OpenAI appeals court order requiring indefinite retention of ChatGPT conversations

OpenAI is challenging a federal court order that requires the company to preserve all ChatGPT user data indefinitely, including conversations users have deleted. The order stems from an ongoing copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft. U.S. Magistrate Judge Ona Wang issued the preservation order on May 13, 2025, after …

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Getty Images is spending millions on law suit against Stability AI

Getty Images is spending millions of dollars in legal fees to fight what its CEO calls “unfair competition” by AI companies that use copyrighted material without permission. Craig Peters told CNBC that AI firms are stealing protected content to train their models for commercial gain. The photo licensing company is suing Stability AI, the British …

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Analysis: Judge’s Google antitrust ruling may reshape AI competition

A federal judge’s antitrust case against Google has evolved into a debate about the future of artificial intelligence, according to reporting by David McCabe in The New York Times. The lawsuit, originally focused on Google’s search monopoly, now centers on whether the tech giant could leverage its dominance to control the emerging AI landscape. During …

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Meta faces court test over LibGen use in AI training

Meta is appearing in court today in a significant legal case that could determine whether tech companies can use copyrighted material to train AI models without permission. According to reporting by Cristina Criddle and Hannah Murphy in the Financial Times, about a dozen authors including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Richard Kadrey are suing the tech giant …

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Washington Post partners with OpenAI to feature content in ChatGPT

The Washington Post has entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI to make its journalism accessible through ChatGPT. According to Todd Spangler’s article for Variety, the agreement will allow ChatGPT to display summaries, quotes, and links to Washington Post reporting in response to relevant search queries. The deal covers content across politics, global affairs, business, and …

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OpenAI and Elon Musk escalate legal battle over company’s for-profit transition

OpenAI has countersued Elon Musk, accusing him of harassment and trying to harm the company through “press attacks, malicious campaigns” and legal claims. The countersuit asks a federal judge to stop Musk from further actions against the AI company and hold him responsible for damages already caused. The legal dispute centers on OpenAI’s planned transition …

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Study suggests OpenAI trained GPT-4o on paywalled O’Reilly books

A new study by the AI Disclosures Project claims OpenAI likely trained its GPT-4o model on paywalled books from O’Reilly Media without a licensing agreement. Researchers Tim O’Reilly, Ilan Strauss, and Sruly Rosenblat analyzed how well different OpenAI models recognized content from O’Reilly books. As reported by Kyle Wiggers for TechCrunch, the team found that …

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YouTube stops monetization for AI-generated fake movie trailers

YouTube has suspended the monetization privileges of two popular channels specializing in AI-generated fake movie trailers. According to an investigation by Jake Kanter at Deadline, the channels Screen Culture and KH Studio will no longer earn advertising revenue from their content. The Google-owned platform cited violations of its monetization policies, which require creators to significantly …

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ChatGPT hallucinates defamatory murder claim, faces privacy complaint

Privacy advocacy group Noyb has filed a GDPR complaint against OpenAI after ChatGPT falsely claimed a Norwegian man murdered two of his children. As reported by Natasha Lomas for TechCrunch, the AI chatbot generated completely fabricated information stating that Arve Hjalmar Holmen was convicted and sentenced to 21 years in prison for killing his sons. …

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US court rules AI cannot author copyrighted works, citing human requirement in law

A federal appeals court has ruled that works created solely by artificial intelligence cannot receive copyright protection under US law. The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit unanimously upheld the US Copyright Office’s decision to reject computer scientist Stephen Thaler’s attempt to register an artwork created by his AI system called the …

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