#144 - OpenAI CEO UN-FIRED, Cruise founders quit, Meta video editing, LLMs can lie, policy updates
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Our 144th episode with a summary and discussion of last week's big AI news, now back with the usual hosts!

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Timestamps + links:

(00:00) Intro/Banter

Applications & Business

(01:30)  Sam Altman Is Reinstated as OpenAI’s Chief Executive)

Before Altman’s Ouster, OpenAI’s Board Was Divided and Feuding)

(20:05) Cruise co-founder and CEO Kyle Vogt resigns)

GM Cruise cofounder, senior exec Dan Kan quits day after CEO exit)

(22:30) GM’s Self-Driving Car Unit Skids Off Course)

(24:00) Leaked email shows Amazon is cutting 'several hundred' jobs across Alexa business, including the newly launched Artificial General Intelligence team)

(25:35) US Chip Ban Fallout Spreads as Alibaba Scraps Cloud Spinoff)

(27:48) Tencent Stockpiled Enough NVIDIA AI GPUs To Last Them A Couple More Generations)

(29:44) Nvidia teases its most powerful GPU ever — no, it's not the newly-announced H200, but the 2024-bound B100 Blackwell AI powerhouse)

(31:37) US Launches $3 Billion Effort to Boost Advanced Chip Packaging)

(34:50) Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team)

Tools & Apps

(38:15) Meta launches AI-based video editing tools)

(39:48) Discord is already killing Clyde, its experimental OpenAI chatbot)

(40:50) Be My Eyes AI offers GPT-4-powered support for blind Microsoft customers)

Projects & Open Source

(42:25) Kyutai is a French AI research lab with a $330 million budget that will make everything open source)

Research & Advancements

(45:43) Technical Report: Large Language Models can Strategically Deceive their Users when Put Under Pressure)

(53:35) Meet JARVIS-1: Open-World Multi-Task Agents with Memory-Augmented Multimodal Language Models)

(58:10) NVIDIA’s “NeMo” Model Now Tuned For Chip Development, Showing Exceptional Results)

(01:00:33) UFOGen: You Forward Once Large Scale Text-to-Image Generation via Diffusion GANs)

Policy & Safety

(01:02:35) President Biden Issues Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence)

(01:12:44) Tech firms to allow vetting of AI tools, as Musk warns all human jobs threatened)

As A.I.-Controlled Killer Drones Become Reality, Nations Debate Limits)

(01:16:41) France, Germany and Italy join forces to propose unified AI regulation in the EU)

(01:22:02) UK will refrain from regulating AI ‘in the short term’)

(01:24:31) If you get sued for an AI-generated creative work, OpenAI says it will protect you while Anthropic says you're on your own)

(01:29:41) China tightens rare-earth export curbs amid tension with U.S.)

Synthetic Media & Art

(01:32:45) Microsoft AI Image Generator Blocks ‘Disney’ After Viral Movie Poster Trend)