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- AT&T, as a regulated monopoly, funded Bell Labs, enabling decades of groundbreaking innovations.
- The 1956 antitrust settlement forced AT&T to open its patents royalty-free, catalyzing industries like semiconductors and Silicon Valley.
- AI frontier labs (like OpenAI and Anthropic) train models on vast internet data, claiming fair use and transformative value.
- Legal battles around AI training data focus on fair use, market harm, and the lack of retroactive consent from content creators.