… It resulted in a week of total confusion for backers of either policy: AI preemption and child safety might be lumped together in order to ensure preemption gets signed into law, but whose version of child safety gets passed is unclear. …
… Alyssa Cass, a spokeswoman for the Bores campaign, said that they’d initially thought it would be harder to make voters care about AI safety. “AI regulation is his strength, but it’s gonna take us a lot of work to make this a salient issue in the district,” she told The Verge. “And they, starting i… …
… Externally, OpenAI’s Pentagon deal sparked widespread controversy, leading CEO Sam Altman to announce he was attempting to renegotiate the deal. But Silicon Valley executives are aggressively pushing back against employee organizing and speaking out, including by using AI to identify leakers. …
… The company has built its reputation and success on being willing and able to test, fail, and iterate again, and on not being afraid of controversy or of pouring money into projects like Starship that may never really be financially viable on their own. …
… I do want to emphasize that it’s fair and right that public safety and the military get a lot of attention, but this is not all that we do. …
… He was thinking about distributing AI through Grammarly, and distributing AI is actually a really hard challenge. You’re up against Google, you’re up against Apple, which is going to integrate AI into iOS with Google’s models over time. …