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Court issues deposition protocol for MDL case v. OpenAI, Microsoft
Read more: Court issues deposition protocol for MDL case v. OpenAI, MicrosoftMagistrate Judge Ona Wang just issued the order for the deposition protocol. The allocation of hours of depositions in the MDL case looks like this: For defendants OpenAI and Microsoft:
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Claude agrees with ChatGPT: Anthropic faces very high probability of statutory damages over $1 billion
Read more: Claude agrees with ChatGPT: Anthropic faces very high probability of statutory damages over $1 billionWe ran the same Monte Carlo simulation using largely the same assumptions as we did with ChatGPT, although we did specify with Claude 6 million as the max for works (even though it can theoretically be some number under 7 million). The results, not surprisingly, nearly the same. ChatGPT probabilities of damages amount in Anthropic…
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Will Anthropic suffer “Napster-like” fate? We asked ChatGPT.
Read more: Will Anthropic suffer “Napster-like” fate? We asked ChatGPT.More and more it looks like December 1, 2025 will be a day of reckoning for Anthropic. After Judge Alsup certified a class action of authors’ whose books were downloaded by Anthropic in 2 shadow libraries of pirated books (Library Genesis and PiLiMi), and after the judge ruled that such downloading and storage by Anthropic…
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Code Red: Facing potential business-ending liability, Anthropic adds trial attorney Daralyn Durie & 6 attorneys from MoFo to defense team in Bartz. Plus, adds trial attorney Louis Tompros & 5 attorneys from Wilmer to defense v. Concord Music.
Read more: Code Red: Facing potential business-ending liability, Anthropic adds trial attorney Daralyn Durie & 6 attorneys from MoFo to defense team in Bartz. Plus, adds trial attorney Louis Tompros & 5 attorneys from Wilmer to defense v. Concord Music.It’s a code red at Anthropic. The company is fighting for its very existence now. Within 24 hours of Judge Alsup’s certification of a class of potentially several million works, Anthropic hired two new law firms, with teams of 13 new trial attorneys total, including prominent trial attorneys Daralyn Durie of Morrison Foerster and Louis…
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Will a jury in SF decide Anthropic’s business fate? Most likely yes.
Read more: Will a jury in SF decide Anthropic’s business fate? Most likely yes.September 1 and December 1, 2025. These dates may determine Anthropic’s business fate. And, by business fate, I mean Anthropic’s continued existence. Some readers may think I’m being hyperbolic. I wish I were. But the grim reality is that Anthropic now faces a class action (subject to the plaintiffs’ meeting the condition of preparing a…
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Magistrate Judge Cisneros grants Stability AI’s motion to bar Sarah Andersen’s expert Dr. Ben Yanbin Zhao from viewing AI companies’ confidential information due to his competitive efforts to poison image data
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cisneros grants Stability AI’s motion to bar Sarah Andersen’s expert Dr. Ben Yanbin Zhao from viewing AI companies’ confidential information due to his competitive efforts to poison image dataDr.Ben Yanin Zhao, one of Sarah Andersen’s experts, cannot get access to confidential information, including datasets of Stability AI and other defendants in Andersen v. Stability AI. His adversarial work on developing tools to poison images so they sabotage AI models’ ability to learn from them, plus his unwillingness to say he would no longer…
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Judge Oetken allows New York law misappropriation claim by voice actors v. Lovo AI co., and limited copryight claim based on Sage’s sound recordings
Read more: Judge Oetken allows New York law misappropriation claim by voice actors v. Lovo AI co., and limited copryight claim based on Sage’s sound recordingsJudge Oetken’s decision on Lovo, Inc.’s motion to dismiss is finally out. Some of the claims of the voice actors Paul Lerhma and Linnea Sage survived: “The motion is denied as to Sage’s copyright claims based on the use of her original voice recording, and as to Plaintiffs’ contract claims, New York Civil Rights Law…