New York targets unsafe chatbots as Nvidia deal faces scrutiny

New York has enacted a ban on unsafe chatbot behavior involving children as states push the boundaries of AI regulation. Fake AI videos are circulating in Brazil’s election, while Nvidia’s $12.9 billion Hugging Face deal has drawn scrutiny from the Department of Justice. Separately, Open3DLab alleges that Roblox downloaded 145 GB of models from its sites, including adult content, without asking.

New product developments include Meta’s AI pet app, Waddle World, and additional AI features and creative tools in Apple Creator Studio. Liquid AI introduced LFM3, a multimodal model family bringing text, vision, audio, omni and decision models onto a shared backbone. MotionBricks generates real-time movement for humanoid robots and human characters by connecting recent poses with target poses.

Research developments include adaptive receptive-field attention for efficient high-resolution diffusion transformers, an examination of multimodal AI’s blind spots involving speech and cameras, and work on predictable latents for video world models.