From today’s decision by Judge Paul Oetken in Lehrman v. Lovo, Inc. (S.D.N.Y.): [Voice-over actors] Paul Lehrman and Linnea Sage bring this putative class action against .. Lovo, Inc. … alleging that Lovo used artificial intelligence … to synthesize and sell unauthorized “clones” of their voices…. Ultimately the Court concludes that, for the most part, […]
President Donald Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) into law on Friday. The sweeping legislation includes boosts to military funding, more taxpayer financing of state-sponsored events, and massive appropriations to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Here are some of the bill’s largest line items aimed at implementing Trump’s immigration crackdown. 1. […]
The Senate removed the AI moratorium provision from the reconciliation bill in a 99–1 vote early Tuesday morning. Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R–Tenn.) and Sen. Maria Cantwell (D–Wash.) co-sponsored the amendment to eliminate the provision after Blackburn reneged on a compromise with Sen. Ted Cruz (R–Texas) to amend it over the weekend. The Senate Commerce, Science, […]
The residents of New Braunfels, Texas, didn’t volunteer to help accelerate AI development. Their once quiet corner of the state now buzzes with construction crews building power plants to sustain data centers—industrial warehouses that could soon consume as much electricity as entire cities to power state-of-the-art AI models. Meanwhile, thousands of miles away in Irvine, […]
Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled Monday that Anthropic did not violate the Copyright Act by training its large language model (LLM) on copyrighted books so long as those books were legally acquired. This case is one of many filed against artificial intelligence (AI) companies for […]
Artificial intelligence has a lot of people either excited or worried. In the latter camp are creative professionals who fear that technology might replace their images, voices, and talents with exact replicas that show up sober for work and don’t throw tantrums. Always prepared to capitalize on concerns, members of Congress propose legislation to create […]
For the past several years, states have been trying to regulate the burgeoning artificial intelligence (AI) industry. Out of the 635 AI-related bills considered in 2024, nearly 100 were signed into law, and 1,000 more bills have been proposed this year. A federal law that would prevent the proliferation of reactionary local AI regulation passed […]