Emilia David

An open letter signed by AI researchers, including Algorithmic Justice League founder Joy Boulamwini and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, said governments should look to fully criminalize deepfake child pornography even with fictional children, create criminal penalities for people who make and share “harmful” deepfakes, and require developers to be held liable if their safety measures are easily bypassed.

The Information reports Microsoft’s server network cards, which are currently in development, could replace the ones offered by Nvidia and save the company cash. Server cards move data quickly between servers. These new server cards should not only improve the performance of Nvidia chips, but Microsoft’s upcoming Maia AI chips as well.

Sharing music statistics online became a yearly tradition thanks to Spotify Wrapped. Now, Apple Music’s Replay feature is turning up the frequency with monthly breakdowns (after YouTube Music added seasonal updates in 2022) and will also note “milestones” for users, like the total number of minutes they spent listening to that one album. Users, of course, can share their music recaps online every month.

Schools using the Janet Network, which lets researchers share large amounts of data electronically, couldn’t access parts of their network.

As well as Amazon, Adobe, IBM, Arm, Stability AI, TikTok, X, Snap, LinkedIn, and seven other AI and tech companies in the AI Elections Accord.

State senator Scott Weiner proposes a Frontier Model Division in California’s Department of Technology that will oversee mandatory testing and review safety compliance of AI models. Weiner previously filed an “intent” bill, which was intended to kickstart discussions on regulating AI models in the state.

OpenAI’s still-in-limited-testing new text-to-video generation model, Sora, is very impressive, especially compared to widely available AI video generators like Runway Gen-2 and Google’s Imagen.