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February 10, 2025
Student Says Yale Improperly Suspended Him For AI Use

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A student enrolled in Yale University’s School of Management says in a lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal court that the school failed him for a class and suspended him based on his use of artificial intelligence but did so through the use of AI-detection tools it knows are faulty and without ever actually concluding that AI was used.
February 07, 2025
Family Dismisses Suit Challenging Punishment In Student AI-Cheating Case

BOSTON — The parents of a student disciplined for using artificial intelligence in a project stipulated to dismissal with prejudice of the claims they filed in a federal court in Massachusetts against the school district and related individuals they accused of failing to inform students about how they could use the novel technology and imposing unduly harsh punishments.
February 07, 2025
Amici Tell En Banc Court Nonparticipants Can Challenge Procurement Process

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Entities can be an interested party and have the ability to challenge government procurement decisions even when the entity isn’t directly involved in the process, a private company and nonprofit told the en banc Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a case brought by an artificial intelligence image analyzing company.
February 05, 2025
Attorney Disclaims AI Use, Says Citation Error Is Simple Mix Up

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An attorney representing a woman in an age discrimination suit said he would never use artificial intelligence and that incorrect cites in briefing were the result of confusion arising from the handling of numerous cases and citations.
February 04, 2025
Sen. Hawley Introduces Measure Banning Chinese AI Tech

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Legislation introduced in the Senate by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., would ban Chinese artificial intelligence technology and subject the primary individual found to be importing or exporting Chinese AI to a fine of not more than $100 million and forfeiture of any federal monies while imposing a $1 million fine on any associate or other individual found to be doing so.
February 03, 2025
Judge: Microsoft Must Comply With Constitutional Notice Rule In AI Copyright Suit

NEW YORK — A federal court rule governing notice for constitutional questions applies to Microsoft Corp.’s “as applied” challenge to New York’s trademark dilution statute in an artificial intelligence case, a federal judge in the state said in ordering Microsoft to comply with the rule .
February 03, 2025
User Dismisses Class Suit Claiming LinkedIn Trained AI On Users’ Private Messages

SAN FRANCISCO — Less than two weeks after filing a putative class action in California federal court accusing LinkedIn of violating federal law and California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by accessing its premium users’ private messages to train artificial intelligence models without their consent, the plaintiff, a premium user of LinkedIn’s professional networking and social media site, filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice.
February 03, 2025
Hoverboard Fire Defendants: Motion In Limine’s Fake Cites Look Like ChatGPT’s Work

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — ChatGPT appears to have authored eight incorrect legal citations in plaintiffs’ motion in limine seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony, the defendants told a federal judge in Wyoming in opposition to the motion in a suit in which the plaintiffs say a hoverboard exploded and set fire to their home.
February 03, 2025
Suit Over Investments Gone Bad Dismissed As Sanction For AI-Created Fake Cites

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A pro se plaintiff’s inclusion of fake cites in a brief opposing dismissal of his suit against former investment partners leads to the “firm conviction” that he used artificial intelligence (AI) to craft that brief regardless of his other explanations for the mistake, a federal judge in Florida said in dismissing the action as a sanction.
January 31, 2025
Hotel Pricing Amici Warn Antitrust Law Must Keep Up With AI

PHILADELPHIA — Artificial intelligence will permit cartels to avoid antitrust laws by conspiring on prices without ever interacting unless courts focus on the impact the alleged conduct has on prices and not on a formulaic analysis based on human action, amici warned the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an appeal of the dismissal of a hotel price-setting case.
January 28, 2025
Judge Issues Show Cause Order After Potential AI Citation Issue In Employment Case

WASHINGTON, D.C. — After concluding that a plaintiff’s attorney may have used artificial intelligence (AI), a federal judge in the District of Columbia dismissed the employment case and ordered the attorney to explain how briefing included nonexistent citations, in a lawsuit that involves a woman who claims that mental health issues prevented her from properly prosecuting the case.
January 28, 2025
Character.AI Defendants: Speech Concerns, Other Defects Doom Negligence Suit

ORLANDO, Fla. — The company behind Character.AI and various related parties urged a federal judge in Florida to dismiss a suit claiming its artificial intelligence led to a teen’s suicide, saying free speech, product liability law and jurisdictional issues all doom the action.
January 24, 2025
Magistrate Judge Suggests Citations Were AI Fakes, Sanctions Federal Defender

