OpenAI and Microsoft have been experiencing a rocky relationship lately. Despite Microsoft owning almost 50% of OpenAI, tension has arisen due to Microsoft’s incorporation of GPT-4 into Bing search without further training, as warned by OpenAI. This led to odd behavior, with bots arguing with users and even suggesting users elope with Bing instead of their partners! Furthermore, Microsoft’s internal AI projects have been overlooked in favor of OpenAI. Although the two are working together, they also appear to be working against each other.
Meanwhile, Toyota has announced its electric vehicle (EV) range will reach 621 miles or 1,000 kilometers. As part of their commitment to EVs, Toyota has been reassuring supporters about the safety of EVs while still advocating for hydrogen.
In other news, Sir Paul McCartney is set to release a song called If You Love Me. Recorded with the help of AI, the song was extracted from a trove of John Lennon demos used in the mid-’90s to make Free as a Bird and Real Love, but electrical interference rendered Lennon’s vocals unusable. The inspiration for the extraction came from the use of AI to extract clean dialog audio from the studio noise in Get Back, a Peter Jackson film.
In the gaming industry, Embracer Group, a publisher that owns franchises such as Borderlands, Homeworld, TimeSplitters, Tomb Raider, and The Lord of the Rings, experienced financial difficulties after an unnamed deal reportedly worth $2 billion fell through in May. While the group announced it would still release several games, a few games remain unannounced and looming mass layoffs may be a possibility.
Finally, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman is still facing backlash after he said the API protests would pass. Despite several communities going dark and the public outcry, Huffman maintains that Reddit’s revenue would be unaffected. Community leaders have pledged to continue protesting, with one user inviting Reddit’s leadership to f- around and find out.
