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New York Times sends Perplexity, AI search, cease and desist letter to stop scraping NYT content
Read more: New York Times sends Perplexity, AI search, cease and desist letter to stop scraping NYT contentIn a report by the Wall Street Journal, the AI search engine Perplexity received a cease and desist letter from the New York Times, which alleges that Perplexity is using NYT content without permission: “Perplexity and its business partners have been unjustly enriched by using, without authorization, The Times’s expressive, carefully written and researched, and…
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ROSS Intelligence, Thomson Reuters briefs on fair use. Download PDFs.
Read more: ROSS Intelligence, Thomson Reuters briefs on fair use. Download PDFs.In Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, a case involving the latter’s AI model for legal decisions, the parties filed their respective motions of summary judgment. Probably the key issue will involve whether ROSS’s use of some of Thomson Reuter’s copyrighted headnotes for uncopyrightable judicial decisions is a fair use. Of course, the parties have diametrically…
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Mentioning the Nobel Prizes for AI research, Google asks court to consolidate Leovy and Zhang suits
Read more: Mentioning the Nobel Prizes for AI research, Google asks court to consolidate Leovy and Zhang suitsGoogle wasted no time to mention this week’s Nobel Prizes to Geoffrey Hinton (formerly at Google) and Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) in its more mundane motion for consolidation of the lawsuits brought by Leovy and Zhang against Google. Judge Eumi Lee presides over both cases and requested the parties to brief the issue of consolidation.…
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9th Circuit appeal docketed in Doe 1 v. Github on DMCA CMI claims
Read more: 9th Circuit appeal docketed in Doe 1 v. Github on DMCA CMI claimsThe plaintiffs’ interlocutory appeal of the dismissal of their DMCA CMI claims has been docketed in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, as No. 24-6136. There’s a lot at stake in this appeal, including on the question whether the DMCA Section 1202(b) is limited to identical copies from which copyright management information of the copyright…
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Nobel prize awarded to AI researchers Hinton, Hopfield, Hassabis, Baker
Read more: Nobel prize awarded to AI researchers Hinton, Hopfield, Hassabis, BakerAI research has arrived. The 2024 Nobel Prizes recognized several giants in the field of AI research: Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield won in the physics category. Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind) and John Jumper won for chemistry for protein structure prediction, along with David Baker for computational protein design.
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OpenAI valued at $157 billion in $6.6B funding round
Read more: OpenAI valued at $157 billion in $6.6B funding roundOpenAI was valued at $157 billion in its latest funding round that raked in $6.6 billion for the company. The investors included Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, MGX, the new Abu-Dabhi investment firm, Microsoft, Softbank, and NVIDIA. Apple chose not to join.
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Status of all 32 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 7, 2024): David Boies firm takes lead for Kadrey plaintiffs, but Farnsworth attorneys want in
Read more: Status of all 32 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 7, 2024): David Boies firm takes lead for Kadrey plaintiffs, but Farnsworth attorneys want inHere’s the latest on all 32 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Lots going on. Here are the highlights: New developments since last week’s report are indicated with an asterisk*. Visit our Master List of all 32 copyright cases with attorneys and claims listed. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v.…