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ARM CANCELS QUALCOMM'S ARCHITECTURE LICENSE, ENDANGERING ITS CHIP BUSINESS

Arm has canceled Qualcomm's license for making Arm chips as part of an escalation of a fight that began in late 2022 when Arm sued Qualcomm over its acquisition of Nuvia in 2021. Qualcomm has 60 days before it will be forced to stop manufacturing and selling its Arm chips. It bought Nuvia to assist with developing high-performance Arm chips, but Arm claimed the acquisition caused Nuvia to breach its Arm licenses. Arm demanded that Qualcomm and Nuvia destroy any designs that Nuvia had created pre-acquisition, but the companies didn't comply. Qualcomm's shift to using Nuvia's designs means that Arm could make less money from the partnership than it used to.

FORMER OPENAI STAFFER SAYS THE COMPANY IS BREAKING COPYRIGHT LAW AND DESTROYING THE INTERNET

Suchir Balaji, a former researcher at OpenAI, recently wrote in his personal blog that he believes the company is not complying with US copyright law, adding to the growing number of voices that say the company's giant data scraping business is based on shaky legal ground. Balaji worked at OpenAI for four years before leaving this summer. He says that AI companies are destroying the commercial viability of the individuals, businesses, and internet services that created the digital data used to train AI systems. OpenAI claims it builds its AI models using publicly available data in a legal and fair way. The company is currently dealing with multiple lawsuits for its use of copyright material.

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