As attorneys prepare to move forward in a patent infringement case that could put Google on the hook for potentially $7.01 billion, a federal judge in Massachusetts also issued an order to ensure potential jurors’ privacy was not at issue.
U.S. District Chief Judge Dennis Saylor IV of the District of Massachusetts ordered Google from accessing “a vast quantity of users’ personal data” during the jury selection process Monday in the case of Singular Computing v. Google. Boston-based hardware and software developer Singular accused Google of infringing products knowns as Tensor Processing Units, which are artificial intelligence “accelerators that are optimized for training and inference of large AI models,” and used in chatbots, code generation, content generation, and synthetic speech.
