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List of US AI industry execs invited to State Dinner for China Pres. Xi Jinping

Tonight, President Trump hosts a State Dinner for China’s leader Xi Jinping. As typical for Trump’s administration, AI and tech executives from U.S. companies will be in full force. Here’s the list of AI and tech executives, along with other executives:
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Jensen Huang to public: “We’re sorry we didn’t come to talk to you sooner. We need to go engage the communities long before we set up the data centers.”

In an interview with CBS, Jensen Huang apologized to the American public about the AI industry’s failure to account to them on the building of new data centers. We’re sorry we didn’t come to talk to you sooner. We need to go engage the communities long before we set up the data centers. Jensen Huang
Read more: Jensen Huang to public: “We’re sorry we didn’t come to talk to you sooner. We need to go engage the communities long before we set up the data centers.”
Australia Prime Minister Albanese: OpenAI belatedly notified Australia that OpenAI’s AI hacked into government health website this past summer

“”I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia’s extreme concern about this inciden. And I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable,” said Prime Minister…
Read more: Australia Prime Minister Albanese: OpenAI belatedly notified Australia that OpenAI’s AI hacked into government health website this past summer
OpenAI moves to strike paper “Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books” by Prof. Tuhin Chakrabarty based on his webpage CV’s alleged disclosure of $100,000 funding by Susman Godfrey law firm representing Plaintiffs

Amidst a tsunami of media coverage of AI doomsday concerns, OpenAI just filed an explosive motion to strike that will return some attention back to the MDL copyright litigation against it. OpenAI seeks to strike the non-peer-reviewed AI research paper provocatively titled “Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books,” as well as expert…
Read more: OpenAI moves to strike paper “Generative AI floods and dilutes the market for books” by Prof. Tuhin Chakrabarty based on his webpage CV’s alleged disclosure of $100,000 funding by Susman Godfrey law firm representing Plaintiffs
Benjamin Mann files amended answer to Concord Music II’s Second Amended Complaint

Anthropic co-cofounder Benjamin Mann filed an amended answer to Concord Music II’s Second Amended Complaint. It looks like many changes pertain to the affirmative defenses. Fair use is now No. 1: Redlined Version of Changes in Amended Answer of Benjamin Mann:
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Yoshuo Bengio, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Clem Delangue warn UN Security Council of safety risks of AI

The UN Security Council held a historic session with AI researchers and executives: Yoshuo Bengio, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Clem Delangue of Hugging Face.
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New York Times disputes extent of its errata in summary judgment statement but concedes 2 week extension to briefing may be warranted

In their motion for an extension to file their opposition to the News Plaintiffs’ summary judgment motion, OpenAI and Microsoft contend that the New York Times’ statement of facts was riddled with mistakes that the New York Times belatedly corrected in a subsequent “errata” filing. The defendants also argued that they still haven’t been served…
Read more: New York Times disputes extent of its errata in summary judgment statement but concedes 2 week extension to briefing may be warranted
Pres. Trump renames AI, SI for super intelligence. Similar to title of Geoffrey Hinton’s forthcoming book on super intelligence

It’s official: President Trump has renamed AI, “SI,” short for super intelligence. Trump says the term is more accurate than artificial intelligence. Well, Trump may be on to something. Geoffrey Hinton’s forthcoming book is titled, Smarter Than Us: Superintelligence and the Future of Humanity (Penguin Random House Mar. 30, 2027). Will “superintelligence” stick? Partial Text…
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Amazon blocks shopping by Meta Muse agent

Meta Muse appears to be a hit, becoming the No. 1 iOS app in terms of downloads. But, as explained by suhaadada on TikTok, Amazon has blocked shopping via Meta Muse agents. This battle is likely to get bigger as personal AI agents become more pervasive.
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Is tort law the antidote to rogue AI doomsday risks?

There’s an interesting argument surfacing in the debate over loss of control over rogue AI agents: tort law, through products liability, can adequately address the problem. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave a nod to this argument by saying emphatically AI companies will not get any “liability shield.” NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made the argument even…
Read more: Is tort law the antidote to rogue AI doomsday risks?
OpenAI, Microsoft ask for 2 week extension to opposition to New York Times’ summary judgment briefs due to many late “errata” changes & failure to serve 60 exhibits

OpenAI and Microsoft just asked Judge Stein for 2 additional weeks to file their opposition to the New York Times/News Plaintiffs’ summary judgment briefs. They contend: “Defendants make this request because News Plaintiffs’ “errata” to their extraordinarily lengthy Rule 56.1 Statement and supporting Brook Declaration—filed two weeks after the summary judgment deadline—confirm that their Rule…
Read more: OpenAI, Microsoft ask for 2 week extension to opposition to New York Times’ summary judgment briefs due to many late “errata” changes & failure to serve 60 exhibits
Pres. Trump says DOJ will rein in AI companies if called for, out of safety concerns

Even Pres. Trump is now trying to allay the public’s concern over doomsday fears over AI sparked a couple weeks ago by former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit to call attention to what he says is existential risk posed by fast developing AI models. Today, Pres. Trump said that the Department of Justice will…
Read more: Pres. Trump says DOJ will rein in AI companies if called for, out of safety concerns
British Columbia Province sues Sam Altman, OpenAI for role of ChatGPT in mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge. Lawsuits hit 38.

The Province of British Columbia and Board of Education of School District No. 59 just sued Sam Altman and OpenAI for their role in the mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge involving the shooter Jesse Van Rootselaar, who used ChatGPT at one point. Altman already issued an apology to Tumbler Ridge community for OpenAI’s failure to…
Read more: British Columbia Province sues Sam Altman, OpenAI for role of ChatGPT in mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge. Lawsuits hit 38.
Bessent says AI companies “need to take responsibility” for rogue AI like Hugging Face incident. No federal liability shield.

Ever since former Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon’s post about doomsday risks posed by AI, the media coverage — and interest — have been nonstop. Today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that AI companies must “take responsibility for themselves” if their AI causes harms, such as in the Hugging Face incident involving OpenAI’s model breaching its…
Read more: Bessent says AI companies “need to take responsibility” for rogue AI like Hugging Face incident. No federal liability shield.
New Yorker cover depicts AI doomsday fears

What a cover from the New Yorker this week:
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