Schumer Hosts 3rd AI Briefing for Senate; Industry Forms AI Coalition
The Senate had its third AI briefing Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced (see 2307170054). Attendees were briefed by Rick Stevens, associate laboratory director-Department of Energy's Argonne National Lab; National Science Foundation Director Sethuraman Panchanathan; and Defense Advanced…
Research Projects Agency Information Innovation Office Director Kathleen Fisher. Google, Microsoft, Anthropic and OpenAI announced the formation of an industry coalition Wednesday that will share technical evaluations and develop a “public library of solutions” to support industry best practices in AI. Microsoft is a major investor in OpenAI, and Google invested in Anthropic (see 2307250063). The Frontier Model Forum will focus on “ensuring safe and responsible development of frontier AI models,” Microsoft said.