In a significant win for the tech and AI industry, a billion-dollar class action lawsuit against GitHub, OpenAI, and Microsoft has been partially dismissed. The lawsuit accused OpenAI of using human-created coding snippets from GitHub to train its AI coding software, GitHub Copilot, without permission or compensation. However, the claims were dismissed as the plaintiffs failed to show their code was reproduced identically. The outcome of this case could have far-reaching implications for the tech industry and the future of AI-generated coding. It remains unclear how this ruling will affect other similar lawsuits that Microsoft and OpenAI are currently facing.