Technology

  • July 15, 2026

    DC Judge Stays State Dept. 'Censorship' Policy

    A D.C. federal judge temporarily blocked a U.S. State Department policy purportedly aimed at fighting censorship, ruling a research coalition is likely to show it unlawfully targeted people for protected viewpoints and work in the realm of social media content moderation.

  • July 15, 2026

    New Conn. High Court Rules Put Filers On Hook For AI Errors

    The Connecticut Appellate and Supreme Courts have published new generative artificial intelligence rules which took immediate effect this week, outlining additional paths for sanctions as the justices weigh the fate of a landlord's attorney who admitted his filings contained ChatGPT-induced errors.

  • July 15, 2026

    Judge Advises 'Splitting The Baby' In Photo Hack Class Notice

    A Connecticut state judge said Wednesday he would personally suggest language to notify potential class members that a preparatory school IT worker may have accessed their intimate photos and videos, seeking to strike a balance between providing broad notice and avoiding unnecessary panic among former students.

  • July 15, 2026

    Emergent Reaches $1.5B Valuation After $130M Fundraise

    Artificial intelligence software creation platform Emergent, led by Goodwin Procter LLP, on Wednesday revealed that it reached a $1.5 billion valuation after closing its latest funding round with $130 million in tow, making the company a unicorn only one year after its public launch.

  • July 15, 2026

    PayPal Stock Jumps After Reported $53B Stripe, Advent Bid

    PayPal Holdings Inc. shares were up more than 16% on Wednesday afternoon following reports that payments company Stripe and private equity firm Advent International have made a roughly $53 billion offer to acquire the company.

  • July 14, 2026

    White House Unveils New AI Cybersecurity Clearinghouse

    The White House has launched a clearinghouse for both the government and the private sector that's aimed at identifying and patching cyber vulnerabilities using artificial intelligence, according to an announcement made Tuesday.

  • July 14, 2026

    Apple Can Subpoena 14 Fed. Agencies In Antitrust Suit

    A retired New Jersey federal judge Tuesday denied the federal government's bid to quash subpoenas Apple is seeking in the government's smartphone monopolization lawsuit against the tech giant, finding the government's justifications for withholding the discovery unpersuasive.

  • July 14, 2026

    YouTube's 'Ad-Free' Service Is 'Littered With Ads,' Suit Says

    Videos streamed on YouTube's paid "ad-free" monthly subscription service are still "littered with ads" that often have nothing to do with the content being watched, subscribers alleged in a proposed class action filed Tuesday in California federal court.

  • July 14, 2026

    'Bulletproof Hosting' Providers Indicted For Aiding Hacks

    A trio of Russian nationals and the "bulletproof hosting" services they operated have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Ohio on charges that they helped facilitate cyberattacks against banks, hospitals and other critical infrastructure operators across nearly two dozen states and several countries, leading to more than $62 million in losses, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.

  • July 14, 2026

    Silicon Valley Bank Ignored BlackRock's Advice, Judge Hears

    Silicon Valley Bank disregarded advice from BlackRock's investment advisory firm suggesting the bank reduce the amount of its long-term mortgage-backed securities, the bank's former treasurer acknowledged Tuesday under questioning from a California federal judge during a bench trial over the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's claim SVB mismanaged its assets before its 2023 collapse.

  • July 14, 2026

    Mich. Panel Reinstates $1.5M Engineering Malpractice Verdict

    A Michigan appeals court on Monday reinstated a $1.5 million professional negligence verdict against an engineering company, ruling that the trial court improperly changed the jury's award to damages for breach of contract.

  • July 14, 2026

    Coinbase Wants Texas Court To Toss Blockchain Patent Suit

    Coinbase Global Inc. asked a Texas federal judge to toss claims alleging the company infringed a group of patents covering improvements to blockchain technology, saying the asserted patents violate "bedrock principles of patent eligibility."

  • July 14, 2026

    9th Circ. Erases Comet's $40M Trade Secret Verdict

    A split Ninth Circuit panel on Tuesday overturned Comet Technologies USA's $40 million trade secret verdict against XP Power and ordered a new trial, holding in a precedential decision that the jury was wrongly instructed that XP had to prove Comet's claimed secrets could have been lawfully discovered or reverse-engineered.

