The Motion Picture Association strikes its first-ever copyright deal with an AI company, reaching a landmark agreement with ByteDance to enforce stronger intellectual property protections in its AI video tool Seedance and image tool Seedream, following allegations that the tools were trained on copyrighted material and generating unauthorized content featuring …
Apple seeks a preliminary injunction against OpenAI over alleged stolen trade secrets involving two former employees, but OpenAI fights back by releasing text messages and emails it claims prove its innocence, as the high-stakes legal battle threatens to delay OpenAI's AI hardware launch and shake investor confidence ahead of its …
Google's Flow Sessions program unveils short films blending real actors with AI-generated worlds, revealing both the creative acceleration AI offers filmmakers and the ethical tensions surrounding non-consenting artists whose work may have trained the models powering it.
A German court rules that AI music giant Suno illegally trained its models on copyrighted music without licenses, ordering the company—which generates 7 million songs daily—to disclose revenues and pay damages in a landmark case with sweeping global implications for the AI music industry.
Yelp partners with OpenAI to bring real-time local reviews and business data directly into ChatGPT, a bold distribution bet that echoes — and risks repeating — the company's complicated and ultimately adversarial history with Google.
Apple sends legal preservation letters to 40 former employees now at OpenAI, escalating its trade secret lawsuit that accuses the AI company of orchestrating a coordinated theft of confidential hardware and product development secrets, with key former Apple executives now holding senior roles at OpenAI, which denies all allegations.
Chinese startup Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is dominating global AI benchmarks across six of seven frontend domains, outperforming giants like OpenAI and Anthropic, but the achievement is overshadowed by serious accusations that Moonshot used over 16 million fraudulent exchanges with Anthropic's Claude to illegally distill its model's capabilities.
Apple sues OpenAI in federal court, accusing the AI company of orchestrating corporate espionage through senior leadership, including a former 24-year Apple veteran, allegedly stealing trade secrets, downloading confidential documents, and coaching employees to evade security protocols.
Apple sues OpenAI in federal court, alleging former employees Tang Tan and Chang Liu systematically stole trade secrets, smuggled hardware, and exfiltrated confidential data to fuel OpenAI's hardware ambitions, demanding destruction of stolen information and damages that could derail OpenAI's push into smart glasses, wearable pendants, and camera-equipped earbuds.
OpenAI faces serious sanctions after allegedly lying for two years about its ability to search ChatGPT logs in a major copyright lawsuit, with a re-deposed privacy engineer revealing the company had already conducted searches of 78 million conversations before litigation began, directly contradicting its claims that such searches were technically …