January 2025 – Page 2 – Chat GPT Is Eating the World

DeepSeek moment: AI arms race disrupted by potential game-changer from China

My social media apps blew up this week, with a steady stream of Americans raving about DeepSeek, the new AI rival to OpenAI–and all other AI companies in the U.S. By all appearances, the entire AI industry in the United States has taken notice. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella remarked: To see the DeepSeek new model,…
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Register of Copyrights Perlmutter says Copyright Office Report on copyrightability of AI-generated works will be released soon. Will it take a more flexible approach?

Speaking at a conference at U. Penn, the Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter said the Copyright Office’s next report on authorship and the copyrightability of AI-generated works will be released to the public soon. I submitted a comment to the Copyright Office on this very issue. I hope the Copyright Office considered my views and…
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Raw Story Media reply in support of its motion to amend complaint

Raw Story Media is seeking to save its case from dismissal by amending its complaint to satisfy standing. Judge McMahon had dismissed the complaint on Article III standing grounds without prejudice.
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Judge Chhabria rejects David Boies’ firm attempt to extend discovery yet again. Major discovery win for Meta.

Judge Chhabria just issued an order rejecting David Boies law firm’s attempt to extend fact discovery yet again with 10 additional custodians of documents, 5 interrogatories, and up to 13 depositions per side. Judge Chabbria sided instead with Meta’s proposal to keep the same schedule for fact discovery — which means it’s closed. But Meta…
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Parties’ chart of discovery disputes in Authors Guild v. OpenAI

Parties have filed their handy-dandy chart outlining the discovery disputes for the conference before Magistrate Judge Wang on January 22.
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Google files motion to strike plaintiffs’ broad class allegations as improper “fail safe” class

We are finally beginning to see some legal challenge to the scope and definition of the classes in the lawsuits against AI companies. Google filed a motion to strike allegations related what it argues is a “fail-safe class,” which is improper. Here’s a bit of Google’s argument: One category of classes that fails the requirements…
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Google files motion to dismiss in In re Google Generative AI Litigation

Google filed a motion to dismiss the Amended Consolidated Complaint filed by the artists and content creators in In re Google Generative AI Litigation. The Table of Contents and brief are below:
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Excerpts of Mark Zuckerberg’s deposition by David Boies. Not as bad as plaintiffs say?

The Kadrey plaintiffs filed the unredacted version of their reply brief in support of their motion to file a Third Amended Consolidated Complaint, which Judge Chhabria granted. In their Reply, plaintiffs assert: “And just yesterday, when asked about the type of piracy described in the TACC, Mr. Zuckerberg testified that such activity would raise “lots…
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Judge Breyer grants order recaptioning consolidated cases filed by O’Nan, Makkai v. Databricks, Mosaic as In Re Mosaic LLM Litigation.

Here’s the order from Judge Breyer recaptioning the consolidated cases of O’Nan and Makkai as: In Re Mosaic LLM Litigation:
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Vacker Plaintiffs file opposition to Eleven Labs motion to dismiss

The Vacker plaintiffs filed their oposition to Eleven Labs’ motion to dismiss. The plaintiffs address the standing issue for DMCA CMI claims.
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Month: January 2025