Our 144th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!
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Timestamps + links:
(00:00) Intro/Banter
Applications & Business
(01:30)  Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive
Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding


(20:05) Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns
GM Cruise cofounder, senior exec Dan Kan quits day after CEO exit


(22:30) GM’s Self-Driving Car Unit Skids Off Course
(24:00) Leaked email shows Amazon is cutting 'several hundred' jobs across Alexa business, including the newly launched Artificial General Intelligence team
(25:35) US Chip Ban Fallout Spreads as Alibaba Scraps Cloud Spinoff
(27:48) Tencent Stockpiled Enough NVIDIA AI GPUs To Last Them A Couple More Generations
(29:44) Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU ever — no, it's not the newly-announced H200, but the 2024-bound B100 Blackwell AI powerhouse
(31:37) US Launches $3 Billion Effort to Boost Advanced Chip Packaging
(34:50) Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team


Tools & Apps
(38:15) Meta launches AI-based video editing tools
(39:48) Discord is already killing Clyde, its experimental OpenAI chatbot
(40:50) Be My Eyes AI offers GPT-4-powered support for blind Microsoft customers


Projects & Open Source
(42:25) Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source


Research & Advancements
(45:43) Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure
(53:35) Meet JARVIS-1: Open-World Multi-Task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models
(58:10) NVIDIA’s “NeMo” Model Now Tuned For Chip Development, Showing Exceptional Results
(01:00:33) UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs


Policy & Safety
(01:02:35) President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
(01:12:44) Tech firms to allow vetting of AI tools, as Musk warns all human jobs threatened
As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits
(01:16:41) France, Germany and Italy join forces to propose unified AI regulation in the EU
(01:22:02) UK will refrain from regulating AI ‘in the short term’
(01:24:31) If you get sued for an AI-generated creative work, OpenAI says it will protect you while Anthropic says you're on your own
(01:29:41) China tightens rare-earth export curbs amid tension with U.S.


Synthetic Media & Art
(01:32:45) Microsoft AI Image Generator Blocks ‘Disney’ After Viral Movie Poster Trend