AI Essential News Highlights: May 20-24th

Six essential AI articles this week. This was Microsoft's week for major product announcements and they didn't disapoint with a PC that has 40 AI models built into its operating system. Additionally more news, deals and arguments about training data rights. Read more below:

1. The Foundation Model Transparency Index A comprehensive evaluation index for foundation models enabling leaders to have more insight into models before selecting the right one for their projects.
2. OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at Over $250 Million The article highlights two mega shifts happening in the media industry. One, the power of distribution is winning over content creation demonstrated by the low number, $50MM a year, that WSJ will get from the partnership. Second, a fight for traffic and advertising revenue is on. Publishers are concerned that AI-powered search tools, such as Bing/OpenAI and Google, will serve up complete answers based on news content, eliminating a user's need to click on an article link and depriving publishers of traffic and advertising revenue. How will this fight play out
3. Introducing Tako, a new way to reference real knowledge and our first integration, Perplexity Tako, an advanced knowledge search and visualization engine, is partnering with Perplexity's answer engine, creating a revolutionary capability that will make many applications across the enterprise visual and user friendly. Amazing combination of real data with visualization.
4. Microsoft wants to make Windows an AI operating system, launches Copilot+ PCs We knew something like this would be coming and here it is. 40 generative AI models power this new OS and deliver some great capabilities. The AI can view what you're doing on-screen and you can interact with it verbally in natural language in real-time as you work. And you get capabilities that are performed locally so your data is safe. No doubt this is an essential development.
5. Google’s broken link to the web Great commentary about the slow death of search as we know it and the implications for creators, publishers and any brand that relies on traditional search advertising (which is pretty much every brand). Anyone in business needs to track the trends here and should be preparing for changes now.
6. Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training Slack's policies seems to leave the door open for them to use customer data to train their models though they claim they don't. And you have to opt out via your Slack administrator rather than opt in. The confusion has caused some users to get angry and point out the discrepancies. Essential for AI leaders (and any organizational leader) to understand if their private data is being used for training by their service providers so we marked this essential.