🥟 Chao-Down #181 AWS Bedrock is now generally available for GenAI customers, DeepMind explores using language models for image compression, White House could force AI companies to disclose customers

After 5 long months of binging re-runs of Suits, we’ll finally get a refresh on new shows and movies.

The Writers Guild of America (WGA) has reached a deal with Hollywood studios to end the writers’ strike. Central to the new contracts were restrictions around the use of AI in TV and film scriptwriting.

Based off the contract, the WGA negotiated:

• AI cannot write or rewrite literary material.

• AI-generated content cannot be considered as source material, meaning that AI-created material cannot be used to "undermine a writer's credit or separated rights."

• Writers can still use AI in their writing services as long as they have studio consent and comply with company policies.

• A company can't require a writer to use AI software and must inform writers if any materials given contain or are created by AI.

• A provision which gives the WGA the authority to challenge the use of writers' work in training AI software.

It’s the first-ever deal of its kind that’s meant to protect the creatives working in TV and film from the threat of AI and automation. The question is, will it be enough?

-Alex, your resident Chaos Coordinator.

What happened in AI? 📰

OpenAI and Jony Ive in talks to raise $1bn from SoftBank for AI device venture (Financial Times)

Amazon Bedrock is now generally available as AWS enterprise GenAI efforts get serious (VentureBeat)

Nvidia’s French Offices Raided in Cloud-Computing Antitrust Inquiry (WSJ)

Apple is quiet about AI, but it's the biggest buyer of AI firms (Quartz)

AI language models can exceed PNG and FLAC in lossless compression, says study (Ars Technica)

White House could force cloud companies to disclose AI customers (Semafor)

Always be Learnin’ 📕 📖

10 lessons from successful one-person software businesses (Substack)

Open Source does not win by being cheaper (Github)

Working at a Startup vs in Big Tech (The Pragmatic Engineer)

Projects to Keep an Eye On 🛠

Mistral 7B, the most powerful language model for its size to date. (Mistral AI)

Enhancing Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning (CarperAI)

The Latest in AI Research 💡

Improving Information Extraction on Business Documents with Specific Pre-Training Tasks (arxiv)

Leveraging Large Language Models for Sequential Recommendation (arxiv)

Aligning Large Language Models for Clinical Tasks (arxiv)

The World Outside of AI 🌎

Computer Science Is No Longer the Safe Major (The Atlantic)

Live Near Your Friends - Deep and meaningful friendships are integral to a happy and healthy life. Why not live closer to your pals? (Substack)

The sleep secret: how lucid dreams can make us fitter, more creative and less anxious | Sleep (The Guardian)

Inflation Bites U.S. Engineering Salaries (IEEE Spectrum)

One Last Bite 😋