OpenAI expands lobbying efforts, hiring former US senator
The Hindu
Artificial technology company OpenAI has expanded its stable of federal lobbyists, retaining former Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman to advocate on research and development issues for the Microsoft-backed startup.
Artificial technology company OpenAI has expanded its stable of federal lobbyists, retaining former Republican U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman to advocate on research and development issues for the Microsoft-backed startup.
Coleman's law firm Hogan Lovells disclosed the hire in a U.S. lobbying registration filing last week, showing San Francisco-based OpenAI retained the former Minnesota lawmaker in January.
OpenAI, which owns the chatbot ChatGPT and has become the face of generative AI, is embroiled in myriad legal fights, including copyright infringement claims from authors and others. It has denied any intellectual property violations.
Billionaire entrepreneur and OpenAI co-founder Elon Musk is also suing the company in San Francisco court, accusing it of straying from its nonprofit mission to develop AI that helps humanity.
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OpenAI and its two other co-founders, including Sam Altman, have called the lawsuit “convoluted” and “incoherent.”
OpenAI and Coleman, a senior counsel at 2,600-lawyer Hogan Lovells, on Tuesday did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
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