The Telecommunications Industry Association will host the two-day BEAD Success Summit in Arlington, Va., starting Wednesday with a focus on navigating the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program to close the digital divide. Speakers include Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.); Kevin Gallagher, senior adviser to the Commerce Secretary; and Nick Alexander, senior policy adviser in the Office of Internet Connectivity and Growth at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

Possible Miami, a major media and marketing conference, kicks off Monday and will feature an appearance from Elon Musk. Other speakers include Sofia Hernandez, global head of business marketing at TikTok; “futurist” David “Shingy” Shing; and Anthony Chavez, vice president of product management at Google.

The flagship TED Conference will start Monday and run through the week in Vancouver, British Columbia. Taking the stage at this year’s event will be K Allado-McDowell, co-editor of “The Atlas of Anomalous AI”; Greg Brockman, co-founder of OpenAI; Shou Chew, chief executive of TikTok; and Yejin Choi, MacArthur Fellow and natural language processing expert.

Also in Canada this week: the World Summit AI Americas, which kicks off Wednesday in Montréal, Québec. Speakers include Joëlle Pineau, vice president of AI research at Meta Platforms Inc.; Alyssa Lefaivre, director of partnerships and market development at the Responsible AI Institute; and Dhruval Shah; director of intelligent automation at AT&T Inc.

The Information will host the 2023 Creator Economy Summit on Thursday in Hollywood, Calif., with conversations focusing on what the future holds for online creators. Speakers include Sandie Hawkins, general manager of U.S. e-Commerce at TikTok; Kim Larson, global head of YouTube creators at YouTube; and Hank Green, CEO of Complexly and one-half of the Green Brothers. 

TikTok

• In a 54-43 vote, the Montana House voted to ban TikTok from operating within the state effective Jan. 1, 2024, and would prohibit app stores from offering the app in the state, though the legislation — if signed into law– is likely to face legal challenges. The bill heads to the desk of Gov. Greg Gianforte (R), who previously banned TikTok on government-issued devices.

Leaked intelligence documents

• Airman First Class Jack Douglas Teixeira, a 21-year-old member of the Massachusetts Air National Guard, was taken into custody by the FBI over his alleged role in the leak of highly classified documents containing national security secrets. Teixeira is accused of posting the documents, which included details about the United States’ ability to conduct surveillance on Russia, on Discord in an online gaming chat known as Thug Shaker Central. 

China

• The Cyberspace Administration of China proposed new security checks that would apply to generative AI models, including mandating new tools to be submitted for security review before receiving public release and requiring platforms to verify users’ identities and allow usage to be tracked. The draft of the proposal was issued just hours after Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. announced the launch of its ChatGPT-style chatbot. 
• Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.), the chair of a congressional committee on China, said he is concerned about Tesla Inc.’s dependency on China following an announcement the electric car company would open a battery factory in Shanghai. While Tesla CEO Musk refuted the public criticism on Twitter, Gallagher said he wants to know how Musk balances accepting federal tax breaks from the U.S. government with expanding operations in China.

Artificial intelligence

• The Commerce Department put out a formal request for comment on accountability measures for AI tools, including asking whether new AI models should be required to go through a certification process before being released to the public. The request for comments, which will be open for 60 days and will help to shape policy, could be the first step toward regulation of the sector. 
• Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is exploring potential legislation to regulate AI technology and has started circulating a framework to experts in recent weeks with the goal of developing regulations that can adapt to the rapidly advancing sector, according to a source briefed on the proposal. The potential regulations from Schumer would focus on transparency and ensuring people understand the sources behind an AI system’s output, which comes as the public has shown concerns about AI systems and their potential to pose a threat to humanity.
• The Transport Workers Union of America opposed a request filed by autonomous vehicle companies Waymo and Aurora Innovation Inc. asking for an exemption for five years from rules that require large semi-truck drivers to place reflective triangles or flares around stopped trucks to help prevent crashes. The companies asked instead to use warning beacons mounted on the truck cab so they would not need a human driver to set out the warning devices, but the union said the request “represents an overreach and a misuse of the waiver and exemption process, and would significantly diminish the safety of our roads.” 
• OpenAI, the company behind the popular ChatGPT chatbot, launched a bug bounty program through a partnership with Bugcrowd Inc. that offers people rewards of between $200 and $20,000 for reporting any bugs or security problems within its AI products. Prompts that result in malicious code or cause the chatbot to say incorrect or inappropriate things to a user will not be eligible for payment.
• Amazon Web Services announced it will offer AI tools as well as custom-made chips that the company claims can run AI software more efficiently and affordably than competitors like Google and Microsoft Corp. Rather than offer first-party tools, AWS plans to serve as a neutral platform for businesses and offer access to multiple large language models.

