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The comedian alleges the companies didn't obtain her consent before using her work to train their LLMs. News 

Sarah Silverman Files Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Meta for Alleged Copyright Infringement

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Sarah Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, has filed lawsuits against OpenAI and Meta. The legal action claims that these companies utilized copyrighted content, including the works of the plaintiffs, to train their language models without seeking permission. The complaints were filed on Friday and reported by Gizmodo. The complaints focus on the datasets OpenAI and Meta allegedly used to train ChatGPT and LLaMA. While in OpenAI’s case, the “Books1” data set is roughly the size of Project Gutenberg — a well-known copyright-free book repository — the…

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Elon Musk sues law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz over a $90 million fee received for defeating his bid to walk away from the Twitter buyout News 

Elon Musk Files Lawsuit Against Wachtell Law Firm Over Dispute Over USD 90 Million Fee in Twitter Acquisition

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Elon Musk has filed a lawsuit against prestigious law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in an attempt to reclaim a significant portion of the $90 million fee they were paid by Twitter. This fee was awarded to the firm for successfully preventing Musk from abandoning his $44 billion acquisition of the popular social media platform. The complaint by Musk’s X Corp, which owns Twitter, was filed on Wednesday in a California court in San Francisco. Musk accused Wachtell of exploiting Twitter by accepting in the final days before the…

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