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The news publisher’s copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and its investor Microsoft over ChatGPT’s use of New York Times material will have a huge impact on how generative AI plays out.

Last week, the New York Times filed a 69-page complaint against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of New York. In what could turn out to be a landmark case at the intersection of publishing, internet, AI, copyright law and democracy, NYT contends “that millions of articles published by The Times were used to train automated chatbots that now compete with the news outlet as a source of reliable information”.
This shouldn’t come as a surprise—OpenAI’s GPT-4 is one of the largest generative AI models known to humankind and it has been trained on trillions of data …
The UAE is looking at its first public listing of the year while Egypt just delivered a big one; OpenAI’s bugging accused has ties to Saudi Arabia; and other updates from the week.
The arrest and charges against an employee of the artificial intelligence company, fewer early-stage VC deals, and other updates.