Thursday’s AI Report
• 1. ⚖️ Meta makes it 2–0 for AI lawsuits?
• 2. ✅ Get SOC 2 compliant with Scytale
• 3. 🌍 How Microsoft cut 2hrs p/d, with AI
• 4. 👑 Schedule your AI audit with Upscaile
• 5. ⚙️ Trending AI tools
• 6. ⏳ Bernie Sanders demands 4-day week
• 7. 🏃♂️ OpenAI loses talent to Meta
• 8. 📑 Recommended resources
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Meta makes it 2–0 for AI lawsuits?
🚨 Our Report
US Federal Judge, Judge Vince Chhabria, has dismissed an AI copyright infringement lawsuit—filed against Meta by a group of 13 authors who accused Meta of illegally training its AI models on their copyrighted books, without permission—calling it “fair use.”
🔓 Key Points
Judge Chhabria found “no evidence” that Meta, by using these books for AI training, would produce “a product that would flood the market with similar works, causing market dilution,” which would be a copyright violation.
Meta was delighted with the ruling, claiming that "AI models are powering transformative innovations…and fair use of copyright material is vital for building this transformative technology."
This comes after yesterday, another Judge ruled that it was “fair use” for Anthropic—which was slapped with a similar copyright lawsuit to Meta—to train its AI models on legally purchased books, as it was “transformative.”
🔐 Relevance
However, despite the double-success for the tech industry, Judge Chhabria made it clear that his decision to dismiss Meta’s lawsuit didn’t mean that all AI training using copyrighted material was “fair use” and, therefore, legal. He said, in this case, the authors simply “made the wrong arguments” and didn’t provide enough evidence to support the right ones. His judgment on “fair use” will be given on a case-by-case basis, and certain “types of works (like news articles) might be even more vulnerable to indirect competition from AI outputs.”
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How Microsoft cut 2hrs p/d, with AI
Microsoft’s engineering team was facing coding inefficiencies, which were slowing down feature development and extending engineering cycles.
They integrated GitHub Copilot—Microsoft’s AI-paired programming tool, which suggests code snippets and writes entire functions, in real-time
As a result, the engineering team spent 55% less time jumping between different jobs and tools, helping them complete project tasks quicker.
Plus, they experienced 30% quicker function development, and overall, saved 1–2 hours p/d, per developer.
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US Senator Bernie Sanders believes that the productivity gains and time savings AI brings to companies mean they should give their employees a 4-day working week instead of “throwing them out onto the street.”
He argues that this is “not a radical idea” as there are companies around the world already doing it successfully: 61 UK companies trialed a 4-day workweek and found that revenue rose by 1.4%.
Plus, Microsoft tried it in 2019, in Japan, and found it increased productivity by 40%, leaving Sanders to raise the question: “If AI is as powerful as they say…why not use it to benefit workers?”
Should AI productivity gains mean a 4-day workweek?
Last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman outed Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg for trying to poach his staff with WhatsApps and $100M compensation packages, declaring that none of his “best people” had accepted.
However, three of OpenAI’s researchers from its Zurich office— Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, and Xiaohua Zhai—appear to have succumbed to Zuckerberg’s tactics and have joined Meta’s superintelligence team.
Zuckerberg is on a major hiring spree to build up his superintelligence team, having recently hired Scale AI’s CEO, Alexandr Wang for $14B, making him one of the tech industry’s priciest hires ever.
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