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Jeff Jarvis and Jason Howell talk through a very consequential week in AI news, beginning with the release of the first open-source frontier AI model, the 305 billion parameter version of Llama 3.1! Also, GPT-4o attempts to plug the "ignore all previous instructions" hole, OpenAI is giving it back to the New York times, and so much more!

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NEWS

• Meta releases the biggest and best open-source AI model yet
• Zuck: Open Source AI Is the Path Forward
• Meta just took the AI fight to OpenAI in a big way — here's how Llama 3.1 beats ChatGPT
• OpenAI debuts mini version of its most powerful model yet
• OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole
• “Ignore all previous instructions”
• OpenAI asks New York Times to disclose reporters’ notes in ‘vindictive’ legal move
• Jeff Jarvis post on the story OpenAI/NYT story
• A Kamala Harris Presidency Could Mean More of the Same on A.I. Regulation
• The Data That Powers A.I. Is Disappearing Fast
• Study reveals rapid increase in web domains blocking AI models from training data
• Altman experiment: The results of the biggest study on guaranteed income programs are finally in
• Available now: Stems 🥳 Pro & Premier users can now separate the vocals and instrumentals from songs, which will give you more control over how to use Suno.

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis dive into the $665 million Shiba Inu coin donation to the Future of Life Institute, the potential $100 billion "Stargate" supercomputer from OpenAI and Microsoft, Jason gives a hands-on demo of Stability AI's new music generation model, and more!

NEWS

Future of Life Institute's $665 million donation from Vitalik Buterin (Ethereum co-founder) in Shiba Inu coins

Artifact social news curation app shutting down, acquired by Yahoo

Yum Foods has plans to go all in on generative AI

How people are using generative AI based on Harvard Business Review report

New York City's chatbot providing incorrect legal/business advice

Generative AI used to create virtual persona of real person for advertising

OpenAI and Microsoft in talks for $100 billion "Stargate" supercomputer

DEMO

Stability AI's Stable Audio 2.0 for music generation

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This week hosts Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis welcome Dr. Émile P. Torres, philosopher and researcher who coined the term TESCREAL to describe the complicated ideologies driving the push toward AGI, as well as explore recent news in AI disclosure and consumer tech integration.

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INTERVIEW: Dr. Émile P. Torres

• Explanation of the TESCREAL acronym and its component ideologies
• Overview of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and its relation to the TESCREAL bundle
• Discussion of the differences between AI "doomers" and "accelerationists"
• Exploration of the connection between TESCREAL ideologies and eugenics
• Analysis of recent news related to TESCREAL and AI development

NEWS:

• YouTube now lets you request removal of AI-generated content that simulates your face or voice
• Google to require disclosures for digitally altered content in election ads
• Meta changes its label from ‘Made with AI’ to ‘AI info’ to indicate use of AI in photos
• Apple’s Devices Are Lasting Longer, Making AI Strategy Even More Critical
• Exclusive: This is Google AI, and it's coming to the Pixel 9
• AI does gymnastics
• The deluge of bonkers AI art is literally surreal

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss the AI Action Summit in Paris, Elon Musk's bid for OpenAI, the Thompson Reuters copyright lawsuit, massive AI spending by tech giants, and ChatGPT Operator buying expensive eggs!

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NEWS

0:02:00 - UK and US refuse to sign international AI declaration

Macron touts Europe and trolls Trump at Paris AI summit

Roose: 5 Notes From the Big A.I. Summit in Paris

0:10:25 - Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI

0:16:00 - ‘Doomers’ Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I.

0:18:45 - Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US

0:25:55 - Tech Giants Double Down on Their Massive AI Spending

0:30:00 - Meta lays off thousands as it pivots to AI

0:31:21 - IT Unemployment Rises to 5.7% as AI Hits Tech Jobs

0:38:40 - Save the date: Google I/O is May 20-21, 2025.

0:39:51 - Google One AI Premium adds NotebookLM Plus, 50% student discount

0:43:47 - Google starts testing new Search ‘AI Mode’ internally – Here’s an early look at it

0:47:41 - AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone

0:50:46 - I let ChatGPT’s new ‘agent’ manage my life. It spent $31 on a dozen eggs.

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Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis discuss Adobe's AI ethics initiatives with Grace Yee, Meta's new Frontier AI Framework, Google's removal of weapons restrictions from AI principles, and OpenAI's new Deep Research tool.

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0:01:43 - INTERVIEW with Grace Yee, Senior Director of Ethical Innovation at Adobe

• Adobe’s core AI ethics principles:Accountability, Responsibility, Transparency
• Licensed Adobe Stock content and public domain material, filtered for harmful/copyrighted data
• Rigorous harm testing, iterative improvements, and internal beta testing for AI features
• Collaborative responsibility across AI layers
• AI as a tool to reduce manual tasks while preserving human creativity
• Importance of human oversight, verifying outputs, and using AI as an ideation tool, not a final product
• Balancing guardrails with user context and licensed training data
• Collaboration with policymakers, monitoring regulations (EU AI Act), and advocating harmonized standards
• Adobe’s participation in EU AI Code of Practice and international regulatory harmonization efforts

0:26:13 - Meta says it may stop development of AI systems it deems too risky

0:31:09 - Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website

0:34:50 - OpenAI Unveils A.I. Tool That Can Do Research Online

0:39:47 - OpenAI to release new artificial intelligence model for free

0:41:05 - Gemini 2.0 is now available to everyone

0:44:14 - Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff ‘AI-First’ Is the Future of Key Government Agency

0:46:33 - Josh Hawley: DeepSeek users in US could face million-dollar fine and prison time under bill

0:49:37 - Anthropic claims new AI security method blocks 95% of jailbreaks, invites red teamers to try

0:52:22 - AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research

0:55:15 - AI ‘godfather’ predicts another revolution in the tech in next five years

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