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Microsoft gambled on OpenAI due to fear of need to close Google’s lead in AI
Read more: Microsoft gambled on OpenAI due to fear of need to close Google’s lead in AIWriting for Yahoo! Finance, Leah Nylen and Shirin Ghaffary reported the contents of internal emails that are now a part of the discovery in U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google. One email to Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and co-founder Bill Gates in 2019 from Microsoft’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, indicated he…
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Daily News and 7 other newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft in new copyright lawsuit v. AI (PDF Complaint)
Read more: Daily News and 7 other newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft in new copyright lawsuit v. AI (PDF Complaint)A group of major newspapers, including lead plaintiff Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun-Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register, and St. Paul Pioneer Press, filed a new copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. This now brings the total number of AI copyright lawsuits to 22 in the United States.…
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Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in G42, AI group in Abu Dhabi
Read more: Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in G42, AI group in Abu DhabiMicrosoft has invested in or partnered with OpenAI, Mistral, and now G42, an AI group based in Abu Dhabi. The latter investment is valued at $1.5 billion and gives Microsoft a minority stake in the group. [Report from Financial Times]
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Microsoft replies to NYT: case “fails to allege a specific instance of an end-user infringing The Times’s works, or Microsoft’s knowledge of any such act.”
Read more: Microsoft replies to NYT: case “fails to allege a specific instance of an end-user infringing The Times’s works, or Microsoft’s knowledge of any such act.”Microsoft just filed its reply to the New York Times’ opposition to the defendants’ partial motion to dismiss. Microsoft, quite forcefully, argues that the NYT lawsuit “fails to allege a specific instance of an end-user infringing The Times’s works, or Microsoft’s knowledge of any such act.” This is a lurking issue in the case. Although…
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Microsoft hires Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind
Read more: Microsoft hires Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMindThe big news yesterday in the AI sector is that Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind acquired by Google and current CEO of Inflection AI, a startup he co-founded. In his announcement, Suleyman said that he is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and will be overseeing “all consumer AI products and research, including…
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Is Microsoft eating AI? New alliance with Mistral AI, French co.
Read more: Is Microsoft eating AI? New alliance with Mistral AI, French co.Microsoft announced a partnership with the French startup Mistral AI for 15 million Euro. Wow! That’s more than Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in OpenAI. Mistral competes with OpenAI. In a statement to Reuters, the European Commission immediately said the partnership will be reviewed and may be subject to the EU’s merger rules. Mistral touts its…
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls AI “transformative new technology” in response to New York Times lawsuit
Read more: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella calls AI “transformative new technology” in response to New York Times lawsuitFascinating answer by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about the New York Times copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI. Nadella describes AI as a “new transformative technology,” and defers to the courts’ resolution of the cases and whether the training is fair use.
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New York Times article finds more “memorized” AI works by Midjourney, ChatGPT, Bing
Read more: New York Times article finds more “memorized” AI works by Midjourney, ChatGPT, BingIn yet another stunning article, this one titled “We Asked AI to Create the Joker. It Generated a Copyrighted Image,” the New York Times provided more examples of “memorized” visual works, which resulted from prompts, including some nonspecific ones, on Midjourney (5 examples), ChatGPT (2 examples), and Microsoft Bing (2 examples). The AI generated works…
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OpenAI sued again in copyright case. Complaint PDF in Basbanes v. Microsoft
Read more: OpenAI sued again in copyright case. Complaint PDF in Basbanes v. MicrosoftA week after the New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI, two journalists and nonfiction writers Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Ngagoyeanes, who wrote under the name Nicholas Gage for both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, have filed a somewhat similar copyright lawsuit against the same companies, although this time asking for…
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How did the New York Times figure out the glitch in GPT-4 for Exhibit J in its lawsuit v. OpenAI?
Read more: How did the New York Times figure out the glitch in GPT-4 for Exhibit J in its lawsuit v. OpenAI?The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI sent shockwaves across the business and media sector. Although a threat of a lawsuit had been revealed months ago, the Complaint filed by the NYT was cogent and chock-full of examples of alleged infringement. If OpenAI was trying to negotiate a licensing deal with the…