Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, alleging the artificial intelligence company committed copyright infringement by scraping their articles to train its AI, TechCrunch reported Monday (March 16). Britannica also alleges that OpenAI violated trademark law by making up information and falsely attributing...
When Conan O’Brien took the stage at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday (March 15), his opening line landed as both a joke and a warning. “I am honored to be the last human host of the Academy Awards,” he said, adding that next year’s...
The reporter who uncovered fraud at blood-testing startup Theranos is reportedly among a group of six writers who sued six artificial intelligence (AI) companies on Monday (Dec. 22), alleging that they trained their AI systems on copyrighted works without permission. John Carreyrou, who is now...
Anthropic will reportedly pay $1.5 billion to settle a high-profile copyright violation lawsuit. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup was sued last year by a group of authors who accused the company of illegally accessing their books. Under the terms of this settlement, Anthropic will pay...
March 16, 2026
When Conan O’Brien took the stage at the 98th Academy Awards on Sunday (March 15), his opening line landed as both a joke and a warning. “I am honored to be the last human host of the Academy Awards,” he said, adding that next year’s host would be “a Waymo in a tux.” The quip […]
March 13, 2024
Authors are suing Nvidia for illegally using their materials to train its artificial intelligence (AI), spotlighting the need for firms to navigate copyright laws carefully in AI applications. AI infringement...
December 27, 2023
The democratization of technology has led to, in some ways, the democratization of intellectual property (IP). And artificial intelligence (AI) has supercharged this trend. “We are fundamentally rethinking the boundaries...
December 26, 2023
With the widespread emergence of OpenAI’s large language model-based ChatGPT platform in late 2022, a considerable amount of public attention and private capital have been showered on generative artificial intelligence...
July 09, 2026
Newspapers suing OpenAI for copyright infractions are reportedly now seeking sanctions against the AI startup. The papers, The New York Times (NYT) and New York Daily News among them, accuse OpenAI of lying to a federal court about its ability to search its systems for evidence that it misused millions of their news stories to […]
March 16, 2026
Encyclopedia Britannica and its subsidiary Merriam-Webster have sued OpenAI, alleging the artificial intelligence company committed copyright infringement by scraping their articles to train its AI, TechCrunch reported Monday (March 16)....
December 23, 2025
The reporter who uncovered fraud at blood-testing startup Theranos is reportedly among a group of six writers who sued six artificial intelligence (AI) companies on Monday (Dec. 22), alleging that...
September 07, 2025
Anthropic will reportedly pay $1.5 billion to settle a high-profile copyright violation lawsuit. The artificial intelligence (AI) startup was sued last year by a group of authors who accused the...