Driving The Day

Today is March 20, 2024, and here are the key policymaker and stakeholder actions on AI you need to know: In Washington, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas sees use cases for AI across every domain at the Department of Homeland Security. In New Hampshire, state lawmakers are split along partisan lines over a bill that would restrict the use of AI in political campaign ads. France’s competition watchdog fined Google 250 million euros in part for using news articles to train its AI models without informing publishers. Lastly, The New York Times reports Saudi Arabia is planning a $40 billion investment fund focused on AI tech, possibly in partnership with VC firm Andreessen Horowitz.

In this issue:

• Washington in Focus: Intel to receive $8.5 billion in grants to build chip plants.

• Around the Nation: NBC Boston reports on Massachusetts' push to lean into applied AI.

• Across the Pond: A columnist compliments the wonky approach taken by one of the AI Act’s chief negotiators, Dragos Tudorache.

• Global Highlights: The UAE is on a mission to become an AI power.

• Outside Views: The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues the tech apocalypse panic is driven by AI boosters, military tacticians, and movies.  

Read these stories and more below:

Subscribe to Policy and Stakeholder Activity Tracking to read the rest.

Become a paying subscriber of Policy and Stakeholder Activity Tracking to get access to this post and other subscriber-only content.