Category: AI Providers
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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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Adjustments to Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and Stargate launch mean more openness, (even) less reason for competition concern
Context: Various antitrust authorities have recently been looking into strategic partnerships between large technology companies (particularly, but not exclusively, cloud service providers) and AI providers. The UK Competition & Markets Authority (CMA), which is presently undergoing a leadership change because the UK government is worried about the implications of the agency’s regulatory zeal for economic…
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German music rights collecting society sues Suno over infringement of copyrights in world-famous compositions
Context: A couple of months ago, German music rights collecting society GEMA sued OpenAI in the Landgericht München I (Munich I Regional Court), alleging the AI provider’s infringement of song lyrics by GEMA’s members (November 14, 2024 ai fray article). At a subsequent press conference, GEMA explained in further detail the reasons for that enforcement…
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FTC releases Staff Report on AI Partnerships & Investments: collection of information and innuendo with unclear contours
Just prior to the transition of power in Washington, D.C., the Federal Trade Commission released a staff report on AI partnerships.
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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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Korea’s antitrust watchdog issues GenAI competition report, mulls merger control regime amendments
The Korea Fair Trade Commission landmark report raises concerns about Big Tech partnerships in AI, including Microsoft’s hiring of Inflection employees in March this year.
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OpenAI’s Sora latest major AI technology to be withheld from EU, UK markets — at least for now and presumably due to overregulation
OpenAI’s Sora is the latest example of a major new AI-based service that is, at least for the time being, unavailable to European users, presumably due to overregulation.
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Indian news agency seeks world’s first preliminary injunction against OpenAI over copyright infringement; court appoints experts
Context: Last week, a copyright infringement lawsuit by India’s Asian News International (ANI) against OpenAI became discoverable in the Delhi High Court (HC) (November 18, 2024 ai fray article). An initial case management conference was held the following day, and OpenAI’s counsel declared that his client had stopped training ChatGPT with ANI’s content as of…