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Will a jury in SF decide Anthropic’s business fate? Most likely yes.
Read more: Will a jury in SF decide Anthropic’s business fate? Most likely yes.September 1 and December 1, 2025. These dates may determine Anthropic’s business fate. And, by business fate, I mean Anthropic’s continued existence. Some readers may think I’m being hyperbolic. I wish I were. But the grim reality is that Anthropic now faces a class action (subject to the plaintiffs’ meeting the condition of preparing a…
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Judge Stein grants oral argument for OpenAI’s objection to order to store user chat logs. Hearing on June 26.
Read more: Judge Stein grants oral argument for OpenAI’s objection to order to store user chat logs. Hearing on June 26.Judge Stein granted the request of OpenAI to hold an oral argument on its motion to overrule the order of Magistrate Judge Wang to preserve all user chat logs, at least for the time being as she considered the New York Times’ argument that some relevant discovery may have been destroyed. The oral argument will…
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Sam Altman raises privacy concerns over Judge’s order that all ChatGPT user chat logs must be preserved. Calls for “AI privilege” to protect people’s chats.
Read more: Sam Altman raises privacy concerns over Judge’s order that all ChatGPT user chat logs must be preserved. Calls for “AI privilege” to protect people’s chats.After filing an objection with Judge Stein, OpenAI took to the court of public opinion to seek the reversal of Magistrate Judge Wang’s broad order requiring OpenAI to preserve all ChatGPT logs of people’s chats. Altman tweeted about OpenAI’s blog post, which invokes privacy as a core basis for their objection to Judge Wang’s Order.…
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OpenAI objects to Magistrate Judge Wang’s order to preserve all user logs
Read more: OpenAI objects to Magistrate Judge Wang’s order to preserve all user logsOpenAI filed an objection to Judge Stein asking him to overturn Magistrate Judge Wang’s recent order to preserve all output logs from ChatGPT usage, in response to the New York Times’ allegation that OpenAI destroyed output logs that should have been preserved and produced during discovery. OpenAI is also seeking oral argument. Summary of OpenAI’s…
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Judge Stein opinion rejecting OpenAI’s request for discovery of New York Times’ use of AI and revenues. Is it reversible error?
Read more: Judge Stein opinion rejecting OpenAI’s request for discovery of New York Times’ use of AI and revenues. Is it reversible error?In a 12-page opinion, Judge Sidney Stein agreed with Magistrate Judge Ona Wang’s denial of OpenAI’s motion to compel (1) the New York Times to produce information about the Times’s own use of AI tools, as well as its alleged decreases in revenues and Times’ licensing efforts; and (2) the Authors Guild book plaintiffs to…
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Magistrate Wang denies OpenAI’s motion to reconsider order to preserve output log data
Read more: Magistrate Wang denies OpenAI’s motion to reconsider order to preserve output log dataMagistrate Judge Wang denied OpenAI’s (frantic) motion to reconsider her order for OpenAI to preserve and segregate its output log data, after the New York Times had alleged that OpenAI had destroyed relevant evidence. There will be a hearing on the alleged spoliation: “The parties should come to the May 27 Spoliation Conference prepared to…
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New York Times accuses OpenAI of destruction of output log data. Magistrate Judge Wang to hold hearing.
Read more: New York Times accuses OpenAI of destruction of output log data. Magistrate Judge Wang to hold hearing.Magistrate Judge Wang is holding a hearing on May 27, 2:30 PM, to consider New York Times’ allegation that OpenAI has destroyed output log data in a way that might be spoliation of evidence. “News Plaintiffs’ request to compel OpenAI to identify the output logs it has destroyed since The Times filed its Original Complaint…
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Judge Stein allows New York Times parties to file letter re: its motion to compel OpenAI discovery regarding its destruction of output logs
Read more: Judge Stein allows New York Times parties to file letter re: its motion to compel OpenAI discovery regarding its destruction of output logsJudge Stein allowed the newspaper plaintiffs to file a supplemental letter regarding their motion to compel discovery from OpenAI regarding its destruction of output logs.
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OpenAI seeks extension to answer New York Times’ 1st amended complaint pending court’s ruling on Times’ motion to file 2d amended complaint
Read more: OpenAI seeks extension to answer New York Times’ 1st amended complaint pending court’s ruling on Times’ motion to file 2d amended complaintOpenAI asked Magistrate Judge Wang to grant an extension to answer the New York Times First Amended Complaint pending the court’s ruling on the New York Times’s motion for leave to file a second amended complaint to fix its allegations for the DMCA CMI 1202(b)(1) intentional removal of CMI claim. The request sounds eminently reasonable.…
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New York Times seeks leave to file 2d Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, Microsoft to add same allegations of CMI removal as Daily News, CIR that survived motion to dismiss
Read more: New York Times seeks leave to file 2d Amended Complaint v. OpenAI, Microsoft to add same allegations of CMI removal as Daily News, CIR that survived motion to dismissThe New York Times is seeking to file a Second Amended complaint to correct the deficiency in allegations in its First Amended Complaint’s 1202(b)(1) claim for intentional removal of CMI. The NYT parrots the same allegations as the Daily News’s and Center for Investigative Reporting’s complaints, which were more specific on the alleged removal of…