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Amazon vs. Trader Joe’s; Bill Gates still a force at Microsoft; Inside the Binance founder’s sentencing

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This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we discuss Amazon’s efforts to compete with Trader Joe’s , and the related tactics revealed in “The Everything War,” the new book by Dana Mattioli of the Wall Street Journal. We also revisit last week’s episode with Mattioli and share some of the reactions to the discussion.

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NYT v. GPT: Microsoft finds itself on the other side of an industry-defining copyright dispute

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The newspaper’s lawsuit this week against Microsoft and OpenAI asks a federal judge to order the destruction of all AI large language models trained on its copyrighted material. ’s lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI this week. against Microsoft and OpenAI in federal court in New York City on Wednesday.

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Microsoft announces AI newsroom projects with Semafor and others, as NYT lawsuit looms

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Microsoft will work with several news organizations to explore and implement new applications of generative artificial intelligence in newsrooms and business operations. Microsoft declined to disclose the amount of funding it’s providing for any of the projects.

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Microsoft reaches a key milestone in its quest to build a quantum supercomputer

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This Microsoft illustration depicts a future quantum supercomputer operating in an Azure data center. Nadella as far back in 2017 was identifying quantum computing, virtual and augmented reality and artificial intelligence as the three technologies he believed at the time were most likely to shape the future.

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The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft for training AI chatbots on its copyrighted work

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The newspaper accused OpenAI and Microsoft of “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works.” The suit , filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of “using The Times’s content without payment to create products that substitute for The Times and steal audiences away from it.”

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Putting the AI in domains: Why the new era of artificial intelligence inspires this startup founder

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He created the domain and business name finder using tools including the GPT-3 natural language processing technology from ChatGPT maker OpenAI, which this week announced a new investment from its partner Microsoft. Smartynames generates a list of available domain names from free-form descriptions of businesses and projects.

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Microsoft Is Switching Out MSN's Contract Journalists for AI

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Dozens of contract journalists at Microsoft’s MSN and Microsoft News organizations are being phased out in favor of artificial intelligence, according to multiple reports this week. Read more.