Three weeks after Apple filed a landmark case accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets, OpenAI is hitting back. In a new blog post, the ChatGPT-maker said Apple’s lawsuit is “careless, aggressive and oddly personal.” Apple alleged in its initial complaint that two former Apple employees, software engineer Chang Liu and 24-year Apple veteran Tang Tan,
Hollywood powerbroker Ari Emanuel has come to the defense of his friend and business partner David Ellison, alleging that state attorneys general trying to block Paramount’s deal with Warner Bros. Discovery are threatening to “destroy” competition in the entertainment industry. Emanuel, CEO of TKO Group and former director of Endeavor, wrote an op-ed published Tuesday
Runlayer, a startup that offers a secure Model Context Protocol gateway, a standard to allow AI models and agents to securely obtain external data and tools, has filed a lawsuit against human resources software startup Rippling, according to the complaint seen by TechCrunch. The lawsuit is a warning to anyone selling AI infrastructure to enterprise
Privately, some top executives at Warner Bros. Discovery are supporting the 12 states that have sued to block Paramount Skydance’s acquisition of WBD to win in court and get the mega deal rejected. What is obvious, according to multiple sources, is that there is a sizable contingent at Warner Bros. of people who do not
Warner Bros. Discovery filed a lawsuit this week accusing Amazon of interference with contractual relations, breach of contract and unfair competition. As Deadline reported, the lawsuit alleges that Amazon has been “hastily seeking to hack a number of contract employees,” including Pia Barlow, an HBO Max marketing executive who recently joined Amazon MGM Studios. Warner
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