Elon Musk sues OpenAI again, alleging ‘deceit of Shakespearean proportions’

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1. Elon Musk sues OpenAI again, alleging ‘deceit of Shakespearean proportions’

Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, for allegedly manipulating him into co-founding the artificial intelligence company. Musk claims the case is a "textbook tale of altruism versus greed", repeating allegations in his previous suit that his former co-founders betrayed him by turning the company from a non-profit into a largely for-profit enterprise.

OpenAI denied the allegations, pointing to previous blogposts about Musk's initial lawsuit. The new lawsuit also includes allegations of federal racketeering laws and wire fraud.

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2. AI chip startup Groq raises $640 million in BlackRock-led round

Groq, a startup specializing in AI models, raised $640 million in Series D funding at a $2.8 billion valuation, led by BlackRock funds. The company's "language processing unit" (LPU) is faster and cost-effective compared to conventional graphics processing units.

The company focuses on selling cloud services to AI developers over selling its chips to customers. Groq expects to deploy over 100,000 chips by Q1 2021 and 1.5 million by 2025, and hopes to break even on its chips in less than two years.

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3. Amazon upgrades its AI image generator

Amazon has released an upgraded version of its Titan Image Generator model, Titan Image Generator v2, for AWS customers using its Bedrock generative AI platform. The new model offers new capabilities such as image guidance, editing existing visuals, removing backgrounds, and generating variations of images.

It can intelligently detect and segment multiple foreground objects, generate color-conditioned images based on a color palette, and shape creations using image conditioning.

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4. Reddit CEO teases AI search features and paid subreddits

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman announced plans to test AI-powered search results later this year, aiming to help users explore products, shows, games, and new communities. The company will use both first-party and third-party models. Huffman also suggested that search could be a significant source of advertising revenue for Reddit.

He also suggested that the platform might experiment with paywalled subreddits to monetize new features. Reddit has been expanding its business since going public, signing multi-million-dollar licensing deals with Google and OpenAI, and blocking search engines that aren't paying the company.

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5. Scientist Claims His AI Can Tell Disturbing Things About You Just by Looking at Your Face

Stanford University psychologist Michal Kosinski claims that AI can accurately detect intelligence, sexual preferences, and political leanings by scanning a person's face. However, Kosinski's research raises ethical questions, as it is not a high-tech version of phrenology. He believes his work is a warning to policymakers about the potential dangers of his research and similar work by others.

Kosinski's research has critical implications for privacy and civil liberties, but it can also feel like a Pandora Box, with many use cases and potential discrimination tools. The models are not 100% accurate, which could lead to people being wrongly targeted. Kosinski's research could be a recipe for disaster, as it has already been used in discriminatory practices, such as misgendering Olympic athletes.

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