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AI makes strange bedfellows: Pres. Trump proposes US government stake in AI companies similar to Bernie Sanders’ proposal. Video.
Read more: AI makes strange bedfellows: Pres. Trump proposes US government stake in AI companies similar to Bernie Sanders’ proposal. Video.How do you know AI is a disruptive technology? Well, it’s when in the same week President Trump and Senator Berne Sanders both propose that the U.S. government should take an ownership stake in U.S. AI companies. President Trump just floated the idea of doing something similar to the federal government’s recent 10% stake in…
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Pres. Trump issues scaled down Executive Order on gov’t review of AI safety risks
Read more: Pres. Trump issues scaled down Executive Order on gov’t review of AI safety risksAfter delaying the Executive Order due to reported concerns expressed by former AI Czar David Sacks, President Trump issued what sounds like a scaled down version of the government review of frontier AI models that is voluntary, not required. PROMOTING ADVANCED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INNOVATION AND SECURITY A key provision is Section 3: Sec. 3. Secure Frontier…
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Trump orders federal government agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI. Anthropic opposed military’s use of AI for autonomous warfare or mass surveillance.
Read more: Trump orders federal government agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI. Anthropic opposed military’s use of AI for autonomous warfare or mass surveillance.The controversy related to the U.S. military’s contract with Anthropic for the use of its AI escalated. After a couple days of intense negotiations between Anthropic and the Department of War, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI, Claude, with a phase out in the next 6 months: How Did We…
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Pres. Trump to issue Executive Order preempting states from regulating AI
Read more: Pres. Trump to issue Executive Order preempting states from regulating AIPresident Trump said he will sign an Executive Order later this week to preempt states from regulating AI. We’ll have to see the scope of this order and how it will be operationalized. Expect legal challenges. From AI Czar David Sacks: I wanted to share a few thoughts on AI preemption and address some of…
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Pres. Trump cites calls from Salesforce’s Benioff, NVIDIA’s Huang as reason for not sending troops into SF
Read more: Pres. Trump cites calls from Salesforce’s Benioff, NVIDIA’s Huang as reason for not sending troops into SFPresident Trump said he received calls from Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, and other “friends” as the reason why he decided against sending troops into San Francisco. UPDATE: WSJ reported that Sam Altman also called the President. According to WSJ, “[Huang] called Trump Wednesday, gave him Lurie’s phone number and told him the mayor…
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Pres. Trump supports fair use in AI training. Notes importance to national interest. (Video)
Read more: Pres. Trump supports fair use in AI training. Notes importance to national interest. (Video)After releasing the AI Action Plan for the United States, President Trump strongly supported fair use in AI training. He noted the national interest in developing AI and staying ahead of China, a country that will not require copyright licensing of all data in AI training. Pres. Trump said it’s neither common sense nor workable…
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Video Sen. Ted Cruz presiding over hearing with Sam Altman. Stresses importance of US maintaining lead over China in AI.
Read more: Video Sen. Ted Cruz presiding over hearing with Sam Altman. Stresses importance of US maintaining lead over China in AI.This week, Senator Ted Cruz, Senate Commerce Committee Chair, presided over a hearing with Sam Altman and other AI industry execs. Fascinating comments. Here’s Senator Cruz’s opening statement: Good morning. The Senate Committee on Commerce Science and Transportation is called to order welcome to our witnesses. Thank you for joining us this morning in the…
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Google stresses importance of fair use in comment to White House Office of Science & Technology Policy
Read more: Google stresses importance of fair use in comment to White House Office of Science & Technology PolicyGoogle posted its comment to the White House Office of Science & Technology Policy’s request. Like OpenAI, Google stressed the importance of fair use to AI development, although its section was shorter than in OpenAI’s comment. Copyright. Balanced copyright rules, such as fair use and text-and-data miningexceptions, have been critical to enabling AI systems to…