Microsoft has reaffirmed its ban on U.S. police departments from using generative AI for facial recognition through Azure OpenAI Service, the company’s fully managed, enterprise-focused wrapper around OpenAI tech. Language added Wednesday to the terms of service for Azure OpenAI Service more obviously prohibits integrations with Azure OpenAI Service from being used “by or for” […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
The US Department of State mentioned Azerbaijan’s offensive against Nagorno Karabakh in September 2023, the closure of the Lachin corridor and the arrest of ethnic Armenian officials in the 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices. “On September 19-20, Azerbaijan conducted a military operation to gain full control over Nagorno-Karabakh. Since December 2022, Azerbaijan had …
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While OpenAI & Microsoft partner up with media, 8 local newspapers in the US sue the AI giants over alleged copyright violations.
It turns out the lay of today’s AI landscape can be traced back to — what do you know — fear, jealousy and intense capitalist ambition. Emails revealed in the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google, first reported by Business Insider, show Microsoft executives expressing alarm and envy over Google’s AI lead. That spurred an urgency that led to the Windows maker’s initial billion-dollar investment in its now-indispensable partner, OpenAI. In a heavily redacted 2019 email thread...
In a new Code of Conduct update, Microsoft lays out more explicit prohibitions against law enforcement agencies using AI for facial recognition.
Eight US news publishers on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against software firm Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI for copyright infringement in training their generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) models using proprietary material. It comes months after The New York Times took the companies to court for similar reasons. ET explains the case and the trend globally.Who are the plaintiffs this time?The newspapers involved in the suit are the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the Orlando...
Eight newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital’s MediaNews Group are reportedly suing Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that the tech companies used the newspapers’ content to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. The newspapers, which include the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, filed their suit in New York federal court on Tuesday (April 30), Reuters reported Tuesday. They allege that the two tech companies […]
The Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and others file suit saying the tech companies ‘purloin millions’ of articles without permissionA group of eight US newspapers is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging that the technology companies have been “purloining millions” of copyrighted news articles without permission or payment to train their artificial intelligence chatbots.The New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post and other papers filed the lawsuit on Tuesday in a New York...
Emails from the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google revealed how Microsoft executives were alarmed by and even envious of Google’s AI lead. In an email thread, CTO Kevin Scott wrote he was “very, very worried” about Google’s rapidly growing AI capabilities. He said he initially dismissed the company’s “game-playing stunts,” likely referring to Google’s AlphaGo models. The emails reference Gmail’s autocomplete features, which execs called “scary good.” Microsoft struggled to...
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. After weeks of drawn-out congressional debate over how much the United States should spend on conflicts abroad, President Joe Biden signed a $95.3 billion aid package into…
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