Microsoft could not pay a price for Apple to use Bing: that is, all of the spiciest parts of the ruling
Google’s VP of Search, Pandu Nayak, said in an interview that it’s vital for Google to continue to ” have an infrastructure that [it] understand[s] search product”, as per The New York Times. He added that if Google made search less attractive, the revenues from it would be fine. Google recently expanded the rule to Chrome browser on Android devices.
An Israeli influence campaign was trying to sway American lawmakers
Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Oren has said a social media campaign by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs “causes strategic damage” to the State of Israel in wartime. The campaign is being paid $2 million by Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs to influence Democratic members of the US Congress to maintain support for Israel, The New York Times reported.
There was a brief unavailability of artificial-generated Asians on social media
A report by The New York Times said a text generator by Meta, which lets users create images using artificial intelligence (AI), showed fake pictures of two Asian people. “I was curious if the problem was solved or if the system was still unable to create an accurate image of an Asian person and their white friend,” The New York Times said.
Silicon Valley is falling for frauds
FTX Co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was arrested in August this year, had told The New York Times before his arrest that he “didn’t ever try to commit fraud on anyone”. “I didn’t ever try to enter into a criminal enterprise,” he had said. Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty to seven counts including securities fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to launder money.
The content moderation dilemma should be solved by GPT-4
US-based OpenAI said it has received a lawsuit from The New York Times over its generative AI tool ChatGPT that serves users reports based on Times articles. It said the lawsuit could lead to an order from a federal judge to destroy ChatGPT’s dataset, forcing it to recreate it using only work authorised to be used. The lawsuit has been filed by The Times.