Welcome to Week 29 of the Data Happier newsletter, from Dappier team! 🥳

AI News 📰

Robots in the Wild 🤖

• Reuters has scored a major win in the fight over AI & copyright concerns when it comes to data access. The initial ruling of a lawsuit between the firm and AI legal org Ross Intelligence found that AI data access did not fall under ‘Fair Use’. - source
  

• More AI protests abound. Leading auction house Christie’s is facing an online petition protesting an upcoming auction in NY dedicated solely to selling AI art. - source

  • After a viral AI video showed Jewish celebrities like Jerry Seinfeld & Mark Zuckerberg condemning recent tweets by Kanye West, Scarlett Johansson - who previously took issue with ChatGPT voices seemingly inspired by her own role in the film Her - put out a statement calling for US legislators to limit AI deepfakes. - source
    

• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt pushed for western western countries to focus on building open-source AI in an interview with The Financial times, in response to the success of Chinese startup DeepSeek’s recent launch of open-source model R1. - source

News That Even AI Couldn’t Hallucinate 🌎

Not everything in the news can be about AI. Here’s some stuff you should know about:

• Sam Altman has hit back at Elon Musk in response to the latter’s attempts a $97.4B hostile takeover of OpenAI, saying “I wish he would just compete by building a better product.” - source

• Much of our AI reporting this week comes from Paris! The AI Action Summit just took place there, with speakers ranging from tech leaders to world leaders. One major detail? EU leaders unveiled “InvestAI”, a $200 Billion AI investment program. - source

• Trump claims the war in Ukraine will end soon, though new Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth seemingly warned that the US will pressure Ukraine to make significant concessions to Russia. All this occurs as it seems more and more likely that war might re-ignite in Gaza. - source

Dappier Updates 🛠️

• Last week we talked about how CAMEL community’s new cookbook demonstrating how to build a Dynamic Travel Planner using Dappier’s real-time data models. Here’s a closer look!

  

• We also published some new blogs, capturing the latest news in AI

  • Want to know about The US Copyright Office’s latest AI Report? Here’s an explainer.

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• Adobe is making their AI video editor - and Sora competitor - free for everyone. Now anyone can create high quality 5-second AI videos for free with the excitingly-named ‘Generate Video’. - source

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