UK competition watchdog launches review of AI market

Enlarge (credit: Sean Gladwell via Getty) The UK competition watchdog is launching a review of the…

Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes an AI-based contacts organizer, what she could have done differently at Yahoo, AI’s future, and more (Patrick Kulp/Emerging Tech Brew)

Patrick Kulp / Emerging Tech Brew: Q&A with Marissa Mayer on her startup Sunshine that makes…

President Biden meets with AI CEOs at the White House amid ethical criticism

Enlarge / US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris meet the ‘Investing in America…

Q&A with Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google and recipient of IEEE’s Medal of Honor, on how Google has changed since 2005, the hazards of LLMs, more (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Q&A with Vint Cerf, chief internet evangelist at Google and recipient of…

Snoop Dogg on AI risk: “Sh–, what the f—?”

Enlarge / Snoop Dogg talking about AI at the 2023 Milken Institute Global Conference on May…

Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at Google, argues that open source AI will outcompete Google and OpenAI (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Source: a leaked April 2023 internal document by Luke Sernau, a senior software engineer at…

“We must regulate AI,” FTC Chair Khan says

Enlarge / FTC Chair Lina M. Khan testifies during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee…

The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to assess opportunities, guardrails, and principles to protect competition (Financial Times)

Financial Times: The UK CMA launches a “fact-finding” review of the AI market, including LLMs, to…

AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral

Enlarge / A still image from “Synthetic Summer,” an AI-generated beer commercial. (credit: Privateisland.tv) While many…

Balaji Srinivasan “settles” his $1M bet from mid-March, predicting one BTC would be worth $1M+ within 90 days, ahead of time, by giving $500K to three entities (Stephen Alpher/CoinDesk)

Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk: Balaji Srinivasan “settles” his $1M bet from mid-March, predicting one BTC would…