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New York Times orders staff to use AI tools

As first reported by Jess Weatherbed in the Verge, the New York Times has reportedly instructed its staff to use AI tools, including its internal AI tool named Echo, “GitHub Copilot as a programming assistant, Google Vertex AI for product development, NotebookLM, the NYT’s ChatExplorer, OpenAI’s non-ChatGPT API, and some of Amazon’s AI products.” The New…
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OpenAI Board rejects Elon Musk’s offer to buy OpenAI

OpenAI’s Board issued a statement rejecting Elon Musk’s $97 billion offer to buy OpenAI, even though Elon Musk has his own AI company called xAI. Musk has also sued OpenAI and Microsoft alleging various claims, including antitrust violations. This is the second lawsuit Musk has brought against OpenAI, a company that he formerly provided funding…
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Elon Musk makes $97.4B offer to buy OpenAI

Elon Musk and a group of investors have offered to buy, unsolicited, OpenAI for $97.4 billion, as first reported by the Wall Street Journal. That price seems low, given that OpenAI was recently valued at $300 billion. UPDATE: But the $97.4 billion offer apparently may complicate OpenAI’s attempt to convert from nonprofit to for-profit company.…
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Millette plaintiffs don’t oppose dismissal of their state law claims v. OpenAI

The Millette plaintiffs, creators of YouTube videos, waved the white flag on their state law claims against OpenAI. Instead of opposing OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the First Amended Complaint, they do not oppose. Unclear whether the plaintiffs had intended to use the state law claims as a Trojan horse in effect. The only claims they…
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Evidence of Meta’s use of LibGen dataset and seeding torrents to share files. Wanted to compete with OpenAI and Mistral.

We are compiling some of the publicly released exhibits by the Kadrey plaintiffs (to PLAINTIFFS’ MOTION FOR RELIEF FROM NON-DISPOSITIVE PRETRIAL ORDER OF MAGISTRATE JUDGE, see DI 417). Email: Request for decision: LibGen Escalation OneLLM [Exhibit B to Pritt Declaration] First up is this email regarding the decision to use LibGen and why. Sony Theakanath…
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OpenAI strikes back with Deep Research with Pro subscription

OpenAI announced on Sunday an impressive new feature called Deep Research. It basically can perform like your research assistant–or expert. The “strikes back” is a reference to the tumultuous week OpenAI had with the so-called DeepSeek moment from a startup based in China. The AI arms race is heating up. Unfortunately, it’s available only with…
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Parties’ chart of discovery disputes in Authors Guild v. OpenAI

Parties have filed their handy-dandy chart outlining the discovery disputes for the conference before Magistrate Judge Wang on January 22.
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Magistrate Judge Ona Wang deluged with motions to compel discovery in Authors Guild, New York Times lawsuits v. OpenAI

Magistrate Judge Ona Wang is overseeing discovery in the consolidated AI lawsuits involving the book authors (Authors Guild et al.) and the newspapers (New York Times, Daily News et al. and Center for Investigative Reporting). In the past couple of days, Magistrate Judge Wang has been deluged with motions to compel discovery and joint letters…
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Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic, opposes deposition in Tremblay v. OpenAI re: the work he did for OpenAI in past

We are beginning to see some discovery skirmishes in the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation. Benjamin Mann filed a motion to quash the subpoena lodged by the plaintiffs for his deposition. Mann points out that he doesn’t work for OpenAI and doesn’t have any special knowledge that current OpenAI employees wouldn’t know themselves. And, yet,…
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Tremblay plaintiffs seek discovery re: torrents from OpenAI

Magistrate Judge Illson denied several discovery motions of the Tremblay book author plaintiffs. Yet, one interesting revelation from the order is that the plaintiffs are seeking discovery related to the word “torrents” from OpenAI. Here’s the Judge’s discussion: As to RFP No. 45 (Use of Torrents), Plaintiffs concede that OpenAI did not and is not…
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