There was enough governance related news this week to spin it out.

The EU AI Code of Practice

Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Mistral, Aleph Alpha, Cohere and others commit to signing the EU AI Code of Practice. Google has now signed. Microsoft says it is likely to sign.

xAI signed the AI safety chapter of the code, but is refusing to sign the others, citing them as overreach especially as pertains to copyright.

The only company that said it would not sign at all is Meta.

This was the underreported story. All the important AI companies other than Meta have gotten behind the safety section of the EU AI Code of Practice. This represents a considerable strengthening of their commitments, and introduces an enforcement mechanism. Even Anthropic will be forced to step up parts of their game.

That leaves Meta as the rogue state [...]

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Outline:

(00:13) The EU AI Code of Practice

(01:50) The Quest Against Regulations

(05:37) China Also Has An AI Action Plan

(15:07) Pick Up The Phone

(19:10) The AI Action Plan Has Good Marginal Proposals But Terrible Rhetoric

(29:44) Kratsios Explains The AI Action Plan

(39:22) Chip City

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