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November 13, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT didn’t discourage a woman from attempting to poison her husband and instead assisted in devising a plan, including providing dosage instructions, means of hiding the poison and ways to conceal the scheme, the man claims in a complaint alleging violation of the California unfair competition law (UCL), negligence and other claims filed in the San Francisco County Superior Court against OpenAI Inc. and related entities.
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November 13, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Four nonprofit organizations on Nov. 12 filed a complaint in California state court against the largest U.S. AI companies seeking an immediate injunction forbidding them from developing and deploying “more capable AI systems,” writing that the companies have developed AI technology without adequate safeguards against the “catastrophic risk” of advanced AI in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL) and urging the court to apply state law to “protect the public.”
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November 11, 2026
MIAMI — A federal magistrate judge ordered a man being sued for defamation after allegedly claiming a hotel excluded him based on his religion to produce any responsive nonprivileged communications he had with artificial intelligence and to consent to AI providers providing logs detailing whether he deleted any chats. The man previously asked the magistrate judge for an emergency stay of discovery while he appeals the ruling requiring production of his communications with artificial intelligence.
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November 11, 2026
Four courts from across the country in both federal and state courts recently commented on the use of artificial intelligence as they confronted errors in court filings, with those courts imposing appellate sanctions, striking filings and warning that future violations will result in closer court scrutiny.
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November 10, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Allegations that Anthropic PBC’s Claude AI subscribers were misled into believing that they would receive more monthly usage than they received support Consumers Legal Remedies Act (CLRA), negligent misrepresentation and breach of contract claims, but the plaintiffs have not shown standing to pursue California unfair competition law (UCL) and false advertising claims, a federal magistrate judge in California said in dismissing some of the claims from the suit and granting leave to amend.
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November 10, 2026
CHICAGO — A consumer filed a putative class action against a robotics company in an Illinois state court, alleging that its sidewalk delivery robots violate the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) by scanning customers’ facial and hand geometry without notice or consent, retaining the data without a publicly available retention and destruction policy and sharing it with third parties, including OpenAI, to train artificial intelligence models.
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November 04, 2026
NEW YORK — Putative class action plaintiffs adequately allege that an artificial intelligence text-to-video company circumvented restrictions YouTube placed on content posted to its platform to obtain training data even though the material was publicly available, a federal judge in New York said in denying a motion to dismiss.
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November 03, 2026
OXFORD, Miss. — Holding that the NAACP has statutory standing under the Clean Air Act (CAA), that gas combustion turbines are not “mobile sources” under Mississippi’s State Implementation Plan (SIP) and that citizen suit provisions do not violate the U.S. Constitution, a federal judge denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit filed against xAI Corp. and an energy infrastructure affiliate over the construction and operation of dozens of turbines that power a Memphis, Tenn., data center.
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November 03, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The First Amendment’s technologically neutral rules should apply to generative artificial intelligence outputs, or millions may see their rights affected, two advocacy groups argue in an amicus brief filed in a Florida federal court product liability and failure-to-warn case.
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November 03, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Whether Cigna Corp.’s use of artificial intelligence to deny medical claims satisfies standards under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and California unfair competition law (UCL) involves common questions and answers, and the case deserves class status, two insureds tell a federal judge in seeking class certification.
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October 30, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — In an amended complaint, Amazon.com Services LLC continues to argue that accessing its website with unapproved software constitutes a violation, the very position the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals rejected, and a newly added state law claim does not save the case, Perplexity AI Inc. tells a federal judge in California in urging dismissal of the suit.
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November 02, 2026
TYLER, Texas — In a pair of rulings in a securities case involving promotion of fracking and COVID-19 virus products, a federal magistrate judge granted a motion for reconsideration, vacating a ruling after he was told he erroneously found that a party failed to respond to a motion to quash a third-party subpoena. Meanwhile, the judge in the case said that going forward all parties must certify whether they used artificial intelligence in drafting filings and that the court may ignore anything not generated by a human.
