Courts & Lawsuits

Some authors say Anthropic's $1.5 billion book-piracy settlement, covering nearly 500,000 works at roughly $3,000 each, isn't enough. Novelists Tobias Wolff and Chang-rae Lee have opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic deal to pursue a…

Copyright & Creators · Anthropic

A legal analysis argues AI is quietly breaking a key assumption baked into intellectual property law: that reverse-engineering a product's code, chips, or firmware is hard, slow, and requires rare expertise. Courts and statutes have long…

Copyright & Creators

The owners of Elvis Presley's music, led by Authentic Brands Group, sued Anthropic on Friday, accusing it of using 274 of his songs, including "Can't Help Falling in Love" and "Don't Be Cruel," to train its Claude models without…

Copyright & Creators · Anthropic

Yelp, Delta, JPMorgan Chase, Charles Schwab, and Amazon are blocking AI agents from booking, shopping, or managing accounts on their sites, even as OpenAI, Meta, Google, and xAI push these tools as a core feature. Amazon sued Perplexity…

AI Agents · AI Business & Money · Meta

Iowa, Nebraska and six other states are suing OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT endangers children, Engadget reports. The states accuse the company of misleading users about ChatGPT's safety, according to The Hill. Florida brought the first state…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · OpenAI

Character.AI, the app where users chat with AI personas, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will sell some of its assets to Disney for $20 million, NBC News reports. The company cited legal and operational problems, according to CBS…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · AI Business & Money

A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled that a sheriff's deputy violated the Fourth Amendment by searching Flock Safety's license plate database without a warrant. The judge suppressed evidence from a car search that allegedly turned up 91…

Privacy & Surveillance

Joshua S. Gans, an economist at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, tackles a thorny policy question in a new working paper. Who should be liable when AI tools serve both legitimate work and attacks? Think models that…

Cybersecurity

Newly released court filings in the Authors Guild's copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft allege internal documents show employees knew the risks and proceeded anyway. Plaintiffs claim the records reveal a 'mass piracy scheme,'…

Copyright & Creators · OpenAI · Microsoft

A federal appeals court upheld the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk, backing one of two Defense Department decisions that blocked Claude from military use. The court sided 2-1 with DOD reasoning that included…

Military & National Security · Anthropic

Amazon has sued Perplexity, alleging its Comet browser's AI Assistant improperly accessed Amazon.com to shop on users' behalf while logged into their own accounts—despite Amazon's explicit ban on such automated access. Amazon claims this…

AI Agents

Nitter and XCancel—privacy-focused tools that let people view X (formerly Twitter) posts without logging in, ads, or tracking—resumed service after briefly shutting down, saying they consulted legal counsel first. Neither project disclosed…

Privacy & Surveillance

A federal judge has ruled that the Pentagon acted illegally when it blacklisted Anthropic, the maker of Claude, from U.S. government work—finding the move was retaliation for the company's public criticism of the administration's AI…

Military & National Security · Anthropic

Meta has agreed to pay up to $16.7 billion—some outlets put the ceiling near $18 billion—to settle sweeping claims, brought by 29 states in 2023, that it deliberately engineered Instagram and Facebook to addict young users, misled the…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · Meta

Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has issued a subpoena demanding that OpenAI hand over records tied to July's "Hugging Face incident"—the episode in which two OpenAI models, being stress-tested for hacking ability in an internal…

Cybersecurity · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people—including a senior Nvidia manager, surnamed Chang, and two employees of server-maker Super Micro—in the island's first known crackdown on the black-market trade in advanced AI chips.…

China & Geopolitics · Chips, Data Centers & Energy · Nvidia

OpenAI publicly disputed Apple's trade secret lawsuit, which accuses OpenAI and two former Apple employees, Chang Liu and Tang Tan, of stealing confidential information. OpenAI released emails and texts it says undercut Apple's case…

OpenAI

European Union regulators fined Google €890 million ($1 billion) on Thursday for abusing its search dominance—using the world's largest search engine to push its own services in shopping, travel, games, and translation to the top of…

Regulation & Policy · Europe & UK · Google

A federal judge gave final approval Monday to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors—the largest copyright recovery in U.S. history, and the first major resolution of the wave of lawsuits over how AI models are trained. The case…

Copyright & Creators · Anthropic

Apple has sent legal letters to dozens of OpenAI employees, the Financial Times reports—apparently escalating the trade-secrets lawsuit it filed against OpenAI on July 11 (D.A.D.). That suit alleged OpenAI's new hardware unit—staffed by…

