Month: May 2024
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UK CMA cloud market investigation touches on AI-related trends, but prioritizes discounts, committed spend agreements, egress fees
The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) released several updated documents last week concerning the state of play in its cloud service market investigation.
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New York Times shifts focus of AI copyright case from output to input, surprisingly says Exhibit J (regurgitation of articles) no longer matters
No exhibit to a copyright infringement complaint ever received as much attention as Exhibit J to New York Times v. Microsoft & OpenAI. But the NYT’s lawyers now say they’d rather not show it to the jury (should the case proceed to trial).
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OpenAI’s lawyers to court: New York Times doesn’t want to come clean on efforts to get ChatGPT to output passages from articles
OpenAI’s lawyers have raised a discovery issue with the district court that relates to how the New York Times managed (and how it failed) to get ChatGPT to quote entire paragraphs from NYT articles.
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UK antitrust regulator explains: any AI partnership can fall under merger law, though Microsoft-Mistral not being investigated for now
The UK Competition & Markets Authority determined not to review Microsoft’s partnership with Mistral further for the time being, but spells out criteria under which any Big Tech-AI partnership can potentially be reviewed under strict merger law.
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New York Times triples down on OpenAI, Microsoft copyright case: seeks to go from 3 million documents to 10 million, up to 96 years old
Context: Judge Sidney Stein of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is currently working on a ruling on Microsoft’s and OpenAI’s motions to dismiss parts of the New York Times’s copyright infringement complaint (March 17, 2024 ai fray article). A dispute between the parties concerning the protection of confidential…
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Supreme Court ruling may enable New York Times to seek copyright damages going back to GPT-2 and GPT-3, but is unrelated to merits
The New York Times’s lawyers have notified the judge presiding over their copyright lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI of a Supreme Court ruling that may help hem defend the damages period they proposed.
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Millions in the hand or billions in the bush: will negotiation, litigation or legislation give the best answer to the AI copyright question?
Some media companies, most recently the Financial Times, enter into license agreements with AI providers while others, such as the New York Times, seek billions in damages. Time will tell who it goes.
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Microsoft and OpenAI seek safeguards against New York Times’ reporting being influenced by lawyers’ access to confidential litigation documents
The NYT surprisingly refuses to promise in writing that in-house lawyers with access to highly confidential information from Microsoft and OpenAI won’t use that information to influence reporting on the case and on the defendants.