Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement wins final approval
A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, Reuters reported.
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621 storiesTrump's third CAISI director resigns after three months
Chris Fall has resigned as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), the third person to lead the agency since March.
Judge pauses $110B Paramount-Warner Bros. merger
A U.S. judge issued a 14-day pause on Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery after a coalition of 12 state attorneys general sued to block the deal.
Apple's trade secrets suit puts a cloud over OpenAI's hardware bet
Apple has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a pattern of misconduct to obtain confidential information from Apple employees, and analysts say the case could delay OpenAI's hardware plans.
DOJ clears federal employees to download TikTok again
The Department of Justice says a 2022 law banning TikTok from federal employees' work devices no longer applies after a deal restructured the app's US ownership.
San Francisco orders Apple and Google to purge 'nudify' apps
San Francisco has ordered Apple and Google to purge dozens of "nudify" apps from their stores, warning of possible civil penalties.
FBI arrests man accused of hiding malware in Steam games
The FBI arrested a 21-year-old Florida man accused of uploading malware-laden video games to Steam that allegedly infected around 8,000 victims and drained at least $220,000 in cryptocurrency.
Patreon moves from asking AI bots not to scrape to blocking them
Patreon is working with Cloudflare to actively block AI bots that scrape creators' content for AI training, moving beyond its earlier robots.txt requests after weekly scraping attempts by individual crawlers dropped from thousands to zero in testing.
San Francisco mayor asks state to tighten self-driving car rules
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie asked California regulators for tougher autonomous-vehicle rules, nearly two weeks after Waymo robotaxis ran out of power and blocked streets in July 4 traffic.
U.K. jails two teenage hackers behind Scattered Spider attacks
Two U.K. teenagers were sentenced to five years and six months in prison for a London transit hack costing around £29 million; police say it severely disrupted Scattered Spider.
Tesla driver pressed accelerator 100% in fatal crash, NTSB says
A preliminary NTSB report confirms a Tesla driver overrode the vehicle's Full Self-Driving software by pressing the accelerator to 100% before a fatal Texas crash.
India unveils billions in new incentives to challenge China's smartphone dominance
India unveiled a smartphone manufacturing scheme worth about $6.5 billion and a semiconductor push worth around $13.3 billion to pull supply chains away from China.
Media Land and ML.Cloud owners charged in US cybercrime case
U.S. prosecutors charged three Russian nationals and two web hosts for allegedly running infrastructure that shielded ransomware attacks, netting some $62 million in proceeds.
OpenAI rejects Apple's trade secret lawsuit as meritless
OpenAI has rejected Apple's trade secret lawsuit as lacking merit, while Bloomberg reports the AI lab is developing a mobile, screen-free smart speaker.
Google faces new AI-training copyright lawsuit from publishers
A group of publishers and authors, including Hachette and Scott Turow, has filed a class action lawsuit accusing Google of training its Gemini AI models on their copyrighted works without permission.
DeepMind CEO proposes independent body to regulate frontier AI
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis has proposed an independent, industry-funded standards body to test and regulate frontier AI models in the US.
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft
Apple is suing OpenAI, alleging a former engineer exploited a rare authentication bug to steal confidential hardware files after joining the AI startup.
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged systematic trade secret theft
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging a systematic, executive-led effort to misappropriate trade secrets to build a competing hardware business.
Twelve US states sue to block $110B Paramount-WBD merger
A coalition of 12 US state attorneys general has sued to block Paramount's $110B merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, alleging the deal violates federal antitrust law.
FAA clears SpaceX for next Starship test flight
The US Federal Aviation Administration has cleared SpaceX to fly Starship again, with the next test flight scheduled as soon as this Thursday, July 16.