Meta's National Security Play and ChatGPT's 8-Figure Domain Acquisition
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Today, on the A I daily brief, OpenAI buys a very expensive domain and meta AI gets prepared for war. The AI daily brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in A I. To join the conversation, follow the discard link in our show notes.

Well, come back to the AI daily brief headlines s edition, all the daily AI news you need around five minutes. We kick off today with OpenAI, where ChatGPT has gotten a new domain name chat dot com. In general, a change of domain name wouldn't be the hugest news.

However, this is one of the more story domain names in the history of the web. The domain was first registered in september one thousand and ninety six, making IT one of the earliest domains. IT was purchased for fifteen point five million by the fountain CTO of hub spot drama shaw in early twenty twenty three.

At the time, shaw wrote on his linton page, the reason I bought chat com is simple. I think chat based to U. X is the next big thing in software. Communicating with computers and and software through a natural language faces much more tuition. This is made possible by generating A I shah never did anything substantial with the domain and announced that he had been sold to a mystery buyer back in march.

Yesterday, he posted on x secret acquire or fifteen plus million dollar domain chat tok com revealed and it's exactly who do you think addressing the burning question of the sale Price shop presented a cyp I C chat b tea prompt. The substance was basically that he never sells domain named at a loss. I always wanted to own some open an eye shares.

Next up today, we turn to the middle ast, where saudi arabia is planning a one hundred billion dollar, I hope, to rival neighbor projects in the U. A. E. Citing people familiar with the matter, bloomberg reports the project will include data centers, startups and other infrastructure to develop artificial intelligence called project transcendence. The initiative is aiming on recruiting new talent to the kingdom and developing the local technical system.

The kingdom's public investment fund will provide the one hundred billion dollar investment required earlier in the week google announced are taking part in the initiatives, which would include research on arabic alms and quote site specific I applications. Google wasn't clear on what determined, but many presume IT refers to models to assist with resource extraction. Stayed owned oil giant si aramco is already using A I across their Operations and are seeing fifteen percent production boost at some oil sites.

Google inside arabia are reported this spending between five and ten billion dollars on the joint project project transcendence intense to partner with additional large tech firms by providing assistance with infrastructure and capital. The ambition seems large, with sources stating the goal is to bridge the gap between the kingdom gap of china and the U. S.

On A I expertise, they said that the kingdom is essentially becoming as largest the aow g forty two A I can glamorous as been politian put IT data is the new oil, and sadi arabia is setting its sites on eye dominance in the middle east and north africa with a one hundred billion dollar investment. The kingdom means to fuel the digital transformation, shaping industries from health, energy. As A I reshape the future study, arabia is ready to leave the charge.

Here's one that is surprisingly controversial and maybe shows a little bit A I fatigue setting in. Microsoft is upgrading some of their all these tools with new A I features, no pad. Their stripped down text editor, first released back in one thousand nine hundred eighty three, now has an A I writing assistant.

According to the windows insider blog, users can tap the eye to refresh sentences, are just tone and modify the length of your content. The feature can be activated by simply right clicking a highlighted passage of text. Users can then select from three suggestions in a dialogue box.

Paint will also have new AI image dating tools. Users can access general fill in general a race, and all of these features are being previewed by windows insiders currently and will be rolled out in windows eleven over the coming months. LLM shipper rights why he? I do almost everything you know, pad, because it's simple and i'm too burn for Better.

I write my prompts and jail bricks at a code. Take quick notes. No pad is great because it's light. Wait in minimum.

A, F, why are you like this? microsoft? Still, obviously, one of the big trends were watching right now is whether a integrated into very core basic experiences like this or like what we're seeing with apple intelligence is going to be a Better path in for some new folks to join the AI party.

Last year day, I follow up from our story on complexities, election strategy, and Frankly, the company did really well to start up launched their election hub days before the vote, serving information about candidates and polling locations. On election night, they served real time election insights and vocal maps as the results came in. All reports suggest IT was extremely accurate and user friendly, going off without a hitch.

Notably, most of the other A I labs decided to sit this one out with open the eyes ChatGPT. In google, german I flat out refusing to answer questions about the election. X A S, grow was happy to discuss the election, but the results turn very impressive.

Rights tech trench, the answers we received were inconsistent. In one case, gross said that trump had in fact, one ohio th CarOlina, because voting was ongoing. The way in which the question was worded made a difference, adding presidential before election in the query who won the twenty twenty four election in ohio was less likely to held the trump one answer.

While some painted this is misinformation grated, provide prominent links to vote up god for more accurate information and links to the expose that was using a sources. In contrast, tech tron rights perplexity took a risky bet and IT paid off. It's understandable why most day I labs have this election out.

