Author: Olivia Sophie Rafferty
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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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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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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.
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Indian publishers seek to join copyright infringement suit against OpenAI, first Delhi High Court hearing tomorrow
The Federation of Indian Publishers has filed India’s second high-profile action against OpenAI, alleging it has used its members’ copyright-protected work to train its ChatGPT service.
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Korean broadcasters target top national search engine Naver in first-ever domestic AI copyright infringement suit
South Korea’s SBS, KBS and MBC are seeking damages from Naver for using their articles to train its GenAI platforms HyperClova and HyperClova X without their permission, which they claim also violates national antitrust rules.
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Global progress in AI “in jeopardy”: Nvidia speaks out against incoming U.S. AI chip rule, adds to industry-wide concerns
The new rule is an attempt by the Biden Administration to “rig market outcomes and stifle competition – the lifeblood of innovation – [and] threatens to squander America’s hard-won technological advantage”, Nvidia’s vice president of government affairs Ned Finkle has stated in a blog post.
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“We want Britain to shape the AI revolution”: UK government publishes AI action plan
The new plan will make the UK “irresistible” to AI firms and includes changes such as encouraging public and private data licensing, and reforming the UK text and data mining regime so it is “at least as competitive as the EU”, British government says.
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“Should U.S. lose advantage in global AI ecosystem… impossible to regain”: tech group warns against incoming U.S. AI chip rule
“If implemented hastily, a rule of this nature would fragment global supply chains, potentially encouraging multinational companies and customers to limit their reliance on U.S. technology,” the letter reads.