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Amidst AI's burgeoning popularity, Anthony Levandowski, formerly of Google, has resurrected his AI-worshipping church, "Way of the Future." He reports a growing following, now in the thousands.

Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and CEO of Inflection AI, and a co-founder of DeepMind (owned by Google), hold differing views from Elon Musk on the potential threats and benefits of AI technologies.

Google is dedicating a significant $2 billion investment to Anthropic, a developer in the artificial intelligence sector, renowned for the Claude chatbot, and a formidable rival to OpenAI.

Through a Telegram announcement, the Fantom Foundation disclosed that an exploit in Google Chrome led to the theft of assets from the company's hot wallets.

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.

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.

Cambridge University and Google have forged a renewed, multi-year partnership aimed at funding and conducting groundbreaking research in the realm of artificial intelligence.

This collaboration seeks to digitize various sectors, including government services, healthcare, and education. The Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) services will enhance local infrastructure and data processing capabilities, aligning with El Salvador’s vision to become an innovation hub. President Nayib Bukele emphasized the importance of technology and foreign investment for the nation’s development: “Google’s global experience combined with the audacity of El Salvador will redefine the technological landscape.”

In a joint effort to combat the growing phenomenon of AI-based music forgeries in the industry, companies are working together. Their main aim, though still in initial talks, is to develop a tool that would allow songs generated by artificial intelligence, emulating artists, to be created on legitimate grounds.

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.

Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on its own GenAI model, codenamed Ajax. The chatbot leverages Google's framework and runs on Google Cloud, with a primary focus on maintaining user privacy and confidentiality. For now, Ajax will be used for in-house purposes like creating product prototypes and analyzing data. However, it might become available to the public in the future.