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Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million to charity and politely nudges Mark Zuckerberg to donate more
Read more: Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million to charity and politely nudges Mark Zuckerberg to donate moreBillie Eilish gave impromptu remarks after receiving a Wall Street Journal Innovator’s Award for music. While Mark Zuckerberg was in attendance to watch his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan accept the Innovator’s Award for philanthropy, Eilish said: We’re in a time right now where the world is really, really bad and really dark and people need…
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Status of all 57 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 26, 2025): Apple hit with 3 lawsuits.
Read more: Status of all 57 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 26, 2025): Apple hit with 3 lawsuits.The U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies continue unabated. Here are the Top 5 news items: 1. Apple joins the copyright party. Although Apple has been roundly criticized for its slow development of Apple Intelligence, that hasn’t stopped book authors from suing Apple for copyright infringement in proposed class actions. In addition to the earlier…
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Status of all 51 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 8, 2025): no more decisions on fair use in 2025.
Read more: Status of all 51 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 8, 2025): no more decisions on fair use in 2025.It’s been a hot minute since our last status report. Right now, we are in the doldrums of discovery. We do not expect any other summary judgment decisions on fair use in AI training until summer 2026 at the earliest. So far, 3 judges ruled on fair use, 2 for and 1 against. But their…
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Should Meta change its name to Superintelligence? Zuckerberg plays hardball in hiring AI researchers away from OpenAI with millions in bonuses
Read more: Should Meta change its name to Superintelligence? Zuckerberg plays hardball in hiring AI researchers away from OpenAI with millions in bonusesMark Zuckerberg is reportedly throwing millions of dollars in signing bonuses to lure the top AI researchers from OpenAI and other companies. Zuckerberg has formed a new Superintelligence Labs division within Meta, led by Alexandr Wang, formerly of Scale. The aggressive, scorched-earth strategy by Zuckerberg comes after a recent release of LlaMa that was a…
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Meta prevails on fair use in AI training in Kadrey v. Meta. But Judge Chhabria cautions a better record of dilution or market harm could prevail in other cases.
Read more: Meta prevails on fair use in AI training in Kadrey v. Meta. But Judge Chhabria cautions a better record of dilution or market harm could prevail in other cases.Judge Chhabria just issued his decision granting Meta partial summary judgment on fair use. But Judge Chabbira did so reluctantly, stating that the plaintiffs failed to present sufficient evidence of market dilution but expecting in other cases a better record of market dilution would have a different result. Indeed, on p. 1 of the opinion,…
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Today Judge Chhabria is the most important judge in the AI copyright lawsuits
Read more: Today Judge Chhabria is the most important judge in the AI copyright lawsuitsWith dueling summary judgment motions on illegal file sharing and fair use fully briefed, Judge Vince Chhabria is today the most important federal judge in all of the 41 lawsuits against AI companies in the United States. Given the timing, Judge Chhabria is poised to be the first federal judge to make a ruling on…