Plus: OpenAI is also creating a super app. OpenAI has a new grand challenge: building an AI researcher--a fully automated agent-based system capable of tackling large, complex problems by itself. The San Francisco firm said the new goal will be its "north star" for the next few years. By September, the company plans to build "an autonomous AI research intern" that can take on a small number of specific research problems. The intern will be the precursor to the fully automated multi-agent system, which is slated to debut in 2028. In an exclusive interview this week, OpenAI's chief scientist, Jakub Pachocki, talked me through the plans.

Meta has decided to not offer its upcoming multimodal AI model and future versions to customers in the European Union citing a lack of clarity from European regulators, according to a report by Axios. The models in question are designed to process not only text but also images and audio, and power AI capabilities in Meta platforms as well as the company's Ray-Ban smart glasses. "We will release a multimodal Llama model over the coming months, but not in the EU due to the unpredictable nature of the European regulatory environment," Meta said in a statement to Axios. Meta's move follows a similar decision by Apple, which recently announced it would not release its Apple Intelligence features in Europe due to regulatory concerns. Margrethe Vesteger, the EU's competition commissioner, had slammed Apple's move, saying that the company's decision was a "stunning, open declaration that they know 100 percent that this is another way of disabling competition where they have a stronghold already."

The publication said it obtained a memo from House Chief Administrative Officer Catherine Szpindor, telling Congress personnel that the AI chatbot is now officially prohibited. Apparently, the Office of Cybersecurity has deemed Copilot to be a risk "due to the threat of leaking House data to non-House approved cloud services." While there's nothing stopping them from using Copilot on their own phones and laptops, it will now be blocked on all Windows devices owned by the Congress. Almost a year ago, the Congress also set a strict limit on the use of ChatGPT, which is powered by OpenAI's large language models, just like Copilot. It banned staffers from using the chatbot's free version on House computers, but it allowed them to continue using the paid (ChatGPT Plus) version for research and evaluation due to its tighter privacy controls.

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When it comes to creativity, is artificial intelligence a powerful new tool or an existential threat? A San Francisco gallery is taking on this question in a new exhibition: "Artificial Imagination" features eight artists who used A.I. image generators to create the pieces on display. The artists' methods vary: Some fed their A.I. tool of choice phrases to generate their entire piece, while others created illustrations or sculptures based on the tool's recommendations. The show is on view at bitforms' West Coast gallery through the end of the year. From robots that make their own art to image-generation tools that mimick history's greatest painters, A.I. is quickly permeating creative spaces--and generating lots of questions.

Legendary game designer Will Wright, who led development on not just SimCity but the original Sims as well, hasn't really made a big video game since 2008's Spore. He's back in 2022, though, working on something called VOXVerse. It's a social game where you mine stuff, build stuff, and talk to people. And everyone is a squat little voxel-based character. There'll also be real estate that you buy and own, and I think you can see where this is going.

Several robot production companies have pledged not to support the weaponization of their general purpose robots and have encouraged other companies to follow suit. In an open letter, six leading robotics firms promised not to add weapons to their general use technology and said they would oppose others doing so. "We believe that adding weapons to robots that are remotely or autonomously operated, widely available to the public and capable of navigating to previously inaccessible locations where people live and work, raises new risks of harm and serious ethical issues," read the open letter, first reported by Axios. "We also call on every organization, developer, researcher and user in the robotics community to make similar pledges not to build, authorize, support, or enable the attachment of weaponry to such robots." The letter was signed by Boston Dynamics, Agility Robotics, ANYbotics, Clearpath Robotics, Open Robotics and Unitree Robotics.

The bank will also use Google Cloud's artificial intelligence and machine learning to streamline services and, it says, create a better banking …

Why it matters: Applied XL uses computational journalism methods to automate data gathering.

A growing number of companies are using chat bots and AI-led video interviews to assess job candidates before a human recruiter even meets them. Why it matters: Automated interviews vastly expand the job candidate pool and are designed to ensure consistent hiring practices by rooting out ways that bias seeps into interviews, recruiters say. But job applicants complain they're dehumanizing and stressful. The big picture: Recruiters have been using artificial intelligence for a while to automate candidate searches or screen resumes, for example. AI-led video interviews, however, go beyond those practices -- because candidates are assessed by a computer algorithm.