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OpenAIs apparent use of a voice with a likeness of Scarlett Johansson is fueling a backlash against artificial intelligence across Hollywood.

OpenAI's apparent homage to the movie Her featuring the voice likeness of Scarlett Johansson is fuelling a backlash against artificial intelligence across Hollywood, executives told Reuters. Johansson's accusation that the ChatGPT-maker copied her performance in the Spike Jonze-directed feature film, after failing to strike an agreement, rekindled the creative class's anxiety about the existential threat posed by AI, even as...

The Department of Justice on Thursday announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster’s Beverly Hills-based parent, Live Nation Entertainment, seeking to break up the company over allegations that

The Justice Department, which has not said if it will accept the payment, declined to comment on the filing. Google asserted that its check, which it said covered its alleged overcharges for online ads, allows it to sidestep a jury trial whether or not the government takes it.

Google pays preemptive damages to US government to avoid jury trial in antitrust lawsuit over digital advertising.

Google parent company Alphabet has preemptively paid damages to the US government in an unusual move thought to be an attempt to avoid a jury trial.

Google steals DOJ tactic to dodge owing damages by paying DOJ upfront.

The FTC banned noncompete agreements this week, but state and federal laws can help companies protect their intellectual property.

Using two primary markers‑— coronary calcium and heart chamber size — A routine chest scan without contrast shows promise for disease detection

The USPTO is widely perceived as issuing too many bad patents. This complaint is understandable if one focuses on patents that are challenged in legal tribunals such as federal district court, the ITC, or the PTAB. But, as Mark Lemley has pointed out, this is just a tiny, tiny fraction of all issued patents.