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Google to Pay $700 Million to US Consumers, States in Play Store Antitrust Settlement
Alphabet's Google will pay $700 million and revamp its Play app store to allow for greater competition as part of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers, according to the company and filings in San Francisco federal court on Monday.
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ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Sued by More Writers for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training
A group of US authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of misusing their writing to train its popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT.
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Pulitzer-Winning US Author Sues ChatGPT For Using His Work To Train AI
A group of U.S. authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of misusing their writing to train its artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT
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Microsoft's $69 Billion Takeover of Call of Duty Maker Activision Gets US Green Light, UK's CMA Softens Stance
A US judge on Tuesday gave the green light to Microsoft's $69-billion (roughly Rs. 5,65,480 crore) takeover bid for US video game giant Activision Blizzard. US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco rejected the Biden administration's contention that the deal would hurt consumers by giving Xbox game console maker Microsoft exclusiv...
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ChatGPT Creator OpenAI and Meta Face Lawsuits From Sarah Silverman, Authors Over Alleged Copyright Infringement
Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Frida...
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OpenAI Sued in US for Allegedly Misusing Artists' Work to Train ChatGPT
Two US authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, ...
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Twitter Employees Sue Social Media Company, Claiming It Refuses to Pay 2022 Bonuses Despite Promises
Twitter employees sued the Elon Musk-led company claiming it refuses to pay 2022 bonuses, despite promises that they would be paid out at 50 percent of their target amounts. As per the lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court, Twitter has a cash performance bonus plan that is paid out annually and in the months leading up to Elon Musk’s acqui...
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Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision Blizzard Temporarily Blocked by US Judge
US District Judge Edward Davila granted the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) request to temporarily block Microsoft’s acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard and set a hearing next week. The two-day evidentiary hearing is set for June 22–23 in San Francisco, to decide whether a preliminary injunction would be necessary. Without a co...
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Microsoft to Defend $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Deal in Antitrust Lawsuit Filed by Gamers in US Court
Microsoft on Friday will defend its $69 billion (roughly Rs. 5,66,671 crore) planned acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, in a private antitrust lawsuit in San Francisco federal court brought by video gamers who claim the deal will harm industry competition and should be stopped.
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FTX Customers Sue Financial Firms That Found Crypto Exchange ‘Safe and Secure’
Former customers of FTX crypto exchange have sued three venture capital and private equity firms, accusing them in a proposed class action of fraudulently promoting the cryptocurrency exchange before it went bankrupt. According to a complaint filed late Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, Sequoia Capital, Thoma Bravo and Paradigm were "incentiv...
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Elon Musk Wants Tesla Shareholder Lawsuit Moved to Texas, Claims He Can't Get Fair Trial in California
Elon Musk's lawyers have asked a federal judge in the US to move a Tesla shareholder trial to Texas from California, claiming that he would not get a fair trial in the state. The billionaire has asked the court to postpone the trial until negative publicity regarding the billionaire’s purchase of Twitter has died down, if moving the trial is not ...
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Twitter Sued by Women Alleging Discriminatory Layoffs After Elon Musk Takeover
Twitter was sued by two women who were laid off by the microblogging platform as part of mass layoffs after billionaire Elon Musk completed his takeover deal. The lawsuit alleges that the company's mass layoffs disproportionately affected female workers. Musk, who is also Twitter's new CEO, faces a series of lawsuits over his decimation of Twitter'...
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Elon Musk's Twitter Faces Lawsuit for Mass Layoffs: Here's All You Need to Know About WARN Act
Twitter has begun laying off employees under its new owner, Elon Musk. The San Francisco-based social media giant is expected to terminate up to 3,700 people — half of its workforce — on Friday, according to internal plans reviewed by Reuters this week. Twitter is already facing a proposed class action claiming the layoffs are imminent and w...
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Meta's Facebook Agrees To Settle 4-Year Old Data Privacy Lawsuit
Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of users, a court filing showed.
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Uber Sued by US Justice Department Over Alleged Disability Discrimination
The US Justice Department sued Uber over allegations of overcharging disabled passengers and asked a federal court to order compliance with an anti-discrimination law.
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Google to Pay $700 Million to US Consumers, States in Play Store Antitrust Settlement
Alphabet's Google will pay $700 million and revamp its Play app store to allow for greater competition as part of an antitrust settlement with US states and consumers, according to the company and filings in San Francisco federal court on Monday.
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ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Sued by More Writers for Copyright Infringement Over AI Training
A group of US authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of misusing their writing to train its popular artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT.
