Ep 822: Kimi K3 surprises, Gemini 3.5 Pro Delayed Again, Microsoft CEO Reportedly Criticizes Anthropic and more AI News
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There was no blockbuster AI story this past week. No landmark AI court case or chart-breaking AI model. Although there were plenty of new updates, developments, and stories that you need to know for your company to keep pace, this was one of those rare quiet weeks in AI news and developments. You know what that means though, right? We're likely in for a doozy of new news this week. Like a sharpshooter that never misses twice from the three, I'm guessing we're going to be in for a big week of AI updates this coming week. Regardless, we did get enough to keep up with the past seven days. I mean, we have the world's new best open model, some juicy AI lawsuits, and the Microsoft CEO calling out not just one of his biggest competitors by name, but also one of the companies that he's invested $5 billion in.
Yeah, still plenty you need to know to keep up. And that's what we're going to do on today's AI news that matters. What's going on? Welcome to Everyday AI. If you're new here, my name is Jordan Wilson and we do this every day. It's your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter helping business leaders like you and me keep up with AI developments, use that information to grow your company and career. So if that's what you're trying to do, sweet, me too. It starts here with the unedited, unscripted live stream podcast, but please make sure you go to our website, at youreverydayai.com. We're going to be keeping you up to date with the highlights from today's story and everything else that's happening in AI world.
So let's just jump straight into it. First, Meta, after having an amazing July so far, with their new muse spark 1.1 that we talked about last week their new muse image and video models well they got maybe a little bit of a black eye this week that's because a group of 26 uh current and previous meta employees has filed a federal lawsuit claiming the company's use of ai in layoff decisions on fairly targeted workers on medical parental or family leave so according to the associated press the lawsuit was filed in oakland and involves 26 anonymous meta employees who say they were selected for layoffs after taking protected leave or requesting disability accommodations so the employees are among the 8 000 workers or about 10 percent of meta's workforce who were notified of layoffs in may
so the lawsuit alleges that meta used internal ai systems keystroke in activity monitoring and algo performance rankings and ai token usage dashboards dashboards to determine who would be laid off so the plaintiffs claim that these ai power system penalize employees who are on protective leave as their output was automatically reduced making them more likely to be selected for termination Many of the affected workers were on pregnancy or parental leave, while others took medical or family caregiving leave. Eight are women who had taken maternity or pregnancy-related leaves, and four are men who took parental leave. So the lawsuit argues that Meta's systems failed to account for legally protected absences and did not pause for individualized review as required by law.
The complaint cites violations of several state and federal laws, including the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. So Meta responded saying that those claims lacked merit and are not based on facts and stated that workforce decisions were made by people, not AI. so not exactly the week that meta wanted to follow up with after their hot start to july that saw their stock really just rebound from like a year of lackluster performance and losses so meta honestly had the best start i would say to July outside of OpenAI, right? If you look at kind of the big six of AI, right, which is the big four model makers, that's OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and then you put in Meta and SpaceX into the equation, right?
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