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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, August 7th. I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Outcry is growing against generative artificial intelligence companies that scrape the internet

for data to train their programs. More content creators and publishers who say their work was

used in this way are demanding compensation. And that could have big financial and other

implications for the AI boom. Our reporter, Deepa C. The Ramen, will join us to explain.

But first, a federal judge narrowed a major antitrust case against Google ahead of a trial that

is slated to begin next month. The judge rejected an argument made by 38 state attorneys general.

The group had been pursuing a legal theory that Google maintains a monopoly through contracts

that make its search engine the default on browsers like Apple Safari and Mozilla's Firefox.

Google handles about 90% of search engine queries worldwide. The judge is allowing the AGs

and the Justice Department to make other arguments during the trial.

The hacker behind one of the largest crypto heists ever revealed himself in a New York courtroom

You may remember back in 2016, the crypto exchange Bitfinex was hacked and about 2000 unauthorized

transfers of Bitcoin were made. Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan were in separate

proceedings at the same court on Thursday to plead guilty to charges linked to laundering the

stolen crypto. At the time the Bitcoin was stolen, it was worth about 71 million dollars.

When the couple was arrested last year, the crypto's value had reached $4.5 billion.

I spoke with our reporter Isaac Yu about what made this case so fascinating.

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