Driving The Day

Today is December 4, 2024, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: The Trump Administration nominated Gail Slater as the Department of Justice's top antitrust prosecutor, putting the former tech policy advisor in charge of several ongoing Big Tech competition cases. According to The Information, the Federal Trade Commission is asking Microsoft rivals about the company’s AI deals and how it sells certain products, suggesting the agency is “probing whether Microsoft’s dominance in the cloud computing market has given the company an unfair advantage in sales of AI software.” Meanwhile, some believe Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is positioning himself to influence tech policy in the incoming Trump Administration. Lastly, the CEO of AI company Hugging Face expressed concern over Western companies developing products with Chinese open-source AI models.

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: Legislation prohibiting the publication of non-consensual explicit deepfakes passed the Senate.

• Around the Nation: Georgia lawmakers want to hold deepfake AI developers accountable.

• Across the Pond: Bloomberg discussed Europe’s newest startup trend: making AI-powered weapons.

• Global Highlights: Nvidia will help Thailand build its first “sovereign cloud” to support the nation’s AI ecosystem.

• Outside Views: MLCommons is setting up benchmarks to measure the “bad side” of AI models.

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