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  Judiciary AI Rule Draws Fire As Judges Get Deepfakes Survey

  By Jeff Overley

  Federal judiciary policymakers heard extensive concerns Thursday regarding high-profile plans to formally screen...(read more)

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  Book Publishers Ask To Join Authors' AI Suit Against Google

  By Ivan Moreno

  Book publishers Cengage Learning and Hachette Book Group on Thursday asked to intervene in a proposed copyright ...(read more)

• Musk Child's Mom Says Grok Created Nonconsensual Images

  By Hailey Konnath

  Influencer Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk's children, has sued Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI, claiming she was depicted in sexually explicit imagery generated by Grok without her consent and that xAI has "chosen to willfully turn a blind eye and even celebrate" similar sexual exploitation.

• Google Worker In IP Theft Trial Impersonated Exec, Jury Hears

  By Bonnie Eslinger

  An ex-Google engineer accused of stealing artificial intelligence trade secrets to help China used a fake email account to impersonate a Google vice president that he'd listed as a business reference, and also had voice modification software on his computer, an FBI agent told jurors Thursday.

• Getty Loses 2nd Circ. Bid Over $88M Stock Sale Breach Order

  By Jessica Corso

  A divided Second Circuit on Thursday upheld a ruling requiring Getty Images to pay out nearly $88 million to investors who said they were blocked from purchasing shares in the company once it became public, finding Getty breached a contract promising the investors those shares.

• Epic CEO, Google Execs To Testify At Play Store Deal Hearing

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Epic Games and Google plan to call Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, an economist, a Google executive and in-house counsel during an upcoming evidentiary hearing into their proposed Android app distribution settlement, which has drawn skepticism from the judge, who has appointed an economist to independently evaluate the deal.

• Ex-CEO Of COVID Vax Maker Accused Of Insider Trading

  By Sarah Jarvis

  New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sued the former CEO of healthcare contractor Emergent BioSolutions Inc., alleging insider trading amid troubles manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine, while signing a $900,000 settlement with the company over its approval of an executive trading plan.

• ACLU Sues Feds For 'Crude Dragnet' Of Minn. Arrests

  By Lauren Berg

  Thousands of masked federal agents are indiscriminately and unlawfully arresting Minnesotans based on nothing more than racial profiling as they carry out a U.S. Department of Homeland Security operation targeting immigrants in the Twin Cities area, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union.

• Equinor Win Makes Wind Projects 2-For-2 In Restart Bids

  By Keith Goldberg

  A D.C. federal judge on Thursday allowed work to resume on the Empire Wind project, the second time this week that a federal court has enjoined the Trump administration's stoppage of offshore wind projects under construction.

• Chancery Tosses Vividion IP Suit Over $2B Bayer Deal

  By Jarek Rutz

  The Delaware Chancery Court on Thursday dismissed a biotech investor's suit accusing the co-founder of Vividion Therapeutics Inc. and others of diverting valuable intellectual property ahead of the company's $2 billion sale to Bayer Corp., finding the alleged misconduct could not have affected the merger price or process under Delaware law.

• Nvidia Sued In Del. For US 'Tax' On Chip Deal With China

  By Jeff Montgomery

  Alleging possible company conflicts of interest and unlawful agreements involving the White House and Commerce Department, two NVIDIA Corp. stockholders sued the company late Wednesday for records involving company agreements to pay the U.S. Department of Commerce percentages of high-end graphics processing chip sales to buyers in China.

• Tinder's $60.5M Deal For Charging Users Over 29 More OK'd

  By Craig Clough

  A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has granted preliminary approval to a $60.5 million settlement Tinder reached with a class of users who alleged the dating app unlawfully charged subscribers age 30 and older more than younger daters, drawing the decade-long litigation to a close.

• Playlist, EGYM Merging To Create $7.5B Wellness Platform

  By Al Barbarino

  Fitness and wellness company Playlist has agreed to merge with German fitness technology company EGYM in a deal that will value the combined business at $7.5 billion, the companies announced Thursday.

• Calif. Justices Order Prosecutors To Explain Alleged AI Errors

  By Dorothy Atkins

  The California Supreme Court has ordered Nevada County prosecutors to explain to a lower court why they shouldn't be sanctioned for "apparent serial submission" of artificial intelligence-generated briefs with nonexistent legal citations in multiple criminal proceedings.