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October 29, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A Chinese immigrant and machine-learning engineer died after ChatGPT provided her with a schedule to reduce dosage of her doctor-prescribed anti-seizure medication, assuring her that the day-by-day schedule it created would absolutely help her avoid side effects she believed might jeopardize her ability to remain in the United States, parents say in a complaint alleging eight causes of action, including negligence and violation of the California unfair competition law.
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October 28, 2026
DALLAS — Confidential material about software design, development and implementation in a case alleging that electronic health care programs contributed to a father’s death may be entered into artificial intelligence systems only if the systems are contractually barred from using the data for training, a federal judge in Texas said in granting a protective order.
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October 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Employees of an airline filed a petition for writ of certiorari seeking high court review of the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling affirming a lower court’s dismissal of their suit alleging in part that their employer’s protocols related to the COVID-19 pandemic created a hostile work environment, asserting that the appellate court should have given “weight to the allegation that the refusal was religious.”
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October 28, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rejecting a challenge filed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to an arbitration award issued over the department’s implementation of a presidential memorandum that ordered federal employees to return to in-person work, the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) held that HHS failed to establish any valid grounds to overturn the award and flagged a litany of “fictitious, erroneous, or irrelevant” citations in its brief supporting its exceptions to the award that may have derived from the use of a generative artificial intelligence tool.
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October 27, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — A coalition of 31 states and the District of Columbia filed an objection to a Character Technologies Inc. motion seeking approval of the bidding process and Disney Worldwide Services Inc.’s status as a stalking horse in its bankruptcy, urging the court not to use the bidding process to bless the prepetition activities of the two companies and instead choose a process that gives third-party bidders a fair chance.
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October 27, 2026
CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A federal magistrate judge issued a report and recommendation advising that a court should dismiss a putative class action accusing horse racing betting companies and certain computer-assisted wagering (CAW) companies of participating in a scheme with a group of privileged bettors by using computer technology and algorithms based upon artificial intelligence to “rig” betting pools and divert money away from average bettors, saying in part that the suit should be dismissed for lack of standing.
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October 26, 2026
MCKINNEY, Texas — Texas on Oct. 23 became the latest state to sue OpenAI entities, claiming that the defendants portray their ChatGPT flagship product as safe, accurate and reliable despite the “incredible dangers” it poses.
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October 26, 2026
OXFORD, Miss. —The United States, on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, filed an intervenor complaint as a plaintiff on Oct. 23 in a lawsuit filed in a federal Mississippi court by the NAACP against xAI Corp. and an energy infrastructure affiliate over the construction and operation of dozens of gas combustion turbines that power a Memphis, Tenn., data center and asserted a cross-claim for a declaration that the Clean Air Act (CAA) authorizes the government to dismiss the citizen suit and that the suit cannot proceed over its objection.
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October 26, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals issued the mandate in an artificial intelligence hotel pricing case after declining to rehear a ruling in which a panel reversed a judge’s finding that a proposed class had not adequately alleged that the use of algorithmic pricing tools constituted a conspiracy to fix hotel prices.
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October 23, 2026
NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Oct. 22 vacated a preliminary injunction in a putative class lawsuit barring enforcement of a new Mississippi law, House Bill 1193, that prevents government-run schools and post-secondary institutions from requiring diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) activities and ordered that the case must be reassigned on remand to a different judge, calling the trial court proceedings “a botch job.”
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October 22, 2026
LOS ANGELES — A federal magistrate judge in California dismissed a copyright lawsuit after the digital creator behind the popular internet meme “Running Away Balloon” art and an artificial intelligence marketing company that allegedly infringed on the copyright by making the two-box comic available on its site resolved the case.
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October 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A negligence and failure-to-warn suit brought by British Columbia government entities over a mass shooting allegedly assisted by ChatGPT belongs in Canada, where questions of first impression involving Canadian law are best answered, where the event took place and where the evidence and witnesses regarding the shooter’s conduct and mental health treatment are located, OpenAI entities told a federal judge in California in seeking dismissal for forum non conveniens.
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October 21, 2026
JACKSON, Tenn. — A pro se plaintiff’s artificial intelligence-assisted motions to amend fail to correct the defects in his complaint, and because amendment would be futile, his civil rights action must be dismissed with prejudice, a federal judge in Tennessee said Oct. 20.