Category: AI Providers
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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.