📰 AI.News Roundup: Week Ending May 31

[Kelly Stocker]

It's Friday and the last day of May? Time to celebrate with a whopping round up of AI news you could possibly use to a. know stuff or b. sound real smart at conferences/cocktail parties. 🤓🍸

• OpenAI has begun training a new flagship AI model to succeed GPT-4. It expects this new model will help us get closer to achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI). The company also announced it's creating a new Safety and Security Committee to explore how it should handle the risks posed by the new model and future tech.
• Social media is abuzz with examples of Google’s new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks. The messy rollout means Google is racing to manually disable AI Overviews for specific searches as various memes get posted.
• Senators are pushing to introduce a bill - the NO FAKES Act - as early as June that would set rules governing the use of AI in the music and movie industries, an effort that coincides with new AI tensions roiling Hollywood.
• Anthropic’s AI assistant, Claude AI can automate tasks and interact with external data sources, APIs, and tools without human input. For example, it can analyze data to create personalized product recommendations based on a user’s purchase history or provide quick responses to customer questions, like tracking orders or giving tech help in real-time.
• Perplexity introduced Pages, a tool that turns AI search and discovery into simple articles and reports for sharing. Users can enter a search prompt, select an audience type (beginner, advanced or anyone) to shape the tone of the generated text, and it will create a detailed and shareable article – it will also find and insert relevant media items such as images and videos.Major tech players including Microsoft, Amazon, and IBM have pledged to publish safety measures for their AI models to promote responsible and ethical AI use.

More AI news below 

 The latest news

• OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship A.I. Model (NYT)
• Google scrambles to manually remove weird AI answers in search (The Verge)
• Apple confirms WWDC keynote details for AI-focused iOS 18, Platforms State of the Union, and more (9to5Mac)
• Anthropic’s AI now lets you create bots to work for you (The Verge)
• Perplexity AI’s new feature will turn your searches into shareable pages (TechCrunch)
• Mistral announces Codestral, a code-generation LLM it says outperforms all others (VentureBeat)
• You.com empowers users to create personalized AI assistants with top language models (VentureBeat)

 Industry trends

• Behind the Curtain: AI's ominous scarcity crisis (Axios)
• AI washing is real. This is how to see through deceptive claims  (Fast Company)
• Klarna Marketing Chief Says AI Is Helping It Become ‘Brutally Efficient’ (WSJ)
• PwC strikes OpenAI deal to become the first reseller of ChatGPT Enterprise (VentureBeat)
• Exclusive: The Atlantic, Vox Media ink licensing, product deals with OpenAI (Axios)

Responsible AI

• Washington pushes for new AI rules protecting artists as Hollywood backlash mounts (Yahoo Finance)
• Big Tech’s Budding AI Monopoly (WSJ Op-Ed)
• AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board (The Economist Op-Ed)
• Microsoft, Amazon, IBM Pledge to Publish AI Safety Measures for Models (AI Business)
• The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (The Guardian)