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Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) skyrockets in Shanghai IPO
Read more: Chinese memory chipmaker CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) skyrockets in Shanghai IPOCXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) had a splashy IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, increasing 466% in share value. CXMT makes memory chips in the same market as Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung. AI demand has made memory chips scarce.
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Elon Musk: China may become world leader in AI
Read more: Elon Musk: China may become world leader in AIIn an interview with the Economist’s Editor in Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes, Elon Musk said that China may become the world leader in AI. The only thing now preventing it is China’s lower computing power. But that could change. China already has the big advantage in electricity capacity versus the U.S., a 3 to 1…
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After China’s Kimi Moment, US AI companies suddenly tout open-weight models in letter
Read more: After China’s Kimi Moment, US AI companies suddenly tout open-weight models in letterAfter China’s Kimi-K3 open-weight model spooked the U.S. AI industry, major AI companies and CEOs have suddenly issued their own group statement in favor of open-weight models in the United States. That’s no coincidence. This looks like an effort to stop U.S. government regulation of open-weight models, including from China. The letter on open weight…
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Google suffers another legal setback as Judge Breyer grants David Greene’s “voice likeness” case back to state court. Not preempted by Copyright Act.
Read more: Google suffers another legal setback as Judge Breyer grants David Greene’s “voice likeness” case back to state court. Not preempted by Copyright Act.Google suffered another legal setback. First, its case against SerpApi was dismissed. And now David Greene’s lawsuit against Google was just remanded back to state court. Judge Breyer held the claims were based on “voice likeness” outputs, and not inputs used to train Google’s AI models. Therefore, they were not preempted by the Copyright Act.…
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India Delhi High Court rejects injunction, ruling OpenAI likely did not infringe news agency ANI Media’s copyright. AI training is prima facie fair dealing under India copyright law. Court cites Bartz, Kadrey, Google Books decisions.
Read more: India Delhi High Court rejects injunction, ruling OpenAI likely did not infringe news agency ANI Media’s copyright. AI training is prima facie fair dealing under India copyright law. Court cites Bartz, Kadrey, Google Books decisions.The High Court of Delhi in India just published a major ruling holding that, on the motion for preliminary injunction, OpenAI did not infringe the copyright of news agency ANI Media. The High Court held it was prima facie fair dealing under India’s Section 52(1)(a) to use copyrighted works to train AI models. Plus, the…
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Citing Supreme Court’s decision in Cox, Midjourney asks for judgment on the pleadings that Disney’s contributory infringement claim fails as a matter of law
Read more: Citing Supreme Court’s decision in Cox, Midjourney asks for judgment on the pleadings that Disney’s contributory infringement claim fails as a matter of lawThe fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment continues. Following OpenAI’s successful strategy, Midjourney has asked the court for judgment on the pleadings and a ruling that Disney’s claim of contributory infringement fails as a matter of law. Judge Kronstadt presides. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD MIDJOURNEY’S MOTION: Related Story:
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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…