OpenAI

Two years after they partnered to put ChatGPT inside the iPhone, Apple sued OpenAI on Friday in federal court, alleging a months-long scheme to steal its trade secrets—"at every level, from members of its Technical Staff to its Chief…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the President can fire Federal Trade Commission commissioners at will, overturning the 90-year-old precedent (Humphrey's Executor) that shielded independent agencies from political removal.…

Regulation & Policy

The US Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that geofence warrants—law enforcement requests that sweep up location data from all smartphones in a geographic area—constitute a Fourth Amendment search requiring constitutional protections. The case…

Privacy & Surveillance · Google

A coalition of publishers that together own nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan—the largest copyright action yet brought by local news against the AI industry. The…

Copyright & Creators · OpenAI · Microsoft

Two new challenges landed this week to the administration's June 12 order forcing Anthropic to disable its most powerful models—Fable 5 and Mythos 5—for any foreign national. The lawsuit: Legion LegalTech, a San Jose firm, sued the…

Regulation & Policy · Anthropic

A working paper published on NBER examines how medical liability law should work when AI systems act as doctors rather than decision-support tools. The paper argues liability design depends heavily on how well medical records document what…

Health & Medicine

A German court ruled Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search overviews—a significant departure from how search engine liability typically works. The case involved two Munich publishers whose AI overviews…

Europe & UK · Google

Minnesota became the first state to ban prediction markets, with Governor Tim Walz signing a law making it a felony to operate sites like Kalshi or Polymarket there. The law takes effect in August, but the CFTC has filed a federal lawsuit…

Regulation & Policy

Elon Musk lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Microsoft after a California jury unanimously ruled his claims were filed too late. The jury deliberated under two hours before finding that any harms Musk alleged occurred before…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · xAI · Microsoft

Sam Altman testified Tuesday that Elon Musk, while still a co-founder of the then-nonprofit OpenAI, repeatedly sought control of the organization — including by suggesting it could one day pass to his children. "A particularly hair-raising…

OpenAI · xAI

OpenAI co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever testified Monday that he spent roughly a year gathering evidence for OpenAI's board that CEO Sam Altman displayed a "consistent pattern of lying." Sutskever said his dossier ran…

OpenAI · Anthropic

Five major publishers—Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage—plus novelist Scott Turow filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg on May 5, alleging the company illegally copied millions of…

Copyright & Creators · Meta

Elon Musk took the stand Tuesday in an Oakland federal courthouse to launch a high-stakes civil trial against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Microsoft — a case that could reshape how AI is governed in the U.S. Musk's claim, simply put…

AI Business & Money · OpenAI · xAI · Microsoft

The former CEO and CFO of iLearningEngines, an AI-focused education technology company, have been charged with fraud for allegedly fabricating nearly all of the company's reported business. According to the indictment, at least 90% of the…

AI Business & Money

A Spanish developer discovered that Docker Hub pulls fail during La Liga football matches because Spanish ISPs are blocking Cloudflare IP addresses under a December 2024 Barcelona court order—apparently aimed at piracy. The block hits…

Copyright & Creators · Europe & UK

A California federal judge temporarily blocked the DOW from labeling Anthropic a national security supply chain risk—a designation never before applied to a U.S. company—but tech lawyers and lobbyists told Politico the victory may be…

Military & National Security · Anthropic

A federal judge has indefinitely blocked the Pentagon from labeling Anthropic a supply chain risk and cutting government ties with the company. The ruling found the Defense Department violated Anthropic's First Amendment and due process…

Military & National Security · Anthropic

ICE agents testified in court about operating under daily arrest quotas and using a surveillance app in enforcement operations, according to reports on the testimony. The revelations came during legal proceedings, though specific details…

Privacy & Surveillance

Anthropic says it has received a letter from the Department of War designating the company as a supply chain risk to U.S. national security. CEO Dario Amodei announced the company will challenge the designation in court while offering to…

Military & National Security · Anthropic

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to begin refunding more than $130 billion in tariffs. The ruling could unwind a significant portion of recent trade policy. Community reaction has been skeptical: commenters note that refunds…

Regulation & Policy

OpenAI published an update on its mental health safety initiatives, announcing new protective features including parental controls, trusted contacts for check-ins, and improved detection of users in distress. The post also addresses recent…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · AI Safety & Risk · OpenAI

OpenAI quietly removed the word 'safely' from its mission statement, according to a November 2025 IRS disclosure form covering 2024. The change went largely unreported and coincided with the company's restructuring from nonprofit to…

AI Safety & Risk · AI Business & Money · OpenAI

Google and YouTube announced new child safety initiatives timed to Safer Internet Day, though the announcement lacks specifics on what's actually changing. The move comes as a landmark trial begins. Google and Meta are accused in a…

Kids, Teens & Mental Health · Google · Meta