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  • March 26, 2025

    Plaintiffs Drop 1 YouTube AI Training Suit, Let State Law Claims Be Dismissed

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted a voluntarily motion to dismiss California unfair competition law (UCL) and other state law claims from a pair of cases involving the use of YouTube videos in the training of artificial intelligence while the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed a third case in the wake of a motion to dismiss their amended complaint.

  • March 25, 2025

    AI Chatbot Is A Product, Outputs Not Protected Speech, Mother Contends

    ORLANDO, Fla. — The First Amendment protects speech and not the predictive text outputs by an artificial intelligence chatbot, but even if those outputs constituted speech, speech protections would not apply to the type of harmful chatbot outputs that led a teenager to commit suicide, a mother told a federal judge in Florida in opposing dismissal while arguing that Google LLC and its related entity can be held liable.

  • March 25, 2025

    Judge Approves Settlement Of Consolidated Privacy Suit Over Photo Database

    CHICAGO — An Illinois federal judge granted final approval to a settlement of claims against the creator and curator of a massive digital photo database under the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA), finding that the settlement fund being based on the startup company’s equity is appropriate given the defendant’s “precarious” financial situation.

  • March 25, 2025

    Copyright Plaintiffs: Microsoft Has Relevant Evidence In OpenAI Suit

    SAN FRANCISCO — A magistrate judge imposed the wrong standard in concluding that Microsoft Corp. has to produce records related to OpenAI entities’ alleged copyright infringement because Microsoft’s $13 billion investment in the entities and their close relationship with the tech giant means Microsoft almost certainly possesses evidence relevant to the case, plaintiffs told a federal judge in California in seeking relief from the ruling.

  • March 24, 2025

    Judge: Confidential Witnesses’ Vague Claims Can’t Keep AI Securities Case Alive

    NEW YORK — Despite a heavy reliance on them, confidential witness statements do not establish that an artificial intelligence mobile messaging and customer engagement company intentionally concealed the difficulties faced by a machine learning health care company it purchased, a federal judge said in dismissing a securities action with prejudice.

  • March 24, 2025

    Apple Misled Consumers As To IPhone 16’s ‘AI-Driven’ Functions, Consumer Says

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — A consumer filed a putative class action lawsuit in California federal court accusing Apple Inc. of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and other state consumer laws by misleading millions of consumers into buying its latest iPhone models by misrepresenting the artificial intelligence capacities that the iPhone 16’s “Apple Intelligence” and Siri software would offer.

  • March 24, 2025

    With Court Weighing Sanctions For Fake AI Cites, Parties Seek To Skip Hearing

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Entities associated with a Sherman Act case involving Puerto Rico soccer entities tell a federal judge that until the court decides on whether to issue sanctions for the submission of briefs with nonexistent cites allegedly created by artificial intelligence and a motion to disqualify counsel, an upcoming settlement conference would be premature and should be vacated.  On March 21, the plaintiffs filed their response agreeing that the hearing would not be productive.

  • March 21, 2025

    Singapore AI Education Company Loses Bid To Drop Injunction Pending Arbitration

    NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on March 20 denied as “procedurally improper” a Singapore-based artificial intelligence education company’s request to terminate a preliminary injunction, which was granted against it and a respondent shareholder entity pending an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration over an asset purchase worth at least $15 million, due to the respondent’s alleged failure to post a court-ordered $500,000 bond.

  • March 19, 2025

    Copyright Act Contemplates Human Authors, Not AI, D.C. Circuit Affirms

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Copyright protections require a human author and the U.S. Copyright Office properly denied an application listing an artificial intelligence as the author, the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said March 18 in affirming a district court ruling.

  • March 18, 2025

    Magistrate Judge Suggests $5,000 Sanction, Doubts Child’s Lesson Led To AI Cites

    CHICAGO — A federal magistrate judge in Illinois recommended $5,000 in sanctions after saying an attorney’s claim that her brief came to include fake cites as a result of a lesson she was trying to teach her daughter about artificial intelligence “beggars belief” and that her “general lack of candor” after the fact suggests bad faith.

  • March 18, 2025

    AI Search Engine Sufficiently Targets New York, Dow Jones Says

    NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI markets its highly interactive website nationwide and is registered to do business in New York and transacts business in the state, providing a sufficient anchor to the jurisdiction, Dow Jones & Co. Inc. and a related affiliate tell a federal judge in opposing dismissal or transfer.

  • March 13, 2025

    AI Plaintiffs Say Meta’s Torrenting Is Clear Copyright Violation

    SAN FRANCISCO — Meta Platforms Inc.’s torrenting of protected works to secure material to train its artificial intelligence constitutes a copyright violation and is not protected by fair use, plaintiffs tell a federal judge in California.

