( July 29, 2026, 8:16 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted a veteran radio journalist’s motion to send his suit against Google LLC and its parent back to state court; the judge agreed with the journalist’s argument that his suit that claims that one of Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) products mimicked the cadence of his voice focused on the use of his likeness, not the copying of copyrighted materialm and was thus not preempted by the Copyright Act....