Category: Mark Zuckerberg

Meta becomes the heavyweight in US open-weight models

Mark Zuckerberg announced the release of Muse Glimmer as an open-weight model and soon Muse Spark 1.2 as well Meta had originally released its LLaMa models as open-weight models, but appeared to shift to close models to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. But today’s announcement signals a shift back to open weight models. This is…
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Mark Zuckerberg at Meta: agentic AI development not as fast

After Mark Zuckerberg went all-in on AI at Meta, the company has experience some setbacks. First, its LLaMa model flagged behind the state of the art models by competitors. Then, the company shifted from token maxxing to token rationing, according to the New York Times, due to the high costs of token maxxing. And now…
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Michael Sullivan and textbook authors sue Mark Zuckerberg, Meta for copyright infringement

Meta just get hit with its 16th AI copyright lawsuit. Mark Zuckerberg was named, too. Zuckerberg is named in three such lawsuits: Elsevier, Hobbs, and this one. Michael Sullivan and other textbook authors have alleged similar allegations of torrenting and training with their copyrighted works as alleged in other book author lawsuits, including Kadrey v.…
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Mark Zuckerberg is sued for copyright infringement by Elsevier and book publishers. Total hits 105.

Elsevier and other book publishers have filed today a copyright suit against Mark Zuckerberg as well as Meta. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York. The publishers allege copyright infringement in torrenting of datasets from shadow libraries, web scraping, training AI models, along with contributory infringement and removal of CMI in…
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Meta hit with more lawsuits over AI glasses and alleged privacy violation, fraud

Adding to its woes, Meta got hit with more lawsuits related to the controversy over its Meta AI Glasses. Swedish reporters Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten’s report on February 27, 2026 alleged that Meta’s subcontractors in Kenya were receiving video feeds from wearers of Meta Glasses, including in intimate moments. From the article, the workers told the…
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Meta reply in support of dismissing Strike 3 Holdings’ copyright suit

Meta filed its reply supporting its motion to dismiss Strike 3 Holdings’ complaint. Excerpts: DOWNLOAD META’S REPLY Related Stories
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Billie Eilish donates $11.5 million to charity and politely nudges Mark Zuckerberg to donate more

Billie 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.

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.

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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Meta’s Superintelligence team gets off to rocky start

After Mark Zuckerberg threw lavish pay packages worth $300 million or more to lure top AI researchers (and even $1 billion offered to Mira Murati and other elite AI researchers), the new Superintelligence team has gotten off to a rocky start, with even some who have left. More from the Wall St. Journal. The new…
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