Pulitzer

Several Pulitzer Prize winning authors have joined a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the creator of the popular ChatGPT tool, alleging the tech companies used their copyrighted work to train artificial intelligence (AI) models without permission. The lawsuit, which was originally filed by author Julian Sancton in late November, now features Kai Bird, Taylor Branch, Stacy Schiff and eight other nonfiction writers as plaintiffs, according to an amended complaint filed Tuesday.  Bird…

Even as we enter the last leg of the year, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be an important discussion topic for corporations and governments alike. Apple has published new AI research where the researchers have highlighted how large language models (LLMs) can be run on limited storage devices, such as iPhones, instead of the internet, and still maintain their capabilities. This development may give the tech giant an edge over competitors. In other news, the former Justice Secretary Sir Robert Buckland is urging…

A group of 11 non-fiction authors have joined a lawsuit in Manhattan federal court that accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of misusing books they have written to train the models behind OpenAI's popular chatbot ChatGPT and other artificial-intelligence-based software.The writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Taylor Branch, Stacy Schiff and Kai Bird - who co-wrote the J. Robert Oppenheimer biography "American Prometheus" that was adapted into the hit film "Oppenheimer" this year - told the court on Tuesday that the companies…

Grammy-winning singer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens was taking a walk after having dinner with her children and saw a tweet. She had won the Pulitzer Prize for music. “It was literally a total shock,” she tells The Hollywood Reporter from Ireland, where she currently lives. The work that won her the prestigious prize alongside composer Michael Abels is Omar, the opera about Muslim American slave Omar ibn Said. It is based on his autobiography A Muslim American Slave: The Life…

Dear Reader, PREMIUM Trust by Hernan Diaz Trust is a fashionable book; in an era of false news, it has four versions of the same story. This years co-winner for the Pulitzer fiction prize, this novel is spot on. Starting from it's character of a ghost writer. Truly, the ghost writer is today’s storyteller. If you are in doubt, note this year’s biggest literary celebrity - Prince Harry’s ghost writer J M Moehringer - who by the way, happens to be a Pulitzer prizewinning memoirist himself. Coming back to the…

This year’s Pulitzer winners include Associated Press, the New York Times and authors Barbara Kingsolver and Hernan Diaz.The Associated Press won two Pulitzer prizes for journalism on Monday, in public service and breaking news photography, for coverage of the Ukraine war that included images of Russia’s siege of Mariupol.The New York Times was also honored with an international reporting award for its coverage of Russian killings in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Additional Pulitzers were given for work surrounding the US…

One of the well-known names of the literary world, Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926. While she passed away in February 2016, the American novelist gave some rich literary texts that will remain with us for a lifetime. Lee is famously known for her 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird, which also went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961. Despite just publishing two books, Lee received various honours and accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2007. On her 94th birth anniversary, here’s…