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Judge Stein reverses Magistrate Judge’s ruling on OpenAI’s attorney-client privilege to deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. Judge Stein: no waiver by OpenAI. Lisa Blatt secures huge win for OpenAI.
Read more: Judge Stein reverses Magistrate Judge’s ruling on OpenAI’s attorney-client privilege to deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. Judge Stein: no waiver by OpenAI. Lisa Blatt secures huge win for OpenAI.Judge Stein issued the long-awaited decision on OpenAI’s appeal of Magistrate Judge Wang’s ruling that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege as to the deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. It’s a complete reversal and a major win for OpenAI, who hired Supreme Court litigator Lisa Blatt to brief the appeal. Trial attorney Robert Van Nast…
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Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercial throws shade at OpenAI for ads in ChatGPT. VIDEOS
Read more: Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercial throws shade at OpenAI for ads in ChatGPT. VIDEOSAnthropic is throwing off the gloves. It plan on airing a commercial during the Super Bowl throwing shade at OpenAI for its plan to allow ads in ChatGPT chats. The first video is reportedly (per WSJ) the one that will air: But this one is my favorite: Also clever: Love it: Brilliant!
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Judge Gonzalez-Rogers appoints book author Hendrix’s lawyers William Dreher of Keller Rohrback LLP and Rohit Nath of Susman Godfrey LLP as Interim Co-Lead Counsel in consolidated suits v. Apple
Read more: Judge Gonzalez-Rogers appoints book author Hendrix’s lawyers William Dreher of Keller Rohrback LLP and Rohit Nath of Susman Godfrey LLP as Interim Co-Lead Counsel in consolidated suits v. AppleWilliam Dreher of Keller Rohrback LLP, and Rohit Nath from Susman Godfrey LLP, who represent the book authors Hendrix in Hendrix v. Apple, were appointed Interim Co-Lead Counsel in the now consolidated case involving also Alexander v. Apple and Martinez-Conde v. Apple. After briefing and a hearing this week, Judge Gonzalez-Rogers picked Rohrback and Nath over the lawyers…
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Bloomberg files Answer in Huckabee book author suit
Read more: Bloomberg files Answer in Huckabee book author suitBloomberg recentLy filed its Answer in the copyright suit filed by book authors Huckabee. The Answer mainly denies the allegations or says it “lacks knowledge or information sufficient to admit or deny the allegations of this paragraph about Plaintiff.” DOWNLOAD BLOOMBERG’S ANSWER
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Magistrate Judge Wang gives OpenAI until midnight tonight to object to Plaintiffs’ request for Ilya Sutskever memos and all depositions from Musk v. Altman suit
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang gives OpenAI until midnight tonight to object to Plaintiffs’ request for Ilya Sutskever memos and all depositions from Musk v. Altman suitMagistrate Judge Wang just gave OpenAI until midnight tonight to file any objection to the Plaintiffs’ request for 2 memos written by Ilya Sutskever and all deposition transcripts from the Musk v. Altman lawsuit (which itself is headed to trial) in April). ORDER re: (1178 in 1:25-md-03143-SHS-OTW) Letter, filed by The New York Times Company.…
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George Noble, ex-Fidelity manager and now financial bubble siren, says “OPENAI IS FALLING APART IN REAL TIME”
Read more: George Noble, ex-Fidelity manager and now financial bubble siren, says “OPENAI IS FALLING APART IN REAL TIME”George Noble, the former Fidelity manager of its highly successful Overseas Fund and now vocal siren of financial bubbles, has a new target for his bubble skepticism: OpenAI. In a viral X post that has generated nearly 2 million views in less than 24 hours, Noble wrote: OPENAI IS FALLING APART IN REAL TIME I’ve…
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Elon Musk deposition testimony: he “started to suspect that he was being swindled” by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman in 2017
Read more: Elon Musk deposition testimony: he “started to suspect that he was being swindled” by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman in 2017Elon Musk testified in his deposition in Musk v. Altman: he “started to suspect that he was being swindled” by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in 2017, and the he “felt that he was being tricked.” Judge Gonzalez Rogers quoted this deposition testimony of Musk in his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI.…
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The shadowy allegations v. Google asserted by book authors, now publishers. Did Google use shadow libraries or not — when it has its own Google Books database?
Read more: The shadowy allegations v. Google asserted by book authors, now publishers. Did Google use shadow libraries or not — when it has its own Google Books database?As part of their motion to intervene, book publishers Cengage Learning and Hachette Book’s proposed complaint against Google alleges “Google first illegally copied Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s copyrighted books—downloading them from pirated sources and extracting them from behind legitimate paywalls—to amass a massive corpus of source material.” The nature of Google’s alleged downloading appears to…
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OpenAI, represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt, seeks to stop string of discovery losses and stave off loss of attorney-client privilege. Oral argument on Friday, Jan. 16 is the most important one OpenAI has faced.
Read more: OpenAI, represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt, seeks to stop string of discovery losses and stave off loss of attorney-client privilege. Oral argument on Friday, Jan. 16 is the most important one OpenAI has faced.The oral argument in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation tomorrow, Friday, Jan.16, 2026 at 02:00 PM in Courtroom 23A, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007 before Judge Sidney H. Stein, is the most important one OpenAI has faced in all the copyright lawsuits against it. At issue is OpenAI’s appeal of Magistrate Judge…
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Book author Darius James goes on offensive v. shadow libraries, filing 3 copyright suits v. Snowflake, Together Computer, Cerebras Systems. Total AI copyright suits hit 74.
Read more: Book author Darius James goes on offensive v. shadow libraries, filing 3 copyright suits v. Snowflake, Together Computer, Cerebras Systems. Total AI copyright suits hit 74.Book author Darius H. James filed three class action copyright suits since last November: (1) one against Snowflake Inc. for its alleged training of its LLMs using RedPajama and Books3 dataset; (2) one against Together Computer for its infringement when it allegedly “orchestrated and assembled the RedPajama dataset, a dataset comprised of a mixture of publicly available…