Judge Won't Nix Alleged AI-Tainted Award In Gaming Fight

By Caroline Simson ( December 9, 2025, 9:58 PM EST) -- A California federal judge on Tuesday dismissed on technical grounds a closely watched case in which a consumer sought to vacate an arbitral award favoring Valve Corp., the company behind the PC game marketplace Steam, over the arbitrator's "outsourcing" of his adjudicative role to artificial intelligence....

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