⚖️ SEC Probes OpenAI

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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is investigating OpenAI to see if investors were misled by CEO Sam Altman's actions or statements, while Elon Musk is suing the company for straying from its original mission of developing AI for the benefit of humanity over profits. OpenAI is also embroiled in copyright infringement lawsuits from digital media outlets, echoing the New York Times’ case. Meanwhile, Google's deal with Stack Overflow signifies the tech giants' voracious appetite for data to feed their AI models and their willingness to pay for it. 

On the innovation front, Alibaba's new AI system, Emo, is making waves by turning static photos into realistic talking and singing videos, pushing the boundaries of facial animation in AI (PS. they just made the Sora lady sing). Not to be outdone, Pika Labs introduces lip-syncing capabilities to its AI videos, while Morph Studio and Lightricks unveil AI-generated filmmaking platforms, potentially rivaling OpenAI’s Sora with the ability to generate entire films. And for a sensory twist, GameScent's latest AI device supposedly lets gamers smell the game worlds they're playing in, adding a new dimension to immersive gaming.

In the realm of workplace, Microsoft is launching ‘Copilot for Finance,’ a chatbot aimed at revolutionizing finance professionals' interaction with spreadsheets and hinting at possible integrations of Midjourney-style art generation features into Paint. SambaNova steps into the spotlight with a 1 trillion parameter AI model for enterprise, while Meta is gearing up to launch the highly anticipated LLaMA 3 in July. IDEOgram, a Midjourney competitor, just secured $80 million in Series A funding as it unveils its latest text-to-image model. Lastly, Google AI is also working on a tool to compare different large language models, because apparently even AI needs a good report card.

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