In the latest round of legal maneuvers surrounding artificial intelligence and copyright, Microsoft finds itself in the thick of a high-profile lawsuit filed by The New York Times and a coalition of other prominent news organizations. This case underscores the growing tensions between technology...
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In the high-stakes race to shape tomorrow’s technology, artificial intelligence has been the core obsession for Silicon Valley and Wall Street alike. New AI releases dominate headlines. Multi-billion dollar investments flow into startups whose names were unknown just a few years ago. AI’s...
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A group of authors, including Pulitzer Prize winners Kai Bird, Jia Tolentino, and Daniel Okrent, have filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the company used pirated digital versions of their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model. The lawsuit...
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The BBC’s decision to threaten legal action against Perplexity AI represents a seminal moment in the ongoing, high-stakes tussle between news publishers and artificial intelligence companies over content rights and ethical data use. At the crux of this dispute is a letter sent by the BBC to...
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has recently issued a legal warning to Perplexity AI, an artificial intelligence startup backed by prominent investors including Nvidia and Jeff Bezos. The BBC alleges that Perplexity's chatbot has been reproducing its content verbatim without...
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Artificial intelligence continues to stir up a hornet’s nest of legal, ethical, and technological debates. A recent US District Court decision in New York has thrown a spotlight on the practices of AI companies, notably OpenAI and Microsoft, and their role in investigating alleged copyright...
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A landmark ruling in one of the many mass-BitTorrent lawsuits in the US has suffered a severe blow to a thus far lucrative business. Among other things, New York Judge Gary Brown explains in great detail why an IP-address is not sufficient evidence to identify copyright infringers. According to...
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