A U.S. appeals court has ruled that AI startup ROSS Intelligence could not rely on fair use to justify using copyrighted Thomson Reuters content to train its legal research technology. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an earlier ruling for Thomson Reuters, which accused ROSS of using thousands of editorial headnotes from its Westlaw legal research platform to develop a competing AI-powered service. The decision is significant because it is the first U.S. federal appellate ruling to address fair use in the context of AI training. But it does not establish that training AI on copyrighted material is always…
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic as regulators assess whether leading AI companies have adequately disclosed the potential risks of their technology. The investigation will examine possible unfair or deceptive practices and potential consumer harm. According to reports, the FTC is preparing formal requests for information and could compel executives at major AI developers to provide testimony. The investigation comes at an important moment for the AI industry. Generative AI is rapidly moving beyond chatbots and becoming integrated into business software, search, e-commerce, customer service and autonomous agents. As these systems gain more…
