On Monday, OpenAI asked a federal judge in California to rule that xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against it “should never have been filed,” and to make Elon Musk’s company cover more than $1m in legal expenses. The filing landed hours after xAI gave noti…
The fight over Australia AI copyright has a price tag: tens of billions in datacentres. The prize for AI firms is the right to train on the country’s books, music and journalism. Australia has become the latest test of a question every government now f…
SAP has talked its way out of an EU antitrust fine. The European Commission said it would accept a set of commitments from the German software group, closing an investigation into how SAP handles maintenance and support for its on-premise enterprise so…
Block, the payments company chaired by Jack Dorsey, has agreed to pay $45 million to settle claims from 46 US states that it mishandled fraud on Cash App, its money-transfer and digital-banking app. The settlement is the latest sign that state regulato…
A federal judge has approved the Securities and Exchange Commission’s settlement with Elon Musk over his late disclosure of a Twitter stake, closing a case that has run for years. US District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan entered the consent judgment on W…
Apple has spent two years arguing that Europe’s digital rulebook should not apply to it in quite the way Brussels insists. On Wednesday, the EU’s General Court told it, in effect, that it does. The court threw out Apple’s challenge to being labelled a …
Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony have taken Belgium to Europe’s top court. They say its copyright law forces platforms to pay creators far beyond what the EU intended. Four of the biggest names in tech asked the EU’s Court of Justice on Tuesday to rein i…
Greece’s Predator spyware scandal has reached the courts. Eight people it spied on want €1 million each from the firm that built it. Eight victims of Greece’s “Predatorgate” wiretapping scandal have sued the Athens surveillance firm Intellexa and 13 pe…
Most AI legal startups sell software to law firms. Norm Ai built its own firm instead, and investors just valued the bet at $1.2 billion. Norm Ai has raised $120 million in a Series C round that values the New York startup at $1.2 billion, Bloomberg fi…
Meta has told a federal court that four US states are seeking $1.4 trillion in penalties over claims it engineered Facebook and Instagram to hook young users, a figure the company put on the record in a filing on Monday. The sum, first reported by Reut…