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Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models

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Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the Highlands County circuit court. The motion is part of the lawsuit Florida brought against […]

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Jury finds Meta misled New Mexico users over Cambridge Analytica

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A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Facebook deceived users about how it protected their data, including in its response to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Jurors found more than 43 million violations of the state’s consumer protection law, Mikella Schuettler reported for the Associated Press. The count is based on the […]

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US jury orders Apple to pay Taction $5.7bn over iPhone haptics patents

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A federal jury in San Diego has ordered Apple to pay more than $5.7bn to Taction Technology, a small haptics company, for infringing two of its patents. The verdict came on Friday, 25 September, and is the largest patent award in US history, according to Law360, which first reported it. The case centres on Apple’s […]

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US asks EU court to let it back Musk’s challenge to €120M X fine

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The US government has asked the EU’s General Court to let it join Elon Musk and X in their challenge to the €120 million fine Brussels imposed on the platform. The Justice Department announced the filing on Thursday. The application covers two cases before the court in Luxembourg. One of the cases was brought by […]

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DoorDash agrees to pay $131.5M to settle New York City probe into delivery worker pay

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DoorDash has agreed to pay $131.5M to settle a New York City investigation that found it underpaid delivery workers or paid them late. The deal with the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) ends a dispute that began early in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration. “Simply put, we screwed up,” DoorDash said in a post […]

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Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse and accuses Perplexity of misleading a court

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Amazon fought AI shopping agents on two fronts on Monday. It blocked Muse, Meta’s new AI assistant, from Amazon.com. It also filed an amended complaint against Perplexity, accusing the company of misleading a federal appeals court. The block came first. People who sent Muse to shop on Amazon over the weekend began seeing a popup. […]

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A Microsoft scientist called AI training the largest theft of labor

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A 92-page brief unsealed on Thursday opens by quoting the same Microsoft employee twice. Dr Brent Hecht, the company’s Director of Applied Science, wrote that people would come to see large models hoovering up their work as “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”. In a second document he called it perhaps the “largest theft of […]

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Ireland’s data watchdog has fined Google €403M over location data

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Google has been fined €403M, or about $463M, by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission over the way it handled users’ location data, in a case brought after several European consumer groups complained. It found breaches of lawfulness and fairness in the location data processed through Web & App Activity and Location History, of transparency across those […]

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Universal and Sony sue Suno again, this time over 60,202 recordings

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“The magnitude of the alleged infringement is not a defense,” the court told Suno in August. Universal and Sony have now sued the AI music company a second time. They filed the complaint in the District of Massachusetts on Friday, as case 1:26-cv-14275. It asserts 60,202 sound recordings. The first case, filed in June 2024, […]

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Coders lose their DMCA case against GitHub Copilot and Codex

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“We decline plaintiffs’ invitation to transform run-of-the-mill copyright-infringement claims into DMCA claims,” Judge Eric Miller wrote for a unanimous Ninth Circuit panel. The opinion came on Wednesday in Doe v GitHub, number 24-7700. Anonymous programmers who publish open-source code had sued GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot and Codex. They argued the tools reproduce their […]

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