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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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AI circularity: NVIDIA to invest $100B in OpenAI data centers. OpenAI to buy $300B cloud computing from Oracle. Meta in talks to buy $20B from Oracle.
Read more: AI circularity: NVIDIA to invest $100B in OpenAI data centers. OpenAI to buy $300B cloud computing from Oracle. Meta in talks to buy $20B from Oracle.The business deals in AI keep coming fast and furious. In what’s call “circularity“–not to be confused with “singularity“–some of the biggest AI companies are engaging in deals with each other. Here’s a nice chart depicting circularity: NVIDIA just announced a deal for up to $100B investment in OpenAI to build data centers (which money…
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Magistrate Judge Wang decides another discovery loss for OpenAI
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang decides another discovery loss for OpenAIIn the MDL Litigation, In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang delivered yet another discovery loss to OpenAI and Microsoft. This time, Judge Wang rejected their motion to compel the New York Times to produce the content of all chat logs from NYT employees’ use of their internal generative AI program called…
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OpenAI, Microsoft reach detente. MOU renews partnership.
Read more: OpenAI, Microsoft reach detente. MOU renews partnership.A lot can change in a blink of an eye in the AI sector. In 2023, OpenAI and Microsoft were joined at the hip and appeared to be happy with that arrangement. But, things soured and just last week, Microsoft agreed to a deal with Anthropic, a competitor. Yesterday, OpenAI announced reaching a MOU with…
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Microsoft partners w/ Anthropic to hedge bets w/ OpenAI
Read more: Microsoft partners w/ Anthropic to hedge bets w/ OpenAIIn 2023, Microsoft launched its Co-Pilot with OpenAI’s models and appeared to take a lead over Google in AI. Today, that lead has evaporated. And now Microsoft is hedging its bets with OpenAI and striking a deal with Anthropic. If the AI arms race doesn’t become a Netflix series, a big fail.
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Denial v. OpenAI Complaint (PDF): Joseph Saveri Firm files another suit, raising total to 10 AI copyright suits
Read more: Denial v. OpenAI Complaint (PDF): Joseph Saveri Firm files another suit, raising total to 10 AI copyright suitsThe complaint in Denial v. OpenAI alleges that OpenAI and Microsoft committed infringement by using the plaintiffs’ non-book textual works, downloaded from shadow libraries, including BookCorpus, LibGen1, LibGen2, or scraped from the Internet. Here are the 2 proposed classes: The claims against OpenAI and Microsoft: Excerpt from Complaint Allegations related to Direct Infringement DOWNLOAD THE…
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How many lawyers does it take to defend OpenAI from copyright suits? Around 50.
Read more: How many lawyers does it take to defend OpenAI from copyright suits? Around 50.OpenAI keeps adding to its team of lawyers now in the MDL litigation, In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, with the recent additions of Stephen James Barrett and Jura Christine Zibas of Wilson Elser. By my unofficial count, there are 50 lawyers representing OpenAI in defense of the 13 lawsuits in the MDL Litigation (some of…
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OpenAI proposes 217 hours of depositions for OpenAI witnesses. Plaintiffs want 255 more hours. Open says Plaintiffs asked irrelevant questions, including: What’s your least favorite Joyce novel?
Read more: OpenAI proposes 217 hours of depositions for OpenAI witnesses. Plaintiffs want 255 more hours. Open says Plaintiffs asked irrelevant questions, including: What’s your least favorite Joyce novel?Interesting disagreement in the MDL litigation, In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, over the number of hours the plaintiffs should get for the depositions of OpenAI witnesses. One of the greatest efficiencies of MDL Litigation is the streamlining of depositions and avoidance of repetitive depositions of the same witness. Plaintiffs want 255 hours, not including…
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Bing app adds Sora video creator
Read more: Bing app adds Sora video creatorThe Bing app has added for free the ability to create videos (through OpenAI’s Sora).
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Judge Stein appoints Justin A. Nelson of Susman Godfey as Interim Lead Class Counsel in MDL suits v. OpenAI
Read more: Judge Stein appoints Justin A. Nelson of Susman Godfey as Interim Lead Class Counsel in MDL suits v. OpenAIJudge Stein is moving the MDL litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft forward. Upon the motion of the Authors Guild, the Judge just appointed Justin A. Nelson, a partner at Susman Godfrey, as the interim lead class counsel for plaintiffs. Judge Stein rejected the proposed bifurcation of suits submitted by Nelson and Rachel Geman, seeking the…