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Tuesday’s top story: Google has lost a landmark antitrust lawsuit (filed by the US Department of Justice) after its continued attempt to monopolize the search engine market.

🌤️ This Morning on AI Tool Report

1. 🔍 Google found guilty!

2. 🚀 How to leverage AI to transform workflows with Hubspot

3. 👋 More OpenAI leaders quit

4. 👁️ How to glimpse into the future of AI

5. 🥷 How to differentiate from competitors using ChatGPT

6. 🌐 NVIDIA's future in jeopardy?

7.  🎯 Musk sues OpenAI… again

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STOCK MARKETS

⏬ Apple, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Amazon fall by over $1T in market cap during Monday’s trading. The market-wide selloff intensified to start the week, with fears of a recession causing the major names to drop significantly. Learn more.

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LAWSUITS

🔍 Google found guilty!

Our Report: Google has lost its landmark antitrust lawsuit from the US Department of Justice (DOJ) which accused the search giant of violating antitrust laws by attempting to remain the default search engine on devices and web browsers, which was cemented by evidence stating they’ve paid Apple over $20B for that default position, leaving others unable to compete.

🔑 Key Points:

• Judge Amit Mehta agreed with the DOJ, saying “the market reality” is that Google is the sole choice and that it was “financially infeasible” for Google partners to switch default search engines.

• Mehta established that "Google is a monopolist” and the DOJ believes his decision will “hold Google accountable” and “pave the path for innovation for generations to come and protect access to information for all Americans.”

• Although we will not know how this ruling will affect Google until the next phase—it could mean anything from stopping certain business practices to disseminating its search business—Google plans to appeal the decision.

🤔 Why you should care: The decision to find Google guilty of violating antitrust laws is the first of its kind, after the DOJ filed an antitrust case against Microsoft and an anti-monopoly one against Google in 2020, and comes as Amazon, Apple, and Meta face their own monopolization lawsuits, so it’ll be interesting to see if this ruling will provide a framework for those cases.

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INTERNAL POLITICS

👋 More OpenAI leaders quit

Our Report: OpenAI has lost three more key people: Co-founder Greg Brockman—who is taking an extended leave to “relax and recharge”—product manager, Peter Deng, and most notably, co-founder John Schulman.

🔑 Key Points:

• Schulman’s shock exit was triggered by his desire to deepen his focus on AI alignment (ensuring AI behaves as intended) and engage in more hands-on technical work, something he will do at OpenAI rival, Anthropic.

• With Schulman’s departure, just 3 of OpenAI’s 11 original founders remain: Sam Altman, Brockman (who’s just taking a sabbatical), and Wojciech Zaremba, lead of language, and co-founder Ilya Sutskever.

• This comes after cofounder, Andrej Karpathy, left in February, Jan Leike, who led the super alignment team left in May to work at Anthropic, and co-founder Ilya Sutskever, who also left in May, to start Safe Superintelligence Inc.

🤔 Why you should care: OpenAI is currently surrounded by controversy after losing Leike and Sutskever, who both quit citing a lack of focus on safety, and after several former employees spoke out about the lack of safety testing, and now the rumor mill is in overdrive after Schulman’s departure, as he was the head of OpenAI’s “post-training” team (formerly the disbanded safety-focused “super alignment team”) that refined AI models for ChatGPT, leaving many critics continuing to question OpenAI’s approach to and treatment of AI safety research, despite Schulman saying he wasn’t leaving OpenAI due to a lack of support.

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HARDWARE

🌐 NVIDIA's future in jeopardy?

• AI chip start-up Groq—who, like NVIDIA, develops AI chips to run AI models faster—has raised $640M in a funding round led by Blackrock, with contributions from Type One Ventures, Cisco, and Samsung.

• This recent funding values the company at $2.8B (more than double its previous valuation of $1B in 2021), demonstrating strong confidence from investors about Groq’s ability to rival market leader, NVIDIA.

• Groq (founded by ex-Google engineer, Jonathan Ross) insists its chips can achieve higher processing speeds due to its innovative LPU (Language Processing Unit), and improve energy efficiency, lowering data center costs.

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LAWSUITS

 🎯 Musk sues OpenAI… again

• Elon Musk is suing OpenAI again, after dropping his previous lawsuit, which alleged OpenAI had breached its founding agreement to develop AI to benefit humanity, after refusing to keep its tech open-source

• His new lawsuit says that co-founders—Sam Altman and Greg Brockman—“assiduously manipulated” him into co-founding “their spurious non-profit venture” by promising him that OpenAI would be safer and more transparent.

• Although Musk abruptly withdrew his previous case in June (with no explanation), his lawyer believes that “this is a more forceful suit” as it argues that OpenAI broke “federal racketeering laws” to purposefully defraud him.

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