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  • October 07, 2025

    Anthropic Pushes Back On Ruling Delaying AI Copyright Damages

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — Anthropic PBC told a federal judge in California that music publishers already have all the information they need to calculate damages and neither the novelty nor the complexity of an artificial intelligence copyright case requires delaying the disclosure.

  • October 06, 2025

    Hotel Guests Want 2nd Look At Las Vegas AI Pricing Ruling

    SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s ruling relying on inapt analogies and hypotheticals in affirming dismissal of an algorithmic pricing antitrust case gets precedent backward and threatens to make bringing such cases impossible, appellants tell the court in seeking rehearing.

  • October 03, 2025

    AI Copyright Plaintiffs Blocked From Expanded Discovery For 3rd Time

    OAKLAND, Calif. — A federal magistrate judge in California on Oct. 2 declined to expand the datasets subject to discovery in an artificial intelligence copyright suit, relying on her previous conclusion that discovery should be limited to The Pile dataset, which contains the copyrighted works and was used to train Nvidia Corp.’s NeMo Megatron large language model.

  • October 01, 2025

    California Enacts AI Transparency, Safety Reporting Rules

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law the Frontier Artificial Intelligence Act, under which the state hopes to increase transparency by requiring developers of frontier models to summarize the risks those models pose and the steps they took to meet industry and international standards before release of the models.

  • October 01, 2025

    Family Cites Arbitration Win In Bid To Lift Stay On Chatbot Negligence Suit

    MARSHALL, Texas — One of two families suing Character Technologies Inc. and others over alleged harmful effects the company’s chatbots allegedly have on minors told a federal judge that they obtained a partial arbitral award and asked the court to lift the stay over their strict liability and negligence case.

  • September 30, 2025

    Renters, Property Company Settle Algorithmic Pricing Claims For $2.8 Million

    SEATTLE — Plaintiffs in an antitrust suit involving automated rental pricing software asked a federal judge in Washington to grant preliminary approval to a settlement with one of the property management defendants under which it will pay $2.8 million and provide reasonable evidentiary help with the case going forward.

  • September 30, 2025

    Ross Intelligence Asks 3rd Circuit To Overturn AI Copyright Ruling

    PHILADELPHIA — Headnotes quote judicial opinions that are public property and not subject to copyright protections, and their limited use in training artificial intelligence constituted fair use, legal search company Ross Intelligence Inc. told the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an opening brief challenging direct copyright and fair use summary judgment rulings.

  • September 26, 2025

    Judge Affirms Limits On Dataset Discovery In AI Copyright Fight

    SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge on Sept. 25 denied a motion for relief from a magistrate judge’s order limiting discovery into the datasets used to train artificial intelligence, saying courts regularly impose such limits when the discovery exceeds the allegations in a complaint.

  • September 26, 2025

    Authors Challenge Limits On Shadow Library Discovery In Nvidia AI Copyright Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — Responding to a motion by authors arguing that a magistrate judge improperly limited discovery to a single dataset in an artificial intelligence copyright suit, Nvidia Corp. told the court that the order merely limits the plaintiffs to their own allegations and that there was no error sufficient to overturn the nondispositive order.

  • September 26, 2025

    Judge Preliminarily Approves $1.5B Settlement In AI Copyright Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — A $1.5 billion settlement between authors and Anthropic PBC in a copyright case took a step toward resolution on Sept. 25 when a federal judge in California granted preliminary approval in a docket-only minute entry.  The authors previously told the judge in a supplemental brief that changes to the agreement addressed concerns about its completeness.

  • September 26, 2025

    OnlyFans Defendant Says Hagens Berman Downplays AI Briefing Errors

    LOS ANGELES — Website company Elite Creators LLC urged a federal judge to impose strict sanctions for Hagens Berman’s use of artificial intelligence in a California unfair competition law and false advertising class action related to OnlyFans, saying the plaintiffs’ response to an order to show cause downplays the scope and impact of the errors.

  • September 25, 2025

    Likely AI Use Leads To $24,492 In Attorney Fees, Costs As Sanction In Soccer Spat

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A federal judge partially granted motions seeking attorney fees and expenses incurred responding to more than 50 fake citations in briefing he believed shows the use of artificial intelligence, saying he hoped the $24,492.10 he imposed as a sanction would act as a deterrent.

  • September 25, 2025

    Character Technologies Facing 3 More Suits Over Chatbots’ Harm To Minors

    Character Technologies Inc., its founders and related companies were hit with a trio of strict liability and negligence lawsuits claiming that the company’s artificial intelligence chatbots caused mental and physical harm to minors.  The suits, filed in federal courts in Colorado and New York federal courts, bring to six the number of known suits claiming harm to minors from the company’s chatbots.

