Google Settles AI-Chip Suit That Had Sought Over $5 Billion (1)

Google LLC is settling a patent lawsuit in which it was accused of ripping off a lone inventor’s protected computer chip designs that more cheaply run artificial intelligence and cloud computing functions, on the eve of a federal jury taking the case.

Singular Computing LLC, founded by computer pioneer Joseph Bates, told jurors in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts that Google avoided building roughly $10 billion in data centers by utilizing his patented technology without permission. Following two weeks of trial, as the parties were set to deliver closing arguments, early Wednesday they filed a joint ...