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Today’s Headlines:

• Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO - Altman’s move to Microsoft isn’t a done deal, and Ilya Sutskever’s flip to supporting Altman means two board members need to change their minds.

• OpenAI's board approached Anthropic CEO about top job and merger - Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei declined on both fronts.

• C3.ai cuts jobs to reduce costs - Software company C3.ai cut jobs last week, citing employee performance and the need for cost savings.

• Microsoft AI Image Generator Blocks ‘Disney’ After Viral Movie Poster Trend - After a viral social media trend saw people making AI-generated movie posters in the style of a Disney-Pixar with their dogs as the main character, Microsoft has tweaked its artificial intelligence image generator tool; now when users entered the term “Disney” they received a message saying that the search term was against its policies.

• Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) chief’s warning: AI is a ‘natural oligopoly’ in the making - CFPB Director Rohit Chopra is warning that the nature of the technology powering artificial intelligence could lead to oligopolies with sweeping implications for the economy.

• UnitedHealth uses faulty AI to deny elderly patients medically necessary coverage, lawsuit claims - The lawsuit claims UnitedHealth illegally denied "elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plans" by deploying an AI model known by the company to have a 90% error rate, overriding determinations made by the patients' physicians that the expenses were medically necessary.

• Synthetic imagery sets new bar in AI training efficiency - The MIT team is the first to show that models trained solely with synthetic images outperform the counterparts trained with real images, in large-scale settings.

• Why AI is Not Like Human Intelligence - A new study argues that the perception of AI intelligence is marred by linguistic confusion. While AI, such as ChatGPT, generates impressive text, it lacks true understanding and consciousness.

• State Dept prioritizes ‘AI-ready workforce’ in its first AI strategy - The State Department sees artificial intelligence tools as the key to turning its wealth of data into real-world diplomatic insights, and maximizing the impact of its workforce.

• Runway amps up creative control with new features - AI video startup Runway just rolled out new tools to boost creative direction in generative video. The official rollout of the Motion Brush lets users paint in controllable motion, Style Presets dial up specific new aesthetics, and an updated ‘Director Mode’ gives camera controls additional finesse.

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