Month: February 2025
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Anthropic “blindsided” by proposed U.S. Google AI investment ban, seeks to participate in DOJ antitrust suit
Forcing Google to divest its investment in AI firms could seriously impact Anthropic’s ability to develop new products and remain competitive in the tight race at the AI frontier, Anthropic has complained.
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Paris AI Action Summit made divisions between major powers’ approaches “even clearer”: EU AI governance consultant Valéria Silva
The Paris AI Action Summit confirmed the “patchwork” of divergent approaches major global economies are taking in AI regulation, making it hard to achieve the coordinated global approach needed to properly manage the technology, Mrs. Silva tells ai fray in an exclusive interview.
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Chinese court rules AI-generated images of “Ultraman” infringe copyright
The Hangzhou Internet Court has found that a GenAI platform’s image generation of the Japanese sci-fi character Ultraman constituted contributory infringement of information network dissemination rights, and ordered it to pay 30,000 Chinese yuan ($4,206) in damages.
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Biggest copyright holder win against AI provider so far: ThomsonReuters defeats Ross on summary judgment, overcomes ‘fair use’ defense
This is arguably the most important judicial decision in an AI copyright context to date.
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EU follows France in responding to U.S. Stargate, announces €200 billion investment in AI
At the AI Action Summit in Paris today, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen also announced that the EU will build 12 AI hubs with GigaFactories providing scientists and start-ups with access to world-class EuroHPC supercomputers.
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Google, Amazon bullish on cloud business units — contrary to regulatory complaints over alleged software licensing issues
Context: The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) is conducting a cloud service market investigation, favoring Google over Amazon and both over Microsoft (January 28, 2025 ai fray article). In particular, Google and Amazon accuse Microsoft of designing software licensing terms in ways that distort cloud competition. What’s new: It’s earnings season, and all three…
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Sam Altman says some other European countries should follow French example: op-ed for French newspaper on eve of Paris AI Action Summit
Context: Tomorrow (Monday, February 10, 2025), will be the first day (and industry stakeholder day) of the Paris AI Action Summit (event website) hosted by the government of France in partnership with that of India. On the second day, the heads of state and government of many countries will join. A draft statement for the…
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South Korea becomes latest country to block DeepSeek over privacy concerns
The Chinese AI platform also faces blocks in Italy, Taiwan, and Australia, as well as allegations of IP infringement by U.S. rival OpenAI.