Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Against OpenAI: A Closer Look
OpenAI, on May 5, 2025, has abandoned its December 2024 decision to transition into a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), instead restructuring its for-profit arm into a PBC under nonprofit control. This pivot follows intense scrutiny from regulators and stakeholders, including co-founder Elon Musk, whose August 2024 lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman accuses […]
OpenAI Enters Social Media: A Closer Look
In 2025, an unexpected player is stepping into the world of social media – OpenAI. The company is reportedly prototyping a new social feed tied to its image generator, as part of a broader move to scale multimodal AI by doing what competitors like Meta and X have already been doing for a while now. […]
The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Closer Look
In April 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act, a bipartisan effort to curb the growing threat of AI-generated deepfake pornography. Officially, the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, it’s poised to reshape how the U.S. tackles nonconsensual intimate visual depictions (NCII). […]
The Claude + Workspace Integration: A Closer Look
Anthropic has introduced two new capabilities for their AI system Claude to make it a more capable collaborator – Research and Google Workspace integration. Research allows Claude to search across both internal work contexts and the web to generate responses and help users make more informed decisions, while the Google Workspace integration gives Claude access […]
The Wrath of Khan: Technology, M&A and the Federal Trade Commission
Did Lina Khan, former firebrand chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), lose Silicon Valley for the Democrats in the last US presidential election? Did her hard-line approach so offend an industry accustomed to light touch regulation that it turned away from its traditional Democratic leanings and into the waiting arms of Donald Trump? The […]
Elon Musk Buys Twitter from Himself to Save It
On March 28, 2025, Elon Musk announced that his artificial intelligence venture, xAI, had acquired his social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), in an all-stock deal. The transaction values xAI at $80 billion and X at $33 billion, factoring in $12 billion of X’s debt. It’s a move that ties Musk’s AI aspirations to X’s […]
OpenAI, Studio Ghibli and Copyright Infringement: A Closer Look
OpenAI’s AI art tool mimics Studio Ghibli’s style as Princess Mononoke hits theaters for its 40th anniversary, raising copyright questions.
AI and Antitrust Law: A Closer Look at “Chegg v. Google”
As our readers know, AI companies have been battling a wave of copyright and antitrust litigation for over a year. Ronin Legal has previously covered the many lawsuits against OpenAI, including Raw Story Media & AlterNet Media Inc. v. OpenAI, as well as the myriad legal issues arising at the intersection of AI & Ownership, including the recent landmark […]
Why AI Companies Should Be Worrying About Thomson Reuters v. Ross
In a major ruling on February 11th, the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, presided over by Judge Stephanos Bibas, addressed key issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and copyright law in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH v. Ross Intelligence Inc. Ronin Legal has been closely following the developments in this evolving legal […]
OpenAI’s Seeks to Consolidate Copyright Lawsuits: A Closer Look
As we’ve covered in several earlier articles (AI & Ownership Part 3: All Out War, AI & Ownership: IP, Competition Law, and Publicity Rights in a Changing World – Part 2, and Raw Story Media & AlterNet Media Inc. V. OpenAI), companies developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, and OpenAI in particular, are currently battling a […]
