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Has China outflanked the U.S. in global AI arms race? What the Kimi Moment suggests.
Read more: Has China outflanked the U.S. in global AI arms race? What the Kimi Moment suggests.China’s ambition to be the world leader in AI is no secret. China announced these ambitions as early as 2018 in its “Next Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan.” It’s now clear how far China has come. Just this past week, China hosted the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, with much fanfare. The global…
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Is China now beating US in AI? By some measures, yes
Read more: Is China now beating US in AI? By some measures, yesThis year’s “DeepSeek moment” or “DeepSeek 2.0 moment” comes courtesy of Moonshot from China. Its open-weight model Kimi-K3 has reportedly leapfrogged all of the US models — including Anthropic’s Fable 5 — in the Frontend Code Arena, a blind benchmark test overseen by Arena.ai, by a significant amount. This was met with concern by David…
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Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127
Read more: Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127After suing Stanford University for creating the famous ImageNet datasets that allegedly include EVOX Productions’ car photographs, EVOX continues filing more lawsuits. First it was Stanford. Then it was Hugging Face, Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Now it’s Google. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT:
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Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, opted out of Bartz settlement, files 1st Amended Complaint v. Anthropic
Read more: Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, opted out of Bartz settlement, files 1st Amended Complaint v. AnthropicDaniel Benjamin Gilbert, co-author of Hacking World of Warcraft, who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthopic class action settlement, filed his First Amended Complaint against Anthropic in the District of Massachusetts. This is copyright lawsuit No. 126. (Sorry this somehow escaped our attention previously.) Claim: DOWNLOAD COMPLAINT:
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JP Morgan has to pay advancement of legal fees incurred by Charlie Javice. Does ruling cast Nanoble’s indemnity claim v. Disney in a new light?
Read more: JP Morgan has to pay advancement of legal fees incurred by Charlie Javice. Does ruling cast Nanoble’s indemnity claim v. Disney in a new light?Charlie Javice, the then-29-year-old founder of the startup Frank later acquired by JP Morgan, has already been convicted of three counts of fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud back in 2025. The fraud stemmed from inflated user numbers for the website service for student loan applications that were touted by her during…
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Disney seeks to invalidate Hailuo AI’s Terms of Use in Disney’s Answer to Nanoble’s counterclaim that Disney violated Terms of Use
Read more: Disney seeks to invalidate Hailuo AI’s Terms of Use in Disney’s Answer to Nanoble’s counterclaim that Disney violated Terms of UseThe chess match continues. Disney, Universal City Studios, and Warner Brothers filed their answer to the counterclaims raised by defendant Nanoble, provider of Hailuo AI generator. Nanoble’s Counterclaims v. Movie Studios Nanoble filed a counterclaim against the movie studios alleging that they violated the Terms of Use of Hailuo AI in generating the allegedly infringing…
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Daily News plaintiffs follow New York Times’ strategy in seeking to drop contributory infringement claims v. OpenAI and trademark dilution claims as well
Read more: Daily News plaintiffs follow New York Times’ strategy in seeking to drop contributory infringement claims v. OpenAI and trademark dilution claims as wellThe legal claims are dropping like hot potatoes in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. The Daily News and other news plaintiffs are following the New York Times’ strategy in asking Judge Stein to allow them to abandon, with prejudice, their claims for contributory infringement against OpenAI, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in…
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If United States takes equity in U.S. AI companies under Sen. Sanders’ or Pres. Trump’s plan, how would the copyright lawsuits v. those AI companies be affected?
Read more: If United States takes equity in U.S. AI companies under Sen. Sanders’ or Pres. Trump’s plan, how would the copyright lawsuits v. those AI companies be affected?Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. The idea that the U.S. government should take equity interests in U.S. AI companies, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, Microsoft, and others appears to be gaining momentum. In two different approaches, the strange bedfellows Sen. Bernie Sanders and President Donald Trump floated the idea that the U.S. government…
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Latest Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies (Jun. 11, 2026) Total = 115
Read more: Latest Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies (Jun. 11, 2026) Total = 115We added the American Federation of Musicians v. Warner Music Group lawsuit related to the musicians’ alleged right of shares of the settlements obtained by Warner Brothers and UMG Recordings against Suno and Uncharted Labs. This brings the total of copyright suits v. AI companies to 115. DOWNLOAD LATEST MAP WITH LINKS TO EACH DOCKET
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Elon Musk: human coding will be gone by end of 2026
Read more: Elon Musk: human coding will be gone by end of 2026All signs are pointing in the same direction: AI agents will replace human coding of computer programs. Elon Musk even predicts it will be over for human coding by the end of 2026. This prediction seems consistent with how rapidly Anthropic, the maker of Claude Code, is letting its AI write all the lines of…