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| Here's a rundown of today's AI briefing: - A federal judge has dismissed most copyright claims in favor of generative AI firms.
- Web traffic to ChatGPT ticked up in September following a summer lull.
- AMD projects $2B in sales next year from its GPU designed for AI tasks.
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| 1 | | A federal judge has dismissed the majority of copyright claims filed by several artists against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt. Reports described it as an early victory for the generative AI firms, which are accused of copyright infringement by using the artists' works to train AI. More: - The three artists alleged that the companies used their copyrighted images to train Stability AI's text-to-image AI generator, Stable Diffusion, without gaining consent.
- Judge William H. Orrick said he could not find enough evidence of direct infringements by the AI image companies.
- Orrick noted that two of the plaintiff artists did not actually copyright their works.
- While dismissing the suits against Midjourney and DeviantArt, Orrick permitted one infringement complaint against Stability AI to move forward.
- He said the artists could still file an amended complaint against Midjourney and DeviantArt, which both use Stability's technology.
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| 2 | | ChatGPT's global web traffic made a comeback in September, rising to 1.5 billion for the month after a decline in August, according to the latest Similarweb data. 
By the numbers: Traffic to chat.openai.com in the past week is now 10% of its April peak levels globally and 4% in the U.S. ChatGPT reached its peak with 1.8 billion global visits in May but dipped to 1.4 billion by August. In September, it rebounded to approximately 1.5 billion visits and could go as high as 1.7 billion in October, based on recent data. What it means: ChatGPT remains the top AI chat product, surpassing Bing.com in global traffic. The recovery was attributed to factors like OpenAI's product improvements and students returning to the platform for homework help. | | | |
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| 3 | | AMD projects $2B in sales in 2024 from its GPU designed for AI tasks. The company's generative AI accelerator, the MI300x, will compete against market leader Nvidia in the AI chip market. More: - MI300x excels in supporting AI applications such as large language models (LLMs).
- On Tuesday, AMD unveiled its first-ever 2024 sales forecasts for the MI300 chip to investors.
- CEO Lisa Su expects its data center GPU revenue to reach around $400M in Q4 and surpass $2B in 2024 as it steadily rises throughout the year.
- Su mentioned that several major hyperscale customers have committed to adopting MI300 chips.
- Nvidia currently dominates the AI computing market with 80%-95% market share, as reported by analysts.
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| 4 | | The Guardian media company has accused OpenAI of hurting its reputation with an AI-generated poll about a woman's death. The "AI Insights" poll ran next to a Guardian article and asked readers to vote on what they believed was the woman's cause of death. More: - The poll ran within Microsoft Start, the company's news aggregator platform.
- While Microsoft later removed the poll, The Guardian Media Group has urged Microsoft to publicly acknowledge its role in hosting the survey.
- Some reader comments expressed anger and blamed the journalists of the original article.
- Guardian CEO Anna Bateson called it "clearly an inappropriate use of genAI by Microsoft on a potentially distressing public interest story."
- She asked for Microsoft's assurance not to use experimental technologies with Guardian-licensed journalism without explicit approval.
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| 5 | Olive AI, a healthcare AI automation firm, is selling its assets and closing down, Axios reports. The Ohio company offered AI-powered software, acting as a "digital employee," to automate certain hospital tasks. More: - Now, Olive AI has sold off its remaining core business units, Waystar and Humata Health, with plans to wind down its operations.
- Over the years, the company raised nearly $850M from investors like Vista Equity Partners, Dragoneer Investment Group, General Catalyst, and Sequoia Capital.
- In 2017, Olive introduced its machine-learning bot for hospital administration, which automates repetitive back-office tasks like insurance coverage checks.
- Olive reached a valuation of $4B in July 2021 following a $400M funding round.
- In February 2023, the company cut 35% of its workforce after laying off 450 employees in October due to unfulfilled promises of hospital savings.
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