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In today's Techpresso:
🤷♂️ Microsoft’s AI boss says it’s OK to steal content if it’s on the open web
🤔 Amazon hires founders away from AI startup Adept
🏴☠️ Quora’s chatbot Poe allows users to download paywalled articles
🎁 + 5 other news you might like
🔮 + 3 handpicked research papers and tools
🤷♂️ Microsoft’s AI boss says it’s OK to steal content if it’s on the open webLINK
Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wrongly claims that any content published on the open web becomes "freeware" that anyone can freely copy and use.
Suleyman argues that the social contract since the '90s has been that content on the open web is fair use, refuting allegations of copyright theft in AI training.
Legal experts and the courts, not social contracts, determine fair use, and copyrighted work is automatically protected upon creation, conflicting with Suleyman's statements.
🤔 Amazon hires founders away from AI startup AdeptLINK
Amazon is enhancing its AI capabilities by hiring executives from Adept, a startup that automates enterprise workflows, including Adept co-founder and CEO David Luan and several other key team members.
Adept will continue to operate independently while Amazon licenses some of its technology to advance its Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) initiatives, led by long-time Amazon executive Rohit Prasad.
The hires and technology license aim to bolster Amazon's efforts in developing AI solutions like digital agents that automate software workflows, amidst ongoing competition and regulatory scrutiny in the AI space.
🏴☠️ Quora’s chatbot Poe allows users to download paywalled articlesLINK
Poe, a chatbot platform by Quora, allows users to download HTML files of articles from paywalled sources like The New York Times and Forbes by entering URLs into its Assistant bot. Legal experts express concerns that Poe's practice of copying and providing articles might constitute copyright infringement, though Quora argues it functions similarly to cloud storage and web clipper services. Quora disputes claims of copyright infringement, comparing Poe to cloud storage services, while publishers express outrage over the unauthorized access and reproduction of their content.
Other news you might like
Baidu unveils Ernie 4.0 Turbo in a ‘significant upgrade’ to its AI chatbot.LINK
Here comes a Meta Ray-Bans challenger with ChatGPT-4o and a camera.LINK
Mere days before its debut, the Ariane 6 rocket loses a key customer to SpaceX.LINK
NASA and Boeing deny Starliner crew is ‘stranded’: “We’re not in any rush to come home”.LINK
AI models can 'transcend' their training data, say researchers.LINK
Latest research and tools
ImHex: a hex editor designed for reverse engineers, programmers, and late-night coders, featuring a custom programming language for defining and highlighting file structures without straining the eyes.LINK
Category theory using string diagrams (2014): the paper explains how string diagrams can be used as a tool in category theory to simplify and visualize complex mathematical structures.LINK
Artificial Needles to Real Haystacks: improving retrieval capabilities in LLMs enhances how models find relevant information in large data sets.LINK
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