Sam Altman-backed Reddit just sued Anthropic over data scraping The company has alleged that Anthropic denied its licensing deal offer and hit its servers with bots over 100K times This comes a day after Anthropic cut off model access to OpenAI-acquired Windsurf
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Antitrust Trials Updates: Big Tech Legal Battles Unfold
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Damn, I miss writing about all these court docs. Maybe just for kicks I'll start writing stories about the various updates in the antitrust trials even before I start officially freelancing or before finding a new full-time role post-layoffs…
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Google Adtech Antitrust Case Project Code Names Revealed
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Throwback to last summer, when I dug through all the court docs in the Google adtech antitrust case for a pre-trial story about all project code names:
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Social Trust Erosion and Systemic Consequences in Digital Age
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"It depends." It has been widely publicly reported and rumored that much of the high trust which society depends on is being abused by more people than is historically typical in recent years. There might eventually be a reaction in the material universe in some systems.
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AI Authentication Legal Liability in Real Estate Contracts
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If same thing happens in a real estate situation, "Yeah that was not really me in the room signing that", their lawyer is going to have some Pointed Questions and eventually your lawyer is going to have some Carefully Worded Professional Advice.
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Bank Fraud Liability: Card Theft and Signature Forgery
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If someone steals your card and perfectly reproduces your signature, and you say "My card was stolen; I did not pay for that dinner", your bank will say "Yeah sounds really likely and we have no exposure here, OK restauraunt eats it. Can we get you off phone quickly please?"
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Solemnization as sociolegal boundary marker in business contexts
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As I've mentioned previously, solemnization is a sociolegal tripwire to say "There are many situations in society and in business where you're Just Talking and up until this exact moment we have been Just Talking *and after this point* We Were Not Just Talking. Do you get it?"
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Reddit Lawsuit Against AI Companies Over Terms of Service Compliance
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This will probably get settled; Reddit just suing to increase the pressure? The AI companies, including Anthropic, don't want to set a new precedent that they must respect Terms of Service… Prior claims (e.g. Genius v Google) were deemed to be preempted by © law and dismissed.
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Secure AI Partnership Brings Advanced Models to Government
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We’re partnering with @SecondFront to provide secure AI solutions to the public sector, bringing our technology to key government and defense agencies. Second Front will be leveraging our secure enterprise-grade AI technology, including our state-of-the-art models and end-to-end