President Trump’s War on “Woke AI” Is a Civil Liberties Nightmare | Electronic Frontier Foundation

• The White House’s recently-unveiled “AI Action Plan” wages war on so-called “woke AI”—including large language models (LLMs) that provide information inconsistent with the administration’s views on climate change, gender, and other issues. It also targets measures designed to mitigate the generation of racial and gender biased content and even hate speech. The reproduction of this bias is a pernicious problem that AI developers have struggled to solve for over a decade.
• A new executive order called “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government,” released alongside the AI Action Plan, seeks to strong-arm AI companies into modifying their models to conform with the Trump Administration’s ideological agenda.

Russia is quietly churning out fake content posing as US news – POLITICO

• According to misinformation tracker NewsGuard, the campaign — which has been tracked by Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center as Storm-1679 since at least 2022 — takes advantage of high-profile events to pump out fabricated content from various publications, including ABC News, BBC and most recently POLITICO.
• “They are just throwing spaghetti, trying to see what’s going to stick on a wall,” said Ivana Stradner, a researcher on Russia at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a Washington think tank.

Build a Small Language Model (SLM) From Scratch

Tasks

• Write review for proposal 7 – done. That was a lift.
• Machine shop pickup? Tomorrow
• Work on rolling in edits. Finished the War Room story
• Put together a proposal for No Starch Press

SBIRS

• Work with Ron a bit?
• Overleaf doc A3IW