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  • AI regulation faces a test in California

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    Benefits and costs of the new AI gold rush. Move fast and break things … vying for supremacy (“America’s AI edge,” like another Manhattan Project) … but … who’s a developer, and what are their responsibilities in some type of regulatory framework? Who does AI safety testing? Are there 3rd party evaluations? Certifications? Kill switches? Incident logging and reporting? AI “meltdowns” and lawsuits? Collateral damage…

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  • Big Tech’s rocking credos on the rocks – a love story

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    Some billionaires are bullies. But can they be bullied? Sure, in autocracies. But in the United States? Well … disrupting the so-called disrupters. As the song goes, “traveling twice the speed of sound, it’s easy to get burned” [1]. Normally, sucking up to power isn’t news in the corporate world, but Silicon Valley was supposed to be different. – Kara Swisher Kara Swisher‘s been on…

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