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18 “Behold! My Servant whom I have chosen, My Beloved in whom My soul is well pleased! I will put My Spirit upon Him, And He will declare justice to the Gentiles. 19 He will not quarrel nor cry out, Nor will anyone hear His voice in the streets. 20 A bruised reed He will not break, And smoking flax He will not quench, Till He sends forth justice to victory;” [Matthew 12:18-20, ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• 🔥 OpenAI fires back against Musk, claims he wanted an OpenAI for-profit

• ⚠️ Character.AI has retrained its chatbots to stop chatting up teens

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OpenAI fired back at billionaire Elon Musk on Friday, publishing a series of emails and texts that the company claims show Musk’s lawsuit against it is misleading.

Musk’s legal battle with OpenAI, which has been going on for months now, at its core accuses the company of abandoning its original nonprofit mission to make the fruits of its AI research available to all.

Things escalated last month, when Musk’s legal team filed for an injunction to halt OpenAI’s in-progress transition from a nonprofit to a for-profit corporation. OpenAI says Musk’s complaints are baseless — and simply a case of sour grapes.

In an announcement yesterday, Chatbot service Character.AI says it will soon be launching parental controls for teenage users, and it described safety measures it’s taken in the past few months, including a separate large language model (LLM) for users under 18.

The announcement comes after press scrutiny and two lawsuits that claim it contributed to self-harm and suicide. In a press release, Character.AI said that, over the past month, it’s developed two separate versions of its model: one for adults and one for teens. The teen LLM is designed to place “more conservative” limits on how bots can respond, “particularly when it comes to romantic content.”

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Listen or read the following transcript as Joel Beeke delves into scriptural teachings that underscore the sufficiency of Christ’s atonement and the role of faith in securing a believer’s righteousness before God, dismissing the notion that human efforts can earn salvation.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

AI News

• 🇺🇸 United States confirms new restrictions on China’s access to crucial AI components (link)

• 🦾 MIT News: Teaching a robot its limits, to complete open-ended tasks safely (link)

• 🎅 OpenAI gets festive as it launches Santa Mode into AI tool (link)

• 🕹️ It sure looks like OpenAI trained Sora on game content — and legal experts say that could be a problem (link)

• 🤖 Empowering older adults with home-care robots (link)

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