🗞 AI Copyright Clash: Media Giants Take on OpenAI ⚖️

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• Major US Newspapers Sue Microsoft and OpenAI Over AI Copyright Infringement 🗞️

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Removed from Startup Fund Amid Ghost Autonomy Shutdown 🚗

• NVIDIA's ChatRTX Chatbot Expands AI Model Support and Introduces Voice Queries 🚀

• Meta's AI Pivot Raises Questions About Metaverse Focus, Experts Weigh In 🧠

• Groundbreaking AI Model and Dataset Revolutionize Bitcoin Money Laundering Detection 🕵️

• Google Urges US to Modernize Immigration Policies to Attract Top AI Talent 🌟

• FKA Twigs Creates AI Deepfake to Interact with Fans and Focus on Music 🎤

🗞️ Eight major American newspapers have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging copyright infringement and defamation related to the use of their articles in training AI models like ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or compensation. Read More

• The plaintiffs claim that at least 124 million tokens were taken from their articles to train OpenAI's GPT-3 model, and the lawsuit includes screenshots of ChatGPT and Copilot quoting the papers' articles verbatim, sometimes without proper attribution.

• The complaint alleges that Microsoft and OpenAI specifically trained their models to remove hints of copyright ownership, such as author names and copyright notices, and that GPT-based chatbots made false claims about the plaintiffs endorsing dangerous or misleading information.

• The newspapers are seeking damages, attorney fees, and the destruction of the AI models and training materials, while some tech companies like Google and Adobe are proactively setting up deals with publishers to avoid similar legal issues.

🚗 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has been removed from the company's venture capital arm, OpenAI Startup Fund, as fund-backed startup Ghost Autonomy announces its shutdown just five months after receiving a significant investment. Read More

• The OpenAI Startup Fund, established in 2021 to foster innovation in sectors where AI can have a transformative impact, has invested $175 million in 17 companies since its inception.

• Ghost Autonomy, which raised $5 million from the OpenAI Fund and a total of $220 million from investors, cited the uncertain path to long-term profitability and the current funding climate as reasons for its closure.

• Altman's removal from the fund and the shutdown of Ghost Autonomy highlight the volatile nature of the tech and AI industries, emphasizing the challenges startups face in securing long-term profitability and navigating the current funding landscape.

🚀 NVIDIA's experimental ChatRTX chatbot expands AI model support, including Google's Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI's CLIP, enhancing photo search capabilities and introducing voice query functionality. Read More

• ChatRTX, requiring an RTX 30/40-series GPU with at least 8GB VRAM, allows users to set up a local chatbot server that can process personal documents and YouTube videos, providing summaries and answering questions based on the data.

• The integration of Google's Gemma model simplifies the process of running these models locally, offering users the flexibility to choose between models based on the type of data they wish to analyze or search.

• NVIDIA has enhanced ChatRTX with voice query support by integrating Whisper, an AI-based speech recognition system, allowing users to search their data using their voice and making the chatbot more user-friendly and versatile.

🧠 Meta's commitment to increasing AI spending to $35-40bn in 2024 has raised questions about the company's focus on the metaverse, but experts suggest that AI investments are crucial for realizing its long-term metaverse plans. Read More

• Meta's Q1 2024 revenue reached $36.4bn, a 27% increase from last year, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg cautioned that it would take time before the company's AI investments generate significant revenue.

• The company's new AI models, including Llama 3 and an image generator, have been integrated into Meta AI, a virtual assistant that will be placed centrally across Meta's products and is expected to provide a more engaging way to reach customers.

• GlobalData forecasts that by 2027, global generative AI revenues will exceed $33bn, achieving a CAGR of 80% from 2022, highlighting the potential for AI to become a significant revenue stream for Meta while also playing a crucial role in realizing the metaverse.

🕵️ Researchers from Elliptic, MIT, and IBM have developed a groundbreaking AI model and released a vast 200-million-transaction dataset to revolutionize the detection of bitcoin money laundering patterns on the blockchain. Read More

• The new approach focuses on identifying patterns of bitcoin transactions between known bad actors and cryptocurrency exchanges, training the AI model to spot the "shape" of suspected money laundering behavior.

• In a test with an unnamed cryptocurrency exchange, the AI tool identified 52 suspicious transaction chains, of which 14 were already flagged by the exchange for suspected illicit activity, demonstrating the model's potential to reduce the hunt for suspicious accounts from one in a thousand to more than one in four.

• The release of the anonymized 200-million transaction training dataset on Kaggle is expected to inspire further AI-focused research into bitcoin money laundering, potentially leading to more efficient and effective tools for financial crime investigation.

🌟 Google urges the US Department of Labor to modernize immigration policies to attract more AI and cybersecurity talent, warning that the country risks losing out on highly sought-after individuals in the global AI shortage. Read More

• Google's letter highlights that the list of occupations pre-certified as having a shortage of American workers, known as Schedule A, has not been updated in 20 years and must include AI and cybersecurity roles.

• The current immigration process, which requires companies to obtain a permanent labor certification (PERM) for employees, is time-consuming and has led to Google employees having to leave the US while waiting for their green cards to be approved.

• The intense competition for AI talent has resulted in companies poaching engineers and researchers, with wages for AI specialists soaring, and President Biden's executive order on AI mandating federal agencies to help increase AI talent in the country.

🎤 FKA Twigs has developed her own AI-powered deepfake to interact with fans and journalists, allowing her to focus on her music while maintaining control over her voice, looks, and personality. Read More

• The British singer, dancer, and actress testified before a US Senate Judiciary subcommittee, advocating for legislation that would protect artists from the unauthorized use of their voices and likenesses by AI without their consent.

• FKA Twigs' digital clone, capable of communicating in French, Korean, and Japanese, will be deployed later this year to handle her online social media interactions and promote her work, enabling her to spend more time creating meaningful art for her fans.

• A group of UK MPs has called for legislation to ban AI-generated deepfakes in the UK, protect musicians from the potential risks of AI to their livelihoods, and ensure that the technology is used as a tool to inspire new human creativity rather than a threat to creators.

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