(Update) Qualcomm Allowed to use ARM IP – For Now
Earlier in the semester, I posted about how Qualcomm may have been forbidden to ARM’s intellectual property to design Qualcomm CPU’s, largely on the basis of improper licensing. These concerns have been allayed for now, as a jury trial on this issue was declared a mistrial (and plaintiff ARM’s efforts to seek an injunction against […]
Multiple Canadian News Media Sues OpenAI over Copyright Infringement
Several Canadian news media holdings are suing American company OpenAI, alleging that OpenAI scraped large quantities of information from Canadian sources and used that data to train, among other things, ChatGPT. This, according to the plaintiffs, was done without authorization. The plaintiffs seek both an injunction against further data scraping, as well as an unspecified […]
Qualcomm may no Longer be Allowed to use ARM IP to Design CPUs
Qualcomm is an American company that designs CPUs. ARM is a British company that licenses off-the-shelf CPU core designs to other manufacturers. Unlike the x86 architecture designed by Intel that is featured in virtually all modern desktops and laptops, ARM-based CPU designs are low power and are widely used in smartphones, cars, and the burgeoning […]