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It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges
7Mar By adminNo Comments
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It’s not just Elon Musk: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI confronting a mountain of legal challenges

[ad_1] After a year of basking in global fame, the San Francisco company OpenAI is now confronting a multitude of challenges that could threaten its position at the vanguard of artificial intelligence research.Some of its conflicts stem from decisions made well before the debut of ChatGPT, particularly its unusual shift from an idealistic nonprofit to a big business backed by billions of dollars in investments. It's too early to tell if OpenAI and its attorneys will beat back a barrage of lawsuits from Elon Musk, The New York Times and bestselling novelists such as John Grisham, not to mention escalating scrutiny from government regulators, or if any of it will stick. Feud with Elon MuskOpenAI isn't waiting for the court process to unfold before publicly defending itself against legal c...
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Google Faces Widening Antitrust Probe Over Online Ads in Canada
1Mar By adminNo Comments
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Google Faces Widening Antitrust Probe Over Online Ads in Canada

[ad_1] Canada's Competition Bureau secured a court order allowing it to deepen a long-running investigation into the advertising market power of Alphabet Inc.'s Google.The watchdog's investigation started in 2020, and initially focused on whether Google was using its share of the video advertising business to gain power in the market for advertiser buying tools. That probe has been extended to look at Google's power across the display advertising technology business, the Canadian watchdog said Thursday. The agency said it was investigating the possibilities Google is using “predatory” pricing in the ad-tech market, reducing choices and hindering innovation in the market for online display ads.  The court order compels the Mountain View, California-based company to produce evidence for t...
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Google steps up Microsoft criticism, warns of rival’s monopoly in cloud
28Feb By adminNo Comments
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Google steps up Microsoft criticism, warns of rival’s monopoly in cloud

[ad_1] eAlphabet's Google Cloud on Monday ramped up its criticism of Microsoft's cloud computing practices, saying its rival is seeking a monopoly that would harm the development of emerging technologies such as generative artificial intelligence.Microsoft and Amazon have recently attracted scrutiny in Britain, the European Union and the United States over their market power in cloud computing. Google trails a distant third behind the two leaders. Microsoft's collaboration with ChatGPT creator OpenAI has also ratcheted up the concerns. "We worry about Microsoft wanting to flex their decade-long practices where they had a lot of monopoly on the on-premise software before and now they are trying to push that into cloud now," Google Cloud Vice President Amit Zavery said in an interview."So...
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Shocking triumph! Epic Games wins Android app store antitrust lawsuit against Google
12Dec By adminNo Comments
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Shocking triumph! Epic Games wins Android app store antitrust lawsuit against Google

[ad_1] A federal court jury has decided that Google's Android app store has been protected by anticompetitive barriers that have damaged smartphone consumers and software developers, dealing a blow to a major pillar of a technology empire. The unanimous verdict reached Monday came after just three hours of deliberation following a four-week trial revolving around a lucrative payment system within Google's Play Store. The store is the main place where hundreds of millions of people around the world download and install apps that work on smartphones powered by Google's Android software. Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite video game, filed a lawsuit against Google three years ago, alleging that the internet search giant has been abusing its power to shield its Play Store from c...
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French antitrust watchdog issues statement of objection over Apple app tracking
26Jul By adminNo Comments
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French antitrust watchdog issues statement of objection over Apple app tracking

[ad_1] France's antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it had issued a statement of objection against Apple, citing concerns the U.S. technology company could have breached regulations linked to the use of iPhone user data for advertising purposes.The watchdog is concerned Apple might "abuse its dominant position by implementing discriminatory, non-objective and non-transparent conditions for the use of user data for advertising purposes", it said in a statement. The statement triggers an antitrust procedure during which the company will be able to express its point of view, the watchdog said. Apple denied the allegation. The mechanism "gives users more control by requiring all apps to ask permission before tracking them", the company said in an e-mailed statement, adding it will "continue ...
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