Tag: category-/Law & Government/Legal

Meet ‘Liberated Qwen’, an uncensored LLM that strictly adheres to system prompts

Join leaders in Boston on March 27 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. Abacus AI, the startup building an AI-driven end-to-end machine learning(ML) and LLMOps platform, has dropped an uncensored open-source large language model (LLM) that has been tuned to follow system prompts – in all scenarios. Officially […]

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Apple’s $1.9B EU fine for app store barriers could foreshadow gaming changes

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  The European Commission fined Apple $1.9 billion (1.8 billion euros) today for putting barriers in place for music apps in its app store. The fine validated antitrust concerns raised by Spotify about […]

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Judge dismisses most of Sarah Silverman’s copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI

It’s been a pretty good week over at OpenAI, so far. Despite a small protest outside its headquarters last night, the company shipped an update to ChatGPT to give it persistent memory, and yesterday, it saw most of the class-action copyright infringement lawsuit filed against it by comedian Sarah Silverman over allegedly copying her 2010 […]

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Jury awards Skillz $42.9M in patent infringement trial

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  A jury has awarded Skillz a $42.9 million judgment in its patent infringement lawsuit against rival AviaGames. The jury found that Skillz provided a preponderance of evidence that AviaGames willfully infringed one […]

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Anthropic hits back at music publishers in AI copyright lawsuit, accusing them of ‘volitional conduct’ 

Anthropic, a major generative AI startup, laid out its case why accusations of copyright infringement from a group of music publishers and content owners are invalid in a new court filing on Wednesday.  In fall 2023, music publishers including Concord, Universal, and ABKCO filed a lawsuit against Anthropic accusing it of copyright infringement over its […]

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Why NYT vs. OpenAI will be the copyright fight to watch in 2024 | The AI Beat

Join leaders in San Francisco on January 10 for an exclusive night of networking, insights, and conversation. Request an invite here. No matter which side you think will win the battle, there is no doubt that the New York Times’ new lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, filed last Wednesday, will be one […]

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Ex-Xsolla exec files whistleblower lawsuit against payment firm over alleged financial crimes

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the brightest minds of the gaming industry? Consider getting a custom GamesBeat sponsorship. Learn more. Xsolla, the global payment handler for game transactions, has been sued by a former accounting vice president who alleges the company mishandled $40 million. Emil Aliyev, former vice president of […]

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GM driverless car subsidiary Cruise suspended by California DMV

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More Driverless cars from General Motors (GM) subsidiary Cruise, built atop the 2021 acquisition of startup Voyage, are a common sight in San Francisco these days, as that is where the company is testing and […]

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A 14-year trademark battle over the name ‘Edge’ in gaming nears its close

Fourteen years ago, Tim Langdell and his Edge Games became a pariah of the game industry. His firm was branded a “trademark troll” in a naming dispute with Mobigame and its president David Papazian over the names Edge and Edge Games in the game business. Langdell’s Edge Games started making games in the 1980s, but […]

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Uh-oh! Fine-tuning LLMs compromises their safety, study finds

VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed – An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More As the rapid evolution of large language models (LLM) continues, businesses are increasingly interested in “fine-tuning” these models for bespoke applications — including to reduce bias and unwanted responses, such as those sharing harmful […]

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