  • September 24, 2025

    Magistrate Judge Won’t Order Immediate Damages Update In AI Music Copyright Suit

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal magistrate judge in California declined to order music publishers to immediately supplement damages computations under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26 in an artificial intelligence copyright suit, noting the novelty and complexity of the issue.

  • September 24, 2025

    AI Copyright Authors: Revised Plan Should Relieve Concerns Over $1.5B Settlement

    SAN FRANCISCO — Changes to the proposed $1.5 billion artificial intelligence copyright settlement between authors and Anthropic PBC address court concerns through “a state-of-the-art notice plan” and a streamlined claims process that both encourages submissions and adequately handles multi-claimant situations, plaintiffs told a federal judge in California in a supplemental brief.

  • September 23, 2025

    Court Imposes $4,000 Sanction For ‘Pervasive’ Errors In Legal Filings

    GREEN BAY, Wis. — A federal magistrate judge in Wisconsin imposed a $4,000 sanction on an attorney for “pervasive” artificial intelligence-generated factual and legal misrepresentations in two filings and sanctioned a second attorney $500 for signing off on amended filings that still contained errors.

  • September 23, 2025

    Magistrate Judge Won’t Order Production Of NYT’s AI Chat Usage

    NEW YORK — A federal magistrate judge in New York denied a motion to compel by OpenAI entities and Microsoft seeking user logs from The New York Times’ internal ChatGPT-based tool, ruling that the logs are irrelevant to the fair use defense and would cost nearly $1 million and three months to review and produce.

  • September 18, 2025

    Illinois Court Strikes Brief, Awards Fees And Costs After AI Cite Errors

    ELGIN, Ill. — An Illinois appellate court overseeing a landlord-tenant dispute struck the tenants’ reply brief and said it would award attorney fees and costs related to responding to the brief after concluding the filing included citations to four cases that were hallucinated by artificial intelligence.

  • September 17, 2025

    California Bill Seeks To Curb Harm To Minors From AI Chatbots

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — As the number of lawsuits alleging that minors were harmed by the use of artificial intelligence chatbots continues to grow, the California State Legislature passed a measure designed to ensure AI companions will not promote self-harm.

  • September 16, 2025

    Character Technologies Defendants Belong In Florida Court, Family Says

    ORLANDO, Fla. — Character Technologies Inc.’s cofounders knew the danger artificial intelligence chatbots posed, dominated management of the company and actively participated in the misconduct that led to a child’s suicide, a mother tells a federal judge in arguing that the court has jurisdiction.  In a Sept. 15 docket entry the court granted the defendants leave to file reply briefs.

  • September 16, 2025

    Pennsylvania Supreme Court Announces Interim Rules For AI Use By Courts

    HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Supreme Court adopted an interim policy limiting the use of artificial intelligence by court personnel to approved tools and laying out the guidelines for such use.

  • September 15, 2025

    Lawyers Blame Lack Of Review For AI Citation Errors

    NEW YORK — Four attorneys have taken responsibility for misquoted language from two cites, telling a federal judge in New York that while they initially ensured the accuracy of the cites, they did not properly double check behind artificial intelligence and that the conduct did not warrant imposing sanctions.

  • September 15, 2025

    AI Exam Company Must Face Copyright Claims, Judge Says

    LOS ANGELES — An education exam company’s allegations that it curates test prep materials and that a competitor reproduces that work and uses it for training its artificial intelligence are sufficient to trigger copyright law protections and survive a motion to dismiss, a federal judge in California said.

  • September 15, 2025

    California Attorney Must Pay $10K For AI Hallucinations In Employment Appeal

    LOS ANGELES — A California appellate panel on Sept. 12 said it is the first court in the state to address an attorney using AI and filing briefs containing “fake legal authority” and ordered the lawyer to pay $10,000 in sanctions for filing two briefs written with “AI tools” in an unsuccessful appeal of summary judgment granted in favor of a company and its owner on her claims for retaliation, termination and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).

  • September 15, 2025

    Valsartan Special Master Won’t Exclude Expert Who Cited AI-Generated Sources

    CAMDEN, N.J. — The special master in the valsartan, losartan and irbesartan hypertension drugs multidistrict litigation pending in a New Jersey federal court denied a motion to exclude an expert retained by a bellwether plaintiff, finding that the expert’s citation to nonexistent sources due to his use of artificial intelligence did not warrant exclusion.