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Midjourney announces community-backed research lab for medical body scanning. New medical spa to open in SF in 2027.
Read more: Midjourney announces community-backed research lab for medical body scanning. New medical spa to open in SF in 2027.Midjourney just took a moonshot into medical scanning, previewing a new, one-of-a-kind Full Body Ultrasonic Computational Tomography. In a post titled “A New Kind of Research Lab,” Midjourney, the company behind the popular AI image generator, explained: We’re building a bold new kind of machine to reimagine the foundations of healthcare and our relationships to…
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Shakespeare sues Anthropic & Dario Amodei for copyright infringement. New suit filed by 100 authors. Plaintiffs seek up to $71.4 million from Anthropic.
Read more: Shakespeare sues Anthropic & Dario Amodei for copyright infringement. New suit filed by 100 authors. Plaintiffs seek up to $71.4 million from Anthropic.As Anthropic’s valuation as a company grows so do the number of copyright lawsuits against it. Today, Thomas William Shakespeare from London, along with 99 other authors, sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the Northern District of California. All 100 authors allegedly opted out of the Bartz class settlement (with Laura…
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Adobe directors, officers sued again by shareholders for Adobe’s alleged use of SlimPajama dataset to train AI
Read more: Adobe directors, officers sued again by shareholders for Adobe’s alleged use of SlimPajama dataset to train AIAdobe directors and officers were sued again by shareholders. Hirschberger v. Narayen, filed in the Northern District of California, is similar to SEIU Pension Plan v. Narayen before Judge Orrick. The theory is that Adobe misrepresented that it was training its AI models on licensed content and instead relied on unlicensed materials in the SlimPajama…
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Book publishers sue WeLib, “a free digital library platform offering over 43 million books and 98 million academic papers”
Read more: Book publishers sue WeLib, “a free digital library platform offering over 43 million books and 98 million academic papers”After getting a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, Apress Media and other big book publishers are suing WeLib, “a free digital library platform offering over 43 million books and 98 million academic papers.” This is copyright lawsuit No. 116. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT:
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Karl Kahn sues Anthropic in class action for alleged misrepresentation and false advertising in promoting Max 20x plans for Claude allegedly as “deliver[ing] … twenty times greater” than usage limit for Pro plan.
Read more: Karl Kahn sues Anthropic in class action for alleged misrepresentation and false advertising in promoting Max 20x plans for Claude allegedly as “deliver[ing] … twenty times greater” than usage limit for Pro plan.Karl Kahn sued Anthropic in a proposed class action for alleged misrepresentation and false advertising in promoting Max 20x plans. Kahn alleges: “5. In its offer of monthly subscriptions to Claude, Defendant misleads prospective customers into believing that its higher priced tier for individual subscriptions, Max 20x, delivers expanded usage of twenty times greater than…
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UMG Recordings files reply in support of leave to file 2d Amended Complaint v. Suno
Read more: UMG Recordings files reply in support of leave to file 2d Amended Complaint v. SunoUMG Recordings filed its reply in support of its motion for leave to file a Second Amended Complaint, adding more than 60,000 works to the scope of the copyright infringement claim. Suno’s opposition is here: The case is before Judge Saylor in the District of Massachusetts. Excerpt of UMG Recordings’ reply: DOWNLOAD THE REPLY OF…
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Anthropic shuts down Fable 5, Mythos class model, after US gov’t imposes export control barring use by foreign nationals.
Read more: Anthropic shuts down Fable 5, Mythos class model, after US gov’t imposes export control barring use by foreign nationals.Public access to Fable 5, the latest Mythos class model of Anthropic, was abruptly shut down on Friday, only a few days after its launch. Anthropic received notice from the U.S. government that it had imposed an export control on Fable 5, barring use of it by any foreign national, here and abroad. As Anthropic…
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New York Times’ contributory infringement claims fails under Supreme Court’s standard set forth in Cox Communications, says OpenAI
Read more: New York Times’ contributory infringement claims fails under Supreme Court’s standard set forth in Cox Communications, says OpenAIThe Supreme Court’s recent clarification in Cox Communication v. Sony Music Entertainment that claims for contributory infringement under copyright law requires proof of intentional conduct by a provider of a service has now entered the picture in one of the most important set of cases, In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. As we predicted, Cox…