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ToS

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68 articles accelerating

ToS has appeared in 68 articles since 2016-12. Coverage peaked in 2024Q2 with 5 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Facebook, Bluesky, YouTube, Twitter.

Articles
68
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.500
velocity change
Sources
27
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-02-24
Wall Street Journal 56 related

Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products

The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models

2026-02-23
Wall Street Journal 23 related

Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a combined 16M+ times and using distillation to train their own products

The allegations mirror those of OpenAI, which told House lawmakers that DeepSeek used ‘distillation’ to improve models

2025-12-17
TechCrunch 11 related

X updates its ToS to claim the rights to the “Twitter” trademark and countersues Operation Bluebird after the startup filed an application to trademark the term

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :

2025-08-15
TechCrunch 3 related

Bluesky revises its policies and Community Guidelines to comply with regulations like the EU's DSA, the UK's Online Safety Act, and the US' Take It Down Act

This feature will be interesting to follow: An informal dispute resolution process, where 🦋 will call folks before proceeding to any formal dispute process.  —  bsky.social/about/blog/0... @notjustdna...

2025-08-02
Wired 9 related

Anthropic revoked OpenAI's API access to Claude, citing ToS violations; sources: OpenAI's use of the API let it compare its models' behavior against Claude's

OpenAI lost access to the Claude API this week after Anthropic claimed the company was violating its terms of service.

2025-04-22
TechCrunch 9 related

A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he has raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything”

We want to cheat on everything.  Yep, you heard that right.  Interviews. Business Today : AI startup Cluely raises $5.3 million to let users ‘cheat on everything,’ even job interviews and exams Sean M...

2025-03-19
Bloomberg 2 related

Community Notes, on X and rolling out on Meta's services, falls short of stopping misinformation; eliminating rewards for posting misinformation would help more

Musk's own posts have been successfully noted 167 times — but only 88 are currently still visible.  — Almost a third of notes submitted in February were related to crypto scams or other ToS violations...

2025-03-01
TechCrunch 23 related

Mozilla responds to backlash over Firefox's new Terms of Use, which critics have called out for being overly broad, and says it won't use people's data for AI

“These changes are not driven by a desire by Mozilla to use people's data for AI or sell it to advertisers,” Mozilla spokesperson Kenya Friend-Daniel said in an email to TechCrunch.  techcrunch.com/20...

2024-12-03
The Intercept 4 related

An email and documents reveal Google's Project Nimbus deal with Israel isn't subject to Google's general ToS, but an “adjusted” ToS drafted by Google and Israel

When questioned about its controversial cloud computing contract with the Israeli government …

2024-10-18
Reuters 5 related

X updates its ToS to steer any disputes by users to the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, whose judges often favor conservative litigants

Elon Musk's X has updated its terms of service to steer any disputes by users of the social media platform formerly known as Twitter …

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TEXXR tracks 89 Techmeme articles mentioning ToS, dating back to April 2015. The biggest stories include Anthropic says DeepSeek, MiniMax, and Moonshot violated its ToS by prompting Claude a... and YouTube strengthens its “enforcement on third-party apps” violating its ToS,.... Frequently covered alongside Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, and Amazon.

Key Moments

2024Q4enterprise -8pts; developer +25pts; consumer -17pts
2025Q2enterprise -25pts; developer -25pts; consumer -17pts
2025Q3developer +100pts; consumer -33pts; research +67pts

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