ETtech Explainer: The New York Times' copyright battle against Perplexity AIThe New York Times has sued Perplexity AI, claiming the startup used millions of its articles without permission to train chatbots. The new...
06 Dec, 2025, 01.32 PM IST
AI song generator Udio offers brief window for downloads after Universal settlement upsets usersAI companies are now fighting so many copyright lawsuits that a tech industry lobby group, the Chamber of Progress, last week called on Pre...
02 Nov, 2025, 07.01 PM IST
Top music body says AI firms guilty of 'wilful' copyright theftA global music industry group accused AI firms, including OpenAI, Suno, Udio, and Mistral, of large-scale copyright infringement by exploit...
17 Sep, 2025, 06.27 PM IST
Anthropic to pay authors $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training materialAnthropic, an AI company, has agreed to a $1.5 billion settlement in a class-action lawsuit with authors who accused them of using pirated ...
06 Sep, 2025, 01.26 AM IST
UK injects 100 million pounds to boost border securityBritain plans to invest to curb illegal migration. The UK government allocates funds to boost border security. The National Crime Agency wi...
04 Aug, 2025, 06.12 PM IST
US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rulesUS District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic may have illegally downloaded as many as 7 million books from the pirate websites, which cou...
17 Jul, 2025, 08.12 PM IST
US judge backs using copyrighted books to train AIA US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' per...
25 Jun, 2025, 08.17 AM IST
Meta’s Llama AI in hot water: Alleged copyright theft leads to class action lawsuit, accused of pirating 82TB of books for AI trainingMeta is being sued for allegedly using pirated books from shadow libraries to train its AI models, despite internal concerns and ethical wa...
11 Feb, 2025, 09.59 PM IST
Kevin O'Leary sounds the alarm on DeepSeek, says, 'The Chinese startup is a state-sponsored trojan horse that ripped off 50 or 60,000 Nvidia chips from the black market'Kevin O'Leary alleged that DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, might be a "state-sponsored Trojan horse" involving the illegal procurement of N...
05 Feb, 2025, 11.34 PM IST
What Google searches could land you in jail? Find out hereGoogle has become an important tool in today's digital world. Whether you are just curious or doing serious research, Google seems to have ...
29 Jan, 2025, 03.06 PM IST
Why women in this country are turning to AI boyfriendsFacing difficulties to meet real boyfriends in real life, women in China are now turning to AI boyfriends. They feel AI boyfriends are avai...
28 Oct, 2024, 08.08 PM IST
Bengaluru airport lounge scam: How scamsters stole Rs 87000 from woman through appA woman named Bhargavi Mani claimed to have lost over Rs 87,000 in a scam at Bengaluru International Airport. She was tricked into download...
23 Oct, 2024, 09.40 AM IST
Govt’s crackdown on financial fraud; Singapore new visa framework explainedIndian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre has shut illegal loan websites to prevent the increasing number of financial frauds. This and more i...
25 Jul, 2024, 07.41 PM IST
RBI order on credit card networks; Google billing row unnerves gaming appsThe central bank’s latest diktat barring exclusive deals between banks and card companies could disrupt their mutually beneficial partnersh...
07 Mar, 2024, 07.47 AM IST
Brands, managers seek legal balm to end deepfakes and painThe latest call for action comes after Sachin Tendulkar on Monday called out a deepfake video circulating online that falsely showed him en...
17 Jan, 2024, 12.53 PM IST
The race to prevent 'the worst case scenario for machine learning'Dave Willner started working at Facebook in 2008, back when social media companies were making up their rules as they went along. As the co...
25 Jun, 2023, 04.39 PM IST
Petitioners against Google get relief from Madras HC; Byju’s plans more job cutsThe Madras High Court has been asked to play Solomon by a clutch of companies in their ongoing battle against Google over its billing pract...
08 Jun, 2023, 08.42 PM IST