Meta and Anthropic prevailed in copyright suits against them, but the rulings have major caveats and don't address when AI output might infringe copyright
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A US district judge rules Google and Character.AI must face a Florida woman's lawsuit claiming Character.AI's chatbots caused her 14-year-old son's suicide
Judge Says Free Speech Defense Not Acceptable Eugene Volokh / Reason : Court Allows Lawsuit Over Character.AI Conversations That Allegedly Caused 14-Year-Old's Suicide to Go Forward Adi Robertson / Th...
FTC v. Meta: Meta asks the judge to throw out the antitrust case, arguing that “after five weeks of trial”, the FTC failed to prove Meta is an illegal monopoly
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SCOTUS upholds the TikTok divest-or-ban law, saying free speech rights must yield to concerns that Chinese control of the app creates a national-security risk
but Trump Lobbying May Save It Tripp Mickle / New York Times : Oracle May Hold TikTok's Future in Its Hands Solcyré Burga / Time : Everything Trump Has Said About the TikTok Ban Dan Primack / Axios : ...
Epic v. Google: Google executive Purnima Kochikar says Google offered Epic $147M paid from 2018 to 2021 to launch Fortnite on the Play Store; Epic didn't accept
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A jury finds Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on all seven counts of fraud and money laundering in the FTX trial; the judge sets SBF's sentencing for March 28, 2024
and what comes next Qadir AK / Coinpedia Fintech News : DOJ Cracks Down: Binance and Tether Face Terrorism Financing Charges PC Gamer : ‘The king of crypto’ found guilty of fraud, now faces decades in...
Eddie Cue's US v. Google testimony: Cue said Google was the only “valid” search choice for a deal; the DOJ noted Apple railed against Google's privacy policies
When court resumed today for the start of the third week … Adi Robertson / The Verge : Apple's Eddy Cue will take the stand Tuesday in the Google antitrust trial Thomas Barrabi / New York Post : Top A...
A California federal judge dismisses Donald Trump's lawsuit seeking to lift his ban from Twitter but may allow an amended complaint to be filed against Twitter
26 As alleged in the amended complaint, which the Court accepts as true for Rule 12(b)(6) Adi Robertson / The Verge : Judge dismisses Donald Trump's Twitter ban lawsuit Mariella Moon / Engadg...
Q&A with Margrethe Vestager on EU's cases against Apple, Google, Meta, and Amazon, how the planned Digital Markets Act may help with antitrust enforcement, more
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Oversight Board reverses a decision banning an Instagram post that criticized solitary confinement, after finding Facebook “lost” a policy exception for 3 years
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