OpenAI has been accused of accidentally deleting potential evidence in a copyright lawsuit brought by The New York Times and Daily News. The AI company had agreed to provide two virtual machines for the publishers' counsel to search for copyrighted content in its AI training sets, but it's alleged that OpenAI engineers erased all the publishers' search data stored on one of the machines. Meanwhile, AI-based study tools are capitalizing on a TikTok trend, and Instagram Threads is rolling out a new feature to compete with Bluesky.
Key takeaways:
- The U.S. Department of Justice has argued that Google should sell off its Chrome browser to help break up the company's illegal monopoly in online search.
- Anthropic has raised an additional $4 billion from Amazon and has agreed to make Amazon Web Services the primary place it'll train its flagship generative AI models.
- OpenAI accidentally deleted potential evidence in The New York Times and Daily News’ copyright lawsuit, according to lawyers for the publishers.
- AI-based study tools are capitalizing on a “PDF to Brainrot” trend, in which the text of a document you upload is read to you in a monotone voice over “oddly satisfying” vertical videos.