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News Corp. files copyright infringement counterclaims v. Brave Software in revived lawsuit
Read more: News Corp. files copyright infringement counterclaims v. Brave Software in revived lawsuitNews Corp. filed copyright infringement counterclaims to Brave Software’s declaratory judgment of non-infringement action. This case was voluntarily dismissed in 2025 but then refiled in May 2026 by Brave Software. (We are still counting this as one case from the first filing.) Excerpt: DOWNLOAD NEWS CORP. ANSWER AND COUNTERCLAIMS
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Has China outflanked the U.S. in global AI arms race? What the Kimi Moment suggests.
Read more: Has China outflanked the U.S. in global AI arms race? What the Kimi Moment suggests.China’s ambition to be the world leader in AI is no secret. China announced these ambitions as early as 2018 in its “Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan.” It’s now clear how far China has come. Just this past week, China hosted the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, with much fanfare. The global…
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Judge Gonzalez Rogers dismisses Google’s DMCA anti-circumvention claim v. SerpApi for alleged circumvention of SearchGuard v. scraping Google results
Read more: Judge Gonzalez Rogers dismisses Google’s DMCA anti-circumvention claim v. SerpApi for alleged circumvention of SearchGuard v. scraping Google resultsJudge Gonzalez Rogers just dismissed Google’s DMCA anti-circumvention claim against SerpApi for allegedly circumventing Google’s SearchGuard “challenge” to prevent SerpApi from scraping Google search results. The decision is nuanced. First, the Judge dismissed with prejudice Google’s claim “as a matter of law to the extent that they are premised on instances where SearchGuard controls access…
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Judge Martínez-Olguín approves historic Bartz v. Anthropic Class Action settlement but reduces attorneys’ fee award to $101,561,111 instead of $187,500,000 sought
Read more: Judge Martínez-Olguín approves historic Bartz v. Anthropic Class Action settlement but reduces attorneys’ fee award to $101,561,111 instead of $187,500,000 soughtJudge Araceli Martínez-Olguín just issued the final approval of the historic $1.5 billion class action settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic. The Judge approved the settlement but reduced the attorneys’ fee award from the requested $187.5 million to $101,561,111. Instead of the “a multiplier of 6.92 on Class Counsel’s estimated lodestar of $27,082,963” sought by Class…
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After Judge Hellerstein denies leave to amend to add 30,000 songs to case, Sony Music turns around and files a 2d lawsuit v. Udio alleging 30,000 songs infringed
Read more: After Judge Hellerstein denies leave to amend to add 30,000 songs to case, Sony Music turns around and files a 2d lawsuit v. Udio alleging 30,000 songs infringedSony Music Entertainment just sued Uncharted Labs d/b/a Udio in a second copyright lawsuit to allege Udio infringed 30,000+ additional songs. The second lawsuit comes less than a month after Judge Hellerstein denied Sony leave to amend the complaint to add those 30,000+ additional songs. See his Order below: This strategy is similar to the…
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Alliance for a Better Utah v. Kevin O’Leary, FOX News. Mr. Wonderful sued for alleged defamation in attacking opposition to his planned data center
Read more: Alliance for a Better Utah v. Kevin O’Leary, FOX News. Mr. Wonderful sued for alleged defamation in attacking opposition to his planned data centerKevin O’Leary aka “Mr. Wonderful” from Shark Tank and FOX News were sued for defamation. The suit stems from comments O’Leary made on FOX News to attack the opponents of his planned data center in Utah. The complaint filed by the Alliance for a Better Utah alleges that O’Leary attacked them as “proxies for the…
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Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 128
Read more: Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 128We updated the U.S. Map of Copyright Suits v. AI Companies. The new total = 128. We added 13 new cases since mid June’s map. How many lawwsuits do you predict by the end of 2026? DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THE MAP WITH LINKS TO EACH DOCKET:
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Do US AI companies have a responsibility to invest in America? Consider Claude Corps
Read more: Do US AI companies have a responsibility to invest in America? Consider Claude CorpsAll the talk about establishing an American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund has raised important questions about the responsibilities of U.S. AI companies — and Big Tech Companies — in giving back to Americans instead of single-mindedly trying to make profits, such as through surveillance capitalism. Anthropic recently announced teachers will get free premium access to…
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President Xi Jinping touts China as leader for AI at AI conference in Shanghai
Read more: President Xi Jinping touts China as leader for AI at AI conference in ShanghaiChina’s President Xi Jinping outlined China’s vision for AI in the world. That vision touts a “more open attitude” and a “symphony of international cooperation,” presumably a reference to the United States’ differing approach under the Trump Administration, as reported by CNBC. Meanwhile, “29 countries signed an agreement in Shanghai to establish the World Artificial…
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Is China now beating US in AI? By some measures, yes
Read more: Is China now beating US in AI? By some measures, yesThis year’s “DeepSeek moment” or “DeepSeek 2.0 moment” comes courtesy of Moonshot from China. Its open-weight model Kimi-K3 has reportedly leapfrogged all of the US models — including Anthropic’s Fable 5 — in the Frontend Code Arena, a blind benchmark test overseen by Arena.ai, by a significant amount. This was met with concern by David…