  • March 13, 2025

    Judge Grants Stay In AI-Election Case During Appeal Of Injunction Ruling

    MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge in Minnesota on March 12 granted a stipulated stay in a case challenging Minnesota’s law regulating artificial intelligence-created political advertising while the social media personality and a state politician at the heart of the suit appeal his ruling denying them injunctive relief.

  • March 11, 2025

    Workday Says AI-Hiring Suit Inappropriate For Collective Action

    SAN FRANCISCO — A lawsuit targeting artificial intelligence hiring software involves too many individual questions surrounding applications, qualifications and the plaintiffs and are “dissimilar in virtually all the ways that matter,” Workday Inc. told a federal judge in California in opposing certification as a collective action.

  • March 11, 2025

    Political Speech Plaintiffs Say Law Targeting AI Tramples Free Speech

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California law regulating artificial intelligence-modified political material includes a “host of constitutional infirmities,” including running afoul of speech protections and compelling other speech by requiring disclosures that would in many cases eliminate any chance of the material conveying its intended meaning, plaintiffs in two lawsuits told a federal judge in California in a motion for summary judgment on their claims for injunctive and declaratory relief.

  • March 10, 2025

    DOJ Revised Summary In Antitrust Suit Affirms Bid For Google’s Chrome Divesting

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a suit in which a federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and officials from numerous states on March 7 filed an executive summary of a revised proposed final judgment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that reaffirms the initial proposed final judgment requiring Google to divest web browser Chrome.

  • March 07, 2025

    Groups File Suit Accusing Elon Musk, DOGE Of Illegal AI-Based Employment Moves

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A quartet of advocacy groups sued Elon Musk, U.S. DOGE Service and others in District of Columbia federal court, accusing them of using artificial intelligence to make decisions about federal employment and government contracts despite the complete lack of statutory or other authority to do so.

  • March 05, 2025

    Judge Denies Musk Injunction In Spat Over OpenAI Structure

    SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence company x.AI, Elon Musk and a second employee have not demonstrated a likelihood of success on antitrust and breach of charitable trust claims that would warrant enjoining how OpenAI is structured, a federal judge in California said March 4.

  • March 04, 2025

    Home Health Company Seeks Attorney Fees For Grappling With Fake AI Cites

    ORLANDO, Fla. — A defendant home health services provider asks a federal judge in Florida for attorney fees and other sanctions after pro se plaintiffs filed a brief opposing a motion to dismiss that allegedly contained fake case citations and that “appears on its face to have been generated by an artificial intelligence (AI).”

  • March 04, 2025

    Student Wants Yale Enjoined From Suspending Him For Alleged AI Use

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A student asked a federal court in Connecticut for a temporary restraining order and injunction preventing Yale University from suspending him from its School of Management (SOM) as a punishment for allegedly using artificial intelligence (AI), saying the school’s failure to follow its own due process rules has “thrown into disarray” his life.

  • March 04, 2025

    Google, Alphabet Say AI Copyright Claims Lacking, Seek To Strike Class

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Whether plaintiffs satisfactorily registered copyrights, sufficiently detail their claims and could possibly justify injunctive relief in their consolidated action against Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. sits with a federal judge in California after briefing on motions to dismiss and strike class claims wrapped up in the artificial intelligence case.

  • February 25, 2025

    COMMENTARY: AI Risk: New Tech, Same Coverage

    By Michael S. Levine, Alex D. Pappas and Torrye N. Zullo

  • March 03, 2025

    Microsoft Identifies Individuals Allegedly Involved In Unlawful AI Conduct

    ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Microsoft Corp. filed an amended complaint identifying four individuals previously listed as anonymous defendants who allegedly used the company’s artificial intelligence systems for unlawful purposes, including creating images of misogyny and deepfake intimate images of celebrities.

  • March 03, 2025

    Attorney’s AI Misuse Violated Rule 11, Judge Says In Imposing $2,500 Sanction

    PHILADELPHIA — Like many technologies, reliance on artificial intelligence can assist users, but without appropriate human scrutiny its use quickly collapses into negligence, a federal judge in Pennsylvania said in sanctioning an attorney $2,500 for using six wrong or fake cites in a case over an investment gone bad.

  • February 28, 2025

    Magistrate Recommends Granting Judgment In Libel Row Over LinkedIn ‘Doo-Doo’ Post

    NEW YORK — A New York federal magistrate judge recommended granting summary judgment to the defendant, a former officer in a company once owned by the plaintiff, a founder of a venture capital company, in a libel suit over the defendant’s posts on LinkedIn that purportedly gave the plaintiff the surname of “Doo-Doo head” and accused him of lack of knowledge about artificial intelligence, finding that the comment regarding AI “is non-actionable opinion.”