A group of authors cannot include six AI companies in one lawsuit for copyright infringement, a judge ordered. Plaintiffs John Carreyrou, Lisa Barretta, Philip Shishkin, Jane Adams, Matthew Sacks, and Michael Kochin, must sue Anthropic, Google, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and NVIDIA as individual defendants—as those companies requested. Judge P. Casey Pitts in the Northern District of California severed the suit, noting that there was not enough commonality or evidence of a conspiracy between the tech companies to warrant joining them into one action. “Each defendant trained on a mixture of different data repositories at different times between 2020 and 2024,” the […]
