Musk against Altman’s OpenAI, Palantir speaks out and other tech news of the week

An IA to trial: Musk vs. Altman

A civil trial faces technology leaders Elon Musk (co-founder of Tesla, SpaceX and xAI), Sam Altman and their partners, including Greg Brockman and Microsoft, for allegedly deceiving the South African businessman in the creation of OpenAI, since, in the opinion of the founder of Tesla, the company abandoned its non-profit and public interest mission.

The complaint alleges breach of contract and unjust enrichment, something that OpenAI has described as a baseless and envy-motivated attempt to hinder a competitor.

Palantir’s controversial ‘manifesto’

Technofascism or a parody of ‘Robocop’ have been some of the reactions to the ‘manifesto’ published by the American company Palantir, where it proposes mandatory military service, the rearmament of Germany and Japan, calls for Silicon Valley engineers to participate in the “defense of the nation” due to their “moral debt” with the country that made its rise possible, among others, in a bid to integrate AI into defense policies.

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The text, 22 points and published on the social network

Open relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI

Microsoft and OpenAI announced a renewed collaboration agreement, where Sam Altman’s company will be able to offer its products to customers of any cloud provider, including competitors such as Amazon or Google, and provide access to its application programming interface to US Government customers, regardless of the provider.

Microsoft will continue to have a license to access OpenAI’s intellectual property until 2032, and products from Altman’s company will be launched first on the Azure platform.

Google is investigated in Brazil

Brazil’s antitrust body opened an administrative process against Google for “abuse of a dominant position,” as it seeks to clarify the display of news on the American technology platforms without remunerating the media outlets that produce them.

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According to the Court, Google’s generative AI is “capable of synthesizing information directly in the search interface” and “relevantly” modifies the access, visibility and monetization of journalistic content in the digital environment, on which an important part of media traffic depends.

Val Kilmer’s daughter defends her AI version

Mercedes Kilmer, the daughter of the late actor Val Kilmer, defended the appearance of an AI-generated version of her father in the film ‘As Deep as the Grave’, a role that has generated debate over the risk of this technology taking away jobs in Hollywood.