The New York Times has filed a lawsuit in a New York federal court accusing AI startup Perplexity of copying and distributing its articles without permission. The suit alleges that Perplexity’s crawlers deliberately ignored technical safeguards, such as robots.txt, to harvest content that the Times says is reproduced verbatim or in substantially similar form. The legal action follows earlier cease‑and‑desist notices and comes amid a broader wave of publisher lawsuits targeting AI firms for alleged copyright violations. Leer más →

The New York Times has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI search company Perplexity, alleging that the firm’s commercial products repurpose the newspaper’s content without permission. The suit claims Perplexity’s retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) technology crawls the web, reproduces articles verbatim or in near‑verbatim summaries, and delivers them to users as its own output. The lawsuit seeks monetary relief and an injunction to stop further use of the Times’ material. The filing follows similar actions by other publishers targeting Perplexity’s practices. Leer más →

The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune have each filed lawsuits against the AI company Perplexity, alleging that the firm scraped their content without permission and reproduced it in its generative AI products. The newspapers claim the unauthorized use damages their brands and infringes on millions of copyrighted works. These actions add to a growing wave of legal disputes between media outlets and artificial‑intelligence developers over the use of copyrighted material for training and output generation. Leer más →

A U.S. magistrate judge has ordered OpenAI to provide a sample of 20 million ChatGPT conversation logs to plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times. The ruling asserts that user privacy will be protected through de‑identification safeguards, but OpenAI argues the demand threatens user trust and conflicts with its privacy commitments. The company has seven days to comply, while it continues to appeal the order. The case highlights the tension between legal discovery in AI copyright disputes and the industry’s broader privacy norms. Leer más →

Suno, the AI‑powered music platform that lets users generate songs from text prompts, announced a $250 million Series C financing that pushes its post‑money valuation to $2.45 billion. The round was led by Menlo Ventures and included Nvidia’s venture arm NVentures among others. Suno now reports $200 million in annual revenue and offers both free and paid subscription tiers for creators. At the same time, the company is fighting lawsuits from Sony Music, Universal Music and Warner Music, which allege the startup trained its models on copyrighted material without permission. The legal challenges highlight the broader uncertainty surrounding AI training data while investors remain bullish on Suno’s growth potential. Leer más →

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data‑scraping service providers—SerpApi, Oxylabs and AWMProxy—accusing them of large‑scale, unlawful circumvention of the platform’s data protections. The complaint alleges that Perplexity, as a customer of at least one scraper, used stolen Reddit content to power its AI answer engine despite a cease‑and‑desist letter sent in May 2024. Reddit claims the defendants’ tactics amount to a data‑laundering operation that threatens the value of its user‑generated content, which the company has begun licensing to AI firms such as OpenAI and Google. Leer más →

Google announced the release of Veo 3, its latest AI video generator, now available to paying Gemini users through Flow, the Gemini API, and Vertex AI. The update adds features such as ingredient‑based video assembly, object insertion, and the ability to create AI‑generated transitions between still images, extending short clips to over a minute. Veo 3 follows earlier launches that integrated synchronized audio and reflects Google’s broader push into generative media, a field currently heated by OpenAI’s Sora and ongoing copyright disputes. Leer más →

OpenAI has launched Sora, a new social media app focused on AI‑generated videos. The iOS‑only service, which also runs at Sora.com, is being released initially in the United States and Canada and is limited to users who receive an invite code. Access is prioritized for paying ChatGPT Pro subscribers, who can share up to four additional codes with friends. All content on Sora is labeled as AI‑created, and the app requires users to log in with a ChatGPT account and enable push notifications to receive updates on availability. Leer más →

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the AI image‑generation platform Midjourney, alleging that the service allows users to create images featuring protected characters such as Batman, Scooby‑Doo and Bugs Bunny. The complaint asserts that Midjourney knowingly offered a tool that facilitates large‑scale piracy, even after briefly restricting the animation of certain characters. The suit follows similar actions by Disney and Universal, and it highlights ongoing legal battles over how AI systems use copyrighted material for training and content creation. Leer más →

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against the AI image generator Midjourney, accusing the company of repeatedly producing unauthorized copies of its copyrighted characters. The complaint alleges that Midjourney’s tools generate countless infringing images and videos, even when prompts do not specifically name the characters. Warner Bros. Discovery claims the AI service is exploiting its intellectual property to attract subscribers and seeks a court order to halt the alleged violations. Leer más →

Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement with a class of authors who claimed the company pirated their copyrighted books to train its Claude AI models. The deal, announced after a motion filed in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, would compensate authors roughly $3,000 per work, potentially covering at least 500,000 titles. The settlement follows a landmark district court ruling that found Anthropic’s training practices qualified as fair use, a decision that has shaped the emerging legal landscape for AI developers and content creators. Leer más →

Anthropic, the creator of the Claude chatbot, agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement to resolve a class‑action copyright lawsuit brought by authors whose works were downloaded from piracy sites such as Library Genesis. The deal will provide roughly $3,000 per work to about 500,000 authors and requires Anthropic to delete the illegally obtained material. While the company maintains it did not use pirated works for publicly released AI, the settlement ends the remaining legacy claims and marks a landmark moment for AI‑related copyright disputes. Leer más →

Strike 3 Holdings, a producer of "high quality," "feminist," and "ethical" adult videos, has filed a federal lawsuit against Meta Platforms alleging that the company illegally torrented and distributed thousands of its copyrighted pornographic videos to train its artificial‑intelligence models. The complaint claims Meta used the BitTorrent protocol to obtain more than 2,396 videos, citing 47 distinct Meta‑affiliated IP addresses, and argues that this conduct gave Meta a competitive edge in developing its so‑called "superintelligence" AI. Meta has responded that it is reviewing the complaint and does not believe the claims are accurate. Leer más →

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the AI image‑generation platform Midjourney, alleging that the service allows users to create images featuring protected characters such as Batman, Scooby‑Doo and Bugs Bunny. The complaint asserts that Midjourney knowingly offered a tool that facilitates large‑scale piracy, even after briefly restricting the animation of certain characters. The suit follows similar actions by Disney and Universal, and it highlights ongoing legal battles over how AI systems use copyrighted material for training and content creation. Leer más →

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the AI image‑generation platform Midjourney, alleging that the service allows users to create images featuring protected characters such as Batman, Scooby‑Doo and Bugs Bunny. The complaint asserts that Midjourney knowingly offered a tool that facilitates large‑scale piracy, even after briefly restricting the animation of certain characters. The suit follows similar actions by Disney and Universal, and it highlights ongoing legal battles over how AI systems use copyrighted material for training and content creation. Leer más →

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against the AI image generator Midjourney, accusing the company of repeatedly producing unauthorized copies of its copyrighted characters. The complaint alleges that Midjourney’s tools generate countless infringing images and videos, even when prompts do not specifically name the characters. Warner Bros. Discovery claims the AI service is exploiting its intellectual property to attract subscribers and seeks a court order to halt the alleged violations. Leer más →

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed a lawsuit against the AI image generator Midjourney, accusing the company of repeatedly producing unauthorized copies of its copyrighted characters. The complaint alleges that Midjourney’s tools generate countless infringing images and videos, even when prompts do not specifically name the characters. Warner Bros. Discovery claims the AI service is exploiting its intellectual property to attract subscribers and seeks a court order to halt the alleged violations. Leer más →

Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement with a class of authors who claimed the company pirated their copyrighted books to train its Claude AI models. The deal, announced after a motion filed in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, would compensate authors roughly $3,000 per work, potentially covering at least 500,000 titles. The settlement follows a landmark district court ruling that found Anthropic’s training practices qualified as fair use, a decision that has shaped the emerging legal landscape for AI developers and content creators. Leer más →

Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement with a class of authors who claimed the company pirated their copyrighted books to train its Claude AI models. The deal, announced after a motion filed in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, would compensate authors roughly $3,000 per work, potentially covering at least 500,000 titles. The settlement follows a landmark district court ruling that found Anthropic’s training practices qualified as fair use, a decision that has shaped the emerging legal landscape for AI developers and content creators. Leer más →

Anthropic, the creator of the Claude chatbot, agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement to resolve a class‑action copyright lawsuit brought by authors whose works were downloaded from piracy sites such as Library Genesis. The deal will provide roughly $3,000 per work to about 500,000 authors and requires Anthropic to delete the illegally obtained material. While the company maintains it did not use pirated works for publicly released AI, the settlement ends the remaining legacy claims and marks a landmark moment for AI‑related copyright disputes. Leer más →