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“Fair settlement”: federal judge allows book authors' $1.5B ($3K/book) agreement with Claude AI maker Anthropic to be implemented In formal terms this approval of the copyright settlement is preliminary, but the judge said he thinks it will happen. https://aifray.com/...

2025-09-26 View on X

Reuters

A US federal judge preliminarily approves Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement with authors

A federal judge in California on Thursday preliminarily approved a landmark settlement of a copyright class action brought by a group of authors against artificial intelligence com...

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The French antitrust authority also raised a concern over Nvidia's recent cloud Investment in a Generative AI Report published last week. It looks like France is now at the forefront of challenging Nvidia's practices and dealings.

2024-07-02 View on X

Reuters

Sources: French antitrust regulators are preparing to charge Nvidia for allegedly anti-competitive practices, after raids in the GPU sector in September 2023

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This is the “New Europe” that is actually a very old Europe: an innovation-hostile environment that puts all sorts of abstract values above innovation, consumer choice and economic growth. Meta also delayed its launch of Instagram Threads in the EU for regulatory reasons.

2024-06-16 View on X

Reuters

Meta will pause the launch of Meta AI in EU after the Irish DPC asked it to delay training its LLMs using adult EU users' public Facebook and Instagram content

Meta pauses AI models launch in Europe due to Irish request | … @finnmyrstad@eupolicy.social : 💪🙌💥Public pressure works! #meta delays implementing their AI training of users person...

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This is the “New Europe” that is actually a very old Europe: an innovation-hostile environment that puts all sorts of abstract values above innovation, consumer choice and economic growth. Meta also delayed its launch of Instagram Threads in the EU for regulatory reasons.

2024-06-15 View on X

Reuters

Meta will pause the launch of Meta AI in EU after the Irish DPC asked it to delay training its LLMs using adult EU users' public Facebook and Instagram content

Meta Platforms (META.O) will not launch its Meta AI in Europe for now following a request from the Irish privacy regulator, the U.S. social media company said on Friday.

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The problem is not that the FTC is interested in what Microsoft does. After all, it's a huge company. It's that it pursues such “cases” as Activision Blizzard King and OpenAI. ABK was a merger, but none that substantially lessens competition. OpenAI is not even a merger.

2024-06-06 View on X

New York Times

Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the US FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft

The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.

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We may see a first here: the first time for Google to find itself on that side of the debate over how online services use media content. For hell to really freeze over, they'd have to bring a copyright infringement lawsuit.

2024-04-05 View on X

Bloomberg

YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google adheres to YouTube's creator contracts to train Gemini

depending on how it trains its Sora video tool Matthias Bastian / The Decoder : YouTube CEO's warning to OpenAI over Sora training data could backfire spectacularly Cecily Mauran /...

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It's the first UN resolution ever to be focused entirely on AI. Almost 200 countries had to agree on it. More than half of them even became co-sponsors of the resolution. So there is strong consensus as opposed to the geopolitical divide seen over some other topics.

2024-03-22 View on X

Reuters

The UN unanimously adopts the first global resolution on AI, encouraging countries to protect personal data, monitor AI for risks, and safeguard human rights

The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted the first global resolution on artificial intelligence …

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The mobile operating system duopoly sharing the same AI technology provided by one of them would be the clearest case for #antitrust intervention yet in the entire AI partnering context. Smartphones are going to be the main point of entry into the AI world for billions of users.

2024-03-18 View on X

Bloomberg

Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models

- Companies considering AI deal that would build on search pact — Apple also recently held discussions with OpenAI about deal

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OpenAI's progress in licensing (Techmeme tweet attached below) comes at a time when others are suing, see https://aifray.com/... and the attached screenshots (AI copyright battlemaps). [image]

2024-03-14 View on X

Bloomberg

OpenAI announces partnerships with Le Monde and Prisa Media to bring French and Spanish language news content to ChatGPT and help train OpenAI's models

Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg :

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This is the most shocking AI deepfake crime reported to date. It sounds like the kind of AI-related threat that policy makers should be far more concerned about. Case in point, there's nothing in the EU AI Act that would serve to prevent a crime of this pattern in the EU. Nothing

2024-02-05 View on X

CNN

A Hong Kong-based firm's employee was tricked into paying $25M to fraudsters who used deepfake tech to pose as the company's CFO and staff during a video call

A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose …

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It's an “only in America” thing that they have 2 antitrust agencies (ATR division of DOJ, and FTC). Some Republicans would like to leave antitrust enforcement (regardless of persons in charge) to the DOJ and close the FTC. The 2 agencies then have to work it out. 🧵1/2

2024-01-20 View on X

Politico

Sources: the US DOJ and FTC are discussing which agency can investigate the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and which can probe companies for scraping web content

One of the most high-profile tech partnerships in years has drawn scrutiny from regulators, who currently can't pursue an investigation.

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