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A $1.5 billion copyright settlement between Anthropic and authors has been delayed by a judge, with objectors arguing that attorneys' fees are too high and compensation for authors is too low. The settlement covers over 480,000 works, with authors and copyright holders filing claims for over 92% of the works. Lire la suite

A class-action suit filed by an anonymous user, identified as John Doe, accuses Perplexity, the fast‑growing AI search platform, of breaching privacy promises. The complaint alleges that the company’s incognito feature fails to shield user conversations, instead funneling chat transcripts, IP addresses, email identifiers and location data to advertising partners such as Google and Meta. If the allegations prove true, the case could force tighter transparency standards across AI‑driven services. Lire la suite

Three teenage girls and their guardians have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that Elon Musk's xAI created and distributed child sexual abuse material using its Grok AI system. The complaint says Grok enabled users to generate nonconsensual intimate images of minors, producing millions of “undressed” or “nudified” images in a short period. Plaintiffs argue xAI failed to implement industry‑standard safeguards and licensed the technology to third parties that facilitated the abuse. The lawsuit highlights growing concerns about AI‑generated deepfake pornography and calls for stronger protections. Lire la suite

Three teenagers from Tennessee have filed a class action lawsuit in California against xAI, alleging that the company’s AI model Grok used their photos to create sexualized images and videos of minors. The filing claims the generated content was shared on platforms such as Discord and Telegram, causing severe emotional distress and violating laws that prohibit child abuse material. xAI has not commented on the suit, while it continues to grapple with multiple investigations in the United States and Europe over similar allegations involving Grok’s image‑generation capabilities. Lire la suite

OpenAI faces pressure to reveal why it removed two internal datasets built from a shadow library of pirated books. The move comes amid a class‑action lawsuit from authors who allege the company trained ChatGPT on their works without permission. While OpenAI initially said the datasets were deleted because they fell out of use, it later claimed that any reason for deletion is protected by attorney‑client privilege. A U.S. district judge has ordered the company to produce internal communications about the deletion, including references to the library source. Lire la suite

Google has dismissed viral reports that Gmail messages are being used to train its Gemini AI model, calling the claims misleading. A company spokesperson emphasized that Gmail’s Smart Features have existed for years and that the content is only used to personalize the user experience, not to train Gemini. Malwarebytes, the source of the original story, later corrected its article after reviewing Google’s documentation. The controversy coincided with a proposed California class‑action lawsuit alleging unauthorized use of Gmail data for Gemini, but Google maintains no such data usage occurred. Lire la suite