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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).
January 13, 2025
Man Says OpenAI Pushed AI It Knew ‘Spits Out Lies’

ATLANTA — OpenAI Inc. held ChatGPT out as a research tool users could rely on all while knowing that it “spits out lies of every kind imaginable” and warning that its outputs could not be trusted, a man says in opposing summary judgment in a Georgia defamation case.
January 09, 2025
Hospice Provider Can’t Dodge Wiretapping, Privacy Lawsuit

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A customer of an end-of-life care provider sufficiently alleges that the company’s use of artificial intelligence (AI) software to record clients’ telephone conversations without their consent violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA), a California federal judge found Jan. 8, denying the defendant’s motion to dismiss.
January 09, 2025
Company Must Produce Witness’ Lawsuit Funding Evidence In OpenAI Trademark Case

SAN FRANCISCO — A company locked in a suit with OpenAI Inc. over trademark infringement must produce documents related to a nonparty witness who is an investor and is funding the company’s defense as the evidence goes to his credibility and bias, a federal magistrate judge in California said Jan. 8. In a second order the court granted OpenAI additional time to depose the company’s founder.
January 08, 2025
Musk Says Delaware’s Sudden Interest In OpenAI Comes Too Late

SAN FRANCISCO — 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, Elon Musk and others tell a federal judge in California in response to an amicus curiae brief.
January 07, 2025
No Sanction For Pro Se Appellant’s AI Usage In Colorado Appeals Court

DENVER — A Colorado appeals court declined to impose sanctions on a pro se plaintiff who took responsibility for artificial intelligence-generated errors in his brief but warned those who would practice before it in the future that such a mistake would not be accepted going forward.
January 07, 2025
Amicus Warns Against Immunity, Lays Out Path Forward In ChatGPT Defamation Case

ATLANTA — An amicus urged a Georgia judge not to adopt the “all-or-nothing” approaches offered by the parties in an artificial intelligence defamation case and instead focus on whether OpenAI LLC could have implemented an alternative design that would have prevented the alleged violation.
January 06, 2025
Judge Stays California Deceptive Social Media Labeling Law

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge in California overseeing four cases on Jan. 3 stayed enforcement of a recently enacted law targeting artificial intelligence-created deceptive content that requires social media companies to report, label or remove such content.
January 06, 2025
Music Publishers, Anthropic Agree To Lyric Output Injunction

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge in California granted a stipulated preliminary injunction in a music industry lawsuit over the use of lyrics to train artificial intelligence, requiring Anthropic PBC to keep in place existing guardrails preventing output of lyrics owned by music publishers.
January 03, 2025
9th Circuit Accepts Appeal In GitHub DMCA AI Case

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals agreed to hear an appeal in an artificial intelligence (AI) copyright case alleging that the defendants ignored or removed licenses from software published on the online repository GitHub.
January 02, 2025
Delaware Attorney General Discloses Investigation Into OpenAI Organizational Move

SAN FRANCISCO — The state of Delaware is watching and investigating OpenAI Inc.’s transition from nonprofit to for-profit entity, the state’s attorney general said in an amicus curiae brief filed with a federal court in California that is poised to rule on a request for preliminary injunction in a spat among Elon Musk, Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI over whether the latter company’s current status violates its founding purpose.
December 19, 2024
Parties Debate Expert’s AI Hallucination Errors In AI Law Challenge

MINNEAPOLIS — Plaintiffs urged a federal judge in Minnesota to reject an amended expert declaration, saying that correcting artificial intelligence-crafted hallucinations after briefing concluded would be prejudicial and that the request is untimely. But in opposing exclusion of the expert, Minnesota’s attorney general said that even experts make mistakes and that the AI-generated errors went to the weight of the opinion about a challenge to an AI election misinformation law, not the opinion’s admissibility.
December 18, 2024
OpenAI Seeks Dismissal Of YouTube UCL Claims, Says Injury, Conduct Lacking

SAN FRANCISCO — Copyright law preempts a man’s California unfair competition law (UCL) claims in an artificial intelligence action, and the vague allegations about using YouTube videos in training ChatGPT lack any economic injury or deceptive conduct on which they could be brought and would fail anyway, OpenAI entities tell a federal judge in California in seeking dismissal with prejudice.
December 17, 2024
Altman, Microsoft Downplay Market Power In Musk Injunction Move

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities and Microsoft Corp., opposing a preliminary injunction sought by Elon Musk, tell a federal court in California that while they partner on limited tasks, there is no agreement between them that violates federal law and that the marketplace for artificial intelligence funding remains robust.
December 17, 2024
Special Master Appointed In Music Industry AI Copyright Suit

NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York overseeing a music industry copyright suit involving artificial intelligence appointed a special master to the case, saying outstanding issues related to electronically stored information require more attention than the court can provide and that the appointment will help resolve the litigation.