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Third Circuit’s opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence now available
Read more: Third Circuit’s opinion in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence now availableThe Third Circuit just published its decision affirming summary judgment to Thomson Reuters and rejecting fair use in ROSS Intelligence’s use of Westlaw headnotes in memos to train its AI model. This is a huge win for Thomson Reuters. But the Third Circuit distinguishes this case from generative AI cases, such as Bartz and Kadrey.…
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Pres. Trump secures agreement from AI companies for “tremendous self-regulation” and addressing Americans’ concerns about data centers
Read more: Pres. Trump secures agreement from AI companies for “tremendous self-regulation” and addressing Americans’ concerns about data centersIn addition to launching a new AI-powered government website at America.gov, President Trump held a meeting at the White House with 20 of the top AI executives. ““There’s a belief that there should be tremendous self-regulation, and we automatically have regulation with the Department of Justice, the FBI, all of that,” Trump stated. The AI…
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Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence. Opinion under seal for now.
Read more: Third Circuit affirms summary judgment rejection of fair use defense by ROSS Intelligence. Opinion under seal for now.Probably as expected from the oral argument, the Third Circuit affirmed Judge Bibas’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Thompson Reuters for copyright infringement and rejecting the fair use defense of ROSS Intelligence in its use of Westlaw headnotes in memos used to train its AI model. Judge Montgomery-Reeves is listed as the author…
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Pres. Trump launches new America.gov website powered by AI
Read more: Pres. Trump launches new America.gov website powered by AIPres. Trump announced the launching of a new America.gov website, sleek, modern, and powered by AI, including AI search capability. Instead of the byzantine maze of government websites, America.gov can help Americans find information. The new website was led by U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia, co-founder of Airbnb: I took a quick tour through…
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OpenAI apologizes to Australia for delayed notice of rogue AI hacking
Read more: OpenAI apologizes to Australia for delayed notice of rogue AI hackingOpenAI has issued another apology (the first was to Tumbler Ridge, Canada for the mass shooting), this time to Australia for the delayed notification of the rogue AI hacking incident on Australian health care website. Here’s the relevant portion: “Rebuilding trust with Australians Australia’s governments, industries, and citizens are and have been invaluable partners to…
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Pres. Trump holds meeting with AI executives today
Read more: Pres. Trump holds meeting with AI executives todayToday, the top executives from U.S. AI companies will be meeting at the White House to discuss AI related issues with the President.
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Anthropic’s S-1 for IPO reportedly spends 80 pages on risks, including “existential risk” to humans. Details of copyright risk to company yet to be reported.
Read more: Anthropic’s S-1 for IPO reportedly spends 80 pages on risks, including “existential risk” to humans. Details of copyright risk to company yet to be reported.As first reported by Reuters, Anthropic’s S-1 for its IPO includes some 80 of 261 pages detailing potential risks the company faces, far more coverage than in a typical prospectus, such as SpaceX devoting 38 of 277 pages. For more coverage, see here, here, and here. As we predicted, Anthropic needed to include the existential…
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Florida AG asks for a preliminary injunction to stop OpenAI from releasing new models
Read more: Florida AG asks for a preliminary injunction to stop OpenAI from releasing new modelsIn a lawsuit filed by the State of Florida against OpenAI that was already pending, the Florida Attorney General filed a motion for preliminary injunction to stop OpenAI from releasing new models due to safety risks. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE MOTION:
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Sarah Andersen’s copyright case schedule gets extended by 3 months
Read more: Sarah Andersen’s copyright case schedule gets extended by 3 monthsJudge Orrick approved the plaintiffs’ motion for an amendment to the case schedule. The new schedule is: Looks like summary judgment motions won’t get resolved until the end of 2027 at the earliest.