Antitrust

• Democratic Federal Trade Commissioner Alvaro Bedoya said at a conference in Salt Lake City that independent contractors who work for platforms like Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and DoorDash Inc. are not prohibited by antitrust laws from collectively seeking better pay and work conditions. The remarks signify a shift in the agency’s approach to the issue, as the FTC previously said it would oppose laws allowing Uber and Lyft drivers to collectively bargain by saying such efforts violated antitrust laws. 
• The French Competition Authority will likely move forward with a formal antitrust investigation into Apple Inc.’s decision to limit third-party app tracking in 2021, sources told Axios, despite previously saying the policy did “not appear to reflect an abuse of a dominant position on the part of Apple.” The expected investigation follows complaints from advertising trade groups that claim Apple did not adhere to E.U. privacy rules when implementing the change and accuse the company of failing to hold itself to the same standard when targeting iOS users with ads. 
• The European Commission informed Broadcom Inc. that its proposed $61 billion acquisition of cloud computing company VMWare Inc. could limit competition on hardware components like fiber channel host bus adapters and storage adapters. Broadcom, which can appeal the commission’s objection, said it expects the deal will still close before the end of the 2023 fiscal year. 

Google vs. Department of Justice

• Google asked U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to grant a summary judgment and throw out an antitrust lawsuit being brought against the company by the Justice Department and 11 Republican-led states accusing Google of maintaining a monopoly on online search.
• The Justice Department argued in federal court that ChatGPT and other technology innovations could have been released years ago if Google hadn’t monopolized the online search market, and the agency also claimed the company has paid billions of dollars to maintain its position as the leader in search to the detriment of competition.

Cybersecurity

• An unidentified expert at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency told Sen. Ron Wyden’s (D-Ore.) staff they have no confidence that FirstNet, the mobile cellular network set up to connect first responders and the military, is secure against cyberattacks, according to a letter from Wyden to the National Security Agency and CISA. FirstNet, built by AT&T Inc. in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, could suffer from vulnerabilities in Signaling System No. 7 (SS7), a protocol used by cellular networks to exchange information, according to Wyden. 
• The Supreme Court of South Korea told Google it should disclose whether or not it has shared local user information with third parties including U.S. intelligence agencies. The decision stemmed from a 2014 lawsuit in which four plaintiffs accused Google of sharing private user information through the U.S. National Security Agency’s PRISM surveillance program. 

Other news

• Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) sent letters to 14 of Silicon Valley Bank’s largest depositors including BlockFi Inc., Roblox Corp. and Roku Inc. asking for details about the nature of their relationship with the failed financial institution — including whether board members, executives or investors received special benefits like lines of credit. Warren told Bloomberg in a statement that Americans “deserve to know how these mutual backscratching arrangements developed, who benefitted from them, and what role they played in Silicon Valley Bank’s failure.”
• Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. said it is in communication with the U.S. government about concerns the company has regarding recently issued guidance for CHIPS and Science Act subsidies. At issue for TSMC, which is planning to invest $40 billion in a new manufacturing plant in Arizona, and other companies are conditions that require profit sharing with the U.S. government and concerns that the application process could expose confidential corporate strategy. 

6.6

The amount of serious injuries per 100 workers that occur at Amazon warehouses, more than double the rate of injury among non-Amazon warehouse workers, according to a report from the union coalition Strategic Organizing Center.

1) Biden Administration Weighs Possible Rules for AI Tools Like ChatGPT

Ryan Tracy, The Wall Street Journal

2) Schumer lays groundwork for Congress to regulate AI

Andrew Solender and Ashley Gold, Axios

3) Most of the Public Believes Artificial Intelligence Tools Can Achieve Singularity and Pose a Threat to Humanity

AJ Dellinger, Morning Consult

4) TSMC talking to US about CHIPS Act ‘guidance’ amid subsidy concerns

Ben Blanchard and Jeanny Kao, Reuters

5) US scrambles to trace source of highly classified intel leak

Idrees Ali, Reuters

6) Cyber watchdog has ‘no confidence’ in US emergency cell network security -senator

Raphael Satter, Reuters

7) Katie Cotton, Guardian of the Apple Brand for 18 Years, Dies

Mark Gurman, Bloomberg

8) Is Big Tech’s R&D Spending Actually Hurting Innovation in the U.S.?

Christopher Mims, The Wall Street Journal

9) Elon Musk is moving forward with a new generative-AI project at Twitter after purchasing thousands of GPUs

Kali Hays, Insider Premium

10) China slaps security reviews on AI products as Alibaba unveils ChatGPT challenger

Ryan McMorrow and Nian Liu, Financial Times

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• What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have? (The New Yorker)
• Elon Musk plans artificial intelligence start-up to rival Open AI (Financial Times)
• Texas Could Push Tech Platforms to Censor Posts About Abortion (Wired)
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• House Democrat presses TikTok CEO for ‘unanswered’ questions on data privacy, kids’ safety (The Hill)
• AI can make movies, edit actors, fake voices. Hollywood isn’t ready. (The Washington Post)
• After Matt Taibbi Leaves Twitter, Elon Musk ‘Shadow Bans’ All Of Taibbi’s Tweets, Including The Twitter Files (Techdirt)
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