A UC Berkeley team, including a Data Science Discovery Program student, is developing an algorithm to help better predict and protect the public from severe heat waves: bit.ly/3QNHkmr (CC: William Boos)

Judge dismisses most claims in the Sarah Silverman AI copyright case against Meta (with leave to amend except for negligence). storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

Scoop: new class action lawsuit accuses OpenAI and Microsoft of using nonfiction books without permission in alleged copyright violation. First time one of these suits adds Microsoft as a defendant. semafor.com/article/11/21/…

Congratulations to Professor Daniel W. Linna Jr. for receiving this year's AALS Section on Technology, Law, & Legal Education Award.

'Dan is shaping how the next generation of lawyers will interact with technology.'

Fred Zacharias was my YLS classmate. He died way too young, but would have been thrilled to know his name would forever be linked to great legal ethics scholarship. Congrats to Jon J. Lee!

Judge Chhabria dismisses most of Kadrey’s claims against Meta in AI copyright lawsuit. Summary below:

chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2023/11/21/jud…

Someone just pointed out that Texas's must-carry exception letting platforms take down 'specific threats' covers threats made against targets in their capacity as police or judges, but not any other govt job. Not election workers. Not even legislators!

The war is tough. And the mood in Kyiv reflects the reality.

Yesterday, the Kyiv School of Economics held its annual fundraiser. Many influential people attended: 7 ministers, many from the Ukrainian Forbes list. I spoke to them privately. And this is what they said. 1/

Here’s the new Microsoft-OpenAI dynamic as best I can tell. Microsoft has exclusive rights to use OpenAI models. OpenAI can’t train any new models without Microsoft. OpenAI could go to Amazon or Google and ask them to train new models, but they’d get sued by Microsoft and they ..

I have a new law review article about how the S. Ct.'s Taamneh ruling last spring will affect future cases. That includes the cases about Texas's and Florida's social media laws, which require platforms to carry content against their will. 1/

journaloffreespeechlaw.org/keller3.pdf

Though Sam Altman and others “pay lip service to regulation and say they welcome the world’s feedback, this tumultuous weekend showed just how few people have a say in the progression of what might be the most consequential technology of our age.” theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

#AI Act: I got my hands on the 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹 non-paper that pushes against regulating foundation models in favour of codes of conduct without an initial sanction regime. “This is a declaration of war,” a parliamentary official told me.
euractiv.com/section/artifi…

Most coverage of the firing of Sam Altman from OpenAI is treating it as a corporate board firing a high-performing CEO at the peak of their success. The reaction is shock and disbelief.
But this misunderstands the nature of the board and their legal duties.
1/n

Could things get wild if Microsoft stock declines?

If I were an investor I might want to know more about how MSFT came to invest $10B in a company without getting a board seat and whether they had adequately diligenced the founding team after the split with Anthropic.

Report: Sutskever led board coup at OpenAI that ousted Altman over AI safety concerns trib.al/Lv8wJGd

In other news, watermarks are looking pretty dead in the water 😱

arxiv.org/abs/2311.04378

We live in the most interesting timeline.

OpenAI board rumored to be asking Sam Altman to return a CEO

theverge.com/2023/11/18/239…