Mealey's Artificial Intelligence
-
March 21, 2025
Singapore AI Education Company Loses Bid To Drop Injunction Pending Arbitration
NEW YORK — A New York federal judge on March 20 denied as “procedurally improper” a Singapore-based artificial intelligence education company’s request to terminate a preliminary injunction, which was granted against it and a respondent shareholder entity pending an International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration over an asset purchase worth at least $15 million, due to the respondent’s alleged failure to post a court-ordered $500,000 bond.
-
March 19, 2025
Copyright Act Contemplates Human Authors, Not AI, D.C. Circuit Affirms
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Copyright protections require a human author and the U.S. Copyright Office properly denied an application listing an artificial intelligence as the author, the District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said March 18 in affirming a district court ruling.
-
March 18, 2025
Magistrate Judge Suggests $5,000 Sanction, Doubts Child’s Lesson Led To AI Cites
CHICAGO — A federal magistrate judge in Illinois recommended $5,000 in sanctions after saying an attorney’s claim that her brief came to include fake cites as a result of a lesson she was trying to teach her daughter about artificial intelligence “beggars belief” and that her “general lack of candor” after the fact suggests bad faith.
-
March 18, 2025
AI Search Engine Sufficiently Targets New York, Dow Jones Says
NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI markets its highly interactive website nationwide and is registered to do business in New York and transacts business in the state, providing a sufficient anchor to the jurisdiction, Dow Jones & Co. Inc. and a related affiliate tell a federal judge in opposing dismissal or transfer.
-
March 13, 2025
AI Plaintiffs Say Meta’s Torrenting Is Clear Copyright Violation
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta Platforms Inc.’s torrenting of protected works to secure material to train its artificial intelligence constitutes a copyright violation and is not protected by fair use, plaintiffs tell a federal judge in California.
-
March 13, 2025
Judge Grants Stay In AI-Election Case During Appeal Of Injunction Ruling
MINNEAPOLIS — A federal judge in Minnesota on March 12 granted a stipulated stay in a case challenging Minnesota’s law regulating artificial intelligence-created political advertising while the social media personality and a state politician at the heart of the suit appeal his ruling denying them injunctive relief.
-
March 11, 2025
Workday Says AI-Hiring Suit Inappropriate For Collective Action
SAN FRANCISCO — A lawsuit targeting artificial intelligence hiring software involves too many individual questions surrounding applications, qualifications and the plaintiffs and are “dissimilar in virtually all the ways that matter,” Workday Inc. told a federal judge in California in opposing certification as a collective action.
-
March 11, 2025
Political Speech Plaintiffs Say Law Targeting AI Tramples Free Speech
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California law regulating artificial intelligence-modified political material includes a “host of constitutional infirmities,” including running afoul of speech protections and compelling other speech by requiring disclosures that would in many cases eliminate any chance of the material conveying its intended meaning, plaintiffs in two lawsuits told a federal judge in California in a motion for summary judgment on their claims for injunctive and declaratory relief.
-
March 10, 2025
DOJ Revised Summary In Antitrust Suit Affirms Bid For Google’s Chrome Divesting
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a suit in which a federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and officials from numerous states on March 7 filed an executive summary of a revised proposed final judgment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that reaffirms the initial proposed final judgment requiring Google to divest web browser Chrome.
-
March 07, 2025
Groups File Suit Accusing Elon Musk, DOGE Of Illegal AI-Based Employment Moves
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A quartet of advocacy groups sued Elon Musk, U.S. DOGE Service and others in District of Columbia federal court, accusing them of using artificial intelligence to make decisions about federal employment and government contracts despite the complete lack of statutory or other authority to do so.
-
March 05, 2025
Judge Denies Musk Injunction In Spat Over OpenAI Structure
SAN FRANCISCO — Artificial intelligence company x.AI, Elon Musk and a second employee have not demonstrated a likelihood of success on antitrust and breach of charitable trust claims that would warrant enjoining how OpenAI is structured, a federal judge in California said March 4.
-
March 04, 2025
Home Health Company Seeks Attorney Fees For Grappling With Fake AI Cites
ORLANDO, Fla. — A defendant home health services provider asks a federal judge in Florida for attorney fees and other sanctions after pro se plaintiffs filed a brief opposing a motion to dismiss that allegedly contained fake case citations and that “appears on its face to have been generated by an artificial intelligence (AI).”
-
March 04, 2025
Student Wants Yale Enjoined From Suspending Him For Alleged AI Use
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A student asked a federal court in Connecticut for a temporary restraining order and injunction preventing Yale University from suspending him from its School of Management (SOM) as a punishment for allegedly using artificial intelligence (AI), saying the school’s failure to follow its own due process rules has “thrown into disarray” his life.
