Bible Verses of the Day

3 For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. 5 We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ, 6 being ready to punish every disobedience, when your obedience is complete. [2 Corinthians 10:3-6, ESV]

What's in this week's issue?

• 😯 Newspapers sue Microsoft, OpenAI for using content to train AI

• 🤖 Microsoft partners with Sanctuary AI to build humanoid robots

• ⛅️ Easy Cloud News

• 📰 AI News

• 🧰 AI Tools

Eight newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital’s MediaNews Group are reportedly suing Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that the tech companies used the newspapers’ content to train artificial intelligence (AI) models. 

The newspapers, which include the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, filed their suit in New York federal court on Tuesday (April 30), Reuters reported Tuesday. 

They allege that the two tech companies copied millions of their articles to train Microsoft’s Copilot and OpenAI’s ChatGPT, adding that the AI systems reproduce the newspapers’ copyrighted content and that ChatGPT “hallucinates” articles and falsely attributes them to the newspapers, according to the report.

A lawyer for the MediaNews publications told Reuters that the defendants “think somehow they can get away with taking content” without payment or permission, per the report. 

Sanctuary AI and Microsoft will work together to bolster research and development into humanoid robotics, focusing on building Large Behavior Models (LBMs), which are similar to Large Language Models (LLMs) but help robots learn from real-world environments and experiences, as opposed to learning from computer simulations.

Sanctuary AI will bring their deep robotic development technical expertise and experience–which includes the development of their “robot brain”, called Carbon (powered by LBMs)--to the collaboration, and Microsoft will power the AI workloads–involving training, networking, and storage–with their Azure cloud resources.

Easy Cloud News

• 🌤️ Easy Cloud Solutions: Embracing the AI Revolution: Google Unveils Groundbreaking Generative AI at Google Cloud Next (link)

• ⛪️ Easy Cloud AI: Sermon Transcription Service for Pastors and Churches (link)

Listen or read the following transcript as Matt Chandler speaks on the topic of Worship from Colossians 3:1–16.

The following unedited transcript is provided by Beluga AI.

AI News

• 👀 Meta is testing an AI-powered search bar in Instagram (link)

• 📹️ Adobe Premiere Pro is getting generative AI video tools — and hopefully OpenAI’s Sora (link)

• 💪 Google’s new technique gives LLMs infinite context (link)

• 🧍‍♀️ Stanford news: Where generative AI meets human rights (link)

• 🩻 MIT News: New AI method captures uncertainty in medical images (link)

AI Tools

• 📈 ExcelMaster: AI assistant that handles real world Excel structure and solves complicated formula/VBA assignments (link)

• 🧑‍💼 Endorsed: The fastest way to diligently review job applicants (link)

• 🍃 Spinach: Takes notes so you can listen (link)

• 👋 Clee: Say goodbye to endless Googling and hello to instant answers (link)