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  White House Pushes Congress To Override State AI Laws

  By Courtney Bublé

  The White House directed Congress to preempt "burdensome" state laws on artificial intelligence in a legislative...(read more)

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  Novartis To Buy Breast Cancer Therapy For Up To $3B

  By Najiyya Budaly

  Novartis AG said Friday that it will acquire a breast cancer drug from U.S. developer Synnovation Therapeutics i...(read more)

• 5th Circ. Wipes Out FTC's TurboTax 'Deceptive' Ad Ruling

  By Lauren Berg

  The Fifth Circuit on Friday vacated the Federal Trade Commission's cease-and-desist order imposed on Intuit Inc. for its TurboTax advertising that regulators say duped customers into thinking they could file their tax returns for free, saying the agency's in-house decision is unconstitutional, and the dispute must go to federal court.

• Chance The Rapper Beats Ex-Manager's Pay Claim

  By Lauraann Wood

  Illinois jurors sided with Chance the Rapper on Friday over his ex-manager's claim that the rapper improperly abandoned a handshake deal to pay the manager certain commissions during and for three years after their relationship, awarding the rapper $35 and recommending the return of a website he had long used to promote and market his music. 

• Supermicro Co-Founder Exported AI Tech To China, Feds Say

  By Lauren Berg

  A founder of Super Micro Computer Inc. and two others associated with the information technology company were charged Thursday with conspiring to divert $2.5 billion worth of servers that use Nvidia's artificial intelligence technology to China, in violation of U.S. export controls, New York federal prosecutors said.

• Social Media Jury Signals Potential Trouble For Meta, Google

  By Craig Clough

  After six full days deliberating in a California bellwether trial over allegations that Meta Platforms Inc. and Google LLC harm children's mental health through their social media platforms, the jury submitted a question to the judge potentially indicating it may be leaning in favor of finding one or both defendants liable.

• Authors' Attys Cut Fee Bid To $187M In $1.5B Anthropic IP Deal

  By Dorothy Atkins

  Authors who allege Anthropic pirated their work to train its Claude chatbot urged a California federal judge to grant final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement, along with an attorney fee request revised down from $300 million to $187.5 million, arguing the deal is fair despite multiple objections.

• 7th Circ. Reverses $10K Punitive Award Over Arbitrator's Error

  By Katryna Perera

  The Seventh Circuit on Thursday vacated and remanded a $10,000 arbitration award against USAA Savings Bank for closing a customer's credit card account without proper explanation, saying the arbitrator failed to comply with the terms of the arbitration agreement by ignoring a requirement to conduct a post-award review before finalizing damages.

• DOD Calls Anthropic's Supply Chain Risk Case Premature

  By Madeline Lyskawa

  The Pentagon urged the D.C. Circuit to reject Anthropic's attempt to halt the agency's designation of the artificial intelligence company as a supply chain risk to national security, arguing the designation is limited in scope, and that Anthropic's motion is premature. 

• Publishers Can't Get Performance Docs From Perplexity

  By Elliot Weld

  A Manhattan federal judge on Friday denied a request from the publishers of The Wall Street Journal and New York Post to obtain documents from Perplexity AI on how the company measures its product's performance and optimizes it, saying letting the parties continue to confer on search terms was unlikely to produce results.

• Up Next At High Court: Late Ballots And 'Last-Mile' Drivers

  By Katie Buehler

  The U.S. Supreme Court will kick off its March oral arguments session by reviewing disputes over the validity of state laws allowing late-arriving mail-in ballots to be counted in federal elections and whether "last-mile" delivery drivers qualify for the transportation worker exemption to the Federal Arbitration Act. 

• State Judge Temporarily Bars Kalshi Wagers In Nevada

  By Tom Lotshaw

  A Nevada state judge temporarily blocked prediction market operator Kalshi from offering sports, election and entertainment related event contracts in the Silver State, finding regulators reasonably likely to prevail in an action alleging its event-based contracts violate gaming laws.

• Where Calif. State Courts Landed On Generative AI Use Rules

  By Emily Sawicki

  The majority of California's 58 superior courts — together making up the country's largest trial court system — have decided to greenlight the use of generative artificial intelligence in their work this year, a Law360 investigation found.

• Cooperator Rechnitz Can't Avoid Jail At SDNY Resentencing

  By Pete Brush

  A Manhattan federal judge on Friday hit Jona Rechnitz, a prolific cooperating witness who testified at three trials, with a five-month prison sentence for corruption crimes he committed over a decade ago, despite saying "you have done all you can" to atone.