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  Latham, Wilson Sonsini Guide AMD's $8.2B World Labs Buy

  By Al Barbarino

  AMD has agreed to buy AI model developer and research lab World Labs in an all-stock transaction valued at appro...(read more)

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  Alito Makes Last-Minute Recusal From Colo. Climate Case

  By Lauren Berg

  Justice Samuel Alito on Monday recused himself from the city and county of Boulder, Colorado's climate change to...(read more)

• Del. Chancery Freezes 32.1M Talkdesk Shares In Viking Fight

  By Jarek Rutz

  The Delaware Chancery Court on Tuesday temporarily barred Talkdesk Inc. from disposing of roughly 32.1 million shares it received through a disputed foreclosure involving founder and CEO Tiago Paiva, while ordering expedited proceedings on a claim from investors of Viking Global that the deal violated their contractual consent rights.

• Justices Allow Third-Country Removals To Resume, For Now

  By Britain Eakin

  The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume, for now, deporting immigrants to countries besides their own, while agreeing to review the legality of the practice.

• 11th Circ. Won't Pause Sanctions Against Trump In IRS Case

  By Jack McLoone

  An Eleventh Circuit panel refused Tuesday to pause a district court's sanctions order barring President Donald Trump and others from citing the agreement he made to settle his $10 billion suit against the Internal Revenue Service while they appeal the order.

• 3rd Circ. Affirms Thomson Reuters' Westlaw AI Copyright Win

  By Ivan Moreno

  The Third Circuit on Tuesday affirmed Thomson Reuters' victory against Ross Intelligence Inc. in the first U.S. appellate ruling to address whether AI training can be fair use of copyrighted material, upholding a Delaware federal court's decision that the startup infringed Westlaw headnotes by using material derived from them to develop an artificial intelligence-powered legal search tool.

• AstraZeneca To Inject $2B In US Cancer Biopharma

  By Irene Madongo

  British giant AstraZeneca said Tuesday it will invest $2 billion in oncology specialist Summit Therapeutics and partner with the U.S. biopharmaceutical firm to boost its cancer treatment portfolio.

• CyberSec Pro Stole $53M In Uranium Finance Heist, Jury Told

  By Stewart Bishop

  A prosecutor on Monday told a Manhattan federal jury that a Maryland cybersecurity consultant stole around $53 million in crypto by exploiting software bugs on the decentralized exchange Uranium Finance, while defense counsel argued that the government won't be able to show "whose fingers were on the keyboard."

• Calif. Governor Vetoes Broad Ban On Sensitive Data Sales

  By Allison Grande

  California's governor has refused to sign off on legislation that would have made the state the latest to restrict the sale and sharing of consumers' geolocation, biometric and other sensitive information, saying the proposed "categorical ban" on these online data practices was "a step too far."

• Apple Briefs Set Stage For Challenge To Record $5.7B Verdict

  By Ryan Davis

  Friday's $5.7 billion verdict against Apple Inc. for infringing Taction Technology Inc.'s vibration technology patents is the largest in history, eclipsing many others that have been overturned, and filings by Apple preview its arguments for why this one should meet the same fate.

• Black Tesla Workers In Calif. Fired At Higher Rates, Judge Told

  By Dorothy Atkins

  An economics professor testified in a California state bench trial Monday over the California Civil Rights Department's claims Tesla fostered racism at its Fremont factory that he found Tesla's Black workers in California are paid 4.37% less, and involuntarily terminated at a 75% higher rate, than their white counterparts.

• Fla. AG Seeks To Put Guardrails On OpenAI's Models

  By Carolina Bolado

  Florida's attorney general on Monday asked a court to block OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman from developing artificial intelligence models without third-party guardrails and from offering ChatGPT to minors, in a suit accusing the AI company of spurring young people to commit crimes and acts of violence.

• Boston Sues Over DOT Grant Cut Tied To EV Chargers

  By Carolyn Muyskens

  The city of Boston brought a lawsuit in federal court Monday alleging the Trump administration canceled a $20 million road improvement grant because of electric vehicle infrastructure that was only "a fraction of 1%" of the project.

• White Worker Gets 2nd Chance In Race Training Bias Suit

  By Grace Elletson

  The Ninth Circuit reinstated Monday a white worker's claims that the City of Seattle subjected him to harassment by pushing race bias trainings that caused his colleagues to villainize white people, ruling that negative comments he received about his race were enough to keep the case in court.