  • July 14, 2026

    Centripetal Seeks Squires Reversal Of Cisco Patent Win

    Centripetal Networks has asked U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires to undo a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision invalidating its cybersecurity patent at issue in a since-vacated multibillion-dollar judgment against Cisco Systems, saying the ruling flouted the law.

  • July 14, 2026

    Patent Eligibility Bill Divides Senators Over Health Costs

    Several U.S. senators expressed strong support at a hearing Tuesday for a bill aimed at expanding which inventions are eligible for patents, while others appeared to have reservations about the potential effect of the proposed changes on healthcare costs.

  • July 14, 2026

    2 Firms Tapped To Lead Super Micro Investor Action

    A California federal judge has appointed Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP to lead a now-consolidated investor class action alleging Super Micro Computer failed to disclose that a large portion of its server sales were made to Chinese companies in transactions that violated U.S. export controls and led to three arrests.

  • July 14, 2026

    Apple Again Beats Suit Over CSAM Detection Failures

    Apple has defeated another proposed class action filed by child abuse victims who claim the company allowed predators to store sexual abuse images and videos on iCloud, with a California federal judge saying the victims "deserve better" and calling on the company and lawmakers to act.

  • July 14, 2026

    Insurance Tech Co. Hits $1.9B Valuation After Fundraise

    Insurance technology company Cover Genius on Tuesday revealed that it reached a $1.9 billion valuation after completing a $100 million capital raise.

  • July 14, 2026

    Security Co. Says Data Tracking Suit Didn't Allege Sharing

    A home security camera company has urged a Washington federal court to toss a proposed class action accusing it of tracking and sharing the activity of visitors to its site, saying the complaint didn't allege it shared any confidential or personal information.

  • July 14, 2026

    Former Deputy Patent Commissioner Kim Joins Jones Day

    A newly departed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office deputy commissioner with a strong background in artificial intelligence has joined Jones Day as a partner in its global intellectual property practice, the firm said Tuesday.

  • July 14, 2026

    Google Is Wrong, 'Settled Expectations' Is Legal, Justices Told

    Software company VirtaMove has argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should ignore Google's challenge to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's policy of using the age of patents as a reason to not review them, saying Google's fight is based on a false foundation.

  • July 14, 2026

    Diodes To Buy ElevATE In $250M Automated Test Chip Deal

    Semiconductor maker Diodes Inc. said Tuesday it has agreed to acquire privately held ElevATE Semiconductor Inc. for $250 million in cash, expanding its presence in the automated test equipment market and broadening its analog and mixed-signal product portfolio.

  • July 14, 2026

    Fiber Group Tells FCC To Vet State Pole Dispute Policies

    Congress has given states the power to claw back control over pole attachment rules from the Federal Communications Commission through so-called reverse preemption, but a fiber broadband group says the agency needs to make sure those states have adequate regulations in place when it comes to settling disputes.

  • July 14, 2026

    IBM Nets Deal To End Ex-Sales Specialist's Age Bias Suit

    IBM has settled a 63-year-old's lawsuit accusing the global technology company of systemic age bias, North Carolina federal court records show.

  • July 14, 2026

    DC Circ. Asked To Force FCC's Hand On Petition Against Fox

    An advocacy group urged the D.C. Circuit Tuesday to compel the Federal Communications Commission to review Fox's character fitness as a broadcast licensee after its Philadelphia TV station aired Fox News' 2020 cable election coverage rather than let stand a staff level decision dismissing the group's petition.

Expert Analysis

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    Agentic AI And Securities Law: Steps Congress Should Take

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    Agentic artificial intelligence technology doesn't fit comfortably into the existing securities regulatory landscape, so Congress should avoid repeating the mistakes that led to the legal uncertainty crypto companies and investors have faced over the past decade-plus by providing a legislative framework before AI fully matures, says Joseph A. Hall at Davis Polk.

  • What Colorado AI Law's Major Rewrite Means For Employers

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    Colorado's landmark law regulating employers' use of artificial intelligence tools was recently replaced with a narrower regime that eliminates many burdensome obligations, but still imposes a host of requirements focused on transparency and accountability, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • Operational AI Washing: The Next Frontier Of Fiduciary Risk

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    While there are still no final Delaware decisions applying Caremark specifically to artificial intelligence governance failures, previous case law provides a blueprint, so the question for boards is whether their governance architectures will satisfy Caremark when the first cases are decided, say attorneys at Akerman.

