The legislation was written by a Democratic state senator and was passed last week by the California state legislature. The question is whether Governor Newsom, in a state where tech lobbying power is awesome, will sign it — and he has until the end of the month to decide. Some say the measure, which mandates safety testing, will drive AI innovation from the state.
Google has moved to place restrictions on responses its generative AI tools can provide on topics such as candidates, voting processes and election results. The restrictions will apply widely across its AI ecosystem including Search AI Overviews, YouTube AI-generated summaries for Live Chat and Gemini. For Google Ads, advertisers will be required to disclose the use of “synthetic content.”
Just over a fifth of businesses are in a state of “high readiness” for AI even though 95% are working on AI plans, according to a global survey of over 300 business and IT professionals by BARC. IT is seizing back the spotlight from business teams, being involved in AI planning 95% of the time. The most advanced areas are security and compliance.
Enterprise AI vendor Uniphore has acquired CDP ActionIQ and cloud data engineering system Infoworks. The combination of products will create a Zero Data AI Cloud that simplifies AI deployments by enabling companies to access data for AI projects without moving it from existing systems. Prices were not announced.