By a vote of 99 to one, the U.S. Senate deleted from Donald Trump’s “big beautiful” tax and spending bill a measure that would have prevented individual states from regulating artificial intelligence (AI) for 10 years.
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AI DEEPFAKES ARE ERODING TRUST IN POLITICAL PROCESSES
AI’s ability to create fake photos, videos, and voice knockoffs has progressed to the point where it has begun to sway election outcomes, experts told The New York Times.
THE ENDPOINT OF TECHNOCRACY
OpenAI’s Sam Altman says humans will soon live with a 24/7 AI companion. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is betting people will wear it as part of an augmented reality experience in some version of AR “smart” glasses that will supplant smartphones.
META PREVAILS IN COPYRIGHT SUIT BROUGHT BY AUTHORS
Using the text of millions of online books to train its AI models without compensating or acknowledging the books’ authors is “fair use” under U.S. copyright law, according to a 25 June federal court ruling.
OPENAI SNAGS $200-MILLION DEFENSE CONTRACT
OpenAI, founded as a nonprofit to develop AI “for the benefit of humanity,” has signed a one-year, $200-million contract with the U.S. defense department to “develop prototype frontier AI capabilities to address critical national security challenges in both warfighting and enterprise domains,” the department said in a press announcement.
SOFTBANK PROPOSES $1-TRILLION AI HUB IN ARIZONA
Softbank Group, Japan’s tech megafunder, is exploring the prospect of a trillion-dollar investment to create an industrial complex in Arizona for building robots and developing advanced AI models.
AI HALLUCINATIONS ARE A FEATURE, NOT A BUG. SO, WHAT TO DO?
AI models are evolving from generative systems that deliver information culled from the Internet to “reasoning” models that mimic some processes of human thought.
GOT EARWAX? AI WILL TELL YOU IF YOU HAVE PARKINSON’S DISEASE
A Parkinson’s diagnosis often is possible only after a person has lost enough brain function to begin showing symptoms. However, now all you need is earwax, according to researchers at China’s Zhejiang University.
HACKBOT AUTOMATES CYBERHACKING FOR SELF-DEFENSE
A startup named Xbow has raised $75 million to fund development of a bot that continually tests weaknesses in online systems so the systems’ operators can find and fix them before bad actors do.
TECHNOCRACY BRIEFS: IT’S AI’S WORLD
People are taking up characteristic words and phrasing of the most widely used generative AI chatbots, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, according to the Max Planck Society.