Welcome to the newest edition of FindBiometrics’ AI update. Here’s the latest big news on the shifting landscape of AI and identity technology:
The United Kingdom’s Competition and Markets Authority has opened an initial probe into Amazon’s relationship with Anthropic. Amazon has invested $4 billion in the AI startup. The CMA says that by October 4 it will make a decision about whether to open a deeper investigation or to clear Amazon of antitrust suspicion.
OpenAI has lost three more senior executives, including co-founder John Schulman, who is leaving the firm for a position at Anthropic. Another co-founder, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, is taking an extended leave of absence through the rest of 2024. And Peter Deng has left his post as VP of Consumer Product.
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for allegedly deceiving him into investing. “Altman, in concert with other defendants, intentionally courted and deceived Musk, preying on Musk’s humanitarian concern about the existential dangers posed by AI,” the lawsuit says. Musk had previously filed, and withdrawn, a similar lawsuit earlier this year.
CoreWeave is welcoming former Google and Oracle executives to its leadership team. Google’s Chen Goldberg will be the cloud computing firm’s SVP of engineering, while Oracle’s former SVP of AI infrastructure and product management will serve as CoreWeave’s COO.
Groq has raised $640 million in a new funding round that brings its valuation to $2.8 billion. The funding round included BlackRock, Cisco, and the Samsung Catalyst Fund. The AI-focused semiconductor startup will also welcome Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, as a technical adviser.
Nvidia’s forthcoming Blackwell chips may face production delays of three months or longer as a result of design flaws, according to recent reports. But analysts aren’t worried about the company’s AI chip dominance: Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon told Reuters that “Nvidia’s competitive window is so large right now that we don’t think a three-month delay will cause significant share shifts.”
A deepfake video that appeared to show Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau discussing a novel “investment platform” developed by the government has proven to be a successful scam. One Canadian who lost $12,000 to the scam told local news, “”I thought, ‘It’s got to be legitimate, it’s got to be perfect. If not, how could you get the prime minister?'”
ID R&D CEO Alexey Khitrov joined the ID Talk podcast this week, answering follow-up questions from a tour of the company’s headquarters in New York City. Among other things, Khitrov discussed ID R&D’s testing process for its deepfake detection tech, and the importance of flagging not only synthetic faces but synthetic speech.
The chatbot’s take: We wanted a bit of insight into the UK antitrust watchdog’s process:
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August 8, 2024 – by Alex Perala
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