They rode IT was the safe and responsible choice for many of them as theyve been plagued by embarrassing hlubi ation at some point or another in the last year. The complexity team clearly putting all their effort towards making sure their bet paid off. C E, O are of until us spent the monitoring x for bugg importance with resolving them most impressively, their model was able to respond to questions about specific states with carefully hedge yet informative answers.

Technical committed perplexity only showed few small holus instance and largely produce relevant facts in a timely manner. Simmering up was in val, who wrote Polly, market for predictions, prediction for results. That, however, is going to do for today's AI daily brief headlines edition.

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We talked about this a lot yesterday in the context of the elections and how trumps policy visit china might impact his administrations approach to, for example, or C I, even before the elections. We also recently got the White house memo around A I A national security that made IT very clear that american leadership in A I is a national security imperative. Basically, you have both the democrats and the republicans saying the same thing, which is that A I is integral to the future of american leadership in the world.

And all of that kind of set the scene for today's story, which is about meta and how they are now ready for war. So what happened is that meta has granted approval for their lama models to be used by U. S.

Government agencies and defense contractors. While the models are open source. Until now, they have had an acceptable use policy that bars them from being used on projects related to quote, military warfare, nuclear industries.

And however, the company has now granted an exception for U. S. Defense agencies as well as close allies within the five s.

Intelligence network, including canada, the U. K. Australia and new zeal. Other close allies such as israel in japan are notably not on this list. In a blog post, meta, president of global affairs, and clog route as an american company and one that owes its success in no small part to the entrepreneurial spirit and democratic values the united states uphold.

Meta wants to play its part to support the safety, security and economic prosperity of amErica and of its closest allies to Clarke suggested that lama could be useful for tasks like data analysis and syntheses of documents. As well as to quote, track terrorist financing or strength in our cyber defenses. In a follow up e mail, a spokesperson was vae on how defense agencies would actually use lama, but said IT is the responsibility of country's leveraging A I for national security to deploy A I ethically, responsibly and in accordance with relevant international law.

The anounced highlights how important the recent White house national security memorandum and I I was in allowing adoption for national security purposes, among many other provisions. The memo provided the basic safeguards on how A I would be used to specifically mention that A I would not be used to track american citizen speech or given control of nuclear launch codes more generally, the White house said. A I must now be used in ways that quote do not alone with democratic values.

The memo also contained a lengthy classified section that presumably made more specific representations of how A I wooden would not be used for A I companies. The seem to have calmed ethical and P R concerns about the use of A I in the military and intelligence services. Open a ee responded to the memo with a blog post, which stated that the framework in that memo opens up the potential to support more national security work in the us.

And I countries in a way that says, true to our mission, of course, the worst nightmare for all of these A I labs is a headline that their technology was used to commit war crimes or accidentally launched nuclear missile. And IT seems like increasingly at the moment, the White house has done enough to put those fears, if not to rest, then certainly on the back burner. The other looming issue is AI adoption among america's adversaries.

Ies in his blog post clack explicit referred to this issue, writing we believe IT is in both amErica and the wider democratic world's interest for american open source models to excel and succeed over models from china and elsewhere. Earlier this week, meanwhile, IT was revealed that the people's liberation army and china are already making use of lama. A june paper reviewed by reuters explained how chinese researchers had built a military intelligence chatbot called chapt using meta previous generation lama two thirteen b model.

The paper said the chat bit was optimized for dialogue in question answering tasks in the military field, IT added. In the future, through technological refinement, chat bit will not only be applied to intelligence analysis, also strategic planning, simulation training and command decision making will be explored. The paper said the chat pot was ninety percent as capable as much larger models.

Meta downplayed the news. However, commenting in the global competition on an eye, the alleged role of a single and outdated version of an american open source model is irrelevant when we know china is already investing more than a trillion dollars to surpass the us. On a VP of research show, al peno added that a drop in the ocean compared to most of these models that are trained with trillions of tokens.

So IT really makes me question, what do they actually achieve here in terms of different capabilities? Still, the news was enough to cause alarm among analysts. Sunny chung, a chinese tech expert at the James town foundation, said it's the first time there has been substantial evidence that P, L, A military experts in china had been systematically researching and trying to leverage the power of open source L.

S, especially those are met up for military purposes. Will I am have us to lead analyst at Georgetown university center for security and emerging technology, said, can you keep china out of the cookie jar? No, I don't see how you can.

There's too much collaboration going on between china's best scientists and the U. S. Best A. I. Scientists for them to be excluded from developments.

So to put IT differently, with the chinese military clearly willing to violate the accept table use policy, one way to read medas actions is that they felt IT was time to make an exception for U. S. Armed forces as well.

And he was I would expect there to be a lot more around A I and national security strategy in the months to come. For now, that is going to do IT for today's a daily brief. Appreciate your listening or watching is always and until next time peace.