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Progressive faith communities are increasingly leveraging religious freedom laws to protect civil liberties across the US A defining image of resistance in Donald Trump’s second term is a pastor recoiling as he is shot with pepper balls outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility.

Open-source questions stir frank discussion – and both sides have clear economic incentives for where they land Hello, and welcome to TechScape. This week we’ll be looking at a debate over the future of artificial intelligence that’s dividing the tech industry, as well as how the European Union…

In 2023, the Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement. They’ve since spent more than $20 million on the case, and publisher A.G. Sulzberger has no plans to stop fighting it.

NVIDIA Pursues $750 Billion in New AI Deals Despite Financing Scrutiny Yahoo Finance

The literary world is celebrating Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors. But AI firms may still train models on legally purchased books. What does that mean?

A court has dismissed Google’s case against SerpApi over that company’s scraping of search results to train AI models. The US District Court for the Northern District of California found that there was no indication that any copyright had been breached.

ChatGPT led woman to her death, family says in OpenAI lawsuit Cleveland.com

A US federal court has approved Anthropic’s $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit in which authors accused the AI company of using their books without permission to train the AI model Claude. This is the largest such settlement to date in a US copyright case, according to Reuters.

A federal judge has approved the $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a group of authors who sued the company for using their work to train Claude.

Burger King’s AI assistant Patty has been brought in to ‘support’ the human workers – but some say it is doing the precise opposite. It was the most curt drive-thru greeting I had ever heard.

OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additional sensors to "understand" your environment.

An impassioned plea from a concerned creative. I woke up in Budapest, my head heavy, in the way one is after a record-breaking heat wave hit Europe, on the tail end of a seven-week tour opening for Aldous Harding across the EU and UK. It was a strange moment in the tour.

Bloomberg Tech host Ed Ludlow says Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI reflects an intensifying battle for AI talent and hardware leadership, with Apple alleging former employees improperly took trade secrets as OpenAI expands its device ambitions.

Norm Law, an affiliated AI-assisted law firm, charges clients based on outcomes, not hours.

Lawsuit claims OpenAI ignored calls to alert authorities about violent ChatGPT prompts tied to mass shooting suspect.

Data: BIS; Chart: Danielle Alberti/Axios Today's AI buildout resembles earlier technological revolutions and capital booms that ended in painful busts. That's the new warning from the Bank for International Settlements, a top forum known as the "central bank for central banks." Why it matters: The…

Frontier AI labs are converging on a new strategy for controlling their most cyber-capable models while still commercializing them: selective access. Why it matters: OpenAI's trusted-access program and a pending program from Anthropic are creating a new power center in cybersecurity where AI…

Two years after first revealing its plans for Apple Intelligence and a smarter Siri that never fully materialized, at WWDC Apple just revealed a new set of AI features and a smarter, more personalized Siri.

FTC to Require Cox Media Group, Two Other Firms to Pay Nearly $1 Million to Settle Charges They Deceived Customers About “Active Listening” AI-Powered Marketing Service Back in 2024 Cox Media Group were caught trying to sell advertisers packages based on "active listening", with this deck which…

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A jury’s rejection of Elon Musk’s $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI was a major hurdle crossed. But the maker of ChatGPT faces a list of other problems.

The ruling appeared to clear a path for OpenAI to file for a much anticipated IPO this year and dent the SpaceX and X owner’s reputation.

Deal gives IPO-bound SpaceX a marquee customer, while helping Anthropic ease capacity constraints.

If you bought an iPhone 15 or 16 in the US, you could be set to pocket up to $95 per device as part of the settlement.

Claims from last year said the tech firm’s advertising of Apple Intelligence fooled iPhone buyers.