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In a significant design appointment, Mauro Porcini has been announced as the Chief Design Officer at Samsung. The position, newly created for Porcini, is his third time establishing a Chief Design Officer role at a major companyfollowing 3M and PepsiCo. Its also the first time that Samsung has hired a foreign design lead. Its an aggressive move at a time when Samsungs business is facing crisis-level headwinds. The company just lost its co-CEO Jong-Hee to cardiac arrest. Meanwhile, its shed marketshare in semiconductors to competitors, all while China is becoming better and better at building almost everything. And Samsungs Mexico-based production (which represents a significant part of the business) faces 25% tariffs under the Trump administration. On the other hand, when I visited Samsungs headquarters outside Seoul in late 2023 and met with the design team, I encountered a grounding confidence Ive never sensed during any U.S. corporate tour, when the team stated simply, Samsung is a thousand-year company. During a time when some companiesincluding Appleare investing less in design leadership, Samsung is doubling down on the approach. Porcini has been tasked with an incredible opportunity, and he will have his work cut out for him.
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A federal judge has ruled that The New York Times and other newspapers can proceed with a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft seeking to end the practice of using their stories to train artificial intelligence chatbots.U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein of New York on Wednesday dismissed some of the claims made by media organizations but allowed the bulk of the case to continue, possibly to a jury trial.“We appreciate Judge Stein’s careful consideration of these issues,” New York Times attorney Ian Crosby said in a statement. “As the order indicates, all of our copyright claims will continue against Microsoft and Open AI for their widespread theft of millions of The Times‘s works, and we look forward to continuing to pursue them.”The judge’s ruling also pleased Frank Pine, executive editor of MediaNews Group and Tribune Publishing, owners of some of the newspapers that are part of a consolidated lawsuit in a Manhattan court.“The claims the court has dismissed do not undermine the main thrust of our case, which is that these companies have stolen our work and violated our copyright in a way that fundamentally damages our business,” Pine said a statement.Stein didn’t explain the reasons for his ruling, saying that would come “expeditiously.”OpenAI said in a statement it welcomed “the court’s dismissal of many of these claims and look forward to making it clear that we build our AI models using publicly available data, in a manner grounded in fair use, and supportive of innovation.”Microsoft declined to comment.The Times has said OpenAI and its business partner Microsoft have threatened its livelihood by effectively stealing billions of dollars worth of work by its journalists, in some cases spitting out Times‘s material verbatim to people who seek answers from generative artificial intelligence like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.The Associated Press and OpenAI have a licensing and technology agreement that allows OpenAI access to part of AP’s text archives.
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Fast Company’s Creative Director Mike Schnaidt shares a first look at the magazine redesign. So if you are a typeface fanatic, you won’t want to miss this breakdown.
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