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Wednesday’s top story: The US is reportedly considering capping AI chip exports to the Persian Gulf, due to national security concerns.

🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. ⛔ US to block AI chip exports?

2. 💼 How to become an AI Consultant

3. 📰 NYT threatens Perplexity

4. ⚡ How to supercharge your organization with AI-powered delegation

5. 🤔 How to critically assess a decision or policy using ChatGPT

6. 🔍 Google launches AI shopping

7. 🔐 OpenAI bolsters security with new hire

Read Time: 5 minutes

FACT OF THE DAY

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STOCK MARKETS

✋ Tech and AI stocks sold off across the board as the rally pauses close to the all-time highs. NVIDIA dropped close to 5% as the US government weighs up capping AI chip sales to the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Learn more.

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EXPORTS

⛔ US to block AI chip exports?

Our Report: The US Government is reportedly considering capping the sale of NVIDIA and AMD AI chips to certain Persian Gulf countries—including the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia—to address national security concerns.

🔑 Key Points:

• If they go through with it, these new restrictions will be similar to those the US Government imposed on the export of advanced AI chips (from the likes of NVIDIA and AMD) and related equipment to China.

• In 2022, they stopped NVIDIA and AMD from selling their AI chips and placed export restrictions on 40 other countries across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, to prevent the indirect sale of AI chips to China.

• The US and its allies—Netherlands, Germany, South Korea, and Japan—have been strengthening their restrictions on access to AI hardware in China as US AI chips give them a key advantage on the global AI stage.

🤔 Why you should care: The US government hasn’t released this information publicly yet, (although they did disclose, a few months ago, that more regulations were coming following the restrictions on China), but they’re considering restricting sales of AI chips to countries within the Persian Gulf because they’re concerned about how AI is being developed in these countries—not just from a human rights perspective, but also “from the perspective of safety and counterintelligence risks”---as Saudi Arabia and UAE, particularly, are investing heavily in AI.

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ETHICS

📰 NYT threatens Perplexity

Our Report: Following their ongoing case against OpenAI for using their content to train ChatGPT, The New York Times (NYT) has issued AI search engine start-up—Perplexity—with a cease and desist letter demanding they stop using their content, without a license, for their AI training and summaries

🔑 Key Points:

• The NYT has called Perplexity “unjustly enriched” because they’re using their “carefully written researched, and edited journalism without a license” (Forbes and Condé Nast made similar statements, earlier this year).

• In response, Perplexity said it had “no interest in being anyone’s antagonist,” but did argue that “no one organization owns the copyright over facts” and all it's doing is “indexing web pages and surfacing factual content.”

• CEO—Aravind Srinivas—said the start-up would be willing to work with the NYT (as it’s doing with several other publishers) through ad revenue-sharing schemes and subscriptions to partner publications.

🤔 Why you should care: This isn’t the first publication to accuse Perplexity of unethically scraping content and a recent study by Copyleaks (a plagiarism tool that checks for AI-generated content) shows that, as well as scraping content from public sites for its AI summaries, it was also summarizing paywalled content.

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Wednesday’s Prompt: How to critically assess a decision or policy using ChatGPT

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RETAIL

🔍 Google launches AI shopping

• Google Shopping is rolling out an AI-powered ‘for you’ feed (on desktop and mobile), which shows shoppers a personalized stream of products they might like, based on their search and YouTube history.

• Although Google will surface personalized products and in-line videos, if shoppers are shown something they dislike, they can give it a “thumbs-down,” preventing Google from showing anything similar.

• It’s also introducing an AI summary feature that gives shoppers tips on what products to look for and why they should consider the items they’re shown, which Google has summarized from reviews on the web.

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RECRUITMENT

🔐 OpenAI bolsters security with new hire

• OpenAI has hired ex-Palantir (which builds data analysis software and frequently works with US military and Government officials) Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Dane Stuckley, as its new CISO.

• Stuckley, who’ll be working with head of security, Matt Knight, believes “security is germane to OpenAI’s mission,” and is, therefore, “excited for this next chapter, and can’t wait to help secure a future where AI benefits us all.”

• This comes after OpenAI recently posted a job listing for a “Head of Trusted Compute and Cryptography” to build “secure AI infrastructure,” as its safety protocols have been questioned, after the exit of several key security figures.

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