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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…
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Did Warren Buffett fumble Apple stock by selling it too soon?
Read more: Did Warren Buffett fumble Apple stock by selling it too soon?Warren Buffett is famously not a tech investor. But his decision in 2016 to invest in Apple proved to be probably the best financial call he ever made. But Buffett inexplicably sold roughly 687.6 Apple shares starting in Q4 2023. And that could prove to be the biggest financial mistake he ever made. Berkshire did…
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Did Apple have the winning AI strategy all along? As Google, OpenAI stumble, Barron’s explains why Apple’s ‘Standard Oil’ Strategy took stock to ATH
Read more: Did Apple have the winning AI strategy all along? As Google, OpenAI stumble, Barron’s explains why Apple’s ‘Standard Oil’ Strategy took stock to ATHBarron’s published a most provocative article title “Why Apple’s ‘Standard Oil’ Strategy Is Driving the Stock to All-Time Highs.“ As Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Microsoft duke it out in developing ever more powerful models, Apple has famously failed to deliver its own AI model, not even for Siri, which instead will be based on…
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Launch of our new AI Data Center Lawsuits Tracker
Read more: Launch of our new AI Data Center Lawsuits TrackerThe majority of Americans oppose the building of new data centers in their neighborhoods, an issue that Gallup polled in May 2026. I’ll have more commentary on this poll in a future post. To add to our array of trackers — since Americans apparently like tracker maps — we created a dedicated page to track…
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Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission (MDC) passes scaled-back data center by DC Blox amidst city backlash
Read more: Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission (MDC) passes scaled-back data center by DC Blox amidst city backlashThe AI Data Center Wars continue. The Indianapolis Metropolitan Development Commission voted in favor of a scaled down data center proposed by DC Blox. Meanwhile, the Indianapolis City-County Council committee recommended to the mayor support for a moratorium measure proposed by Council President Maggie A. Lewis. The fight over data centers is raging around various parts…