Microsoft accused of restricting compute
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Microsoft faced accusations that an exclusive cloud contract with OpenAI restricted compute supply and artificially raised AI prices, plaintiffs and industry critics said.
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An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.
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Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...
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AI will have all types of effects on skilled work, some bad some perhaps good, but everyone who cares about climate disruption needs to explicitly confront that ramping data centers *in the current economic model* (with the current people in charge) will only accelerate greenhouse gas emissions.
Two big changes to the precarity of the AI industry in the last year: (1) more and more companies are turning to debt to finance AI capex (see Meta, xAI, Oracle), and (2) OpenAI's flurry of deals in the past month are tying major companies to the fate of this startup
“OpenAI has chosen not to disclose the carbon footprint of ChatGPT-5, its most advanced AI model to date. […] The company does not have formally announced climate or sustainability targets.
Altman has also expressed that he thinks artificial intelligence will solve climate change.”
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Altman has also expressed that he thinks artificial intelligence will solve climate change.”
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