  • A Look At The Court's Next Steps In Live Nation Antitrust Case

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    Following a recent jury verdict that Live Nation and Ticketmaster operated as a monopoly to fix ticket prices, a New York federal court stands to weigh Live Nation's bid for a new trial, approve the U.S. Department of Justice's March settlement with the defendants, and impose remedies that include full structural separation, say attorneys at Crowell.

  • Checking For AI Errors Is Now A Two-Way Street

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    A handful of recent federal and state cases demonstrate the importance of checking for errors generated by artificial intelligence not only in your own court submissions, but also your opponent's, as well as when catching opposing counsel's AI mistakes could result in an award for attorney fees, says Tamara Barago at Hollingsworth.

  • Green Card Memo Warps Long-Standing Adjustment Process

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    A recent policy memorandum that treats a nonimmigrant visa holder’s decision to seek adjustment of status in the U.S., rather than at a U.S. consulate, as an adverse factor reinterprets existing discretionary frameworks, compounds risks for applicants required to apply abroad and changes practitioner approaches to application preparation, says attorney Jack Jrada.

  • Tips For Protecting Privilege On Multinational IP Teams

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    As recent court rulings illustrate how fact-specific privilege determinations have become in modern legal workflows, corporations with multinational intellectual property teams must take steps to deliberately preserve attorney-client privilege through clear roles, confidentiality controls and disciplined communication practices, say Taylor Stemler and Grace Neumann at Merchant & Gould.

  • Series

    The Biz Court Digest: Shoring Up Corporate Law In Maryland

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    Launched more than 20 years ago to improve complex corporate adjudication, Maryland's Business and Technology Case Management Program has been a solid success in some areas, but there always is room for improvement, says Bill Krulak at Miles & Stockbridge.

  • 2nd Circ.'s Embedded Video Ruling May Protect Publishers

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    The Second Circuit's recent decision in Richardson v. Townsquare, dismissing an infringement claim arising from an embedding of a YouTube-hosted interview, reaffirms a potent defense for publishers who regularly use social media platforms' embed functionality, says Amanda Harris at Jassy Vick.

  • Product-Or-Content Question Is Pivotal In AI Litigation

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    A growing range of civil cases against OpenAI address the question of whether the output of a generative artificial intelligence system is a product, subject to traditional tort doctrine, or third-party content — and the framing courts adopt will shape software liability well beyond AI, says David Meldofsky at Lawsuit Informer.

  • Citron Founder Verdict Tests Reach Of 'Half-Truth' Fraud

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    A California federal jury's conviction this week of Citron founder Andrew Left may be remembered less as a conventional manipulation prosecution than as a case about how far the "half-truth" doctrine can reach when applied to modern market speech, says Elisha Kobre at Sheppard.

  • Series

    Competing At Poker Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Playing poker in male-dominated rooms taught me to treat skepticism as background noise when my opponents seem to underestimate me, to apply pressure when it matters and to adapt without losing strategic discipline — skills that are all indispensable in restructuring and insolvency matters, says Alexis Gambale at Pashman Stein.

  • FTC Sweep Signals Increased 'Made In USA' Claim Scrutiny

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    After the Federal Trade Commission's recent enforcement sweep targeting allegedly deceptive "Made in USA" claims, companies should expect continued scrutiny of both traditional and digital marketing channels, coupled with sustained focus on supply chain transparency and claim substantiation, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • Why IPR Slowdown Has Not Led To More Patent Litigation

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    Despite sustained strength in patent application filings and a decline in inter partes review and post-grant review, 2026 has not seen the anticipated surge in patent litigation in district courts and at the U.S. International Trade Commission, potentially due to four reasons, say attorneys at Sterne Kessler.

  • Revisiting TransUnion's Underused Standing Rule, 5 Years On

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    The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' recent use of the U.S. Supreme Court’s now five-year-old TransUnion v. Ramirez rule specifying that the "mere risk of future harm" isn't concrete enough to support a damages claim presents an opportunity to revisit this underutilized standing rule, say attorneys at Horvitz & Levy.

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