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

Judge Alsup says he’s leaning to accept fair use by Anthropic. But cautions may change his mind.

I wasn’t able to attend today’s hearing in San Francisco on Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment on fair use in Bartz v. Anthropic. So, please take my assessment with a grain of sale. Also remember that it’s risky, if not foolish, to predict how a judge will rule based on an oral argument. But, based…
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Unpacking the MDL cases v. OpenAI, Microsoft

Here are the Exhibits to the filing for the OpenAI MDL Litigation. They provide helpful charts summarizing the parties involved. Today, Judge Sidney Stein holds the Initial Case Management conference. How many lawyers do you think they can fit into the courtroom? We shall see. I’m pretty certain a human created these informative charts, not…
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Anthropic hearing on fair use today in SF. OpenAI MDL litigation conference in NY.

Today, there are two big hearings, both in-person: May 22, 2025 In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation: Initial Case Management Conference scheduled for May 22, 2025, at 10:00 am ET in New York City before Judge Sidney Stein. Bartz v. Anthropic: summary judgment motion on fair use, 12:00 PM PT in San Francisco, Courtroom 12,…
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OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s design company for $6.5 billion. Poses new threat to Apple iPhone.

OpenAI announced the acquisition of Jony Ive’s design firm io for $6.5 billion all in equity. (Presumably “io” refers to input/output, which curiously is also the name of Google’s big conference I/O.) To put this acquisition into perspective, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, valued at $2.62 billion in today’s dollars. Ive is…
Read more: OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s design company for $6.5 billion. Poses new threat to Apple iPhone.
Google showcases AI mode for Google Search. But will it invite more copyright lawsuits v. Google?

Yesterday, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, demoed a host of new AI programs for Gemini and Google. Since OpenAI’s viral launch of ChatGPT in December 2022, Google has been in a race to compete in AI. Perhaps the most important new program announced yesterday is “AI Mode” for Google Search. Instead of a traditional search…
Read more: Google showcases AI mode for Google Search. But will it invite more copyright lawsuits v. Google?
Apple faces “crisis” in lack of AI. At least it won’t be sued for copyright infringement.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett have a lengthy article detailing Apple’s woes in trying to deploy AI on its devices, including with a revamped Siri. According to the article, one member of Apple’s AI team even said: “This is a crisis.” Gurman and Bennett seem to agree: “And historically, Apple’s most successful products have…
Read more: Apple faces “crisis” in lack of AI. At least it won’t be sued for copyright infringement.
Bartz files supplementary brief re: class certification. Shows difficulty of defining a common class.

One of the sleeper issues in the lawsuits filed by book authors against Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and others is whether the courts will certify a class of book authors in any of the lawsuits. Last week, Judge Alsup was the first federal judge to consider a motion for class certification in one of these AI…
Read more: Bartz files supplementary brief re: class certification. Shows difficulty of defining a common class.
Upcoming hearings in AI copyright suits

There’s a lot of activity in the AI copyright lawsuits coming up. Here’s a brief rundown: May 22, 2025 In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation: Initial Case Management Conference scheduled for May 22, 2025, at 10:00 am ET in New York City before Judge Sidney Stein. Bartz v. Anthropic: summary judgment motion on fair use,…
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Meta researchers new paper on “J1: Incentivizing Thinking in LLM-as-a-Judge via Reinforcement Learning

Meta researchers just posted a fascinating research paper, “J1: Incentivizing Thinking in LLM-as-a-Judge via Reinforcement Learning.” It adds to the growing literature showing advances in AI development through reinforcement learning. Abstract: “The progress of AI is bottlenecked by the quality of evaluation, and powerful LLM-as-a-Judge models have proved to be a core solution. Improved judgment…
Read more: Meta researchers new paper on “J1: Incentivizing Thinking in LLM-as-a-Judge via Reinforcement Learning
Kyle Chan’s Op-Ed ominously warns: “In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.”

Kyle Chan is a postdoctoral research associate and lecturer in sociology at Princeton. Today, he wrote an Op-Ed for the New York Times ominously titled, “In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.” Warns Chan: “The United States needs to realize that neither tariffs nor other trade pressure will get China…
Read more: Kyle Chan’s Op-Ed ominously warns: “In the Future, China Will Be Dominant. The U.S. Will Be Irrelevant.”

Month: May 2025