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The Wall Street Journal reports that The Verge’s parent company, Vox Media, and other publishers like Conde Nast, Forbes Media, and Politico filed a copyright and trademark infringement lawsuit (pdf) against the enterprise AI company Cohere. They say evidence shows Cohere uses unlicensed copies of content to directly compete with publishers, and they list 4,000 specific examples of “verbatim regurgitations and substitutional summaries of news content.”
On the Decoder podcast, we recently discussed similar media lawsuits against AI firms and spoke to Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez last summer.
[wsj.com]
Now that a Chinese startup has captured a lot of the AI buzz, what happens next?
The ChatGPT boss says of his company, “we will obviously deliver much better models and also it’s legit invigorating to have a new competitor,” then, naturally, turns the conversation to AGI.
Already riding a wave of hype over its R1 “reasoning” AI that is atop the app store charts and shifting the stock market, Chinese startup DeepSeek has released another new open-source AI model: Janus-Pro.
Input image analysis is limited to 384x384 resolution, but the company says the largest version, Janus-Pro-7b, beat comparable models on two AI benchmark tests.
Correction: As TechCrunch notes, Janus-Pro image input is listed as limited to low resolution, not its output.
In an X post announcing the change yesterday, the company also said that Canvas, its ChatGPT coding helper feature, now has the ability to render HTML and React code.
OpenAI added that Canvas has rolled out to the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS.
Last fall, Megan Garcia sued Character.AI, its founders, and Google over the death by suicide of her 14-year-old son, who had chatted continuously with its bots, including just before his death. In December, the firm added safety measures aimed at teens and concerns over addiction.
TechCrunch reports that Character.ai has filed a motion to dismiss the case, which you can read in full here.
In this interview clip that 404 Media spotted, CEO Mikey Shulman, who runs bad AI song generator Suno, says that “it’s not really enjoyable to make music now.”
Having lost countless nights to it, and considering my days in recording studios were some of the best of my life, Shulman seems to be either flatly lying or has no idea what he’s talking about.
More developers can now access Microsoft’s AI coding assistance tool that’s been on a waitlist since its debut in April last year, company CEO Satya Nadella announced in a LinkedIn post on Sunday.
GitHub developers can go here to try it out.
Dexcom’s Stelo continuous glucose monitor (CGM) for those with Type 2 diabetes is starting to use generative AI to write weekly reports with “more personalized tips, recommendations, and education related to diet, exercise, and sleep” than the template previously used.
CNBC:
Stelo’s AI reports don’t give users medical advice, though Dexcom has been using an AI framework from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help guide the feature’s development, [Dexcom COO Jake] Leach said.
In a post announcing waitlist sign-ups for its Veo 2 video model, Google says the next version “brings an improved understanding of real-world physics and the nuances of human movement and expression.”
OpenAI’s Sora notably struggles with physics, so it will be interesting to compare the results of Veo 2 when we eventually get access.
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