Regulation and growth: The evolution of AI

“Everyone creates the thing they dread.”

This week, Tristan and Tasia get the latest from Google, as it continues to deliver — or re-deliver — on previously announced AI features. Then we marvel at the continued growth of consumer AI, despite increased scrutiny from regulators and resistance from some website publishers. Turns out there are some strings on it, after all. Join us as we update our robots.txt and pursue shiny gems.

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• Google’s AI chatbot for your Gmail inbox is rolling out on Android

• Google AI reintroduces human image generation after historical accuracy outcry

AI NEWS

• Major Sites Are Saying NO to Apple's AI Scraping

• See also: YouTube creators surprised to find Apple and others trained AI on their videos

• Apple is reportedly investing in OpenAI — Microsoft’s rival wants in on the ChatGPT maker, too

• California Advances AI Bill

• See also: Elon Musk backs California AI safety bill

• OpenAI vows to provide the US government early access to its next AI model

• OpenAI and Anthropic Agree to Let US AI Safety Institue Test and Evaluate New Models

• OpenAI and Anthropic will share their models with the US government

• ChatGPT’s weekly users have doubled in less than a year

• Meta says Llama's usage grew tremendously due to the power of open source

• Oprah to Host 'AI and the Future of Us' special with Bill Gates and Sam Altman

STUPID AI TRICKS

• Stupid but useful AI tricks: Creating calendar entries from an image using Anthropic Claude 3.5