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Weekly News Digest
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August 12, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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AI Lawsuit Updates
Ashley Belanger writes the following in “AI Industry Horrified to Face Largest Copyright Class Action Ever Certified” for Ars Technica:AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified. They’ve warned that a single lawsuit raised by three authors over Anthropic’s AI training now threatens to ‘financially ruin’ the entire AI industry if up to 7 million claimants end up joining the litigation and forcing a settlement. … Also backing Anthropic’s appeal, advocates representing authors—including Authors Alliance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, American Library Association, Association of Research Libraries, and Public Knowledge—pointed out that the Google Books case showed that proving ownership is anything but straightforward. Amalia Huot-Marchand writes the following in “Meta Settles With Conservative Activist Over AI Chatbot Lawsuit” for The Hill: Meta Platforms settled a defamation lawsuit with Robby Starbuck, who claimed that Meta’s artificial intelligence (AI) falsely accused him of participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. There is no publicly available information on the details of the settlement except that Robby Starbuck, a conservative activist opposed to diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, will work with Meta to remove ‘ideological and political bias’ from the company’s AI. Karin Larsen writes the following in “B.C. Author Leads ‘David Against Goliath’ Lawsuits Alleging Big Tech Used Writers’ Works to Train AI” for CBC News: A best-selling Vancouver author has launched a class-action lawsuit against Nvidia, claiming the multi-trillion dollar tech company illegally used his and other Canadian writers’ works to train artificial intelligence large language models (LLM). … Besides Nvidia, MacKinnon is the representative plaintiff in three similar class actions filed in B.C. Supreme Court that individually name Meta/Facebook, Anthropic and Databricks Inc. as defendants. All four class actions will require court certification to move forward.
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