OpenAI’s ChatGPT is now declining requests to write in the exact style of well known authors, instead offering text based on broader characteristics such as mood, genre and narrative approach. Kyle Orland reports for Ars Technica that the change affects prompts referring to both living and deceased writers, including Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, Amy Tan, …
OpenAI has asked a federal judge to dismiss Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit, calling the allegations baseless. The move follows Apple’s request for a preliminary injunction that could restrict OpenAI’s work on AI devices while the case proceeds. Apple alleges that former employees took confidential information about unannounced hardware products to OpenAI. The company names former …
A Munich court has ruled that US AI music company Suno infringed copyrights and must disclose revenue linked to the violations. The decision could increase pressure on AI music providers to negotiate licences with rights holders. Elizabeth Grenier reports for Deutsche Welle that the Munich Regional Court has also ordered Suno to pay damages, although …
A federal judge in San Francisco has given final approval to Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers whose books were obtained from pirate websites. The deal resolves a major copyright class action over material connected to the training of Anthropic’s Claude AI models. The settlement is the largest known recovery in a US …
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a systematic theft of trade secrets to build its own hardware device. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names OpenAI’s Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu as defendants, alongside …
Midjourney is pushing to expose how Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. use artificial intelligence internally, as the AI image generator fights a major copyright lawsuit filed by the studios. Gene Maddaus reports for Variety. The studios sued Midjourney last year, alleging massive infringement of their copyrighted characters. Midjourney has responded with a fair use defense, …
A German court has ruled that Google is legally responsible for the content of its AI-generated search summaries. Bruce Schneier writes for Schneier on Security that the court rejected Google’s argument that users should verify AI output themselves, ruling instead that the summaries are “an expression of Google’s business activities.” The decision reignites a long-running …
Starting August 2, 2026, the transparency obligations of the EU AI Act will apply, and this of course affects you as a content professional, if you are based in the EU. However, various pieces of misinformation are circulating about this law. For instance, just the other day I saw the claim that soon, all AI-generated …
A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false and defamatory claims made by its AI Overviews feature in search results. Matthias Bastian reports for The Decoder that the Regional Court of Munich issued a temporary injunction against Google after its AI-generated summaries falsely linked two Munich-based publishers to scams and dubious …
A German appeals court has ruled that online retailers are fully liable for misleading information generated by their AI chatbots. Yvonne Bachmann reports for Händlerbund News that the Higher Regional Court of Hamm (Oberlandesgericht Hamm) issued the ruling on 12 May 2026 (case reference: 4 UKl 3/25). The case was brought by the consumer protection …