Technology

OpenAI says Musk wanted to merge with Tesla or take control

OpenAI said Wednesday it intends to dismiss all claims made by Elon Musk in a recent lawsuit and suggested that the billionaire entrepreneur didn’t really have that much impact on its development and success. In a blog post, the Microsoft-backed startup revealed that since its inception in 2015, it had raised less than $45 million from Musk, despite his initial commitment to provide as much as $1 billion in funding. “Elon wanted us to merge with Tesla or he wanted full control,” OpenAI wrote.

Source: OpenAI says Musk only ever contributed $45 million, wanted to merge with Tesla or take control | TechCrunch

The EU’s new competition rules are going live — here’s how tech giants are responding

The EU has designated six companies as gatekeepers, which it defines as large digital platforms providing “core” services like app stores, search engines, and web browsers. The DMA’s restrictions apply to specific services within these companies: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft. Here’s what each has been doing to meet — and fight — those demands.

Source: The EU’s new competition rules are going live — here’s how tech giants are responding

The AI bassist: Sony’s vision for a new paradigm in music production

In a recent paper posted on the arXiv preprint server, researcher Marco Pasini and his colleagues Stefan Lattner and Maarten Grachten at Sony CSL, introduced a new latent diffusion model that can create realistic and effective bass accompaniments for musical tracks. Diffusion models are deep learning techniques that can learn to generate images, audio or other samples that capture the overall structure underlying a dataset.

Source: The AI bassist: Sony’s vision for a new paradigm in music production

Media Insider: Will AI Wipe Out The Canadian Film And TV industry?

The ability of Canadian locations to stand in for American ones is a critical element in our own movie and TV industry. It brings billions of production dollars north of the 49th parallel. But if it suddenly becomes cheaper to stay in L.A. and use AI to create your location, rather than physically move to a “stand-in” location, our film and TV industry will dry up almost instantly.

Source: Media Insider: Will AI Wipe Out The Canadian Film And TV industry?

Disney Working to Get Streaming Platforms on Technical Par With Netflix, Iger Says

Disney CEO Bob Iger acknowledged the company is behind Netflix in terms of technical capabilities — and that it’s in the process of catching up. “When we launched Disney+ in 2019, our goal was to have basically robust video experiences at scale,” Iger said. “What we didn’t have was the technology that we needed to basically lower customer acquisition and retention cost, to essentially grow our margins by reducing marketing expenses.”

Source: Disney Working to Get Streaming Platforms on Technical Par With Netflix, Iger Says: ‘We Need to Be at Their Level’

Google’s AI problems expose deeper industry dilemma

The political crisis surrounding Google AI chatbot and image generator Gemini, which refused to depict white people and changed the race of certain white historical figures, reflects a bigger dilemma facing consumer AI companies. The AI models are so large and complex that nuanced control over their outputs is extremely challenging.

Source: Google’s AI problems expose deeper industry dilemma

OpenAI’s Sora isn’t even here yet, and it’s already rattling Hollywood

After a year of rapid evolution following the public debut of ChatGPT, it began to seem as if AI had lost its ability to shock. Then came the Sora demo. In a February 16 unveiling, OpenAI’s text-to-video model instantly produced vivid, photorealistic scenes from complicated prompts, stunning viewers around the world—especially in Hollywood.

Source: OpenAI’s Sora isn’t even here yet, and it’s already rattling Hollywood.

Morph Studio lets you make films using Stability AI–generated clips

Morph Studio, which has its own text-to-video model, just introduced an AI filmmaking platform. The eponymous tool takes the form of a storyboard, where users can create and edit shots by entering text prompts for different scenes and combine them into a cohesive narrative. Undergirding the creation process is Morph’s partnership with Stability AI, though eventually, Morph plans to introduce an array of generative video models for users to choose from.

Source: Morph Studio lets you make films using Stability AI–generated clips | TechCrunch

OpenAI claims New York Times ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit

OpenAI said in a filing in Manhattan federal court on Monday that the Times caused the technology to reproduce its material through “deceptive prompts that blatantly violate OpenAI’s terms of use.” “The allegations in the Times’s complaint do not meet its famously rigorous journalistic standards,” OpenAI said. “The truth, which will come out in the course of this case, is that the Times paid someone to hack OpenAI’s products.”

Source: OpenAI claims New York Times ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to build copyright lawsuit

$542M Apple EU Fine Set for March 5th Announcement: Report

The Apple EU fine, stemming from an antitrust complaint submitted by Spotify, will reportedly be announced on March 5th. Besides the fine, the Commission will reportedly order Apple to axe the allegedly unlawful practices at hand, which it appears will be addressed by the Digital Markets Act (DMA) next month in any event. Tech mainstays including Apple have until the 7th to comply with that law, though the specifics associated with this compliance are eliciting pushback from Spotify.

Source: $542M Apple EU Fine Set for March 5th Announcement: Report

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