Category: AI Providers
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This NYT-OpenAI discovery issue can complicate any news organization’s copyright lawsuit against AI providers: which parts are original?
OpenAI’s lawyers seek information from the New York Times that will enable a distinction between the NYT’s original creations and third-party material incorporated into its articles.
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Perplexity AI ignores New York Times’s scraping ban (robots.txt), summarizes copyrighted article on EURO soccer match
Context: The use of copyrighted material by AI providers has already given rise to several infringement complaints, and the New York Times (NYT) is arguably the highest-profile media outlet to sue (June 12, 2024 ai fray article). One would assume that AI providers would be particularly cautious about potentially infringing NYT material. But no: What’s…
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New York Times would like to pick up where Elon Musk left off, seeks discovery into OpenAI’s departure from non-profit
The New York Times tells a court that OpenAI refuses to provide information on its creation of a for-profit entity. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has dropped his California lawsiut over that structural question.
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UK CMA influenced heavily by Amazon, Google in software licensing part of cloud services market investigation
The UK Competition & Market Authority mentioned AI in connection with its cloud services market investigation, but the focus is drifting in all sorts of different directions.
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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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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.
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Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Mercury News and others sue OpenAI and Microsoft — will likely be be consolidated with NYT case
A group of publishers including, among others, the Chicago Tribune and San Jose Mercury News, filed a copyright lawsuit agianst Microsoft and OpenAI in the Southern District of New York on Tuesday.
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UK competition authority CMA launches triad of AI investigations: Microsoft-Mistral, Microsoft-Inflection, Amazon-Anthropic
The UK Competition & Markets Authority has launched inquiries into Microsoft’s partnership with French AI company Mistral, its recruitment of former Inflection employees, and Amazon’s partnership with Anthropic.
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Italian authority Garante issues privacy charge sheet to OpenAI, may raise issues in EU data protection task force
Italy’s data privacy authority Garante (GPDP) lifted a ban on ChatGPT in Italy last year, subject to certain measures. After further investigation, the Garante now believes there are still issues.
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First major AI patent settlement: former child prodigy sued Google for $7 billion (potentially $21B)—case history
Singular Computing sued Google in the District of Massachusetts over the allged infringement of chipset patents by AI training in Google’s data centers. Potential damages exceeded $7B. Just before jury deliberations, the parties settled.