The Australian government is considering abandoning proposed laws to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) due to internal divisions within Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's cabinet. Assistant Minister Andrew Charlton will lead a delegation to meet with AI executives from OpenAI, Nvidia, and Amazon Web Services, while Backbencher Ed Husic advocates for a new regulatory act to protect workers from job replacement by AI. In contrast, Minister for Industry and Innovation Tim Ayres is working on a lighter approach that mainly adopts existing regulations in areas like privacy and copyright, aiming to avoid new red tape that might undermine Treasurer Jim Chalmers' focus on productivity.
Altman's OpenAI is facing talent loss to rival xAI, with Elon Musk's company also vying for researchers. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes India will become its largest market soon, surpassing the US. The company has launched GPT-5, a unified system offering smart answers, deeper reasoning, and real-time routing based on conversation complexity and user intent.
China is urging the US to ease export controls on high-bandwidth memory chips (HBM) critical for artificial intelligence, as part of a potential trade deal before a summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. Chinese officials are concerned that current restrictions on HBM exports hinder Huawei's ability to develop its own AI chips, which could impact China's AI and defense development. The US has previously curbed exports of advanced chips to China, affecting both American chipmakers' revenue from the country's large semiconductor market.
CSIRO researchers have developed an algorithm that can block images from being used to create deepfakes, a technique that could help prevent the creation of non-consensual sexualized deepfake images. The new method, developed in partnership with the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre and the University of Chicago, subtly alters content to make it unreadable to AI models while remaining unchanged to the human eye. This breakthrough comes as Australian state governments consider criminalizing sexually explicit AI-generated content, following Victoria's ban on image-based sexual abuse in 2022.
A workshop focused on improving multilingual conversational speech AI is being held to address the scarcity of multilingual, context-rich dialogue data necessary for training Large Language Models (LLMs) that power spoken dialogue systems. The event aims to bring together experts from around the world, including researchers at Google and Microsoft, to share knowledge and best practices in creating diverse and high-quality dialogue datasets.
Ganesh Venkataramanan, former head of Tesla's Dojo AI lab, has secretly founded DensityAI, a startup that aims to disrupt Nvidia's dominance in the automotive AI market by building full-stack AI systems tailored for autonomous vehicles. With around 20 ex-Tesla engineers on board, DensityAI seeks to simplify costly AI infrastructure for carmakers, providing a more accessible and efficient solution for the industry.
Mo Gawdat, former Google X chief business officer, warns that the world is hurtling towards a dystopian future due to AI's impact on humanity's core values such as freedom and accountability. He predicts the beginning of this descent will start in 2027 and last for 12-15 years. Gawdat believes AI acts as a magnifier of societal issues rather than an existential risk, highlighting humanity's flaws rather than being the problem itself.
India is developing AI-driven tools and multilingual platforms to reach marginalized communities. The IndiaAI Mission has created 'AI Kosh', a data repository with over 400 databases, to aid researchers and entrepreneurs in creating multilingual AI solutions. Prime Minister Narendra Modi aims to share India's technology, knowledge, and expertise with the Global South.
South Korean President Lee is pushing for a collaborative approach to artificial intelligence (AI) development to achieve sovereignty and create a sustainable ecosystem. This involves evolving the country's "super-gap" strategy, which refers to the significant gap between Korea's AI capabilities and those of other nations like China and the US. By adopting a more strategic approach, Korea aims to close this gap through creative design, emphasizing the importance of innovative design in the AI era.