is a reality check for Washington: The rise of fake people is one of the newest, strangest issues facing lawmakers — could a celebrity change the game? Politico

How Scarlett Johansson could shape California’s AI debate: California’s lawmakers and labor groups have been raising alarms about the replication of entertainers’ voices and likenesses, a stance that’s pitted them against Hollywood studios and Silicon Valley. Politico

The Commerce Department outlined its vision on Tuesday for the US AI Safety Institute, shedding more light on its still-nascent plans for a new agency at the forefront of AI regulation. The plan came with a commitment by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to formally coordinate with key allies who’ve recently created their own AI safety institutes via a new “international network” linking those offices.

+ The AISI announcement arrived in tandem with a declaration made by 11 governments — including the US, UK, European Union, and Canada — at the Seoul AI Summit in South Korea on Tuesday, with the countries all agreeing to collaborate across their respective AI safety institutes.

Humane has been seeking a buyer for its business.

News Corp inks a deal with OpenAI to use its content.

The Scarlett Johansson deception is part of a pattern for OpenAI and Sam Altman: Maybe we should be worried that the company that’s ushering in AI’s next wave doesn’t seem entirely honest. FC

Scarlett Johansson’s ChatGPT face-off confirms our fears about AI: We’re trusting tech companies with the very thing that makes us human. Molly Roberts

Scarlett Johansson proves she’s nobody’s chatbot: First Disney, now OpenAI. The actress has shown she won’t be bullied into giving up what’s hers. Beth Kowitt

Meta walked away from news. Now the company’s using it for AI content. Meta’s newest attempt to engage its users could affect the news industry, again. WP

Meta AI chief says large language models will not reach human intelligence: Yann LeCun argues current AI methods are flawed as he pushes for ‘world modelling’ vision for superintelligence. FT

Nvidia sales triple, signaling AI boom’s staying power: WSJ reports the company gave a better-than-expected forecast amid the hot market for its chips.

Nvidia’s revenue soars 262% as AI chip demand climbs: FT reports the chipmaker also announces a 10-for-1 stock split after quarterly results beat high expectations.

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-Marc

AI @ Noon | May 22

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

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-Marc

AI @ Noon | May 21

The robots are coming: How Ukraine became the testing ground for AI-powered combat: As autonomous drones soar toward the frontline, bigger countries like China and the US are watching. Politico

These ISIS news anchors are AI fakes. Their propaganda is real. The Islamic State-affiliated media broadcast News Harvest shows how artificial intelligence can be used to disseminate extremist propaganda quickly and cheaply. WP

The AI pork barrel arrives: Chuck Schumer has found a new excuse to spend $32 billion a year, and some Republicans are going along for the ride. WSJ - Editorial

The coming war between DC and Silicon Valley: A political fight is brewing over who’ll benefit most from the AI revolution — and what if anything Washington should do to shape the outcome. Politico

Sweeping Colorado AI bill signed by Governor as he urges changes: Bloomberg reports Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed legislation Friday that will give the state the most far-reaching regulations on artificial intelligence in the nation. Polis (D) said he was signing the bill “with reservations” in a letter to lawmakers, adding his “hope that it furthers the conversation, especially at the national level.”

Bloomberg: OpenAI dissolves high-profile safety team after Chief Scientist Sutskever’s exit

+ “Superalignment” group will be folded into broader research efforts at the company. 

OpenAI put ‘shiny products’ over safety, departing top researcher says: Jan Leike’s exit from ChatGPT maker is the latest sign of internal divisions over technology’s development. FT

Youth activists call on world leaders to set AI safeguards by 2030 WP

Bloomberg: Scarlett Johansson hired lawyers to push back on ‘eerily similar’ OpenAI voice

+ Actress says AI company voice sounded ‘eerily’ like her

+ AI imitation on screen has become Hollywood hot-button issue

The race for an AI-powered personal assistant: Google and OpenAI unveiled new tools to bring ‘intelligent systems’ a step closer. Will this be a milestone for generative AI? FT

Bloomberg: Michael Dell says AI PCs will be ‘pretty standard’ in 2025

WP: Microsoft will build AI into new laptops, firing shot at Apple

Bloomberg: JPMorgan says every new hire will get training for AI

Reddit shares surge as it strikes content deal with OpenAI: FT reports the agreement comes as competition for high-quality data to underpin AI models intensifies.

Snowflake is in talks to acquire startup Reka AI for more than $1 billion.

Abrdn revolts against Amazon over the risks of AI: The Times reports a big investor has expressed fears over Alexa’s effect on human rights before the tech company’s annual shareholders meeting.

Apple needs to evolve to compete in the artificial intelligence era Bloomberg

An Nvidia co-founder’s latest bet: Making ‘Quantum Valley’ in New York: WSJ reports Curtis Priem is donating more than $75 million to help Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute become a hub for a cutting-edge technology.

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-Marc