The New York Times and the Daily News encountered an unexpected twist in their copyright lawsuit: an OpenAI engineer inadvertently deleted virtual machine search data that could have been key evidence, adding a dramatic turn to this high-profile legal dispute. According to a letter submitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday night, lawyers and technical experts for the two media companies had previously invested over 150 hours searching OpenAI's AI training dataset. However, on November 14, an OpenAI engineer accidentally deleted data stored on the virtual machine.

Microsoft has launched the new ND H100v5 virtual machine series, equipped with 8 NVIDIA H100 chips. The virtual machines feature AI supercomputing GPUs, next-generation CPUs, and low-latency networking. When using the new 8-bit FP8 floating-point data type for matrix multiplication operations, the speed has increased sixfold. ND H100v5 VM helps large language models achieve up to two times the inference speed improvement.