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Pulitzer-Winning US Author Sues ChatGPT For Using His Work To Train AI
A group of U.S. authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program of misusing their writing to train its artificial intelligence-powered chatbot ChatGPT
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Microsoft's $69 Billion Takeover of Call of Duty Maker Activision Gets US Green Light, UK's CMA Softens Stance
A US judge on Tuesday gave the green light to Microsoft's $69-billion (roughly Rs. 5,65,480 crore) takeover bid for US video game giant Activision Blizzard. US District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley in San Francisco rejected the Biden administration's contention that the deal would hurt consumers by giving Xbox game console maker Microsoft exclusiv...
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ChatGPT Creator OpenAI and Meta Face Lawsuits From Sarah Silverman, Authors Over Alleged Copyright Infringement
Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors have filed copyright infringement lawsuits against Meta Platforms and OpenAI for allegedly using their content without permission to train artificial intelligence language models. The proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Frida...
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OpenAI Sued in US for Allegedly Misusing Artists' Work to Train ChatGPT
Two US authors sued OpenAI in San Francisco federal court on Wednesday, claiming in a proposed class action that the company misused their works to "train" its popular generative artificial-intelligence system ChatGPT. Massachusetts-based writers Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad said ChatGPT mined data copied from thousands of books without permission, ...
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Twitter Employees Sue Social Media Company, Claiming It Refuses to Pay 2022 Bonuses Despite Promises
Twitter employees sued the Elon Musk-led company claiming it refuses to pay 2022 bonuses, despite promises that they would be paid out at 50 percent of their target amounts. As per the lawsuit filed in San Francisco federal court, Twitter has a cash performance bonus plan that is paid out annually and in the months leading up to Elon Musk’s acqui...
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Microsoft’s $69 Billion Acquisition of Activision Blizzard Temporarily Blocked by US Judge
US District Judge Edward Davila granted the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) request to temporarily block Microsoft’s acquisition of video game maker Activision Blizzard and set a hearing next week. The two-day evidentiary hearing is set for June 22–23 in San Francisco, to decide whether a preliminary injunction would be necessary. Without a co...
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Microsoft to Defend $69 Billion Activision Blizzard Deal in Antitrust Lawsuit Filed by Gamers in US Court
Microsoft on Friday will defend its $69 billion (roughly Rs. 5,66,671 crore) planned acquisition of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard, in a private antitrust lawsuit in San Francisco federal court brought by video gamers who claim the deal will harm industry competition and should be stopped.
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FTX Customers Sue Financial Firms That Found Crypto Exchange ‘Safe and Secure’
Former customers of FTX crypto exchange have sued three venture capital and private equity firms, accusing them in a proposed class action of fraudulently promoting the cryptocurrency exchange before it went bankrupt. According to a complaint filed late Tuesday in San Francisco federal court, Sequoia Capital, Thoma Bravo and Paradigm were "incentiv...
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Elon Musk Wants Tesla Shareholder Lawsuit Moved to Texas, Claims He Can't Get Fair Trial in California
Elon Musk's lawyers have asked a federal judge in the US to move a Tesla shareholder trial to Texas from California, claiming that he would not get a fair trial in the state. The billionaire has asked the court to postpone the trial until negative publicity regarding the billionaire’s purchase of Twitter has died down, if moving the trial is not ...
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Twitter Sued by Women Alleging Discriminatory Layoffs After Elon Musk Takeover
Twitter was sued by two women who were laid off by the microblogging platform as part of mass layoffs after billionaire Elon Musk completed his takeover deal. The lawsuit alleges that the company's mass layoffs disproportionately affected female workers. Musk, who is also Twitter's new CEO, faces a series of lawsuits over his decimation of Twitter'...
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Elon Musk's Twitter Faces Lawsuit for Mass Layoffs: Here's All You Need to Know About WARN Act
Twitter has begun laying off employees under its new owner, Elon Musk. The San Francisco-based social media giant is expected to terminate up to 3,700 people — half of its workforce — on Friday, according to internal plans reviewed by Reuters this week. Twitter is already facing a proposed class action claiming the layoffs are imminent and w...
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Meta's Facebook Agrees To Settle 4-Year Old Data Privacy Lawsuit
Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages for letting third parties including Cambridge Analytica access the private data of users, a court filing showed.
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Uber Sued by US Justice Department Over Alleged Disability Discrimination
The US Justice Department sued Uber over allegations of overcharging disabled passengers and asked a federal court to order compliance with an anti-discrimination law.
