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 …
Frontier firms are pulling ahead of rivals at an explosive rate, generating 8x more AI output per user as agentic AI spreads from engineering into legal, sales, and marketing, while early-career employees are outpacing executives in adoption, signaling a massive shift in how knowledge work gets done.
OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple's trade secret lawsuit, defending its employees' actions as standard industry recruiting practices and calling Apple's theft allegations completely meritless.
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 …
A federal judge allows Minnesota's groundbreaking ban on 'nudify' apps to take effect August 1, rejecting Elon Musk's xAI company's last-minute request to block the first-of-its-kind U.S. law, while the broader legal battle continues.
The EU AI Act now empowers the European Commission to fine U.S. AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic up to 15 million euros or 3% of annual turnover, inspect their models, and restrict market access, escalating transatlantic tech tensions as President Trump threatens tariffs in response.
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.
A federal judge refuses to block Minnesota's groundbreaking AI nudification ban after xAI's emergency request fails, with the court citing the company's three-month delay as evidence of no immediate harm — leaving the law, which carries penalties up to $500,000 per violation, set to take effect Saturday despite First Amendment …
A new report from the Center for Democracy and Technology argues AI-generated content deserves First Amendment protection, warning that government regulation could restrict public access to information across search engines, social media, and digital devices, while courts have yet to settle whether AI outputs constitute protected speech.
Elon Musk's xAI files a federal lawsuit against Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, challenging the state's AI nudification ban as an unconstitutional First Amendment violation, while Governor Tim Walz and Ellison vow to defend the law they say protects victims' dignity.