Anthropic's $1.5B copyright settlement pulls up a drawbridge on its startup rivals that cannot afford such fines, setting a floor price on training infringement
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US v. Google: a US federal judge rules that Google will not be required to divest Chrome or Android, but it must share Search data with rivals; GOOG jumps 8%+
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the company can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts and must share search data.
The European Court of Justice's advocate-general says the EU fining Google €4.12B for using Android to squash rivals should be upheld, a major blow to Google
ECJ adviser supports Brussels regulators' findings over dominance of tech giant's Android mobile operating system
The US DOJ tells a judge it will seek to force Google to divest its ad exchange and publisher ad server units and share real-time ad bidding data with rivals
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The Google search antitrust trial is effectively a fight about AI's future, as lawyers and rivals argue Google's monopoly could make it the dominant AI player
A federal judge issued a landmark ruling last year, saying that Google had become a monopolist in internet search.
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai says the DOJ's proposal to share Google search data with rivals amounts to a “de facto” spinoff of Google's search engine and its IP
- Alphabet CEO testifies as part of Justice Department lawsuit — Rivals could reverse-engineer ‘every aspect of our technology’
The US DOJ says Google backed off more restrictive Gemini distribution deals, partly due to its case; Google says rivals talked to Samsung about chatbot deals
OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta Platforms have approached Samsung about deals to put their AI chatbots onto Samsung phones …
FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp
How is this even a question! [image] Kyung Sook / @kyungsookl : I didn't understand why facebook suddenly reversed course, allowed DJT to return to facebook and Zuckerberg attended the inauguration. ...
Court docs: internal chats suggest Meta used data from piracy site LibGen to train its Llama AI models and worked to conceal it, as Meta raced to beat rivals
A major copyright lawsuit against Meta has revealed a trove of internal communications about the company's plans to develop …
The UK CMA opens an investigation into whether Google has “strategic market status” in search and how it impacts consumers, advertisers, publishers, and rivals
LONDON — Britain's competition watchdog on Tuesday said that it's opening a formal antitrust investigation into Google's search and search advertising services.