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OpenAI valued at $157 billion in $6.6B funding round
OpenAI was valued at $157 billion in its latest funding round that raked in $6.6 billion for the company. The investors included Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, MGX, the new Abu-Dabhi investment firm, Microsoft, Softbank, and NVIDIA. Apple chose not to join. Read more
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Status of all 32 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 7, 2024): David Boies firm takes lead for Kadrey plaintiffs, but Farnsworth attorneys want in
Here’s the latest on all 32 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Lots going on. Here are the highlights: New developments since last week’s report are indicated with an asterisk*. Visit our Master List of all 32 copyright cases with attorneys and claims listed. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. Read more
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Judge Bibas sets Dec 5-6 for hearing on summary judgment, but asks for potential trial dates in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence
Judge Bibas just scheduled the 2-day hearing on the parties’ renewed motions for summary judgment for Dec. 5 and 6. But he also asked the parties for potential trial dates should the resolution of the motions for summary judgment still leave a need for trial. If you recall, on the day before trial was set Read more
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New AI lawsuit: Christopher Farnsworth v. Meta Platforms. Lawsuits hit 32.
Another proposed class-action copyright lawsuit was filed against Meta Platforms. This time, filed by book author Christopher Farnsworth. The allegations in the complaint are similar to ones already made by other book authors, such as in the lawsuits brought by Richard Kadrey, Michael Chabon, and Mike Huckabee. Those book author lawsuits against Meta have been Read more
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Judge John Mendez grants Kohls’ motion for preliminary injunction to stop CA enforcement of deepfake law AB 2839
Federal district Judge John Mendez granted Christopher Kohl’s motion for preliminary injunction to stop California’s enforcement of the deepfake election law AB 2839. As we discussed earlier, this law attempts to regulate deceptive media in advertisements), an urgency measure expands the timeframe in which a committee or other entity is prohibited from knowingly distributing an advertisement or Read more