AI & Robotics

It is in some ways the “original sin” of generative AI: many of the leading models from the likes of OpenAI and Meta have been trained on data scraped from the web without prior knowledge or express permission of those who posted it. AI companies who took this approach argue it is fair game and legally permissible. As OpenAI put it in a recent blog post: “Training AI models using publicly…

Samsung has partnered with Google Cloud to integrate generative AI into Samsung Galaxy S24 Series smartphones. The companies unveiled a multi-year partnership to bring advanced generative AI to Samsung smartphone users globally. The partnership kicks off with the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S24 series, introduced at the Galaxy Unpacked event in San Jose, California, today. Samsung becomes the…

Last month, I reported on the widening web of connections between the effective altruism (EA) movement and AI security policy circles — from top AI startups like Anthropic to DC think tanks like RAND Corporation. These are linking EA, with its laser-focus on preventing what its adherents say are catastrophic risks to humanity from future AGI, to a wide swath of DC think tanks, government…