In other news, Google is preparing for a significant new antitrust case, a crucial test of President Biden's efforts to hold Big Tech accountable. Starlink has been urged to continue supplying Ukraine with satellite internet, and island nations are seeking legal means to force polluters to clean up their actions. Tax evaders in the US are facing detection by AI, and Lisbon is becoming a crypto paradise. Finally, autonomous technology company Waabi is using a super-realistic virtual environment, Waabi World, to train AI drivers, bypassing the need for real vehicles.
Key takeaways:
- The US Congress is heading back into session, with a focus on AI regulation. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s first AI Insight Forum will bring together top people in AI to discuss the risks and opportunities it poses.
- Meta is working on a large language model AI that aims to be as powerful as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
- Google is preparing for a historic new antitrust case, a crucial test of President Biden’s efforts to hold Big Tech to account.
- Autonomous technology company Waabi has built a super-realistic virtual environment called Waabi World. Instead of training an AI driver in real vehicles, it plans to do it entirely inside the simulation.