What point are we at in the breakdown of the consumer economy, I forget. Here the tech sector bubble begins to pop, which is probably the least surprising development in the past couple years:
Apple working to update AI feature after BBC complaint
Dec 2024, BBC News
Apple, the one company who waited to jump into the artificial arena of artificial intelligence, finally jumps, and day one produces completely hallucinated and outright dangerous headlines about world news, but while pretending to be the BBC, because when the average person reads a headline summary as coming from the BBC, they will assume it comes from the BBC, go figure. BBC asks Apple to stop, and they refuse, and this reminds us who is really in control. Large corporations are in control. Until they aren't large anymore, of course.
Unrelated image credit: AI Art - Sandwich Man 1 - 2024
Thomson Reuters Wins First Major AI Copyright Case in the US
Feb 2025, Wired Magazine
“None of Ross’s possible defenses holds water. I reject them all,” wrote US Circuit Court Judge Stephanos Bibas in a summary judgement. (Bibas was sitting by designation in the US District Court of Delaware.) [Ross is the AI startup that stole from Reuters.]The main argument was this: "Ross “meant to compete with Westlaw [Reuters' legal branch] by developing a market substitute.” And that's not considered fair use under copyright law.Here's some notes of my own while reading law blogs on the decision:unexpected, landmark case, pivotal, substantial, significant implication; licensing could become critical; financial burden forced Ross to cease operation; major distinction between NLP (Ross) and LLM (all the rest, like Cohere)
Google parent Alphabet’s earnings disappoint Wall Street amid stiff AI competition
Feb 2025, The Guardian
“Although it’s still well insulated, Google’s advantages in search hinge on its ubiquity and entrenched consumer behavior." This year “could be the year those advantages meaningfully erode as antitrust enforcement and open source AI models change the game. And Cloud’s disappointing results suggest that AI-powered momentum might be beginning to wane just as Google’s closed model strategy is called into question by DeepSeek.”
Closed model strategy!! Fightin words
And here's a list; keeping track of the history, as it happens:
Ford Motor Co sues Blue Cross Blue Sheild in anti-trust case over 'astronomical' profits
Jun 2023, Reuters
Google accuses Microsoft of antitrust violations over Azure cloud platform
Sep 2024, Ars Technica
Google accused of shadow campaigns redirecting antitrust scrutiny to Microsoft
Oct 2024, Ars Technica
FTX sues Binance for $1.76B in battle of crypto exchanges founded by convicts
Nov 2024, Ars Technica
Albertsons calls off merger and sues Kroger
Dec 2024, CNN Business
Beyonce and Adele publisher accuses firms of training AI on songs
May 2024, BBC News
Horizon insurance drops N.J.’s largest hospital system as in-network provider
Jan 2025, nj.com
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