MLex reported that lawyers told a California state court judge in San Francisco on 24 July that the number of lawsuits alleging ChatGPT contributed to users harming themselves could rise from roughly two dozen to 50 or more. The judge began mapping a procedural course for the coordinated proceedings, which the parties expect to run for several years.
Variety reported that the New York Times, the Daily News, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Intercept and Ziff Davis filed a 52 page motion for sanctions against OpenAI in the Southern District of New York on 9 July. The publishers allege the company concealed for more than two years that it could search its training datasets and output logs for their content, a claim they say surfaced only after a second deposition of its privacy engineering lead.
Music Business Worldwide reported that a federal judge in the Southern District of New York refused to let Sony add more than 30,000 recordings to its copyright case against Udio, holding the suit to the works originally pleaded.
Bloomberg Law reported that publishers collectively operating close to 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation. The case, Richner Communications Inc. v Microsoft Corp.
Reuters reported that more than 50 cybersecurity leaders urged the US administration to reverse restrictions imposed on Anthropic's advanced AI models, arguing that limiting access to the systems could hinder cybersecurity research and vulnerability discovery. The dispute follows government concerns regarding potential misuse and security vulnerabilities in the company's most advanced models.
Reuters reported that the European Union proposed minimum energy-efficiency standards and sustainability labelling for data centres, directly tying the measure to AI-driven power demand and data-centre growth.
