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Articles tagged “Policy & Courts” (6 articles).
Apple said it will narrow the Mac permission that lets apps reach all of a user's data, and the Justice Department charged a man with shipping AI servers to China without export licenses. The day was about putting the keys back in human hands.
A U.S. federal judge said the damage AI search does to publishers is a question for lawmakers, while companies kept building AI into the decisions their operations run on. The day turned on where judgment belongs.
A lawyer who signed and filed a brief built on unverified ChatGPT output drew a personal sanction from his state's highest court. The other two stories concern the conversation window itself: Amazon began selling ad placements inside ChatGPT to a pilot group of US advertisers, and OpenAI described the storage platform that carries a billion people a week.
Today's three stories turn on a single question — who pays, and how much, for the things that hold AI up. Thirty-five Sony and Warner music publishers filed a copyright suit against Anthropic and two of its co-founders, Kioxia and SanDisk said they expect to invest about ¥5 trillion in Japan by 2032 on the premise of government support, and the AI cloud company Lambda borrowed $1 billion to buy Nvidia chips. The first story is a complaint just filed; the court has yet to rule on any of it.
Today's three stories all landed on the layer beneath AI. NVIDIA attached residual value guaranties to the leases OpenAI takes at an Ohio data centre campus, music publisher Round Hill sued Anthropic and Suno over the way copies for training were obtained, and Bloomberg reported that Stripe has agreed to acquire the AI gateway OpenRouter.
The wall around a sandbox, the legal status of training data, and the assumption that recorded music is made by people. Three boundaries that had been taken for granted were crossed today, each in a different way.