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In the wake of a report by the Alphabet (Google) workers' union, the tech giant finds itself under severe scrutiny due to allegations of violating U.S. labor laws. According to the grievance lodged, Alphabet unlawfully terminated contracts due to union-organizing activities involving a substantial number of employees, including developers of an AI chatbot. Should these charges be corroborated, they could spell considerable legal and reputational ramifications for the company. "It’s obvious that this timing is incredibly suspicious, and that is why we are filing an unfair labor practice charge — to hold Google and Accenture accountable for their behavior," declared Anjail Muhammad, a former Google employee.

The scientists at Nvidia have pioneered a new technique that converts textual content into imagery, helping to tackle the data storage predicaments that arise during the formation of novel models. Currently, the specifics of a single concept occupy roughly 100 KB. This efficiency stems from the fact that the approach doesn't reengineer the entire model; instead, it adjusts select "internal representations", bypassing the need to retrain the model entirely.

According to OpenAI’s blog post, web pages crawled with GPTBot could potentially be utilized to enhance accuracy and expand the capabilities of upcoming iterations of their AI models. A web crawler (web spider), is a type of bot that indexes website content across the internet. Popular search engines like Google and Bing employ web crawlers to enable websites to appear in search results. OpenAI clarified that their web crawler will gather publicly available data from the world wide web while excluding sources with paywalled content, personally identifiable information, or text that violates their policies.

Prominent Israeli journalists Miri Michaeli and Amit Segal have fashioned their own digital avatars for the ACT News channel on TikTok, thanks to artificial intelligence. While the artificial voices of Michaeli and Segal exhibit some deviation from their real-life vocal tones and there are minor lip-sync discrepancies, audiences readily accept the news as genuine. Initially focused on championing Israeli interests, the brains behind ACT News now plan to harness these AI-powered avatars to cover "uplifting events from around the world".

Arthur Hayes, Maelstrom CIO and ex-BitMEX CEO, argues that AI-powered Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) will revolutionize economic entities, making traditional structures obsolete due to their reliance on human labor and state-enforced contracts. He asserts AI DAOs, unfettered by physical forms and therefore state laws, will use smart contracts on public blockchains for self-governance and service provision. Hayes predicts that DAO capital markets will become the first genuinely global markets and decentralized exchanges will naturally monopolize the trading of DAO-issued tokens. Hayes sees a future trillion-dollar AI-powered economy that would significantly boost the value of blockchains like Ethereum.

Tech leaders Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and AI startup Anthropic are forming a new industry watchdog group, the Frontier Model Forum, to supervise the "safe and responsible" development of frontier AI models. The alliance aims to push research on AI safety, pinpoint responsible development practices, collaborate with governments and civil leaders, and back the development of applications. This move follows a commitment made by these AI companies to the White House for the safe and transparent development of AI.