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A fake citation contains all the hallmarks of an artificial intelligence hallucination despite the attorney’s claim that he never used the technology, and his repeated failure to remedy the situation with the court suggests bad faith, a federal magistrate judge in California said in imposing a $1,500 sanction on an assistant federal defender in a felony child exploitation case.
January 23, 2025
AI Image Company Urges En Banc Court To Allow Government Procurement Suit

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A provider of an artificial intelligence image program urged the en banc Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to find that any violation of the law regulating the government’s bidding and procurement process gives standing to the injured party to challenge the alleged violation.
January 23, 2025
LinkedIn Used Private Messages To Train Generative AI, User Claims

SAN FRANCISCO — A user of the professional networking and social media site LinkedIn filed a putative class action lawsuit in California federal court accusing the company that operates the site of violating federal law and California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by accessing Premium users’ private messages to train artificial intelligence models without their consent.
January 23, 2025
Parties Resolve AI Dynamic Batching Patent Fight

WILMINGTON, Del. — Two artificial intelligence companies have reached a confidential settlement resolving a dispute in a Delaware federal court over a patent protecting dynamic batching used to decrease latency in AI transformers.
January 22, 2025
OpenAI Isn’t Entitled To Discovery Of All AI Usage, New York Times Says

NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc.’s contention that its fair use defense requires The New York Times Co. (NYT) to produce any and all evidence related to its use of artificial intelligence of any kind and in any manner seeks to “distract from its own massive copyright infringement” and was properly rejected by a magistrate judge, the company says in responding to an objection to a ruling denying a motion to compel.
January 22, 2025
President Trump Rescinds Order Governing AI

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Among his first official acts, President Donald J. Trump revoked an executive order seeking to ensure the safe and secure creation and rollout of artificial intelligence programs and hoping to promote its use in health care and climate change.
January 21, 2025
Magistrate Judge Rejects Meta’s ‘False Dichotomy,’ Faults Some AI Discovery

SAN FRANCISCO — Meta Platforms Inc.’s “false dichotomy” about the possible answers regarding its use of copyrighted material in an artificial intelligence case is based on minor quibbles about the extent of the copying and does not “justify the hopelessly vague” answers it offered about what its search of the training data revealed, a federal magistrate judge in California said Jan. 17 in partially granting motions to compel.
January 15, 2025
OpenAI Lays Down ‘Rules Of The Road’ For Regulation, Development

SAN FRANCISCO — Relying heavily on an analogy to the adoption and management of early automobiles and arguing that a national oversight scheme would allow entrepreneurs and the country to thrive, OpenAI Inc. has laid out what it believes the “rules of the road” should be going forward for adoption and regulation of the technology.
January 15, 2025
Settlement Resolves Claims That Company Overhyped AI Facial Recognition Software

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that it has reached a settlement with a company that allegedly overstated the accuracy of its artificial intelligence facial recognition software and made misleading claims about the program’s ability to eliminate gender or racial bias.
January 14, 2025
Judge Excludes Expert Over AI Fabrications, Denies Injunction Of Deepfake Law

MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge in Minnesota entered a judgment declining to enjoin a state law on Jan. 13 after excluding an artificial intelligence expert who inadvertently included AI-fabricated cites in his declaration about misinformation and finding that the lone plaintiff with standing lacked the harm required for a preliminary injunction.
January 14, 2025
AI Voice Cloning Company, Voice Actors Brief Motion To Dismiss

NEW YORK — Responding to an artificial intelligence company’s contention that voice actors’ claims were time-barred and suffered from other defects, two named class action plaintiffs told a federal judge in New York that they own the rights to their voices and that the ongoing use of cloned voices sold under different names places the case within the applicable time frame.
January 13, 2025
United States Weighs In As Musk Responds To Delaware’s Interest In OpenAI Suit

SAN FRANCISCO — In briefing on a pair of concurrent issues, Elon Musk told a federal judge in California that Delaware’s investigation into OpenAI Inc.’s corporate structuring is welcome, but its tardy entry into the fray and past conduct shows that it already dropped the regulatory ball and in any case cannot protect the plaintiffs’ interests, while the United States on Jan. 10 filed a statement expressing its interest in ensuring proper application of antitrust laws and related interpretation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).