A landmark copyright lawsuit filed by the New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft in 2023 moved into a critical new phase Friday, as all three parties presented their official arguments to a judge, with hopes of a favorable ruling ahead of a possible trial. Why it matters: A ruling in favor of the Times could wreak havoc on the lucrative business models underpinning the AI industry. - A ruling in favor of OpenAI and Microsoft would serve as a massive blow to the publishing industry, potentially undermining its ability to control and monetize how content is scraped and used by AI giants. Zoom in: In its motion for summary judgment, the Times argued OpenAI and Microsoft copied its works at scale to build commercial substitutes, which…
YouTube megastar Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeast, joins Morning Joe along with NYT best selling author James Patterson to discuss their new novel “The Most Dangerous Games.” The book follows a massive and extreme, life-or-death competition featuring 100 players with a $1-billion prize on the line and the goal of saving the world.
Jurors who sat through five weeks of gut-wrenching testimony in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are legally free to sell their stories once deliberations end, and legal and publishing experts say the true-crime market makes those stories worth real money. The nine women and three men on the jury in Plymouth, Massachusetts, heard 85 witnesses, […] The post Lindsay Clancy jurors could pursue book deals after trial — and publishers may already be watching appeared first on American Almanac .
Jurors who sat through five weeks of gut-wrenching testimony in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are legally free to sell their stories once deliberations end, and legal and publishing experts say the true-crime market makes those stories worth real money. The nine women and three men on the jury in Plymouth, Massachusetts, heard 85 witnesses, reviewed 200 pieces of evidence, and listened to Patrick Clancy's 911 call as he discovered what had happened to his three children, Cora, Dawson, and Callan, in January 2023. Lindsay Clancy admitted to strangling all three in their Massachusetts home. The only question at trial was whether severe postpartum psychosis stripped her of criminal responsibility. That question has proved agonizing for…Open
Paul Tremblay's new novel "Dead But Dreaming of Electric Sheep" tells a science fiction story that forces us to confront our worries about AI. Tremblay, who has sued OpenAI, says the tech giant "steals our books, doesn't give an opt-in or an opt-out, doesn't pay us."
Ross Barkan's book "The Revolutionary: Zohran Mamdani and the Remaking of American Politics," which was scheduled for publication in October, has been scrubbed from major bookselling sites.
