The lawsuit maintains the defendants should be held responsible for “billions of dollars in statutory and actual damages” related to the “unlawful copying and use of The Times’s uniquely valuable works,” writes Sharon Goldman. 

Microsoft Research, the blue sky division of the software giant, announced the release of its Phi-2 small language model (SML), a text-to-text AI program that is “small enough to run on a laptop or mobile device,” according to a post on X, writes Carl Franzen. 

Sam Altman is officially OpenAI’s CEO again, writes Alex Heath. 

The Azure Maia 100 and Cobalt 100 chips are the first two custom silicon chips designed by Microsoft for its cloud infrastructure, writes Tom Warren.

Microsoft’s GitHub subsidiary has a new Copilot Enterprise tier that can help developers work with their employers’ internal code, for $39 per person per month, writes Jordan Novet.