The state's research center will check AI companies' work instead of taking their word. As the federal government essentially leaves us all at the mercy of the AI industry, New York is taking matters into its own hands. On Tuesday, Governor Kathy Hochul launched the nation's first state-run AI testing program. Instead of trusting AI companies to police themselves, New York's system will task independent researchers with checking their work. The stakes are too high to simply take AI companies at their word, Hochul stated in a press release. The work will be handled by the New York Center for AI Responsibility and Research at Binghamton University.

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Anthropic is seeking a valuation of $1.4 trillion for its upcoming IPO, with the company looking to raise as much as $64.4bn in what would be one of the largest stock market debuts in history. The company, which makes the Claude AI chatbot, launched its investor roadshow on Tuesday, with reported plans to go public next week. It has also secured $26bn in a separate private placement backed by some of the world's largest tech companies, including Google, Nvidia, Microsoft and AMD. The listing is being closely watched as a major test for how much investors are still willing to bet on AI companies, which have driven huge gains in tech stocks and the broader US market. The $1.4 trillion valuation is lower than earlier estimates, which had suggested Anthropic could be valued between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion, as concerns grow about the company's enormous infrastructure spending and recent swings in AI stock prices.

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Head of IFPI says allowing AI companies access to online content would be a'huge mistake' and damage Australia's reputation While local creatives have raised constitutional issues and threatened political backlash, the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), representing recording industry bodies worldwide, said its members were worried about Australia potentially agreeing to demands other nations had rejected. "Why would Australia do this? Why would a sophisticated, democratic country that has a phenomenal cultural power of its own choose to make this very odd decision and buy into the promises of a few large AI companies, and throw away their own culture and creativity?" Victoria Oakley, the chief executive of IFPI, told Guardian Australia. "I don't think Australia wants to be the weakest link in this situation, the one that believed the promises and gave in and threw creativity under the bus on behalf of everyone else. That doesn't feel very Australian to me. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email "You just need one safe harbour, because then you can train on music from anywhere in the world.

Data brokers are collecting all sorts of internal corporate files to help train AI models. Lately a new kind of pitch has found its way into my inbox. "Not sure if you've heard," writes someone named Nick, "but AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI are paying media companies such as Wired $350K to $1.8M as a one time fee for a copy of their old work records (documents, emails, slack messages, tickets, etc.) for training better models." Another email with a similar pitch (adding call transcripts to the list of desired information) raised the stakes to a possible $2 million. "Public data is exhausted, and the labs are spending over $45B on private data to build better models," writes someone named Cora.

It rips the authenticity out of it, because it's not been made by anyone who has the connection the artist's family lineage is not there, the lived experience is not there.' It rips the authenticity out of it, because it's not been made by anyone who has the connection the artist's family lineage is not there, the lived experience is not there.' AI is stealing Indigenous Australian art and churning out'Temu slop', artist says Chair of National Gallery's First Nations advisory group says the technology is undermining artists' agency and the authenticity of their work AI is taking First Nations art and turning it into "Temu slop", the Pitjantjatjara artist Sally Scales has said. Scales, the chair of the National Gallery of Australia's First Nations advisory group, said the technology is undermining the agency of First Nations artists and the authenticity of their work and represents a "a theft" of cultural knowledge. But experts are particularly worried about the risks to Indigenous cultural and intellectual property (ICIP) and in a world where AI companies can hoover up anything that may be found online, including songs and paintings that include sacred and cultural knowledge.

'Artists are the first to be thrown under the bus' H Morgan-Harris (right) and Ran Stanton at Tortuga Studios in St Peters, in Anthony Albanese's electorate. 'Artists are the first to be thrown under the bus' H Morgan-Harris (right) and Ran Stanton at Tortuga Studios in St Peters, in Anthony Albanese's electorate. Disquiet grows in Albanese's back yard as Grayndler artists unite against'insane' AI proposal The prime minister is facing growing discontent within his own electorate as creatives push back against the federal government's proposal to allow AI companies to scrape everything Australians create online. Anthony Albanese's seat of Grayndler in Sydney's inner west is home to more than 3,000 cultural and creative businesses, and 10% of its workers are employed in cultural and creative fields - compared with 4.2% nationally. He has held it on a safe margin for three decades, and has spoken of its high representation of live music, theatre and artist spaces with pride .

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