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In today’s Daily Report:
🗑OpenAI Accidentally Deletes Evidence in Copyright Lawsuit
🧑🚒AI Detects Wildfires Before They Spread
⚙️DeepSeek Unveils Powerful “Reasoning AI”
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💰Funding Frontlines
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🗞RECENT NEWS
OPENAI
🗑OpenAI Accidentally Deletes Evidence in Copyright Lawsuit
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Lawyers for The New York Times (NYT) say OpenAI engineers accidentally deleted crucial training datasets that could’ve supported their case.
Key Details:
The NYT filed a lawsuit against OpenAI for illegally leveraging millions of copyrighted articles without permission to train AI models like ChatGPT.
Earlier this year, OpenAI agreed to provide two Virtual Machines for lawyers to conduct searches for copyrighted content in OpenAI’s training datasets.
A Virtual Machine is a digitized version of a physical computer that stores data, runs applications, and connects to networks.
The lawyers outlined how they spent over 150 hours searching the training datasets. Then, OpenAI engineers erased all the data stored on one of the Virtual Machines.
OpenAI tried to recover the training datasets and was somewhat successful. However, the folder formats and file names were “irretrievably” lost.
So, the recovered training datasets can’t be used to determine where the copyrighted articles “were used to build the AI models.”
Why It’s Important:
OpenAI maintains that training AI models using publicly available internet materials falls under Transformative Use: Adding new expression, meaning, or messaging to the original work.
OpenAI believes the AI models “learn” how to generate human-like text from the articles rather than directly copying them, meaning OpenAI isn’t required to license the articles.
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GOOGLE RESEARCH
🧑🚒AI Detects Wildfires Before They Spread
Google Research developed “FireSat,” an AI framework that detects and tracks wildfires with high-resolution satellite imagery for the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).
Key Details:
“FireSat” relies on a network of high-resolution satellites to capture images of the Earth’s surface every 20 minutes.
Then, it uses AI to compare the high-resolution satellite imagery with thousands of previous pictures of the same location to highlight any alarming changes.
“FireSat” can detect wildfires roughly the size of a classroom. If it detects anything, it sends real-time alerts to emergency responders outlining the wildfire’s size, location, and likelihood of spreading.
Why It’s Important:
The USFS currently uses low-resolution satellite images that update a few times a day, making it difficult to “detect fires smaller than a soccer field.”
“FireSat” helps USFS make informed decisions about resource allocation and evacuation plans to protect local communities and wildlife ecosystems.
AI RESEARCH
⚙️DeepSeek Unveils Powerful “Reasoning AI”
Image Source: DeepSeek API Docs/“DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview is Now Live: Unleashing Supercharged Reasoning Power!”/Screenshot
Chinese research firm DeepSeek just launched DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview, a powerful AI model that leverages a Reasoning Engine to excel in reasoning tasks.
Everyone is trying to make significant strides in developing AI models with advanced reasoning capabilities that solve complex problems using “a series of intermediate steps.”
This process requires a Reasoning Engine, which creates specific rules and training datasets that enable AI models to mimic a human’s decision-making capabilities and ability to apply logic to unseen scenarios.
In other words, a Reasoning Engine allows AI models to analyze information, draw conclusions, and solve problems based on the knowledge it’s been given, similar to how we might reason through a situation in our heads.
DeepSeek-R1-Lite-Preview’s initial scores on the Math Word Problem Solving (MATH) benchmark, which covers 12,500 algebra, geometry, and pre-calculus problems, beat OpenAI’s “OpenAI o1-preview.”
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💰FUNDING FRONTLINES
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