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  • October 15, 2025

    Copyright Protection Extends To AI Images, Man Tells Supreme Court

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Copyright protections are in place to ensure dissemination of creative works to the public and are invoked even when a human is not the creator and should apply to artificial intelligence-generated outputs for the same reasons, a man tells the U.S. Supreme Court in a petition for a writ of certiorari.

  • October 15, 2025

    California Governor Vetoes 1 Chatbot Safety Measure As Other AI Bills Become Law

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill imposing some restrictions on the use of artificial intelligence and providing some civil penalties for noncompliance while vetoing a more restrictive chatbot measure that would have required such technology to be unable to encourage self-harm, suicidal ideation, violence, the use of illegal substances or disordered eating.

  • October 14, 2025

    OpenAI, News Plaintiffs Reach Agreement Ending ChatGPT Output Preservation

    SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities will no longer have to preserve all ChatGPT outputs after reaching an agreement with news plaintiffs about the scope of what must be saved for copyright litigation consolidated in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

  • October 14, 2025

    Microsoft Accused Of Harming Competition With OpenAI Partnership

    SAN FRANCISCO — A group of ChatGPT Plus subscribers on Oct. 13 filed a putative class action in California federal court against Microsoft Corp., seeking treble damages and injunctive relief — including “the divestiture or segregation of Microsoft’s Generative AI” business — based on allegations that Microsoft limited OpenAI’s access to computational power and drove up ChatGPT prices while promoting its own chatbot in competition with OpenAI.

  • October 14, 2025

    AI ‘Paste And Pray’ Strategy Behind Document Errors, Defendants Tell Court

    HOUSTON — A plaintiff’s misrepresentations about a case and failure to check the outputs of artificial intelligence demonstrate a “flippant attitude toward the truth” that leaves opposing counsel and the court to bear the burden of ensuring the accuracy of the record, defendants tell a federal judge in Texas in defending their motion for sanctions.

  • October 10, 2025

    Renters Seek Approval Of $141M In Settlements With 27 RealPage MDL Defendants

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Renters asked a federal judge in Tennessee to preliminarily approve $141,800,000 in settlements with 27 property management companies in the RealPage Inc. artificial intelligence pricing multidistrict litigation, saying that in addition to monetary relief the defendants agreed to provide continued assistance that will be useful at trial.

  • October 10, 2025

    Judge Wants OpenAI’s Response To Motion For Restraining Order

    HONOLULU — A federal judge in Hawaii on Oct. 9 ordered OpenAI Inc. to file a response after a woman who claims that ChatGPT poses a special risk to the state filed an amended complaint and asked the court to enjoin the use of artificial intelligence in the state.

  • October 09, 2025

    Justice Awards Attorney Fees In Legal World’s Latest ‘Unfortunate Chapter’ With AI

    NEW YORK — A lawyer’s error-riddled filings and initial failure to admit how they came to be add the latest “unfortunate chapter to the story of artificial intelligence misuse in the legal profession,” a New York justice said in awarding attorney fees and costs as a sanction.

  • October 09, 2025

    Judge Wants Jurisdiction Briefing In Apple-ChatGPT Integration Antitrust Suit

    FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal judge in Texas ordered expedited briefing on jurisdiction in an antitrust suit challenging ChatGPT’s integration into certain Apple Inc. smartphone products.  OpenAI entities and Apple recently sought dismissal, telling the judge that the deal is not exclusive under antitrust law, doesn’t foreclose on competition and hasn’t injured plaintiffs X Corp. or x.AI LLC.

  • October 08, 2025

    Anthropic Must Face Copyright Claims As It Fights For Damages Disclosures

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge in California said music publishers’ artificial intelligence copyright claims against Anthropic PBC may proceed just days after the company asked for relief from a magistrate judge’s conclusion that the case’s novelty and complexity permitted delaying the disclosure of potential damages.

  • October 08, 2025

    Judge: Brief Correcting AI Errors May Not Contain New Arguments

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California in a contract and copyright infringement case granted an administrative request to withdraw a summary judgment motion containing artificial intelligence-generated errors, but said that as a sanction, the refiled brief cannot contain new arguments or authorities.

  • 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.