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OpenAI acquires Jony Ive’s design company for $6.5 billion. Poses new threat to Apple iPhone.

OpenAI announced the acquisition of Jony Ive’s design firm io for $6.5 billion all in equity. (Presumably “io” refers to input/output, which curiously is also the name of Google’s big conference I/O.) To put this acquisition into perspective, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion in 2006, valued at $2.62 billion in today’s dollars. Ive is Read more

May 21, 2025
Google showcases AI mode for Google Search. But will it invite more copyright lawsuits v. Google?

Yesterday, Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, demoed a host of new AI programs for Gemini and Google. Since OpenAI’s viral launch of ChatGPT in December 2022, Google has been in a race to compete in AI. Perhaps the most important new program announced yesterday is “AI Mode” for Google Search. Instead of a traditional search Read more

May 21, 2025
Apple faces “crisis” in lack of AI. At least it won’t be sued for copyright infringement.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett have a lengthy article detailing Apple’s woes in trying to deploy AI on its devices, including with a revamped Siri. According to the article, one member of Apple’s AI team even said: “This is a crisis.” Gurman and Bennett seem to agree: “And historically, Apple’s most successful products have Read more

May 20, 2025
Bartz files supplementary brief re: class certification. Shows difficulty of defining a common class.

One of the sleeper issues in the lawsuits filed by book authors against Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, and others is whether the courts will certify a class of book authors in any of the lawsuits. Last week, Judge Alsup was the first federal judge to consider a motion for class certification in one of these AI Read more

May 20, 2025
Upcoming hearings in AI copyright suits

There’s a lot of activity in the AI copyright lawsuits coming up. Here’s a brief rundown: May 22, 2025 In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation: Initial Case Management Conference scheduled for May 22, 2025, at 10:00 am ET in New York City before Judge Sidney Stein. Bartz v. Anthropic: summary judgment motion on fair use, Read more

May 20, 2025
Meta researchers new paper on “J1: Incentivizing Thinking in LLM-as-a-Judge via Reinforcement Learning

Meta researchers just posted a fascinating research paper, “J1: Incentivizing Thinking in LLM-as-a-Judge via Reinforcement Learning.” It adds to the growing literature showing advances in AI development through reinforcement learning. Abstract: “The progress of AI is bottlenecked by the quality of evaluation, and powerful LLM-as-a-Judge models have proved to be a core solution. Improved judgment Read more

May 19, 2025