🤖 Government Keeps Mum On AI

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• AI leaders gathered in Washington yesterday

• Adobe takes Firely out of beta

• Amazon launches a generative AI feature

• Are these Harry Styles songs real?

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AI leaders like Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Sundar Pichai gathered in Washington for a forum yesterday.

A lot was going on in the subtext of the moment, but we can’t cover that all here. It makes you wonder how they crammed a lifetime of learning about Artificial Intelligence into a 12-hour get-together.

The weirdest part is what I want to focus on: I agree with Josh Hawley.

The Representative from Missouri (I lived there when he was elected) is not my favorite politician, but he made an excellent point.

The real issue with this forum is that it’s closed door.

Senator Chuck Schumer took the most influential tech execs in the space and gave them a free pass to say whatever they wanted to congressional leaders.

That’s a dangerous amount of influence.

Moderators for the event claim they closed it to encourage the free flow of thought and help educate senators on the complex state of AI. You and I both know that’s a weak excuse.

The US government is old and stale. They don’t know about modern technology, and that’s slowed regulations down to a halt.

The worst part is we’ve seen this movie before.

As Hawley said, the same situation happened when Congress tried to reel in social media.

They let executives come in and steer the conversation. The data barrons came out on top, and we all know it’s because apathetic politicians gave them the platform to decide what happened.

Please, we need governance and leaders who know what they’re talking about.

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Adobe Firefly is available for all commercial users now.

The company announced that all paying users can use their powerful AI features. There are some regions where access is still restricted, but that’s consistent with most AI tools.

Regardless, the news is a massive boon for AI creatives.

Firefly helps make it easier to use Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop using generative fill. It even helps raise Adobe Express to Canva levels of usefulness.

They even launched more access to Adobe Firefly for Enterprise.

That push adds them to a growing pile of large companies trying to hook enterprise clients to gather up market share.

And Adobe has a huge advantage there.

Embracing a morally unambiguous AI model turns them into the virtuous choice for artists and agencies that want to adopt AI workflows. You know they compensated every artist and didn’t steal anything.

It’s a bold strategy, and they’re early movers in this market segment. So you can expect them to crush the next few quarters on the back of this news.

👀 The SEC uses AI to monitor markets and help with investigations

✨ Amazon launches an AI tool to help sellers write product descriptions

📱 The iPhone 15 didn’t push the AI hype, but it’s subtlety a huge part of certain upgrades

⏰ Ads on TikTok that claim their AI will help students cheat on essays are growing and lying

💸 Adobe will pay bonuses to stock contributors whose work helped train their AI

🇨🇳 China stalls on AI developments due to shortages in chips and enthusiasm

💿 The Harry Styles fandom can’t decide if new “leaked” songs are real or AI

🎵 Stability AI needs a win in a bad way, which is why they launched an AI-powered music generator

• Trickle - transform screenshots into searchable treasures (link)

• timeOS - first time-aware AI built into your workflow (link)

• Solidroad - like a flight simulator, but for sales calls (link)

• Healsens - discover your health risks (link)

• Poised - prepare for meetings w/ personalized suggestions (link)

• Melon - become a better thinker (link)

• InterviewSpark - build confidence & land jobs (link)

• hue - generates a PDF w/ UX suggestions (link)

D! J! Mozart!

Y’all ready for him to drop a sick beat on this 9th Symphony?

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