Group of US newspapers sues Open AI and Microsoft over copyright infringement – SiliconANGLE
27 May

Group of US newspapers sues Open AI and Microsoft over copyright infringement – SiliconANGLE

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A coalition of eight U.S. newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft Corp, alleging that they have engaged in “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their generative AI models. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, comes from the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Orlando Sentinel, the Sun Sentinel in Florida, The Mercury News in San Jose, California, The Orange County Register in California and the Pioneer Press of Minnesota. All the publishers are owned by the hedge fund Alden Global Capital. The…
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NASA hopes private space companies can rescue its $11 billion Mars rock mission
27 May

NASA hopes private space companies can rescue its $11 billion Mars rock mission

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A critical NASA mission in the search for life beyond Earth, Mars Sample Return, is in trouble. Its budget has ballooned from US$5 billion to over $11 billion, and the sample return date may slip from the end of this decade to 2040.The mission would be the first to try to return rock samples from Mars to Earth so scientists can analyze them for signs of past life.NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said during a press conference on April 15, 2024, that the mission as currently conceived is too expensive and too slow. NASA gave private companies a month to submit proposals for bringing the samples…
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Inworld AI launches Inworld Voice to generate game character voices
27 May

Inworld AI launches Inworld Voice to generate game character voices

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GamesBeat is excited to partner with Lil Snack to have customized games just for our audience! We know as gamers ourselves, this is an exciting way to engage through play with the GamesBeat content you have already come to love. Start playing games here.  Inworld AI, an AI and games startup that raised $50 million on a $500 million valuation last year, has launched Inworld Voice, a new AI voice generator. Inworld Voice delivers dynamic voice experiences for game makers looking for expressive, cost-efficient and high quality voices. (I’ve asked the company how they address actors’ concerns about the potential theft of their voices by…
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Automated data transformation startup Coalesce closes on $50M funding round – SiliconANGLE
27 May

Automated data transformation startup Coalesce closes on $50M funding round – SiliconANGLE

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Data transformation startup Coalesce Automation Inc. has revealed how it is planning to scale its business, unveiling an ambitious roadmap to coincide with its biggest funding round yet. The company said today it has raised $50 million via a Series B funding round, bringing its total amount raised to more than $81 million. The round was led by Industry Ventures and existing backer Emergence Capital, and saw the participation of 11.2 Capital, DNX Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, Hyperlink Ventures, Next Legacy Partners, Snowflake Ventures and Telestra Ventures. Coalesce has been around for just over two years, having launched in January 2022…
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Legal Experts Say OpenAI Is in Big Trouble If Scarlett Johansson Decides to Sue
27 May

Legal Experts Say OpenAI Is in Big Trouble If Scarlett Johansson Decides to Sue

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"You can't imitate someone else's distinctive voice to sell stuff."Open SeasonOpenAI has landed itself in hot water for pushing out an update to ChatGPT that features a virtual assistant with an uncanny vocal resemblance to Scarlett Johansson — and it could be staring down the barrel of a compelling lawsuit.Almost instantly, comparisons to the movie "Her" abounded, in which the actress plays a chatbot named Samantha that falls in love with a lonely man. Had OpenAI just aped her role — and her voice? Officially, it said no. Then, Johansson dropped a bombshell: leadership at the AI startup had in…
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China’s gold rush shows the Chinese still have money to spend — they’re just not into Starbucks or Gucci
27 May

China’s gold rush shows the Chinese still have money to spend — they’re just not into Starbucks or Gucci

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The consumption trend reflects risk hedging and a lack of confidence in the flagging economy that has been struggling to regain momentum since lifting on-off pandemic lockdowns.It also reflects that there's money in the system — but Chinese consumers are just really not that keen on dropping their hard-earned cash at Starbucks or Gucci.China's economy is facing multiple risks and uncertainties, including an epic real-estate crisis, stock market volatility, geopolitical headwinds, and demographic challenges."With China's population facing rapidly aging demographics, Chinese households are trying to boost their retirement savings at a time when real estate and equity markets have been…
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Data Machina #239
27 May

Data Machina #239

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The Power of Truly Open Source AI. The spin doctors of some big closed-AI companies have been busy inflating the “AGI is here soon, AGI will be an existential risk” bubble. But that thankfully that is deflating quickly, and backfiring somehow. In the meantime, the open source AI community is stubbornly embarked upon releasing truly open source, efficient, smallish, powerful AI models that match or beat the closed AI models from big companies. The reaction from these big closed AI companies: “Oh! open source AI models are dangerous, we need to regulate open source AI. And btw: We’re dropping the…
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Air Force Secretary: Military needs AI to augment human capabilities
27 May

Air Force Secretary: Military needs AI to augment human capabilities

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military needs to rapidly adopt artificial intelligence technology to aid in tracking targets, data analysis and managing complex missions, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall said Dec. 2 at the Reagan National Defense Forum. Speaking on a panel at the annual forum in Simi Valley, California, Kendall touted AI as an essential technology needed to strengthen U.S. national defense capabilities.  Although AI has become an integral part of our today’s business across many industries, its use in military systems has raised concerns about unintended outcomes and escalation of an AI arms race. Kendall argued that when associated…
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New study finds AI-generated empathy has its limits
27 May

New study finds AI-generated empathy has its limits

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Conversational agents (CAs) such as Alexa and Siri are designed to answer questions, offer suggestions -- and even display empathy. However, new research finds they do poorly compared to humans when interpreting and exploring a user's experience. CAs are powered by large language models (LLMs) that ingest massive amounts of human-produced data, and thus can be prone to the same biases as the humans from which the information comes. Researchers from Cornell University, Olin College and Stanford University tested this theory by prompting CAs to display empathy while conversing with or about 65 distinct human identities. The team found that…
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