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Musk loses his OpenAI lawsuit
After a three-week trial, an Oakland jury ruled against Elon Musk's $100B+ lawsuit against OpenAI, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft. The jury deliberated under two hours and found Musk's breach-of-charitable-trust and unjust-enrichment claims were filed past California's 3-year statute of limitations. Musk called it a "calendar technicality" and said he'll appeal. The verdict clears a major legal cloud as OpenAI moves toward a reported IPO.
Pope Leo XIV to publish his first AI encyclical, “Magnifica humanitas”
Pope Leo XIV will release his first encyclical on May 25, focused on preserving the human person in the age of AI. The launch event reportedly features Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic — an unusual moment of direct engagement between the Catholic Church and frontier AI research.
Amazon launches AI-generated custom podcasts for Alexa+
Amazon rolled out Alexa Podcasts, a new feature allowing Alexa+ users to generate custom, podcast-style audio episodes on virtually any topic in minutes. By pulling real-time information from over 200 news publications, the generative AI creates ready-to-listen recordings featuring AI-generated host voices. Currently available to U.S. Alexa+ customers, Amazon plans to expand the tool’s capabilities next to include personalized news briefings and episodes based on user-provided documents.
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Quick Hits
Profs’ Summer School: Online courses on sale
As we announced in Friday’s Hot GPT Summer, you can save 50% on any of our online classes by using the code GPTSUMMER. Plus, we will be leading our Gen AI Fundamentals online class as a six-week guided course starting June 1. Anyone who is signed up will have the option of completing weekly assignments and joining us for a weekly Zoom call.
Tool of the Week: Claude for Small Business
Anthropic launched Claude for Small Business last week. It's a package of connectors and pre-built workflows that puts Claude directly inside the tools small business owners already use, instead of leaving them to figure out AI from a blank chat window. Users toggle it on inside Claude Cowork, connect tools, and pick a job. It runs inside QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, DocuSign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. Users get 15 ready-to-run agentic workflows and 15 skills built around the repeatable tasks owners say slow them down.
AI-generated image of the week
Long live the 90s. Image made with ChatGPT Images 2.0.
Prompt: Grainy VHS camcorder footage from an American high school in September 1993. Random candid scene in a school parking lot. Low-resolution analog tape quality, washed-out colors, soft focus, scan lines, motion blur, fluorescent lighting, imperfect handheld framing, students in 90s outfits like flannels, varsity jackets, baggy jeans, backpacks, sneakers, and baseball caps. Make it feel like a forgotten home video frame from a school archive. Add a subtle timestamp with a random September 1993 date and time. No modern clothes, no phones, no HD, no cinematic look.Profs in the News
Snider drops his expertise on AI-designs for a Des Moines Register article, while Porter discusses Drake’s AI program in the Higher Intelligence podcast.
What we found
TrueShort is an AI tool that generates vertical short-form movies and series in the style of TikTok or Reels, letting creators produce episodic AI-generated video content without filming.
