Experts raise conflict of interest concerns over Eric Schmidt’s private AI investments while he served as chairman of the National Security Commission on AI (Eamon Javers/CNBC)

Kate Kaye / Protocol:
A look at Eric Schmidt’s push to profit from an AI cold war between the US and China; CB Insights: he has taken part in investing $2B+ in AI-focused companies  —  Eric Schmidt has prodded the Pentagon for years to hurry along its software-buying process.  —  Today the AI tech investor …

Wall Street Journal:
A profile of OpenAI, which raised $1B from Microsoft after Sam Altman demoed an AI model to Satya Nadella in 2019, as some remain skeptical about its revenue  —  Behind ChatGPT and other AI breakthroughs was Sam Altman’s fundraising—but skeptics remain  —  ChatGPT, the artificial-intelligence …

Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post:
OpenAI plans to remove the waitlist for DALL-E today, giving anyone immediate access; Sam Altman says a public release is an essential step for safe development  —  None of these photos were taken by a camera.  —  All of these images were created by the artificial intelligence text …

Cade Metz / New York Times:
A look at Anthropic, which raised $580M led by SBF in April to research “AI safety”, and 70 AI-related organizations SBF and FTX executives invested $530M+ in  —  Mr. Bankman-Fried and his colleagues spent more than $530 million to battle what they saw as the dangers of artificial intelligence.

Dan Primack / Axios:
Sources: Google Ventures has shelved its algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments  —  Google Ventures has mothballed an algorithm that for years had served as a gatekeeper for new investments, Axios has learned from multiple sources.

Harry McCracken / Fast Company:
In an interview, Zoom CEO Eric Yuan details the company’s decision to rebrand Zoom Chat as Team Chat, seeking to better compete with Slack, Teams, and others  —  It’s nice to be synonymous with a product category.  But Zoom CEO Eric Yuan says that expanding on its video-calling ubiquity is both an opportunity and a challenge.