In a clash of design titans, Figma fired a legal shot at Lovable, demanding the startup change its 'Dev Mode' feature name due to trademark infringement, setting the stage for a potential showdown between the rivals in the rapidly evolving vibe coding arena.
The Creators Guild of America has introduced the CGA Rider, a groundbreaking legal document that safeguards content creators' rights, setting industry standards for timely payment, content ownership, revisions, approvals for reuse, and ensuring creators retain full rights, receive proper credit, limit revisions, access campaign analytics, and get paid within 90 …
Artificial intelligence mimics Studio Ghibli's iconic animation style, raising intellectual property concerns as AI image generators can replicate labor-intensive techniques, sparking debates about originality and potential theft.
Pioneering a privacy-first approach, researchers are developing secure AI agents that prioritize data minimization, encryption, and rigorous auditing to gain user trust, drive adoption in regulated sectors, and simplify compliance with privacy regulations like HIPAA, GDPR, and CCPA.
Fintech founder Albert Saniger faces fraud charges for deceiving investors by falsely claiming his shopping app Nate used AI automation, when it relied on human labor, leading to over $50 million in losses for backers like Coatue and Forerunner Ventures.
Major tech giants like YouTube and OpenAI are backing a bipartisan bill reintroduced in Congress, the NO FAKES Act, which aims to create new federal IP rights to protect against unauthorized AI deepfakes of people's voices and likenesses, aligning artists and tech on AI issues.
Major publishers like The New York Times and The Washington Post are running an ad campaign demanding that the US government hold tech companies accountable for AI content theft by mandating payment and attribution for copyrighted material used to train AI models.
DOGE's controversial plan to rapidly build a 'mega API' granting broad access to IRS taxpayer data by partnering with Palantir raises major privacy and civil liberties alarms among experts, even as DOGE operatives aim to pause IRS modernization for this effort.
In a closely watched case, a judge ruled that The New York Times' copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI's ChatGPT can proceed, allowing claims that the AI model was trained on copyrighted works, but dismissing some other claims.
As generative AI systems raise novel challenges around data privacy, scope, temporality, and autonomy that undermine traditional consent mechanisms, experts call for new frameworks involving collective governance, technical safeguards, and legal reforms to protect data rights in the AI era.