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Getty Images says Stability AI refuses to commence discovery in Getty Images v. Stability AI
Read more: Getty Images says Stability AI refuses to commence discovery in Getty Images v. Stability AIThe docket in Getty Images v. Stability has been dormant for over 2 months. Now we may know why. Getty Images submitted a letter to Judge Jennifer Hall, alleging that “Defendants have refused to participate in a Rule 26(f) conference or to otherwise commence merits discovery.” The letter doesn’t indicate Stability’s position, but it presumable…
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Google Pixel camera enhanced with AI to Reimagine every photo with text prompts
Read more: Google Pixel camera enhanced with AI to Reimagine every photo with text promptsThe convergence of AI with the smartphone continues. Google just announced a new Pixel 9 series camera, with AI features, including a text-to-image editing feature that enables you to Reimagine your photos using text prompts. The breakdown of such an image can be written as the following formula: Your photo + Reimagine elements using AI…
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Google pulls AI letter writing ad from Olympics coverage. How many AI missteps will Google makes?
Read more: Google pulls AI letter writing ad from Olympics coverage. How many AI missteps will Google makes?Google reportedly pulled a TV commercial ad it ran during the Olympics coverage. It depicts an African American father using Google’s AI assistant Gemini to help his daughter write a fan letter for his daughter to U.S. Olympic team hurdler Sydney McClaughlin-Levrone. The commercial doesn’t say that Gemini wrote the final letter, but it does…
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Google reportedly scales back AI Overviews to fix mistakes
Read more: Google reportedly scales back AI Overviews to fix mistakesNico Grant of the New York Times reports today that Google has sharply scaled back the presence of AI Overviews for its search engine after a disastrous rollout of wrong, inappropriate, or even unsafe information being generated by AI. The AI Overviews now appear only for limited searches, apparently. The glitch with AI Overviews follows…
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Google fumbles again, this time with error-filled AI Overviews
Read more: Google fumbles again, this time with error-filled AI OverviewsWell, all the goodwill from the impressive Google I/O debut of its AI programs a couple weeks ago seems to have been squandered in a disastrous rollout of AI Overviews at the top of the page of Google search. The idea behind AI Overviews is to enhance a Google search with additional information compiled by…
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Sony Music warns Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, hundreds of companies against unauthorized scraping & use of music to train AI
Read more: Sony Music warns Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, hundreds of companies against unauthorized scraping & use of music to train AISony Music has reportedly sent warning letters to 700 companies, including Google, OpenAI, and Microsoft, against the unauthorized scraping in data mining and use to train AI models. On its website, Sony Music stated: “ Evolutions in technology have frequently shifted the course of creative industries. AI will likely continue that long-standing trend. However, that…
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Google I/O impresses with immediate Gemini response to GPT-4o
Read more: Google I/O impresses with immediate Gemini response to GPT-4oOn May 13, 2024, OpenAI showcased its new model GPT-4o (o for omni) a multi-modal model with vision, voice, text, and video. Not to be outdone, Google showcased its upgraded Gemini model 1.5 at its I/O conference a day later, along with other applications. This shows that Google has clearly upped its AI game to…
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Microsoft gambled on OpenAI due to fear of need to close Google’s lead in AI
Read more: Microsoft gambled on OpenAI due to fear of need to close Google’s lead in AIWriting for Yahoo! Finance, Leah Nylen and Shirin Ghaffary reported the contents of internal emails that are now a part of the discovery in U.S. Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Google. One email to Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and co-founder Bill Gates in 2019 from Microsoft’s chief technology officer, Kevin Scott, indicated he…
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Daily News and 7 other newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft in new copyright lawsuit v. AI (PDF Complaint)
Read more: Daily News and 7 other newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft in new copyright lawsuit v. AI (PDF Complaint)A group of major newspapers, including lead plaintiff Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Sun-Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Denver Post, Orange County Register, and St. Paul Pioneer Press, filed a new copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. This now brings the total number of AI copyright lawsuits to 22 in the United States.…
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Joseph Saveri Law Firm files another AI copyright lawsuit, Zhang v. Google, on behalf of visual artists
Read more: Joseph Saveri Law Firm files another AI copyright lawsuit, Zhang v. Google, on behalf of visual artistsOn April 26, 2024, the Joseph Saveri Law Firm filed yet another copyright lawsuit against AI companies, Zhang v. Google. If our tally is correct, this brings the Saveri Law Firm’s total number of AI lawsuits brought to 8 lawsuits, making it the law firm with–by far–the most AI copyright lawsuits in the United States.…