Trump revokes Biden's AI executive order

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• Trump revokes Biden's AI executive order

• OpenAI updates Custom Instructions with personalization features

• DeepSeek-R1 reasoning models rival OpenAI in performance

AI Innovation
👱‍♂️ Trump revokes Biden's AI executive order

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump revoked a 2023 executive order signed by Joe Biden that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers, and national security. Trump didn’t immediately say exactly what would replace the order, but the administration will likely take a more hands-off approach.

Insights for you:

• President Trump revoked an executive order that mandated AI developers share safety test results with the government.

• Biden's order required developers of AI systems that pose risks to U.S. national security, the economy, public health, or safety to share the results of safety tests with the U.S. government before they were released to the public, per the Defense Production Act.

• The order also directed agencies to set standards for that testing and address related chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and cybersecurity risks.

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OpenAI
💡 OpenAI updates Custom Instructions with personalization features

OpenAI is introducing a new way for users to customize their interactions with ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot. OpenAI announced it is rolling out a new user interface for ChatGPT’s custom instructions menu, including new ways to customize the chatbot’s traits.

Insights for you:

• OpenAI has updated the Custom Instructions feature in ChatGPT, introducing a redesigned user interface and expanded customization options.

• This update allows users to personalize interactions by specifying preferences such as their preferred name or nickname, profession, and traits they want ChatGPT to exhibit.

• The rollout began on January 17, 2025, for users on ChatGPT web and the Windows desktop app, with plans to extend availability to mobile and macOS apps in the coming weeks.

DeepSeek
⚡️ DeepSeek-R1 reasoning models rival OpenAI in performance

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released two new AI models that match OpenAI's o1 in performance. Along with their main models, DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero, they've also launched six smaller open-source versions, with some performing as well as OpenAI's o1-mini.

Insights for you:

• Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released two new reasoning models: DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-R1-Zero, that perform on par with OpenAI's o1 in benchmarks.

• DeepSeek-R1-Zero was developed using only reinforcement learning and a rule-based reward system, without any human examples. DeepSeek-R1 built on this approach by adding a small set of initial training data to reach o1-level performance.

• According to DeepSeek, the former model outperforms OpenAI’s o1 across several reasoning benchmarks. The distilled version, DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B, scored 57.2%, a standout performance among smaller models on LiveCodeBench.