Over 30 individuals, including Nobel laureates and former OpenAI employees, urge authorities to block OpenAI's proposed for-profit restructuring, arguing it violates the company's original charitable mission, while OpenAI maintains it can still benefit humanity in this new model.
German legal tech startup Noxtua has secured $92M to develop AI tailored for the German legal system, capable of legal research, document analysis, and drafting, trained on a vast database of German cases and hosted on German cloud infrastructure, revolutionizing legal practice in the country.
Despite antitrust scrutiny over preinstallation deals, Google struck a hefty agreement with Samsung to make its Gemini AI assistant the default on Samsung devices, raising concerns about potential anticompetitive practices and prompting regulatory action.
OpenAI's pivot to pursue profits, abandoning its nonprofit status and mission, has sparked legal battles and backlash from critics who argue the move undermines the company's original goal of ensuring advanced AI benefits humanity as a whole.
Alarming reports reveal AI companies are exploiting actors' digital avatars, created from licensed likenesses, in questionable ads and propaganda, often through broad contract terms granting unrestricted rights over their images and voices.
The bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act, aimed at criminalizing non-consensual intimate imagery and deepfakes, cleared a House committee, gaining widespread support for requiring websites to swiftly remove such content and addressing the growing threat of AI-generated exploitation.
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.
The New York Times sues Microsoft and OpenAI for up to $450 billion, claiming ChatGPT was trained on millions of its copyrighted articles, potentially reshaping AI training and journalism.
A Norwegian man filed a complaint seeking a fine against OpenAI after an older version of ChatGPT falsely claimed he killed his two sons and was jailed for 21 years, prompting OpenAI to update its models to improve accuracy.
OpenAI faces a GDPR complaint from noyb over ChatGPT's ability to generate defamatory and false information about individuals, violating data accuracy principles, with demands to delete outputs, fine-tune the model, and impose fines.