June 2024

OpenAI teaming up with TIME to revolutionize news delivery and startups using generative AI to tackle challenges like the "climate skills gap." While tools like Hugging Face’s Docker Spaces make building ML apps easier than ever, concerns about AI’s impact loom large—from cheap voice clones threatening Australian actors’ jobs to AI sucking up enough electricity in seconds to charge multiple EVs. Debates heat up over AI hallucinations, privacy in the cloud, and how to protect content from bad bots. On the brighter side, breakthroughs like rare-earth-free magnets and advances in humanizing AI design show its transformative potential. But with warnings about reward tampering, data transparency battles in the EU, and fears of a new "dark age," industry leaders are urging caution.