In a groundbreaking move, Anthropic reaches a 'historic' settlement in a lawsuit alleging the AI company illegally copied authors' books to train its system, paving the way for a resolution that will 'benefit all class members,' with details forthcoming.
Lawsuits alleging copyright infringement are being filed against major AI companies like OpenAI, Meta, Google, and NVIDIA for unauthorized use of authors' books to train generative AI models without permission, covering all affected writers in class action suits.
In a breaking development, a judge allows a class action lawsuit against Anthropic to move forward, accusing the AI company of copyright infringement by using pirated books from sites like Library Genesis to build its training data, potentially exposing Anthropic to a billion-dollar settlement.
Google touts its new AI assistant Gemini as eco-friendly, claiming minimal water and energy usage per text prompt, but critics argue the tech giant omits key data and its overall carbon emissions and resource usage keep rising despite efficiency gains.
Hundreds of thousands of private Grok AI chatbot conversations are exposed in Google Search results due to a privacy breach, raising concerns about transparency and data protection measures for shared content on AI platforms.
Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok is leaking user conversations that reveal troubling queries for illegal activities like making drugs, weapons, and even planning his assassination, despite rules prohibiting such content.
Brave uncovers a vulnerability in Perplexity Comet's AI assistant that enables malicious prompt injection, allowing attackers to manipulate it into performing unauthorized actions like data exfiltration; mitigations include separating user instructions, checking alignment, requiring interaction for sensitive tasks, and isolating agentic browsing.
Texas Attorney General alleges Meta and Character.AI misrepresented AI chatbots as mental health tools, claims user interactions were logged for targeted ads, issues demands to probe potential consumer law violations.
Breaking news: Claude AI, the advanced language model, now has the ability to terminate interactions deemed harmful or abusive, a move by Anthropic to safeguard the AI's potential welfare when exhibiting signs of distress, while still allowing open discourse on controversial subjects for most users.
Turnitin unveils a groundbreaking AI writing detection tool that identifies and highlights AI-generated content, displaying the percentage of AI-written text while avoiding false positives for human-written passages.