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Anthropic draws judge’s ire in book authors’ multi-billion-dollar copyright case: “if Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did wrong was also big”

Florian Mueller

August 11, 2025

Judge Alsup has denied Anthropic’s motion for a stay and seized the opportunity to set the record straight on what the case is about and what his objective is.
Read more: Anthropic draws judge’s ire in book authors’ multi-billion-dollar copyright case: “if Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did wrong was also big”
OpenAI slapped with serious patent lawsuit for first time as French company attacks C2PA anti-(deep)fake news mechanism in eight countries

Florian Mueller

August 2, 2025

KeeeX is asserting a patent obtained by a French university and a French research institute. If it indeed reads on the C2PA standard, there are various other major defendants.
Read more: OpenAI slapped with serious patent lawsuit for first time as French company attacks C2PA anti-(deep)fake news mechanism in eight countries
The CMA’s new cloud market report shows it continues to be a liability for the UK economy and to ignore its government’s ‘strategic steer’

Florian Mueller

July 31, 2025

The UK Competition & Markets Authority is on the wrong track. Instead of focusing on what would benefit the UK economy, it is essentially a tool for Google.
Read more: The CMA’s new cloud market report shows it continues to be a liability for the UK economy and to ignore its government’s ‘strategic steer’
New Anthropic motion wants book authors’ copyright case to become first AI fair use appeal on U.S. West Coast (Ninth Circuit)

Florian Mueller

July 15, 2025

Anthropic won summary judgment against a class of book authors on whether LLM training constitutes fair use, but wants to appeal its loss over using pirated works.
Read more: New Anthropic motion wants book authors’ copyright case to become first AI fair use appeal on U.S. West Coast (Ninth Circuit)
Google criticizes EU overregulation while demanding even more of it: contradictory positions on DMA and cloud/AI bill

Florian Mueller

July 3, 2025

According to preliminary findings by the EU Commission, Google is out of compliance with the DMA. But it wants to go beyond the DMA to harm competitors.
Read more: Google criticizes EU overregulation while demanding even more of it: contradictory positions on DMA and cloud/AI bill
Claude AI maker Anthropic bags key “fair use” win for AI platforms, but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works

Olivia Sophie Rafferty

June 24, 2025

Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson’s class action against Anthropic will proceed to trial, despite the Northern District of California finding most of the AI platform’s use of the book authors’ works was “fair”.
Read more: Claude AI maker Anthropic bags key “fair use” win for AI platforms, but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works
AI patent-eligibility: spotting hallucinations over value-adds

Olivia Sophie Rafferty

June 20, 2025

While AI is accelerating discovery, designing software, and shaping new chemical compounds, some industry voices question whether we have become too dependent on it to invent, and how the pitfalls of that over-dependence are being materialized.
Read more: AI patent-eligibility: spotting hallucinations over value-adds
ETSI to transpose cybersecurity standard for AI systems into European Norm

Olivia Sophie Rafferty

June 19, 2025

The technical specification, first unveiled in April, sets a benchmark for securing AI systems against the backdrop of rising cybersecurity threats, and will be consulted on by other European standards organisations before being implemented.
Read more: ETSI to transpose cybersecurity standard for AI systems into European Norm

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