STORY: From OpenAI’s high-profile restructuring to why AI firms could face a pivotal year in court, this is AI Weekly. :: AI WeeklyOpenAI has set out how it plans to become a for-profit company. The ChatGPT maker says it will set up a public benefit corporation in Delaware. It says that will remove restrictions placed on it by its current nonprofit parent – and make it easier to raise “more capital than we’d imagined.” Apple is closing in on a historic $4 trillion stock market valuation. After criticizing it for lagging rivals, investors are warming to the firm’s AI plans, and betting the tech will drive a new surge in sales of iPhones. Nvidia’s market value increased by over $2 trillion last year, making the chip maker the biggest global gainer in market capitalization for 2024. But Abound Financial Chief Investment Officer David Laut says industrial firms could be among 2025’s top picks as the benefits of AI spread: “All these different places, not just in terms of how they’re running their businesses, but also potentially the products that they can create as all of these technologies that will be sellable and enhance their businesses. So, in my view, I think it’s technology being infused into some of these traditional businesses is what’s going to be more exciting with a backdrop that’s going to be more supportive.”:: Willms Gymnasium:: December 17, 2024Students in Germany got a lesson on artificial intelligence from an AI-operated humanoid robot:”Attention humans. We have now reached our fifth and final debate topic ‘AI leads to more fake news’. This should be particularly interesting given how much misinformation exists about my kind.”Dubbed Captcha, it was developed by Hong Kong-based Hidoba Research.And AI firms face a pivotal year amid copyright cases over how bots are taught. Courts will likely start hearing cases brought by copyright owners who accuse OpenAI, Meta and others of using their work without permission. The tech giants say being forced to pay for content could cripple the development of AI.