OpenAI caps Microsoft revenue share at $38B in renegotiated deal

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Microsoft recently ended support for Azure Data Studio, its development tool for the SQL Server and Azure SQL databases. Part of a range of tools designed to work with Microsoft’s on-premises and in-cloud SQL databases, Azure Data Studio focused on building and testing queries rather than database administration. In other words, it was a developer-focused, lighter-weight alternative to SQL Server Management Studio. Azure Data Studio was a useful tool for developers. It made it easy to explore databases and craft the queries that could be integrated into your code. You weren’t limited to queries, as a command line allowed you to work with lower-level and administrative services when necessary. You can still use SQL Server Management Studio with Azure data, but it’s overkill for most common query building tasks. Bringing SQL support into Visual Studio Code What should you use instead? Microsoft recommends switching to the MSSQL extension for Visual Studio Code. That answer shouldn’t be s

Insider Brief A new paper from researchers affiliated with Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic and several universities reports that the artificial intelligence industry is too focused on preventing harm and not focused enough on helping humans thrive, outlining a framework called “positive alignment” that would train AI systems to actively support human flourishing rather than merely […]

MIT’s Sinan Aral has the data . . . and a warning. Outsourcing creativity to AI may be the most rational move leaders make, and the most dangerous one.

Insider Brief PRESS RELEASE — White Circle — the platform trusted by global brands to keep their AI models in check — has raised $11m from some of the biggest names in the industry including Romain Huet (OpenAI); Dirk Kingma (ex-OpenAI, now Anthropic); Guillaume Lample (Mistral); Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face); Olivier Pomel (Datadog); François Chollet (Keras); Mehdi Ghissassi (ex-DeepMind); Paige Bailey […]

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman faced two days of intense courtroom scrutiny in a California federal court as Elon Musk’s legal team pressed its case that OpenAI’s shift to a for-profit structure betrayed its founding mission to develop AI safely for humanity’s benefit. Altman rejected the characterisation that OpenAI’s founders had misappropriated a charitable organisation, arguing […]