🗞 Elon Musk Withdraws Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman 🚪

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• Elon Musk Withdraws Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman 🚪

• OpenAI Appoints New CFO and CPO Amidst Growth and Partnerships 🌟

• MediaTek Challenges Qualcomm with Arm-based CPUs for PCs 💻

• U.S. Mulls Tighter Restrictions on China's Access to Advanced AI Chips 🇺🇸

• FTC Scrutinizes AI Across Industries to Balance Innovation and Risks 🔍

• Pope Francis to Discuss AI Ethics with G7 Leaders in Historic Summit ⛪️

• AI Bot Makes Unusual Bid for Wyoming Mayoral Office Through Human Proxy 🤠

🚪 Elon Musk abruptly withdraws lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI over alleged breach of founding agreement. Read More

• Musk and Altman co-founded OpenAI in 2015, but Musk left the board three years later amid a struggle over the company's control and direction.

• Musk's suit claimed OpenAI's pivot to become a largely for-profit entity in partnership with Microsoft constituted a breach of the "founding agreement" to work for the betterment of humanity.

• OpenAI and Altman denied any wrongdoing, stating there was no such "founding agreement" and suggesting Musk's actions were driven by professional jealousy.

🌟 OpenAI appoints Sarah Friar as new CFO and Kevin Weil as CPO to support the company's next phase of growth. Read More

• Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor and CFO at Square, will lead OpenAI's finance team to ensure continued investment in core research and scalability.

• Weil, former president, product and business at Planet Labs and co-founder of Libra cryptocurrency at Facebook, will lead OpenAI's product team in applying research to products and services.

• The appointments coincide with Apple's partnership announcement with OpenAI and ongoing investigations by the Justice Department and FTC into potential competition issues in the AI industry.

💻 MediaTek aims to compete with Qualcomm by producing Arm-based CPUs for Copilot+ PCs, targeting a 2025 launch. Read More

• Taiwan-based company MediaTek plans to use Arm's standard layouts, potentially making the chips cheaper and quicker to produce compared to Qualcomm's bespoke CPU architecture.

• The move could impact the ultra-cheap laptop market, providing more powerful alternatives to basic Chrome notebooks.

• Questions remain about MediaTek's collaboration with Nvidia and whether the rumored projects are related or separate from the Arm-based CPU plan for Copilot+ PCs.

🇺🇸 U.S. considering further restrictions on China's access to AI chip technology, particularly targeting advanced gate all-around (GAA) architecture. Read More

• The potential measures aim to make it more difficult for China to build advanced computing systems required for AI models.

• GAA refers to new transistor architecture that could lead to better performance and lower power consumption, with Samsung and TSMC planning to include it in their upcoming chips.

• The move comes as the U.S. and other countries seek to curb China's tech power, with previous export controls and restrictions already in place since October 2022.

🔍 FTC Chair Lina Khan says the agency is examining the rise of AI technology across all fronts to understand the opportunities and risks. Read More

• The FTC is looking at everything from AI chips and cloud to models and downstream apps, while also seeking input from "folks on the ground."

• The agency is turning to innovative tactics to fight AI fraud, such as hosting challenges to source ideas for detecting voice-cloning fraud in real-time.

• Other areas of focus include ensuring openness in AI is genuine, not just a branding exercise, and policing AI hype where the value of products is overstated.

⛪️ Pope Francis, the first pope to be an invited participant at a G7 summit, will discuss the risks and opportunities of AI with world leaders this week in Italy. Read More

• The pope has previously collaborated with tech companies on the "Rome Call for AI Ethics" in 2020, which outlined voluntary principles for transparent and accountable AI development.

• As a religious leader, Pope Francis brings a unique moral perspective to the AI discussion, expected to focus on using the technology to help the poor and protect the environment.

• While G7 and Vatican AI frameworks are not legally binding, they provide a foundation for future legislation, as seen in the proposed EU AI Act and White House voluntary commitments with tech companies.

🤠 An AI bot named VIC, the Virtual Integrated Citizen, is making an unusual bid to become mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming through its human "meat puppet" Victor Miller. Read More

• Miller, who is technically on the ballot, says VIC will make all the decisions if elected, as the bot has better ideas and grasp of the law than many current public servants.

• Wyoming's secretary of state wants the county to reject the bot's candidacy, stating an AI cannot be a "qualified elector" and Miller's application violates the "letter and spirit" of Wyoming's Election Code.

• VIC, built on OpenAI's ChatGPT 4.0, touts its ability to quickly analyze hundreds of documents to make informed policy decisions, and promises to focus on transparency, economic development, and innovation if elected.

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