The company argues in favor of eliminating more restrictive state regulations, and “preserving American AI models’ ability to learn from copyrighted material.” OpenAI executives think the federal government should regulate artificial intelligence in the US, taking precedence over often more restrictive state regulations. In its contribution to a government consultation on AI regulation filed Thursday, the company also pointed to AI regulatory efforts in China as a threat to US developers —...

Company wants to discourage other governments from using the same tactics; the appeal also likely objects to Apple being singled out for this requirement, analysts said. Apple has publicly been pushing back against a UK order that demands it create encryption backdoors, and it has now formally appealed that order to the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The filing is only slightly concerned with the UK market, said Fred Chagnon, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group. The...

US national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard has ‘grave concerns’ about the UK’s encryption backdoor request. A senior US official chided the UK government on Tuesday for pressuring Apple to create a backdoor in its encryption — although the US law enforcers would like a backdoor of their own. US national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard responded to an inquiry from two members of Congress, writing that she is concerned about the UK’s request. “I share your grave concern about the...

While the Chime app has failed, the Chime SDK powers features for enterprises and vendors such as Slack. Amazon’s announcement on Wednesday that it is abandoning its Chime collaboration app, while stressing that it will double down on the far more successful Chime software development kit (SDK), was an example of Amazon being Amazon. It knows what it does well, and where to focus. Analysts said that the Chime app made some sense when it was introduced in February 2017, but that sharply...

The decisions announced by the EU Tuesday were directly caused by member disagreements, but indirectly reflect fears of overregulating AI. When the EU on Tuesday said it was not, at this time, moving ahead with critical legislation involving privacy and genAI liability issues, it honestly reported that members couldn’t agree. But the reasons why they couldn’t agree get much more complicated. The EU decisions involved two seemingly unrelated pieces of legislation: One dealing with privacy...