-
March 04, 2025
Google, Alphabet Say AI Copyright Claims Lacking, Seek To Strike Class
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Whether plaintiffs satisfactorily registered copyrights, sufficiently detail their claims and could possibly justify injunctive relief in their consolidated action against Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. sits with a federal judge in California after briefing on motions to dismiss and strike class claims wrapped up in the artificial intelligence case.
-
February 25, 2025
COMMENTARY: AI Risk: New Tech, Same Coverage
By Michael S. Levine, Alex D. Pappas and Torrye N. Zullo
-
March 03, 2025
Microsoft Identifies Individuals Allegedly Involved In Unlawful AI Conduct
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Microsoft Corp. filed an amended complaint identifying four individuals previously listed as anonymous defendants who allegedly used the company’s artificial intelligence systems for unlawful purposes, including creating images of misogyny and deepfake intimate images of celebrities.
-
March 03, 2025
Attorney’s AI Misuse Violated Rule 11, Judge Says In Imposing $2,500 Sanction
PHILADELPHIA — Like many technologies, reliance on artificial intelligence can assist users, but without appropriate human scrutiny its use quickly collapses into negligence, a federal judge in Pennsylvania said in sanctioning an attorney $2,500 for using six wrong or fake cites in a case over an investment gone bad.
-
February 28, 2025
Magistrate Recommends Granting Judgment In Libel Row Over LinkedIn ‘Doo-Doo’ Post
NEW YORK — A New York federal magistrate judge recommended granting summary judgment to the defendant, a former officer in a company once owned by the plaintiff, a founder of a venture capital company, in a libel suit over the defendant’s posts on LinkedIn that purportedly gave the plaintiff the surname of “Doo-Doo head” and accused him of lack of knowledge about artificial intelligence, finding that the comment regarding AI “is non-actionable opinion.”
-
February 28, 2025
Judge Won’t Let AI Copyright Plaintiffs Set Search Terms
SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs’ efforts at relitigating issues they lost undermines rulings designed to prevent delays, and the parties appear to be “taking turns to simply conjure up something about which to fight,” a judge overseeing consolidated federal copyright litigation in California involving artificial intelligence said Feb. 27 in denying requested discovery.
-
February 26, 2025
Magistrate Judge Recommends Sanctions Of $15,000 For AI-Created Fake Cites
INDIANAPOLIS — A federal magistrate judge in Indiana recommended $15,000 as a sanction for an attorney who cited artificial intelligence-created cases, saying there was “simply no reason” to fall short of federal rules by not checking the accuracy of the cites.
-
February 26, 2025
Judge Revokes Pro Hac Vice, Fines Attorneys Involved In AI-Hallucinated Cites
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — When done properly, artificial intelligence offers promise in the legal world, but where the failure to follow federal rules governing signing and submitting motions allows for the creation of a brief with AI-created fake cites, the situation warrants revoking pro hac vice status and imposing various fines, a federal judge in Wyoming said.
-
February 25, 2025
Judge: Media Outlet Alleges Injury, Copyright Removal For Single DMCA Claim
NEW YORK — While Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) protections don’t exactly match with historical analogs, the act hews closely enough to protected property rights to provide injury, and a news organization adequately alleges that OpenAI entities removed copyright management information (CMI) from articles during the training of artificial intelligence, a federal judge in New York said while dismissing the remainder of the DMCA claims against OpenAI and Microsoft.
-
February 25, 2025
Education Publisher Launches Sherman Act Suit Over Google AI Answers
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Online education publisher Chegg Inc. filed a Sherman Act suit against Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. on Feb. 24 over their artificial intelligence search results, claiming the tech companies’ AI-powered overviews expand their existing choke-hold on generative search to online publishing.
-
February 24, 2025
District Of Columbia Judges Debate AI In Opinion Nixing Animal Cruelty Conviction
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A judge in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals dissenting from an opinion vacating an animal cruelty conviction noted that artificial intelligence ChatGPT could distinguish between the dangers of leaving a dog in a hot car and leaving one outside on a cold day and that similar common sense could be used by a fact finder, while in a concurring opinion a second judge marveled at the technology’s potential risks and benefits.
-
February 21, 2025
Citing ‘Glacial Pace,’ Plaintiffs In AI Copyright Suit Seek To Compel Discovery
SAN FRANCISCO — While the company behind the Claude artificial intelligence promises to produce discovery before upcoming deadlines, its “glacial pace” over the last four months necessitates a court order compelling the production by certain deadlines to ensure that it doesn’t benefit from further delay, plaintiffs in a copyright suit tell a federal judge in California in a Feb. 20 letter brief.