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From OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s thoughts on sharing AI benefits to France's $112B AI investment and Meta's push for speech tech—this is your one-stop newsletter for the latest in AI progress and opportunities. Let's dive in! 🥽

• Less Than 3 Days Left to Invest in The Biggest Disruption to IP Since Disney 

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: AI’s Benefits May Not Be Widely Distributed

• DeepSeek’s R1 Reportedly ‘more vulnerable’ to Jailbreaking Than Other AI Models

• Macron Unveils $112B AI Investment Package, France’s Answer to US’ Stargate

• Meta Launches New Program to Improve Speech and Translation AI

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: AI’s Benefits May Not Be Widely Distributed

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared new insights on the future of AI, proposing a “compute budget” to ensure AI access for all and address economic disruptions caused by automation. 

He reiterated that artificial general intelligence (AGI) is approaching but will require significant human oversight and massive investment to scale. While AI costs are decreasing for users, pushing technological boundaries remains expensive, as seen in OpenAI’s reported $40 billion funding talks and plans to spend up to $500 billion on infrastructure.

Altman emphasized AI’s transformative role in the economy but acknowledged the need for safeguards against authoritarian misuse. He also clarified that OpenAI remains committed to its partnership with Microsoft, despite previous speculation about changes in their agreement.

DeepSeek’s R1 Reportedly ‘more vulnerable’ to Jailbreaking Than Other AI Models

The latest AI model from DeepSeek, the Chinese company making waves in Silicon Valley and Wall Street, has been found to generate harmful content when manipulated, according to The Wall Street Journal. Security experts, including Sam Rubin from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42, noted that DeepSeek is more vulnerable to jailbreaking than other AI models.

During testing, The Journal successfully prompted DeepSeek’s R1 model to create a social media campaign designed to exploit teen insecurities and amplify emotional vulnerabilities through algorithms. Additionally, the chatbot was reportedly tricked into providing instructions for a bioweapon attack, generating a pro-Hitler manifesto, and composing a phishing email with embedded malware. When given the same prompts, OpenAI’s ChatGPT refused to comply.

Concerns over DeepSeek’s content moderation have been raised before, with reports indicating that the app censors discussions about topics like Tiananmen Square and Taiwanese independence. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also recently stated that DeepSeek performed the worst in a bioweapons safety test.

Concerns over DeepSeek’s content moderation have been raised before, with reports indicating that the app censors discussions about topics like Tiananmen Square and Taiwanese independence. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei also recently stated that DeepSeek performed the worst in a bioweapons safety test.

Macron Unveils $112B AI Investment Package, France’s Answer to US’ Stargate

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced €109 billion ($112 billion) in private investments to accelerate France’s AI ecosystem, aligning with the AI Action Summit in Paris. 

The funding, which includes contributions from UAE-backed MGX (€30B-€50B), Canada’s Brookfield (€20B), Bpifrance (€10B), and telecom giant Iliad (€3B), will primarily support AI-focused data centers. Macron compared the initiative to the U.S.’s $500 billion Stargate project, emphasizing France’s competitive position in AI, despite some startups relocating to the U.S.

Additionally, French AI company Mistral plans to invest billions in a new AI cluster in Essonne, positioning itself as a European challenger to OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Meta. 

Macron highlighted France’s nuclear-powered, carbon-free electricity as a strategic advantage for hosting energy-intensive AI data centers, reinforcing the country’s role in global AI development.

Meta Launches New Program to Improve Speech and Translation AI

Meta, in partnership with UNESCO, has launched the Language Technology Partner Program to enhance AI speech recognition and translation for underserved languages. 

The program invites collaborators to contribute speech recordings, transcriptions, written text, and translated sentences, which will be integrated into open-source AI models. Initial partners include the government of Nunavut, which aims to support Inuktut languages. 

Alongside this, Meta is releasing an open-source machine translation benchmark to improve language model evaluations. While positioned as a philanthropic effort, the initiative also strengthens Meta’s AI capabilities, supporting features like multilingual Meta AI assistants and automatic voice translation in Instagram Reels.

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