A group of news publishers, including the Toronto Star, are suing Toronto-based AI company Cohere Inc. for copyright infringement.

A U.S. court denied a motion from Toronto-based artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc. to dismiss a copyright lawsuit filed against it by major news organizations, including the Toronto Star.

The lawsuit filed in New York accuses Cohere of unlawfully scraping news content to build its AI models and violating copyright because its tools can allegedly reproduce articles word-for-word in some cases and provide substantial summaries, even if those articles are behind paywalls.

Cohere, which is worth US$7-billion , filed a motion in May asking the court to dismiss some of the claims, arguing that the publishers “deliberately misused” its tools to “manuf

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