The technology industry is approaching a historic legal moment as Google and Character.AI move toward finalizing what may be the first major settlements tied directly to alleged harm caused by artificial intelligence chatbots.  The companies have agreed in principle to resolve multiple lawsuits brought by families whose teenage children died by suicide or suffered serious psychological harm after interacting with Character.AI ’s chatbot companions. While the settlement deta

A German court has ruled that OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT, violated copyright law by using song lyrics from well-known musicians to train its language models, a decision that could have wide-ranging consequences for how artificial intelligence systems handle creative works. The Munich regional court sided with Germany’s music rights society GEMA, which represents around 100,000 composers, lyricists, and music publishers, finding that OpenAI’s models had ingested protect