Thu. 06/26 – Conflicting AI Legal Rulings

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🗓️ 26 June 2025

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The legal rulings on AI are finally coming in. The problem is, they’re contradictory, so we’re not getting any legal clarity yet. Creative Commons but for AI training data. Is DeepSeek’s R2 model being stymied by lack of access to Nvidia chips? And another deep look at the question of: is AI taking jobs at tech companies, right now?

Links:

Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI training (Reuters)
Trump Mobile reiterates claims that new phones are 'made in America' (USAToday)
Creative Commons debuts CC signals, a framework for an open AI ecosystem (TechCrunch)
OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get (WSJ)
DeepSeek’s Progress Stalled by U.S. Export Controls (The Information)
Salesforce CEO Says 30% of Internal Work Is Being Handled by AI (Bloomberg)
AI Killed My Job: Tech workers (Blood In The Machine)

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0:00.0	Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Thursday, June 26, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:08.7	The legal rulings on AI are finally coming in. The problem is they're contradictory, so we're not getting any legal clarity yet.
0:16.2	Creative Commons, but for AI training data, is DeepSeaks R2 model being stymied by lack of access to
0:22.2	Nvidia chips, and another deep look at the question of is AI taking jobs at tech companies
0:27.0	right now?
0:28.0	Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.
0:33.4	A group of authors is suing Microsoft in a New York federal court, claiming the company used
0:38.8	nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model, quoting Reuters.
0:46.3	Kaya Bird, Gia Tolentino, Daniel Okrent, and several others allege that Microsoft used
0:51.7	pirated digital versions of their books to teach its AI to respond to human prompts. Their lawsuit filed in New York federal court on Tuesday is one of
0:58.8	several high-stakes cases brought by authors, news outlets, and other copyright holders against
1:02.6	tech companies, including meta-platforms, Anthropic, and Microsoft-backed Open AI over alleged
1:07.2	misuse of their material in AI training. The complaint against Microsoft came a day after
1:11.8	a California federal judge ruled that Anthropic made fair use under U.S. copyright law of
1:17.6	author's material to train its AI systems but may still be liable for pirating their books.
1:24.0	It was the first U.S. decision on the legality of using copyrighted materials without
1:28.2	permission for generative AI training. The writers alleged in the complaint that Microsoft used a
1:33.1	collection of nearly 200,000 pirated books to train Megatron, an algorithm that gives text
1:38.5	responses to user prompts. The complaint said Microsoft used the pirated data set to create a,
1:42.7	quote, computer model that is not only built on the work of thousands of creators and authors, but also built to generate a wide range of expression that mimics the syntax, voice, and themes of the copyrighted works on which it was trained, end quote.
1:55.8	Tech companies have argued that they make fair use of copyrighted material to create new transformative content,
2:01.6	and that being forced to pay copyright holders for their work could hamstring the burgeoning
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