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AI companies used vast troves of published text to train their large language models, and executives at those firms were aware that doing so constituted a theft of copyrighted materials, according to comments cited by news publishers in a court filing that was unredacted this week. The brief was initially filed earlier this month in a court proceeding that brings together several related copyright infringement cases against ChatGPT maker OpenAI and its partner Microsoft, including lawsuits brought by The New York Times and by Ziff Davis, which owns CNET. Microsoft’s director of applied science, Brent Hecht, called it “an astonishing…

On Sunday, Berliners will vote to elect a new state parliament, the Abgeordnetenhaus, alongside the regional vote in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The race is wide open: the Left party and the CDU are neck and neck in the latest polls, both at around 20-23%, with the AfD at 18% and the…

Updated September 19, 2026 — 8:44pm,first published 7:25pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.AAATwo women in NSW died on Saturday in separate stabbing incidents just hours apart.A woman in her 90s was fatally stabbed in a Bondi apartment in the…

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In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Summa Health’s first tech bets, the healthcare leaders on Forbes Veteran 250 list, BioMarin’s acquisition of an early-stage bone disease therapy, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here.Last October, venture capital firm General Catalyst paid $485 million to…

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