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This week, Roku played hardball with its customers, requiring them to consent to new dispute resolution terms.
And Elon Musk, the CEO of X, sued OpenAI over allegedly “betraying” its nonprofit mission.
NewsEpic takedown: Apple has terminated Epic Games’ App Store developer account, reportedly calling it a “threat” to the iOS ecosystem.
Musk money: Four former Twitter executives, including ex-CEO Parag Agrawal, sued Musk on Monday, alleging that they’re owed over $128 million in severance payments.
The lawsuit says that OpenAI has shifted to a for-profit model focused on commercializing its AGI research with Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company.
“This was a stark betrayal of the Founding Agreement.”The lawsuit follows Musk voicing displeasure with OpenAI’s shift in priorities in the past year.
For the first several years, Musk was the largest contributor to OpenAI, the lawsuit adds.
He alleges OpenAI and Microsoft have improperly licensed GPT-4 despite agreeing OpenAI’s AGI capabilities would remain non-profit and dedicated to humanity.
Musk is seeking to compel OpenAI to adhere to its original mission and bar from monetizing technologies developed under its non-profit for the benefit of OpenAI executives or partners like Microsoft.
We’ll publish several pieces throughout the year as the AI boom continues, highlighting key work that often goes unrecognized.
Mutale Nkonde is the founding CEO of the nonprofit AI For the People (AFP), which seeks to increase the amount of Black voices in tech.
It established AI for the People as a key thought leader around how to develop protocols to guide the design, deployment, and governance of AI systems that comply with local nondiscrimination laws.
There is so much work to be done on reskilling our workforce for a time when AI systems do low-stakes labor-saving tasks.
What information can they give us about how AI systems work and do not work from them, and how can we use these insights to make sure AI truly is for the People?
The TikTok Research API allows third-party developers to access and analyze the company’s data in order to create new apps and services. This expansion, which is limited to nonprofit academic…
