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Magistrate Judge sets June 26, 11:30 AM for conference over output logs of ChatGPT
Read more: Magistrate Judge sets June 26, 11:30 AM for conference over output logs of ChatGPTMagistrate Judge Ona Wang has scheduled June 26, 2025 from 11:30 AM to 1:30 PM for a conference to resolve the outstanding–and contentious–dispute over how much of ChatGPT’s output logs must be preserved and produced by OpenAI. The Order of Judge Wang comes with detailed instructions on what the parties must do: The Court has…
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Third Circuit grants ROSS Intelligence interlocutory appeal of fair use, copyrightability of headnotes ruling by Judge Bibas
Read more: Third Circuit grants ROSS Intelligence interlocutory appeal of fair use, copyrightability of headnotes ruling by Judge BibasAs we expected, the Third Circuit just granted ROSS Intelligence’s interlocutory appeal of Judge Bibas’s rejection of fair use in AI training and his ruling on the copyrightability of Westlaw’s headnotes. This is no surprise given that Judge Bibas, who sits on the Third Circuit, agreed that the issues should be reviewed on interlocutory appeal.…
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Country musician Anthony Justice sues Udio and Suno. Copyright suits hit 44. Complaint PDF
Read more: Country musician Anthony Justice sues Udio and Suno. Copyright suits hit 44. Complaint PDFUdio and Suno, the AI music generators, each just got hit with another copyright suit. Anthony Justice, an independent country musician, and his label 5th Wheel Records sued Udio in the Southern District of New York and Suno in Boston. The Complaint cites the U.S. Copyright Office Pre-Publication Report in support of the argument that…
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After Disney sues Midjourney, Sarah Andersen seeks all datasets used by Midjourney
Read more: After Disney sues Midjourney, Sarah Andersen seeks all datasets used by MidjourneyTwo days after Disney sued Midjourney, Sarah Andersen and other artists are asking Magistrate Judge Cisneros to order Midjourney to produce all datasets it used to train its AI models. The original discovery request by Andersen had been made in November 2024. And now the parties turn to Judge Cisneros to resolve their dispute. Plaintiffs…
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Is it time to let student drivers pass the road test using Full Self-Driving Teslas and Waymos?
Read more: Is it time to let student drivers pass the road test using Full Self-Driving Teslas and Waymos?automated driving I have a grand idea. Let’s let student drivers whose families own Teslas with full-self driving use them to take the road test. And, for families who don’t own Teslas, student drivers should be permitted to use a Waymo for the road test. How would this road test work? Well, the DMV official…
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Will answer engines replace search engines?
Read more: Will answer engines replace search engines?In what could be one of the biggest transformations on the web, answer engines are continuing to gain usage online. The big question is whether answer engines replace search engines. Lex Friedman asked Sundar Pichai whether Google’s new answer engine called AI Mode will replace traditional search. Pichai equivocated.
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Research: Did Apple researchers overstate “The Illusion of Thinking” in reasoning models. Opus, Lawsen think so.
Read more: Research: Did Apple researchers overstate “The Illusion of Thinking” in reasoning models. Opus, Lawsen think so.In “The Illusion of the Illusion of Thinking,” Alex Lawsen of Open Philanthropy and “C. Opus” of Antrhopic–which may refer to Claude Opus, the model of Anthropic–try to debunk the paper recently posted by Apple researchers titled “The Illusion of Thinking.” The Apple paper concluded: ““We show that state-of-the-art LRMs (e.g., o3-mini, DeepSeek-R1, Claude-3.7-Sonnet-Thinking) still…
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Updated map of all 42 copyright suits v. AI companies (Jun. 12, 2025)
Read more: Updated map of all 42 copyright suits v. AI companies (Jun. 12, 2025)With the recent filing of the lawsuit Disney v. Midjourney, we updated the United States map. Download a PDF below. It has clickable links to each docket. Which case are you following the most? Related Stories
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OpenAI MDL litigation heats up. 48 filings in past 2 days.
Read more: OpenAI MDL litigation heats up. 48 filings in past 2 days.In the past two days, 48 filings were made by the various parties in the In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. I guess that’s why OpenAI needs 50 lawyers. I am not sure how many law clerks Magistrate Judge Wang has. But hopefully it’s several.
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Did Midjourney just awaken the sleeping giant? Disney, Universal file copyright suit v. AI image generator for outputs of their characters.
Read more: Did Midjourney just awaken the sleeping giant? Disney, Universal file copyright suit v. AI image generator for outputs of their characters.midjourney hits different The majority of the 41 copyright lawsuits against AI companies do not involve alleged infringement in the outputs of AI generators. A handful do, including the New York Times’ lawsuit against OpenAI, which included in Exhibit J to the complaint 100 examples of alleged regurgitated articles generated from ChatGPT. But OpenAI said…