Cohere

On February 13, 2025 a coalition of major US news publishers including Condé Nast, The Atlantic, Forbes, The Guardian, Los Angeles Times, McClatchy, Politico, The Republican Company, Toronto Star and Vox Media filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cohere in the Southern District of New York. The complaint alleged Cohere ingested and reproduced full articles from at least 4,000 publications and that the company's hallucinations falsely attributed fabricated content to named publishers. The suit was among the largest publisher-led actions against an enterprise AI company.

Cohere was among the first AI companies to sign Canada's Voluntary Code of Conduct on Responsible Development and Management of Advanced Generative AI Systems in September 2023, publicly endorsed the proposed Artificial Intelligence and Data Act (AIDA) legislation and engaged constructively with regulators on national-AI-strategy planning. The stance contrasted with US AI companies' lobbying against state-level AI regulation in California and elsewhere.

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez and co-founders publicly committed throughout 2022-2024 to keeping Cohere's commercial focus strictly on enterprise deployments rather than consumer-facing chatbots, citing concerns that consumer-facing LLM products create the highest harm and misuse surface area. Gomez served on Canada's AI Advisory Council and signed the May 2023 Center for AI Safety statement on extinction risk. The decision was a notable contrast to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Mistral consumer chatbot rollouts.