Mealey's Artificial Intelligence
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December 05, 2025
9th Circuit Affirms TRO Enjoining OpenAI From Use Of ‘IO’ Mark
SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to grant a temporary restraining order (TRO) that bars a company recently purchased by ChatGPT-maker OpenAI LLC from using marks that could potentially cause confusion with another technology company with a similarly pronounced name.
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December 04, 2025
Magistrate Judge Affirms OpenAI Must Produce 20 Million ChatGPT Chat Logs
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI Inc. defendants must produce 20 million ChatGPT outputs in a consolidated copyright action against it, a magistrate judge in New York affirmed in denying a motion for reconsideration after finding the evidence relevant and proportionate.
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December 04, 2025
Judge Certifies Alexa Voice ID Biometric Data Class Suit, Excludes Named Plaintiff
CHICAGO — A named plaintiff who signed up for Amazon.com Inc.’s Voice ID program after the filing of a suit would be subject to unique defenses that render him unfit to be a class representative, a federal judge in Illinois said while certifying claims that the company violated Illinois law by collecting certain biometric data through its Alexa artificial intelligence system.
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December 04, 2025
Bloomberg Must Face Book Copyright Owners’ Suit, Judge Says
NEW YORK — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and others successfully allege copyright ownership and that two Bloomberg companies used their protected works as training material for their artificial intelligence, a federal judge in New York said in denying a motion to dismiss.
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December 04, 2025
Magistrate Judge Orders OpenAI To Produce Dataset-Deletion Communications
NEW YORK — OpenAI Inc. entities waived any attorney-client privilege protecting communications by offering shifting positions that resulted in the disclosure of some of the purportedly privileged reasons for the deletions and by putting their state of mind at issue, a federal magistrate judge in New York said in ordering production of the evidence.
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December 04, 2025
Google Accuses AI Copyright Plaintiffs Of ‘Litigation-By-Ambush’
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Google LLC opposed a motion to certify a class action and asked a federal judge in California to strike the allegations with prejudice as a sanction for artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ “midnight switch” of proposed classes and subclasses.
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November 26, 2025
Supreme Court Seeks Response In ‘Paradise’ AI Art Copyright Case
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One day after distributing a case for conference, the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 26 asked for a response from the federal government in a case in which a man claims that lower courts erred by finding that his artificial intelligence-generated artwork was not entitled to copyright protections. The man previously asked the court to stay the case while courts decide whether Shira Perlmutter can continue to serve as head of the U.S. Copyright Office.
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November 26, 2025
DOJ Files Proposed Judgment In Antitrust Row With Rental Market Software Company
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed a proposed final judgment in a North Carolina federal court in an antitrust suit against RealPage Inc., a commercial revenue management software company, alleging that RealPage used nonpublic information obtained from landlords and runs the information through its algorithmic software to align pricing, thereby impeding the free market process.
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November 25, 2025
Bankruptcy Judge Reprimands Gordon Rees Attorney For AI Misuse
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A federal bankruptcy judge publicly reprimanded a Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani attorney, revoked her pro hac vice status and ordered her to provide a copy of a ruling detailing artificial intelligence misuse “so egregious that it could only be construed as to have been committed in bad faith.”
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November 25, 2025
Judge Terminates Case Of Pro Se Plaintiffs She Says Submitted AI-Altered Evidence
OAKLAND, Calif. — A California judge upheld a sanction terminating pro se plaintiffs’ action for submitting what she found to be artificial intelligence-generated or otherwise altered videos and text messages as exhibits in a landlord-tenant case.
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November 21, 2025
COMMENTARY: Testing The Boundaries Of Product Liability For AI Products: How To Hold An Insurance Company Liable For AI Errors
By Jamie O’Neill and Abigail Damsky
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November 24, 2025
Parties Brief Court On AI Overview Murder Defamation Case Issues
CHICAGO — Should a case claiming that Google LLC’s AI Overview tool defamed a public individual by reporting that he was once convicted of a drug crime and was currently serving a life sentence for multiple murders proceed past a pending motion to dismiss, the trial would take approximately a week, parties tell a federal judge in Illinois in a joint status report.
