🗞 Sutton's Computing Honor, Musk's OpenAI Challenge Dismissed, and Microsoft AI Sales Agents

🔎 The Latest on the AI Frontier:

• Alberta Professor Richard Sutton Wins Computing's Highest Honor

• Judge Dismisses Musk's Challenge to OpenAI's For-Profit Shift

• Microsoft Launches AI Sales Agents in Direct Challenge to Salesforce

• South Korea Unveils $34B Fund to Bolster Strategic Industries

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🏆 University of Alberta professor Richard Sutton wins prestigious A.M. Turing Award for pioneering work in reinforcement learning

• Sutton shares the 2024 "Nobel Prize in computing" and US$1-million prize with longtime collaborator Andrew Barto for their foundational contributions to reinforcement learning.

• A faculty member for nearly 25 years, Sutton has been instrumental in transforming Alberta into a world-renowned AI hub, co-founding Google DeepMind Alberta and serving as chief scientific advisor at the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (Amii).

• Sutton's influential textbook "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction" (1998) remains pivotal in the field, and his scientific publications have been cited approximately 150,000 times.

⚖️ Judge dismisses Elon Musk's attempt to block OpenAI's for-profit transition

• Musk alleged OpenAI deviated from its original non-profit mission, but Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled he couldn't provide substantial evidence for his claims.

• The broader lawsuit remains active, with Musk having invested over $44 million in OpenAI before resigning from the board in 2018 after the company refused to attach OpenAI to Tesla.

• In February 2025, Musk offered $97.4 billion to take over OpenAI, which the board rejected, while OpenAI prepares to roll out GPT-4.5 to its plus tier customers.

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