Leo's Lightbulbs

Hello everyone and welcome to Leo’s Lightbulbs! I’ll be covering the top news from the past week every Monday morning in your inbox. This newsletter was written completely by hand, without any AI assistance or even AI editing.

The big news this week is OpenAI’s 2+ acquisitions. Am I the only one concerned about monopolies here? Also, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati doesn’t seem to understand how creativity works, which is terrifying. We need more companies big in AI, and need some to be non-US companies as well.

💡Music AIs Suno and Udio AI sued by major music labels for infringement

💡OpenAI acquires data storage and retrieval company Rockset

💡OpenAI acquires remote collaboration company Multi, days after their Rockset acquisition

💡OpenAI CTO Mira Murati doesn’t seem to understand how creativity works, which is terrifying

💡Amazon building their own ChatGPT-style chatbot from scratch

💡Is AI’s electricity use overhyped?

💡Companies are sneaking AI training into updated terms & conditions and privacy policies without alerting users

💡NBC will use AI Michael Phelps to provide customized daily olympics recaps for viewers

💡Al Michaels reacts to AI Al Michaels who will also be voicing the olympics

💡OpenAI is using an adversarial AI named CriticGPT to help with RLHF (real life human feedback) of ChatGPT-4o’s outputs

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