When Google became the dominant search engine around 2004, not everyone was happy. Everyone from book publishers to music studios blasted the company for helping itself to copyrighted content without paying. The search giant eventually smoothed things over but now, twenty years later, Google has become the media industry's villain all over again-this time for gobbling that same content to train its AI tools.
The states allege that the Department of Justice "arbitrarily relied on immigration-related factors that Congress did not authorize it to rely on in allocating federal grant monies to support victims."
Perelman argues that his paintings, exposed to a fire's sprinkler systems and smoke, have suffered an intangible loss of value, described as their 'oomph'.
At the heart of this bitter legal wrangling is a big idea: we shouldn't need to stare at computer or phone screens or talk to a box like Amazon's Alexa to interact with our future AI assistants in a natural way.
It's unfortunate that my office had to resort to federal court just to get USDA to comply with the law and its own regulations, but we are pleased that the lawsuit has now been resolved and that Maine will continue to receive funds as directed by Congress to feed children and vulnerable adults.
Trump's departments of Education and Health and Human Services have said Maine's education agency is violating the federal Title IX antidiscrimination law by allowing transgender girls to participate on girls teams.
