Supercharged AI: From Massive Compute to Human Centered Laws

Hey there Ai5ers,

Dive into the latest breakthroughs reshaping the AI landscape, from Meta's unveiling of the first AI data supercluster to innovative legal moves against deepfakes in Denmark. This edition also highlights transformative educational initiatives, emerging job trends, and the rise of AI powered browsing tools changing how we interact online.

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Today's Ai5:

🧐 First AI data supercluster will come online 2026
🇩🇰 Denmark Is Taking on AI by Letting People Copyright Their Own Faces
🎓 Tech Giants Launch National AI Training Academy for Educators
📊 AI could create new jobs despite gloomy forecasts, experts say
🤖 Bot powered web browsers want to help people save time. But are they effective?

Prompt of the Day 🎨

I Prompted ChaptGPT (left image) and Perplexity (right image) the same basic ask to see what kind of creative mood these two models are in today 🙂

"It's the middle of July. Help me generate a collage of images representing this time of year. Tittle the image 'One more time around the Sun.'"

First AI data supercluster will come online 2026 🧐

CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said he plans to invest “hundreds of billions of dollars” into artificial intelligence compute infrastructure, and that Meta plans to bring its first supercluster online next year.

A supercluster is a large, complex computing network that’s designed to train advanced AI models and handle their workloads.

“Meta Superintelligence Labs will have industry-leading levels of compute and by far the greatest compute per researcher,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post on Monday. “I’m looking forward to working with the top researchers to advance the frontier!”

Full article by Ashley Capoot

Denmark Is Taking on AI by Letting People Copyright Their Own Faces 🇩🇰

("Love Locks" are a common show of affection, attached to rails in Copenhagen.)

Denmark is getting serious about deepfakes. The country plans to update its copyright laws to give people legal control over their own faces, voices and bodies.

"Everybody has the right to their own body, their own voice and their own facial features, which is apparently not how the current law is protecting people against generative AI," Denmark’s Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt told The Guardian last month.

Deepfakes are realistic digital versions of people created with artificial intelligence. They can make it look like someone said or did something they never did. With AI tools getting more powerful and accessible, it's easier than ever to make convincing fake images, videos or audio.

Full Article by Adrian Volenik

Tech Giants Launch National AI Training Academy for Educators 🎓

A new $23 million initiative by the American Federation of Teachers, OpenAI, Microsoft and Anthology aims to train 400,000 educators in ethical, effective use of AI in the classroom by 2030.

The new program aims to scale up past summer symposiums on AI held through the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and Microsoft.

The academy will offer AI instruction starting this fall based at a facility in Manhattan, combining in-person workshops, online courses, credential pathways and continuing education credits, all designed by educators and AI experts. The news release said over the next five years, AFT plans to train 400,000 K-12 educators, representing roughly 10 percent of the U.S. teaching workforce.

Full article by Government Technology News Staff

AI could create new jobs despite gloomy forecasts, experts say 📊

The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence tools has unleashed doomsday predictions of a broken career ladder and massive job losses.

The share of job listings taken up by AI specific roles more than doubled from 2023 to 2024, according to Glassdoor data shared with ABC News. So far this year, the share of such positions has climbed another 56% compared to the same period a year earlier, the company said.

By contrast, the World Economic Forum surveyed 1,000 large companies worldwide, which identified AI as the top driver of potential job gains by 2030.

As a result: “The worst thing you could do right now is make a complex career decision based on what AI is doing today, because we just don't know," Mollick said.

Full article by Max Zahn

Bot powered web browsers want to help people save time. But are they effective? 🤖

First they took care of your writing. Now, artificial intelligence systems are looking to do your web browsing for you. A new slate of AI-powered web browsers have come onto the scene, as AI companies look for more ways to integrate their tools into daily life.

Perplexity AI’s web browser, Comet, launched on Wednesday to much fanfare from some tech circles, as early users tested out its capabilities. It enters a crowded space, which includes products like Dia, Google’s Gemini in Chrome, and a reported upcoming browser from ChatGPT creator, OpenAI.

Comet opens to Perplexity’s AI search engine and its AI operates in a sidebar. In tests conducted by NBC News, Comet was able to assist in tasks like applying to jobs, buying a new outfit and booking a gym visit. But it often required intervention from the user, largely due to privacy restrictions that prevent it from accessing and inputting personal information without a human taking the final steps.

Asking it to book again prompted the assistant to request the required information from the user before filling out and submitting the form in real time within the browser.

Full article by Jasmine Cui and Angela Yang