A day after Snap reached a tentative settlement with the plaintiff in a social media addiction lawsuit, leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant, the case was dropped. In a statement, Meta said the plaintiff decided to drop his case against Meta without receiving any payment. TikTok and Google’s YouTube had previously reached settlement agreements
Snap is the latest major technology company to settle a lawsuit that claimed social media platforms are harmful to children and young adults. The company reached a “tentative” settlement in a case that was set to go to trial later this month. TikTok recently settled its side of the case with the plaintiff, known by
A group of publishers and authors have filed a class-action lawsuit against Google, accusing the tech giant of using their copyrighted works to train its artificial intelligence platform, Gemini. The group of plaintiffs, which includes Hachette, Cengage, Elsevier, author Scott Turow and SCRIBE, also alleges that Google intentionally removed or changed copyright information from these
A year ago, OpenAI seemed to have an untouchable lead in the AI race. It was by far the dominant AI platform for consumers. Competitors like Meta were struggling (and spending millions of dollars on new hires) to catch up. Sam Altman had enough money and influence to hire famed Apple designer Jony Ive to
The AI talent war may now be worthy of a Hollywood adaptation. In a new lawsuit that reads like a corporate crime thriller, Apple accused OpenAI of poaching former Apple employees, conducting “show and tell” interviews, and accessing confidential documents to accelerate its push into consumer hardware. The complaint centers on OpenAI’s hiring of an
OpenAI has been on a recruiting spree, overloading its workforce and pulling top AI talent from other tech companies. Now, Apple says the AI giant has been playing dirty with its recruiting tactics. The Cupertino tech giant accused OpenAI of stealing trade secrets in a lawsuit filed Friday that also targeted its hardware company, IO,