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Monday’s top story: Meta has sided with Elon Musk and written a letter calling for the Californian Attorney General to block OpenAI’s transition into a for-profit entity.

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🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🚨 Meta backs Musk: OpenAI blocked?

2. 💼 How to become an AI Consultant with Innovating with AI

3. 🤐 OpenAI exposes Musk’s secret demands

4. 🔒 How to protect your personal info online using Incogni

5. 🚀 How to manage a product development team using ChatGPT

6. 📂 New ChatGPT tool: Projects

7. 🗣️ Google’s talking AI podcast hosts

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FACT OF THE DAY

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ETHICS

🚨 Meta backs Musk: OpenAI blocked?

Our Report: Meta has penned a letter to California Attorney General, Rob Bonta, asking him to block OpenAI’s transition from a non-profit to a for-profit entity—showing support for Elon Musk who, earlier this month, asked the courts for an injunction to stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit enterprise (more on Musk’s lawsuit, next)—-saying the move would cause "irreparable harm."

🔑 Key Points:

• In the letter, Meta argues that OpenAI shouldn’t be allowed to “flout the law by taking and reappropriating assets it built as a charity and using them for potentially enormous private gains.”

• It believes the transition would set a precedent for “investors to launch organizations as non-profits, collect tax-free donations, then assume a for-profit status as its technology becomes commercially viable.”

• In response, OpenAI said they’re “focused on fulfilling fiduciary responsibility by ensuring that the company is well-positioned to continue advancing its mission of ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity.”

🤔 Why you should care: OpenAI is under immense pressure from investors—who are funding its advancements and ambitions—to transition into a for-profit entity and will need to return the funding it raised this year, if it’s unable to convert to a for-profit within two years.

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TOGETHER WITH INNOVATING WITH AI

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LEGAL

🤐 OpenAI exposes Musk’s secret demands 

Our Report: Following on from the above, OpenAI has retaliated against Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against them—accusing them of abandoning its original non-profit mission to make AI available to all and blocking its transition into becoming a for-profit entity—calling Musk’s complaints “baseless” and nothing more than a case of “sour grapes.”

🔑 Key Points:

• OpenAI has published emails and texts from 2015—when Musk (one of the original co-founders) was chair of the board—showing that Musk was behind the idea of OpenAI becoming a for-profit company.

• The exchanges reveal that Musk believed that a non-profit structure was the right decision early on, but “may not be the right one now,” and was pushing for a merger with AI chip startup, Cerebras.

• He also demanded 50-60% equity in the company, wanted to be CEO with “unequivocal control of the company,” and suggested that OpenAI join forces with his EV company Tesla, all of which were rejected by OpenAI.

🤔 Why you should care: The published exchanges have exposed holes in Musk’s case—by showing that he attempted to seize control of the company and turn it into a for-profit corporation—and OpenAI feels Musk should be “competing in the marketplace rather than the courtroom.”

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LAUNCHES

📂 New ChatGPT tool: Projects

• On the 7th day of OpenAI’s ‘12 Days of OpenAI’ campaign, it released a ChatGPT tool—called ‘Projects’—that categorizes and organizes ChatGPT chats, pulling them into specific project folders.

• In the sidebar, within ChatGPT, users can create a new project, give it a name, color code it to make it easy to find, and add files, prompt instructions, and previous, related chats to help keep track of ongoing projects.

• ‘Projects’ is available for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team users—with Enterprise and Edu users getting access “early in the new year”—and is designed to make ChatGPT more of an all-in-one, everyday app.

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LAUNCHES

🗣️ Google’s talking AI podcast hosts

• Google has released its AI note-taking and research app—NotebookLM—to enterprise customers (calling it NotebookLM Plus), with added security and privacy features, like controls for access and data management.

• NotebookLM Plus can create AI-generated podcast summaries (audio overviews) of data or files that an employee uploads, and can also participate—as a podcast host—in 2-way conversations about the overviews.  

• Google has warned that the 2-way conversational feature is still in an “experimental” phase and that the “hosts may pause awkwardly before responding or occasionally introduce inaccuracies.”

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