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NYT v. OpenAI & Microsoft: The Fair-Use Trial
NYT v. OpenAI — the December 2023 lawsuit that will likely define whether training LLMs on copyrighted articles is fair use or infringement.
PostGetty Images v. Stability AI: The Copyright Test
Getty v. Stability AI — the January 2023 lawsuit over Stable Diffusion's training on 12 million Getty photos and the 2025 UK ruling.
PostThe Colorado State Fair AI-Art Win, August 2022
The Colorado State Fair — August 2022, when Jason Allen's "Théâtre D'opéra Spatial" became the first AI-generated image to win a fine-art competition.
PostOpen vs Closed: The Defining Fault Line of Modern AI
Hugging Face, LLaMA, Mistral, DeepSeek — the open-weights movement and why open vs closed is the defining AI industry fault line of the 2020s.
PostStable Diffusion Release, August 2022: Open AI Art
Stable Diffusion — Stability AI's August 2022 open-weights release that democratised image generation, triggered artist lawsuits, and seeded the open-AI debate.
PostLiang Wenfeng: DeepSeek and the Open-Weight Earthquake
Liang Wenfeng — the hedge-fund founder behind DeepSeek, whose January 2025 R1 release triggered a US stock rout and reset the AI race.
PostDeepSeek-R1 and the Reset of the AI Race, January 2025
DeepSeek-R1 — the January 2025 release that matched OpenAI's o1 at a fraction of the cost, triggered a $589B NVIDIA stock rout, and reset the AI race.