#53 Biden doubles down on Trump's policies

If you woke up and thought “wow, AI really is here,” you’d be only about ten years behind the eight ball. If you use voice assistants like Siri and Alexa, or watch YouTube or Netflix suggested content, then you’ve already been interacting with AI for years. The only difference now is everyone’s talking about it.

In today’s newsletter:

• Hottest stories: No AI chips for China, 33% of Y Combinator selections are AI-focused, and SurferGPT is live and kicking

• TL;DR Rundown: Who will be the first to go (ahem, HR), AI farms, and peas in a pod

• Tool of the day: A tool to help you solve your disputes once and for all - finally!

• Kids these days: They dunno what they missed out on 

HOTTEST STORIES 
AI’s biggest stories from today

US cracking down on chipmakers sending to China 

Since 2018, when Trump set tariffs and restrictions on goods leaving America for sale on the Chinese market, the two nations have been in economic conflict.

Now, six years later, the Biden administration is doubling down on his predecessor’s work, as he tightens restrictions on US exporters sending AI computer chips to China.

Using our powers of deduction, we know this is to prevent China from developing its AI capabilities, but it’s hurting US companies. Nvidia, the world’s largest AI chip manufacturer, and US company, experienced a 2% share drop yesterday as the administration announced its intention to implement a bill banning the sale of Nvidia’s entire line of AI chips to China.

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Y Combinator makes in-person attendance mandatory, with 35% of companies selected being AI-focused 

There’s something to be said about the bustling energy of collecting groups of high-performing, highly-motivated people in one area. That’s just what Y Combinator is doing this year, as they pledge to invest $500k in selected startups, then walk founders through a three-month course on running a company.

After receiving 24,000 applications for its latest cohort (and accepting just ~230, 75 of which are AI-focused), the famed startup accelerator is making in-person participation mandatory for those in the program, meaning all founders must be in the Bay Area. With Airbnb and Stripe being past Y Combinator participants, it’s worth making the move for the winter.

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT can now surf the world wide web, but only by going through Bing

If you’ve used ChatGPT, perhaps you’re familiar with this message;

Given OpenAI’s announcement earlier today, if you’re a premium subscriber, you’ll never see this again, because ChatGPT has a new update, “browsing”, which enables the program to search Bing for answers to questions.

Obviously, restricting ChatGPT to searching Bin’s database is a move to bolster Microsoft instead of Google, but really, whose complaining?

TL;DR RUNDOWN
What else is happening today? 

You first, you last: Research (above) shows 46% of office & administrative support employment will be exposed to AI automation, with only 1% of building, grounds cleaning & maintenance at the same risk.

Survey says: 57% of US adults have heard of ChatGPT, and one in three have taken it for a test run (or AI-powered tools like it).

Indeed, indeed: Generative AI-related postings jumped 20% in May on the job portal, including data scientist, software engineer, machine learning engineer and data engineer roles.

Dark days: Paedophiles are using AI image generators to create and sell life-like child sex abuse images, per The BBC.  

AI farm: Eliminating over 200,000 weeds per hour and saving 80% of weed control costs, the LaserWeeder is here to solve one of farming's most tedious, time-consuming, and challenging problems.

Reka Snowflake: Former DeepMind researchers behind Reka, an AI model startup specialized for enterprise customers, secures $50M in a fresh funding round, from investors including DST Global and Snowflake.

Five-sided fistagon: The Pentagon wants to keep up with Chinese and Russian AI-military capabilities, but the US military’s requirements for sourcing software have it caught in a slow-moving operating procedure.

Peas in a pod: “AI and software development are now inextricably linked for the rest of our lives,” says GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke.

TOOL OF THE DAY 
AI tools we’ve used, loved, and recommend above all others 

Today’s tool is aijudge.pro.

In a world where opinion trumps facts, how do we know right from wrong? We go to the judges. But given that all judges and hearing officers are employed by local and state governments, and an hour of their time costs somewhere between $80-$100 per hour, they’re not readily available to adjudicate all our disputes.

Aijudge.pro is though. Once and for all, take your arguments and disagreements to their final resting places.

KIDS THESE DAYS 
There is a generation who never knew Clippy  

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