Are LLMs About To Hit A Wall? | Commentary
Each new generation of large language model (LLM) consumes a staggering amount of resources. Meta, for instance, trained its new Llama 3 models with about 10 times more data and 100 times more...
View ArticleChicago Tribune Owner Sues OpenAI, Microsoft for Training AI Without Permission
Eight newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital filed a lawsuit Tuesday against OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copyright violations by using articles to train AI. The owners of the...
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Elon Musk’s Plan For AI News | Commentary
Elon Musk emailed me this week with some surprising details about his plan to distill and present news on X using AI. I’d written him after trying Grok — X’s AI chatbot — and noticing it didn’t link...
View ArticleDotdash Meredith Inks Licensing Partnership With OpenAI
Dotdash Meredith, one of the largest digital publishers in the U.S., has signed a deal with OpenAI to license content for AI training, a diversion from the litigation tactics of other large publishers...
View ArticleTikTok Owner ByteDance Sues Federal Government Over US Ban of Social Media...
TikTok and parent company ByteDance sued the U.S. government in a Tuesday filing, saying a ban on the Chinese-owned social media platform violates the First Amendment rights of American users. “For...
View ArticleAI Copying Is Not The Same As Human Copying | Commentary
AI copyright litigation that will define media and entertainment industry economics for decades to come is winding its way through the courts. In all these infringement cases, essentially no one...
View ArticleHugh Grant, Justine Bateman and More Slam Apple for iPad Pro ‘Crush’ Ad:...
Apple’s latest ad “Crush!” sparked controversy through Hollywood and beyond after it dropped on Tuesday. A commercial for the new iPad Pro depicted media across the spectrum – movies, TV, books,...
View ArticleApple Admits Divisive ‘Crush’ iPad Pro Ad ‘Missed the Mark’: ‘Creativity Is...
Apple apologized Thursday for it’s viral “Crush” iPad Pro ad after it was ridiculed for being anti-art and representative of big tech’s “destruction of the human experience” (per Hugh Grant). In a...
View ArticleBumble Founder’s Dystopian Vision for the Future of Dating Is Straight From a...
Bumble founder Whitney Wolfe Herd is suggesting a dating future that sounds oddly similar to an episode of “Black Mirror.” In an interview with Bloomberg, Herd said that AI might start dating other’s...
View ArticlePlayStation Names Hideaki Nishino and Hermen Hulst as New CEOs
Sony Group Corporation and Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE), the company behind PlayStation, has announced a leadership change effective on June 1, 2024. Hideaki Nishino will be appointed CEO of...
View ArticleOpenAI Wants To Get Big Fast, and Four More Takeaways From a Wild Week in AI...
In a season of big AI news, few weeks have felt more significant than this one. OpenAI introduced its new GPT-4o model, Google unveiled a deeper AI vision, and Apple dropped more hints ahead of a...
View ArticleOpenAI Pulls ChatGPT Voice ‘Sky’ After Users Say It Sounds Like Scarlett...
OpenAI is pulling the ChatGPT voice known as Sky after users noted that the chatbot sounds incredibly similar to Scarlett Johansson. The AI company is putting the feature “on pause” but denies the...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson Gets Support From SAG-AFTRA and Actors Over OpenAI Voice...
SAG-AFTRA and more of Hollywood are standing behind Scarlett Johansson after she called out ChatGPT for allegedly cloning her voice for its “Sky” feature. On Monday, the “Her” actress issued a...
View Article‘Atlas’ Director Brad Peyton Didn’t Want to Say ‘AI Is All Bad’ in Jennifer...
When filmmaker Brad Peyton got the initial script for “Atlas,” his sci-fi epic starring Jennifer Lopez as a scientist marooned on an alien planet hunting for an evil AI terrorist (you know, that old...
View ArticleWashington Post Expands Use of AI After Losing $77 Million in Last Year
The Washington Post announced Wednesday that it registered a $77 million loss in the last year, according to publisher and chief executive Will Lewis. “To speak candidly,” Lewis told staffers gathered...
View ArticleScarlett Johansson’s Agent Tells OpenAI to ‘Slow Down’ to Ensure Products Get...
Scarlett Johansson’s agent Bryan Lourd — who was involved in discussions between the actress and OpenAI when she decided not to pursue the voice opportunity — urged the tech company to “slow down”...
View ArticleHow Shein and Temu Snuck Up on Amazon
In the fall of 2020, Amazon looked unstoppable. The pandemic lockdowns had supercharged its e-commerce business, and executives were busy hiring an army of new workers and expanding the number of...
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Litigate or License? News Publishers Struggle With Letting AI Have Their Content
News publishers are grappling with how to respond to Big Tech’s aggressive push into generative AI models that leverage decades of their news content without paying a dime. For many, the decision...
View ArticleAtlantic Union, ‘Alarmed’ by OpenAI Deal, Demands Management ‘Immediately’...
The Union representing staff at The Atlantic said Thursday it is “alarmed” by the magazine’s new licensing agreement with OpenAI, and is now demanding that management make the terms of this deal...
View ArticleNew York Magazine Union Is ‘Extremely’ Concerned Over Lack of Transparency in...
The union that represents Vox Media staffers demanded “transparency” Friday in response to the company’s new partnership with OpenAI, which the guild calls “extremely concerning.” On Wednesday, the...
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