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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

On 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.…
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NYT: OpenAI, Google, Meta “cut corners, ignored corporate policies and debated bending the law” in AI arms race

New York Times journalists published a stunning expose on internal machinations of OpenAI, Google, and Meta. Well worth a read. The highlights include the following allegations: The article was authored by Cade Metz, Cecilia Kang, Sheera Frenkel, Stuart A. Thompson, and Nico Grant.
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Jill Leovy (JL) files opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss

Not sure when it happened, but the anonymous plaintifs in J.L. v. Alphabet have revealed themselves in their opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint. The lead plaintiff is Jill Leovy (J.L.).
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Microsoft hires Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of Google DeepMind

The big news yesterday in the AI sector is that Microsoft hired Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind acquired by Google and current CEO of Inflection AI, a startup he co-founded. In his announcement, Suleyman said that he is the CEO of Microsoft AI, and will be overseeing “all consumer AI products and research, including…
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Google CEO Pichai sends memo on mishap w/ Gemini images: “completely unacceptable”

Alphabet (aka Google) rebranded its AI model from Bard to Gemini. But the buzz over Google’s AI fizzled after people soon generated images on Gemini that were historically inaccurate and seemed to be rendering people’s images in an effort to display different races and genders (more from CNN). Although such an approach might have been…
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Google’s VideoPoet: LLM for Zero-Shot Video Generation

Google AI researchers just published a fascinating paper on their VideoPoet project, a large language model that has so-called “zero-shot” capabilities. The paper is titled VideoPoet: A Large Language Model for Zero-Shot Video Generation, and has over 30 co-authors. Zero-shot learning refers to when the LLM is trained on some text classifications but then is…
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Google receives flak for staged video of multimodal Gemini demo

A day after airing a 6-minute video of its new multimodal AI program called Gemini, Google received flak after reportedly admitting to Bloomberg that the video was staged or a simulation, and not an actual demonstration of the Gemini program in real time. Google also confirmed that “the demo wasn’t conducted in real time, but…
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The motions to dismiss claims in AI copyright suits

We compiled all the motions to dismiss that have been filed (as of November 11, 2023) in the copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Google motion to dismiss claims in J.L. v. Google (filed 10/16/23) Meta motion to dismiss claims in Kadrey v. Meta Platforms (filed 9/18/23) [Judge Chhabria intends to grant] OpenAI motion to dismiss…
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Google, Microsoft, Anthropic form the AI Frontier Model Forum

After the White House announced voluntary commitments by 8 AI companies to safety measures, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced the formation of the “Frontier Model Forum, an industry body focused on ensuring safe and responsible development of frontier AI models.”
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