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October 22, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A federal magistrate judge in California dismissed a copyright lawsuit after the digital creator behind the popular internet meme “Running Away Balloon” art and an artificial intelligence marketing company that allegedly infringed on the copyright by making the two-box comic available on its site resolved the case.
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October 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A negligence and failure-to-warn suit brought by British Columbia government entities over a mass shooting allegedly assisted by ChatGPT belongs in Canada, where questions of first impression involving Canadian law are best answered, where the event took place and where the evidence and witnesses regarding the shooter’s conduct and mental health treatment are located, OpenAI entities told a federal judge in California in seeking dismissal for forum non conveniens.
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October 21, 2026
JACKSON, Tenn. — A pro se plaintiff’s artificial intelligence-assisted motions to amend fail to correct the defects in his complaint, and because amendment would be futile, his civil rights action must be dismissed with prejudice, a federal judge in Tennessee said Oct. 20.
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October 21, 2026
WICHITA FALLS, Texas — A woman suing various Elon Musk companies after their Grok artificial intelligence platform allegedly created explicit images of her must face the companies’ breach of contract claims resulting from her decision to sue in New York rather than Texas as dictated by the terms of service, a federal judge in Texas said in denying her motion to dismiss on Oct. 20.
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October 20, 2026
LAS VEGAS — Partly granting only an objection concerning the use of ChatGPT by an expert witness, a Nevada federal judge mostly upheld a magistrate judge’s bench order concerning discovery in an excessive force case, ruling that “all case summary responses supplied by ChatGPT” had to be disclosed but “1) questions and prompts to ChatGPT, 2) use of the program to create a deposition outline, and 3) creation of a draft report are all protected from disclosure.”
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October 20, 2026
RICHMOND, Va. — In a supplemental brief filed after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there was a search in a geofence warrant case and remanded for the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to address other issues, the government reiterates its arguments that the warrant “satisfied the Fourth Amendment’s requirements of probable cause and particularity” and “the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule precludes suppression.”
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October 15, 2026
DES MOINES, Iowa — OpenAI entities advertise their ChatGPT as safe, even as the artificial intelligence product hands out dangerous medical advice and encourages users to harm themselves and others, Iowa says in an Oct. 14 consumer protection lawsuit filed at the same time as seven other states launched similar actions.
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October 15, 2026
DALLAS — A pro se litigant saw her breach of contract lawsuit dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, and a Texas federal judge issued her a warning for filing documents with artificial intelligence-generated citation errors.
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October 15, 2026
CHICAGO — A federal judge in Illinois granted a motion to strike two filings by the woman behind a dispute between an insurer and OpenAI entities it claims allowed ChatGPT to practice law without a license, and the judge for the fourth time continued a status conference in the case, resetting the hearing for Dec. 2.
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October 14, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — The artificial intelligence company behind the Character.AI chatbot platform filed for Chapter 11 protection in a Delaware bankruptcy court, citing between $50 million and $100 million in liabilities, including creditor claims by former investor Google LLC, various law firms, a minor plaintiff and two states with litigation claims against the company.
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October 14, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — An education technology company and media group have not adequately alleged any reciprocal agreement with Google LLC over the provision of information and search traffic, a federal judge in the District of Columbia said in granting motions to dismiss antitrust claims involving AI Overviews.
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October 13, 2026
MADISON, Wis. — Context matters when reading precedent, and broad, surface-level language should not be expanded to every conceivable situation, the government tells the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in urging en banc or panel rehearing of a decision affirming dismissal of a charge alleging in-home possession of obscene artificial intelligence-generated child sexual abuse material.
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October 07, 2026
PHOENIX — A video of shooting victim created using artificial intelligence doesn’t portray actual events, and the judge’s own statements show that the video likely impacted the sentencing process, an Arizona appellate panel held in upholding a manslaughter conviction but vacating the sentence and remanding for resentencing.
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October 07, 2026
CHICAGO — McDonald’s USA LLC feeds nonpublic data of its franchises into an artificial intelligence pricing tool, which may have led to one restaurant offering an $18 Big Mac meal, a man says in the latest putative antitrust class action challenging the use of such tools.
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September 24, 2026
By Tamerlin Godley, Rachel Gaines and Hannah Jacobs
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October 06, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A woman’s claims stemming from a Florida State University (FSU) shooting allegedly assisted by ChatGPT target communication that cannot be the subject of product liability or is constitutionally protected, and Florida does not impose a duty to prevent the conduct of third parties, OpenAI entities tell a federal judge in a motion to dismiss.
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October 06, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Summary judgment in favor of Quizlet Inc. stands following a California federal judge’s conclusion that a nursing test preparation company did not meet the standard for reconsideration in an artificial intelligence-related copyright infringement lawsuit.
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October 06, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Relying heavily on the conclusions of a federal judge who remanded a case challenging Anthropic PBC’s alleged use of Reddit Inc. data to train its artificial intelligence despite instructions otherwise, a California judge largely denied a demurrer and said that California unfair competition law (UCL) and two other claims survived preemption and that Reddit could amend its complaint to cure defects in the unjust enrichment and trespass to chattels claims.
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October 06, 2026
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling and issued a $250 sanction to a pro se litigant for using artificial intelligence (AI) to cite three fabricated cases in his appellate brief.
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October 06, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A minor identified in court documents as Jane Doe called Elon Musk’s Grok “an artificial-intelligence monster” while asking the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to transfer and consolidate cases alleging that the program generates child sexual abuse material.
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October 02, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — RealPage Inc. and various landlord defendants must continue to face states’ antitrust claims related to the company’s artificial intelligence-powered rental software, after a federal judge in North Carolina found that a settlement with the United States did not moot the claims.
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October 02, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals became at least the second federal appellate court to address artificial intelligence copyright issues after unsealing an opinion finding that while the technology is new, traditional principles govern the case and that a legal research competitor’s use of copyrighted material was not fair use.
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October 02, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to dismiss coders’ claims that Microsoft Corp. and online code platform GitHub Inc. violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate new code; the panel determined that the generation of new code without attribution could not support a claim that the technology entities removed copyright management information (CMI).
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October 02, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a New Jersey federal judge’s dismissal of a professor’s copyright infringement suit against the New Jersey Institute of Technology, finding that the alleged similarities between two machine-learning courses concerned unprotected ideas and that the potentially protected expression of these ideas differed too much for a reasonable fact finder to find substantial similarity.
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October 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted Microsoft Corp.’s motion to dismiss federal antitrust claims brought by ChatGPT Plus subscribers who allege that Microsoft entered an agreement with OpenAI to provide it computational processing power (compute) that allegedly increased prices and worsened quality in the Consumer Generative AI (CGAI) market, denied Microsoft’s motion to compel arbitration and declined to dismiss the plaintiffs’ state law claims including for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).