Category: AI Providers
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Google to UK CMA: “AI … not yet an important consideration for customers’ choice of cloud providers”
Google’s cloud computing division tells the UK CMA that “the impact of AI on the overall UK public cloud infrastructure market remains uncertain.”
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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.