Good Morning! Microsoft has stepped down from its observer role on OpenAI's board, marking a significant shift in their partnership dynamics. At Amazon's New York Summit, new AI tools were unveiled, aimed at making AI more accessible to a broader audience. Meanwhile, a California judge dismissed most claims in a major lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, impacting the future of copyright law as it pertains to AI-generated code. SCROLL DOWN BELOW FOR A GIVEAWAY ↓

— Forrest Knight & Meghanadh Vasireddy

Microsoft Leaves OpenAI Board Seat

What Happened: Microsoft stepped down from its observer role on OpenAI's board. They got this spot in November 2023 when OpenAI had big leadership changes.

Why It Matters:

• Microsoft says OpenAI is now running better on its own

• This comes while the FTC is looking into their partnership

Instead of having partners watch board meetings, OpenAI will now have regular catch-ups with key players like Microsoft and Apple. They'll share updates on what they're working on.

This change could lead to OpenAI making more choices on its own. It might shake up how AI grows and how big tech companies work together.

For Developers: If you work with AI, keep an eye on this. It could mean new ways of building AI and different kinds of tech team-ups in the future.

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AWS Reveals New AI Tools at NYC Event

Amazon showed off new AI tools at their New York Summit. These tools help more people use AI in their work, no matter their skill level.

AWS App Studio lets you make AI apps by just describing what you want. It's still in testing but looks promising for non-coders.

Amazon Q Apps is now ready for everyone. It helps create AI apps using your company's own information.

For machine learning experts, Amazon Q Developer is now part of SageMaker Studio. It helps with AI tasks throughout the whole process of making machine learning models.

Amazon Bedrock got several upgrades:

• You can now tweak the Claude 3 Haiku model to fit your needs

• It connects to more types of company data

• AI Agents got smarter and can remember past conversations

• It's better at spotting when AI makes up wrong information

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GitHub Copilot Lawsuit: Big Copyright Claims Thrown Out

A judge in California has rejected most claims in the big lawsuit against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI about the AI coding helper GitHub Copilot. This decision weakens arguments that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) protects against AI learning from copyrighted code.

Main points:

• The judge said Copilot's code wasn't similar enough to the developers' work to break copyright rules

• Claims that Copilot broke DMCA rules by removing copyright info were thrown out for good

• Only two claims are left: possible open-source license breaking and contract breaking

This ruling suggests courts might not see AI-made code as easily breaking copyright. It also shows it's hard for people suing to prove AI tools make code that's exactly the same as copyrighted code.

While this decision doesn't make a firm rule, it will likely affect other cases about AI and code use in the future.

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🔥 More Notes

• Anthropic adds prompt evaluation feature to Console

• The 3D printed rover developed by the European Space Agency ExoMy is now opensource.

• SoftBank acquires UK AI chipmaker Graphcore

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