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Lawsuit alleges Zuckerberg OK’d training AI on copyrighted works

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg approved the use of a dataset containing copyrighted material to train the company’s Llama AI model, a new filing in a copyright suit against the company says.

A last-minute discovery filing revealed that Meta engineers had reservations about the legality of using the LibGen dataset, acknowledging that it was “a dataset we know to be pirated.”

Engineers also wrote scripts to remove information related to copyright from the dataset before training, according to the court filing.

Lawyers for the authors who filed the suit against Meta said that the question of using LibGen was escalated to “MZ.” The team was then given the go-ahead to use the copyrighted material.

Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing says | TechCrunch

Mark Zuckerberg gave Meta's Llama team the OK to train on copyrighted works, filing claims | TechCrunch

Engineers also wrote scripts to remove information related to copyright from the dataset before training, according to the court filing.

Lawyers for the authors who filed the suit against Meta said that the question of using LibGen was escalated to “MZ.” The team was then given the go-ahead to use the copyrighted material.

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WSJ: OpenAI IPO filing could be coming as soon as this week

According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI could file for an IPO as soon as this week. The company is working with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley on the IPO, which is widely expected to be one of the largest ever. OpenAI is racing against rival Anthropic to be the first startup of the current generative-AI boom to go public.

OpenAI is targeting an IPO as soon as September, per the report.

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GitHub may have fumbled one of the biggest first-mover advantages in history

Rivals like Cursor and Claude Code are eroding GitHub’s Copilot user base, and Microsoft execs are sounding the alarm about the platform itself.

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Physical attacks on cryptocurrency holders keep ticking up

Conferences, exchange chiefs, and even rumored bitcoin creators are all spending on security.

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At Google’s I/O developer conference, the company announced a bevy of new products, but none of it helped the stock one bit.

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Report: Tesla to build solar factory near Houston

Tesla is planning to build its solar panel manufacturing plant — an endeavor that could add up to $50 billion in value to its energy business — near Houston, Texas, Electrek reports. The plant would be located on the same site as its Megafactory, which builds Megapack battery systems.

The solar plant is part of Tesla and SpaceX’s goal of eventually putting solar-powered data centers in space.

On the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla was “going to work towards getting 100 gigawatts a year of solar cell production, integrating across the entire supply chain from raw materials all the way to finished solar panels.”

At the time, the news had sent shares of First Solar down, but subsequent reports suggest Tesla is unlikely to compete directly with the country’s leading photovoltaic panel maker, instead using much of that production internally.

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Exclusive: Tesla (TSLA) is building its giant solar panel factory in Houston

On the company’s fourth-quarter earnings call, CEO Elon Musk said Tesla was “going to work towards getting 100 gigawatts a year of solar cell production, integrating across the entire supply chain from raw materials all the way to finished solar panels.”

At the time, the news had sent shares of First Solar down, but subsequent reports suggest Tesla is unlikely to compete directly with the country’s leading photovoltaic panel maker, instead using much of that production internally.

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