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November 13, 2025
COMMENTARY: Summarising With AI, Reviewing With Care: The Use Of AI By Arbitrators – And What That Means For Advocates
By Fiona Cain, Jack Spence, Michael Mazzone and Harry Phillips
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November 20, 2025
Judge Relates Suits Alleging Salesforce Pirated AI Training Material
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California granted a joint stipulation relating two actions accusing Salesforce Inc. of pirating copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence.
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November 19, 2025
Lawyer, Firm Sanctioned $3,000, Must Pay Attorney Fees For Fake Cites, Conduct
DENVER — An attorney’s conduct after being notified that a complaint and other documents contained potential artificial intelligence-generated fake citations “unreasonably and vexatiously multiplied” the litigation and warrants a $3,000 sanction against her and her firm and an award of attorney fees, a federal judge in Colorado said.
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November 18, 2025
Judge Imposes $500 Sanction On Lawyer For Fake Cites In Employment Case
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A $500 sanction for erroneous citations should not be seen as a “Luddite attack” on artificial intelligence but as a reminder that lawyers must handle the evolving technology with “diligence and care,” a federal judge in Connecticut said Nov. 17.
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November 17, 2025
Canadian AI Company Must Face Copyright Claims, Federal Judge Says
NEW YORK — Canadian artificial intelligence company Cohere Inc. must face news publishers’ allegations that its Command product outputs copyrighted works and misattributes trademarks, a federal judge in New York said in denying a motion for partial dismissal.
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November 14, 2025
Fake Citations Earn Divorce Lawyer Grievance Commission Referral By Maryland Court
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Irregularities in a brief filed in the appeal of a divorce case warrant publication of the opinion and referral of the attorney to the state’s Attorney Grievance Commission, the Appellate Court of Maryland said in otherwise affirming a marital settlement agreement (MSA).
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November 14, 2025
OpenAI Must Produce 20 Million Chat Logs, Magistrate Judge Says
SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities must produce 20 million ChatGPT chat logs after a federal magistrate judge in New York said the company never explained why existing protective orders and its own de-identification efforts would not sufficiently protect user privacy.
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November 13, 2025
Company To Meta: Thousands Of Pornographic Movies Weren’t For Personal Use
SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of pornographic movies downloaded to 47 internet addresses associated with Meta Platforms Inc. suggest an attempt to conceal the theft of copyrighted material used to train its artificial intelligence rather than personal use, two pornography companies tell a federal judge in California in opposing dismissal of their action.
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November 12, 2025
Insured Admonished For Use Of AI; Remand Of Mold, Water Damage Suit Denied
DALLAS — A Texas federal judge denied an insured’s motion to remand a water and mold damage suit and accepted a magistrate judge’s recommendation and report that cautioned the insured, a pro se litigant, from relying on artificial intelligence (AI) after finding numerous nonexistent legal cases cited in the insured’s filings.
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November 07, 2025
Sanctions Motion, Order To Show Cause Issued Over A Dozen Fake Cites
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A medical marijuana company on Nov. 6 asked a federal judge in Florida to dismiss a case against it as a sanction for the inclusion of what it said were a dozen artificial intelligence-generated errors in a motion and for the attorney’s conduct after being informed of the mistakes. That same day the court directed the attorney to show cause why he should not be sanctioned.
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November 07, 2025
Amazon To Perplexity: Stop Hiding AI Shopping Agent
SAN FRANCISCO — Perplexity AI Inc. offers users of its Comet artificial intelligence program Amazon.com Services LLC store benefits in violation of the store’s rules and disguises its usage so that it can covertly access the store, Amazon says in a complaint filed in California federal court.
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November 07, 2025
Judge Consolidates Disney, Warner Bros. AI Suits Against Midjourney
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California consolidated two artificial intelligence copyright actions — one involving Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. and the second Disney Enterprises Inc. — alleging that Midjourney Inc.’s artificial intelligence outputs the entertainment companies’ copyrighted characters.
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November 06, 2025
Perplexity: Engineered Prompts Can’t Form Basis Of AI Copyright Suit
NEW YORK — Perplexity AI Inc. told a federal judge in New York in a motion to dismiss that outputs resulting from prompts engineered by plaintiff Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. cannot form the basis of a copyright claim and that the plaintiff has not sufficiently identified the protected works in question.