#AI regulation

#AI regulation

As OpenAI advances with trialling an advertising model on its flagship chatbot, retail and grocery ads are dominating. A month into the trial, app analytics provider Sensor Tower revealed that 44% of ad impressions served on ChatGPT fell under these categories. Retailers involved in the testing include Target, Sephora, and Wayfair, among others.

Our creative industries face a clear and present danger from uncredited and unremunerated use of copyrighted material to train AI models. Photographers, musicians, authors and publishers are seeing their work fed into AI models which then produce imitations that take employment and earning opportunities from the original creators.

The transformation of the Santa Clara Valley from a bucolic grower of fruit into the technological powerhouse of Silicon Valley thanks largely to Stanford University's presence fueled a dramatic evolution of California's economy, growing it into the fourth largest in the world, were it a nation. Technology isn't just a linchpin of the economy; the immense personal wealth of its creators has perhaps unfortunately become a crucial source of revenue for the state.

San Francisco public school teachers and their union celebrated Friday after negotiating a tentative agreement for a new contract with higher pay and fully funded family healthcare, ending a four-day walkout that was the city's first educator strike in nearly half a century. United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) said its bargaining team reached a two-year tentative deal with the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) at around 5:30 am local time Friday.

"With this law, we are implementing European requirements in a maximally innovation-friendly way and creating lean AI supervision with a clear focus on the needs of the economy," Federal Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger said in a statement.

The ads are funded by a pro-AI political action committee that supports the expansion of artificial intelligence, yet they aim to weaken Bores's candidacy by tying him to his past work in tech. They accuse Bores, who has recently called for abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), of hypocrisy because he previously worked at Palantir, a data analytics company whose contracts with ICE have made it a frequent target of activists.

Scope3 makes second round of layoffs Scope3 has implemented another round of redundancies, its second in less than half a year, as the adtech firm continues to reshape its business around agentic media capabilities. The company, headed by programmatic advertising pioneer Brian O'Kelley, would not confirm the number of positions impacted but said it had made additional changes across its commercial and engineering functions in response to evolving market needs.

The briefing paper pointedly cites Newsom's veto of last year's Senate Bill 7, a union-backed bill to bar employers from using AI to make employee discipline and termination decisions. In rejecting it, Newsom said the measure was overly broad and would prevent even innocuous uses of AI. Newsom's veto exemplifies his efforts, as the AI industry explodes, to satisfy both the tech industry, with which he has decades-long political ties, and those who worry about AI's societal and economic impacts.