Number of the week: $200 million—the funding round closed by world-model startup VAST the same week China registered a national World Model Evaluation Standard for drafting. Full issue, with sources, tables, and paper highlights:
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Emmie Hine
AI governance research @ Safe AI Forum
Fellow @ Yale Digital Ethics Center
Interests: AI, XR, most other tech, China, climbing, baking.
ex-Oxford, ex-SWE
My tech newsletter: https://www.techreckoner.substack.com
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Delighted to be part of the latest ChinaFile Conversation. I wrote on a layer rarely covered in the West: China's academic AI law drafts tackling liability, training data, whistleblowers & agents. https://www.chinafile.com/conversation/are-there-any-good-ideas-ai-governance
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