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OpenAI: Elon Musk sued b/c he “wants success for himself” after abandoning OpenAI
Read more: OpenAI: Elon Musk sued b/c he “wants success for himself” after abandoning OpenAIOpenAI filed a response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit in California state court, seeking the designation of “complex” pursuant to California Rule of Court 3.400. Yet, the response seems far more a refutation of Musk’s claims. OpenAI says basically Musk is having remorse for abandoning OpenAI and now having to watch the company succeed: “Though an…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Mar. 12, 2024)
Read more: Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Mar. 12, 2024)Here’s the latest status report of the copyright lawsuits against AI companies as of March 12, 2024. We have a new lawsuit against Nvidia brought by three book authors in Abdi Nazemian v. NVIDIA Corp. That brings the total lawsuits filed to 19, 18 of which are pending (Huckabee’s lawsuit was voluntary dismissed by stipulation).…
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Book authors sue NVIDIA for alleged AI copyright infringement (Complaint)
Read more: Book authors sue NVIDIA for alleged AI copyright infringement (Complaint)The Joseph R. Saveri is back at it again, this time bringing a proposed class action lawsuit against GPU chipmaker NVIDIA for allegedly infringing the copyrights of book authors Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan as a part of NVIDIA’s use of a book dataset that included their writings to train NVIDIA’s NeMo AI model.…
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OpenAI reinstates Altman to Board, adds Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, Fidji Simo
Read more: OpenAI reinstates Altman to Board, adds Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann, Nicole Seligman, Fidji SimoAfter the corporate coup to oust Sam Altman from OpenAI back in November 2023 failed, OpenAI announced another stunning return of Altman back on the Board of Directors. The new Board of Directors now consists of: Plus, new members as described below in the biographies provided by OpenAI: “Dr. Sue Desmond-Hellmann is a non-profit leader and…
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OpenAI continues to litigate in court of public opinion, refuting Elon Musk lawsuit
Read more: OpenAI continues to litigate in court of public opinion, refuting Elon Musk lawsuitOpenAI has continued to litigate in the court of public opinion. It first did so in responding to the New York Times copyright lawsuit in a blog post asserting that the NYT exploited a “rare bug” to regurgitate NYT articles potentially in violation of OpenAI’s terms of use. Later, in its motion to dismiss, OpenAI…
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OpenAI adds to PR team
Read more: OpenAI adds to PR teamAs first reported by Axios, OpenAI has added 3 new people to its PR department: (1) Liz Bourgeois, (2) Lindsay McCallum, and (3) Steve Sharpe. Smart move.
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Lawsuit alleging AI v. copyright termination right, Hill v. MGM (Complaint)
Read more: Lawsuit alleging AI v. copyright termination right, Hill v. MGM (Complaint)In a Complaint that reads like a law school exam question, the author R. Lance Hill, aka Davide Henry Lee, who wrote the screenplay to the movie Roadhouse in 1986, MGM for its making of a sequel to the movie Roadhouse, starring Patrick Swayze in 1988. Hill alleges that he exercised his termination right under…
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Anthropic announces Claude 3 AI models, claiming better results than GPT4
Read more: Anthropic announces Claude 3 AI models, claiming better results than GPT4The AI startup Anthropic announced the release of its upgraded Clause 3 AI models, which Anthropic claims has better results, in some categories, than OpenAI’s GPT4 and Google’s Gemini Ultra. Below is a chart by Anthropic on its AI vision performance: Below is a chart by Anthropic on its performance across various benchmarks: Anthropic is…
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OpenAI: Elon Musk’s “suit may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today”
Read more: OpenAI: Elon Musk’s “suit may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today”As first reported by CNBC, OpenAI Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon sent an internal memo to employees defending the company and suggesting that Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI “may stem from Elon’s regrets about not being involved with the company today.” Musk was one of the first funders and a co-founder of OpenAI back in…
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Judge Martínez-Olguín rejects Plaintiffs’ motion in California case to enjoin OpenAI from defending different lawsuit in New York
Read more: Judge Martínez-Olguín rejects Plaintiffs’ motion in California case to enjoin OpenAI from defending different lawsuit in New YorkThe Joseph Saveri Law Firm, representing the book author plaintiffs in In re ChatGPT Litigation in the Northern District of California, filed a curious motion to enjoin OpenAI from defending itself in the different case, Authors Guild v. OpenAI, filed in the Southern District of New York. The Joseph Saveri Law Firm appeared to be…