September 09, 2026
A California federal judge appeared skeptical Wednesday that Meta Platforms Inc. had identified all magazines used to train its artificial intelligence tool after copyright plaintiffs pointed out Meta disclosed only nine issues spanning a 17-year period, telling Meta's counsel during a hearing that the likelihood Meta used only nine issues "seems rather fanciful to me."
July 02, 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. was hit with a proposed class action Thursday in California federal court accusing it of feeding copyrighted textbooks into its Llama large language model to train the artificial intelligence product without getting permission from or compensating the textbooks' authors.