Two major lawsuits alleging copyright infringement against artificial intelligence (AI) companies Cohere and OpenAI aren’t going their way, so far.

“This decision is the first step towards justice for these publishers.”

A judge in the Southern District of New York fully rejected Toronto-based AI scaleup Cohere’s motion to dismiss its lawsuit this week, one week after OpenAI lost its own motion to dismiss its case in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

Major North American media companies, including The Atlantic, Condé Nast, Forbes, and the Toronto Star, sued Cohere earlier this year for alleged copyright infringement. The group is seeking damages, including up to $150,000 per work infringed, and a court order preventing the company from using copyrighted works to train or fine-tune i

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