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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

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