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 Our picks 

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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon and others sue OpenAI.⁷¹⁹ The group of writers has sued OpenAI on the basis of using their works via Project Gutenberg and other shadow libraries to train ChatGPT without their permission.

PS: OpenAI has acquires the domain Chatgpt.com³³⁹. It redirects to ChatGPT now (source¹⁶⁹).

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Salesforce expands AI offerings at their annual conference. Einstein Copilot³⁴⁴ embeds the ability to ask questions in the context of whatever users are doing, regardless of product. (A step up from previously announced EinstienGPT)

The new Einstein Copilot Studio³⁵⁵ will allow companies to build custom prompts (prompt builder) and workflows (skill builder). The assistants run on the new Einstein 1 Platform, which connects AI models to enterprise data through the enhanced Data Cloud.

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New benchmarks from MLCommons¹⁶⁶ test hardware entries from different companies. Nvidia’s H100s performed best on a 6B-parameter LLM that summarizes CNN articles. Intel’s Gaudi2 is second (10% slower than Nvidia). Reuters coverage¹⁰³ on results, previews, and cost of chips.

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 Cool Tools  trending product launches from the last 24 hours

• Spence^350† by Kindbuds - AI-Driven HR Bot for resume and cover letter optimization.

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• TimeOS AI³²³ - Time-aware AI for meeting notes & scheduling.

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• Summit^662† - Life coach that helps you achieve your goals.

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 Ben’s Bites News  top posts from the last 24 hours

• The global race to set the rules for AI¹⁶² risks ending up with countless red tapes.

• Pivot to AI:^329† Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

• Bucharest-based Druid raised $30M¹⁵⁹ for providing conversational AI service to companies.

• Databricks burns $1.5 Billion²⁸⁴ to buy growth.

• Gmail and Instagram are training AI^342†, and there’s little you can do about it.

• Enfabrica raises $125M⁷², it builds networking hardware to drive AI workloads.

• A neural network can smell like humans²⁴⁵ do for the first time!

• China sows disinformation²⁵⁹ about Hawaii Fires using AI.

• Retrieval augmented generation^207† at planet scale.

• SQream calls in $45M⁶⁵ to expand its GPU-based big data analytics platform.

• How to run a competitive AI startup fundraise³¹⁶ in 2023.

• China AI and semiconductors rise - US sanctions have failed.¹⁶⁴

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