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Today’s Cache | India, 57 others sign statement on AI; Sam Altman says Musk not a “happy person”; Google Calendar no longer marks Pride, Black History Month Fifty-eight countries have signed a joint statement on Inclusive and Sustainable AI for People and the Planet at the AI Summit in Paris. | Photo Credit: AP India, 57 others sign statement on AIFifty-eight countries including India, China, Brazil, France and Australia have signed a joint statement on Inclusive and Sustainable AI for People and the Planet at the AI Summit in Paris. The agreement intends to make AI more accessible, trustworthy and safe while deploying. Co-chaired by India and France, the summit promises to promote tech in a manner that it has a good influence on the future of work and labour markets. The U.S. did not sign the statement with Vice President JD Vance saying they were attending the summit to help build AI capacity and not address AI safety issues. Vance also warned the EU against over-regulating AI and encouraged pro-growth AI policies. The UK government also refrained from signing the statement saying they didn’t align with the country’s interests. Sam Altman says Musk not a “happy person”OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has waved off a $97.4 billion offer led by rival Elon Musk but the bid could anyway complicate the AI startup’s ongoing restructuring from a nonprofit into a for-profit company. While Altman responded saying OpenAI is not for sale, the startup’s nonprofit board will have to consider Musk’s offer. Altman on his own cannot make the decision. The board will have to consider the firm’s assets as well as the value of controlling the company developing the technology. Musk’s offer is a base for how much the nonprofit should be paid if it let go control over its subsidiaries. Musk also sued OpenAI last year for the move which could soon go to trial. Google Calendar no longer marks Pride, Black History MonthGoogle Calendar has removed default references it had for holidays like Pride and Black History Month from its desktop and mobile applications. The company has said that they decided to make the changes midway through last year. Google explained themselves saying they were manually adding “a broader set of cultural moments in a wide number of countries” several years but had received feedback about the missing events and countries even. Google also changed the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Last week, they also scrapped its DEI initiatives. |
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