OpenAI, Microsoft Lose Last Chance to Avoid Trial With Musk
Robert Burnson / bloomberg - OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft failed to escape a trial over Elon Musk’s claims that Sam Altman’s startup betrayed its founding mission as a public charity when it took billions in funding from a software giant and made plans to operate as a for-profit busines…
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Some of the largest AI players are now paying Wikipedia for the data they already use
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Wikipedia has signed Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity as paying partners for its Enterprise API, but not every website can offset the traffic losses caused by AI systems.The article Some of the largest AI players are now paying Wikipedi…
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Microsoft is Closing Its Employee Library and Cutting Back on Subscriptions
msmash / slashdot - An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft's library of books is so heavy that it once caused a campus building to sink, according to an unproven legend among employees. Now those physical books, journals, and reports, and many of Microsoft's digital …
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Wikipedia unveils new AI licensing deals as it marks 25th birthday
techxplore - Wikipedia unveiled new business deals with a slew of artificial intelligence companies on Thursday as it marked its 25th anniversary.
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