The US Secretary of Commerce was among those impacted by the breach, according to reports.

The layoffs ultimately affected roughly 6,000 people, according to the lawsuit.

The new entity is called xAI, and employs several engineers that have worked at companies like OpenAI and Google.

The US comedian joins two other authors who claim their copyright was infringed to train AI systems.

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Suumit Shah, founder of an e-commerce website, said that his firm had laid off 90% of its support staff.