One-Minute Daily AI News 4/30/2024

1. Amazon sales soar with boost from artificial intelligence and advertising.[1]
2. Amazon Q, a generative AI-powered assistant for businesses and developers, is now generally available.[2]
3. Boston Dynamics gives Spot bot a furry makeover.[3]
4. Eight newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital’s MediaNews Group are reportedly suing Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that the tech companies used the newspapers’ content to train artificial intelligence (AI) models.[4]
5. Apple has reportedly hired away dozens of artificial intelligence experts from Google.[5]

Sources:

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/30/amazon-sales-report-ai

[2] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazon-q-generative-ai-assistant-aws

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG4PPkCyJig&t=1s

[4] https://www.pymnts.com/legal/2024/newspapers-sue-microsoft-openai-for-using-content-to-train-ai/

[5] https://www.pymnts.com/news/artificial-intelligence/2024/apple-beefs-up-ai-talent-pool-recruiting-from-google/