Topic: publisher lawsuits

  • Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue OpenAI Over AI Training

    Britannica and Merriam-Webster Sue OpenAI Over AI Training

    Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT was trained on and reproduces their copyrighted content without permission, causing commercial and reputational harm. The lawsuit claims OpenAI used nearly 100,000 of Britannica's articles for training, leading ChatGPT...

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  • Meta Inks AI Deals with CNN, Fox News, and USA Today

    Meta Inks AI Deals with CNN, Fox News, and USA Today

    Meta has secured licensing deals with major media outlets like CNN and Fox News to incorporate their content into its AI chatbot, shifting from web-scraping to formal partnerships for sourcing material. This move aims to preempt legal disputes over copyright, following lawsuits like The New York ...

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  • Siri Now Powered by Google Gemini

    Siri Now Powered by Google Gemini

    Apple is integrating Google's Gemini AI into Siri, marking a major strategic partnership and a shift from Apple's usual preference for controlling its core technologies. The move aims to make Siri competitive with rivals like ChatGPT by leveraging Google's AI expertise, following Apple's own stru...

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  • AI Bot Surge Ignites Online Arms Race

    AI Bot Surge Ignites Online Arms Race

    AI bots are projected to drive the majority of internet traffic, shifting the web from a human-centric to a bot-dominated landscape and introducing new challenges beyond copyright. A technological arms race is escalating as sophisticated AI bots increasingly circumvent website security to scrape ...

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