Mealey's Artificial Intelligence

  • February 14, 2025

    Insurer’s Dismissal Motion Partially Denied In Suit Alleging It Illegally Employs AI

    MINNEAPOLIS — A federal magistrate judge in Minnesota on Feb. 13 granted in part and denied in part an insurer’s motion to dismiss a class complaint alleging it illegally uses artificial intelligence (AI) to deny elderly insureds medically necessary care based on a model that the insurer knows “has a 90% error rate,” allowing breach of contract and breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing claims to proceed.

  • February 13, 2025

    Judge Upholds Limits On Depositions, Discovery In ChatGPT Copyright Case

    SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California denied a motion for relief from a pretrial order, turning away arguments that limits on depositions were improper in such a complex copyright infringement case and that OpenAI entities’ income was relevant evidence in the case.

  • February 12, 2025

    Federal Circuit Says AI Researcher Again Fails To Show Government Took Research

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has again upheld the dismissal of a pro se complainant’s claims against the U.S. government, rejecting arguments that the government inappropriately used his research into artificial intelligence and that a judge in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims committed judicial misconduct in overseeing the case.

  • February 12, 2025

    Thomson Reuters Largely Prevails On Summary Judgment In AI Copyright Case

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH’s headnotes surpass the low bar for originality, and sufficient evidence exists that a competitor actually or substantially copied thousands of them to train its artificial intelligence with the intent to compete in the same market, a federal judge in Delaware said Feb. 11 in largely granting summary judgment.

  • February 11, 2025

    AI ‘Hallucinated’ Fake Cites In Hoverboard Fire Motion, Plaintiffs Admit To Court

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Expressing embarrassment and saying they will reevaluate firm procedures, counsel for the plaintiffs told a federal judge in Wyoming on Feb. 10 that artificial intelligence did in fact author fake citations in a motion in limine seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony.

  • February 11, 2025

    AI ‘Hallucinated’ Fake Cites In Hoverboard Fire Motion, Plaintiffs Admit To Court

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Expressing embarrassment and saying they will reevaluate firm procedures, counsel for the plaintiffs told a federal judge in Wyoming on Feb. 10 that artificial intelligence did in fact author fake citations in a motion in limine seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony.

  • February 11, 2025

    AI Employment Discrimination Plaintiffs Seek Conditional Certification

    SAN FRANCISCO — Job seekers who claim they were discriminated against by an artificial intelligence hiring tool asked a federal judge in California to approve conditional certification of the collective action, saying the move will help protect prospective class members and ensure efficient resolution of the case.

  • February 10, 2025

    Student Says Yale Improperly Suspended Him For AI Use

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A student enrolled in Yale University’s School of Management says in a lawsuit filed in Connecticut federal court that the school failed him for a class and suspended him based on his use of artificial intelligence but did so through the use of AI-detection tools it knows are faulty and without ever actually concluding that AI was used.

  • February 07, 2025

    Family Dismisses Suit Challenging Punishment In Student AI-Cheating Case

    BOSTON — The parents of a student disciplined for using artificial intelligence in a project stipulated to dismissal with prejudice of the claims they filed in a federal court in Massachusetts against the school district and related individuals they accused of failing to inform students about how they could use the novel technology and imposing unduly harsh punishments.

  • February 07, 2025

    Amici Tell En Banc Court Nonparticipants Can Challenge Procurement Process

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Entities can be an interested party and have the ability to challenge government procurement decisions even when the entity isn’t directly involved in the process, a private company and nonprofit told the en banc Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in a case brought by an artificial intelligence image analyzing company.

  • February 05, 2025

    Attorney Disclaims AI Use, Says Citation Error Is Simple Mix Up

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — An attorney representing a woman in an age discrimination suit said he would never use artificial intelligence and that incorrect cites in briefing were the result of confusion arising from the handling of numerous cases and citations.

  • February 04, 2025

    Sen. Hawley Introduces Measure Banning Chinese AI Tech

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — Legislation introduced in the Senate by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., would ban Chinese artificial intelligence technology and subject the primary individual found to be importing or exporting Chinese AI to a fine of not more than $100 million and forfeiture of any federal monies while imposing a $1 million fine on any associate or other individual found to be doing so.

  • February 03, 2025

    COMMENTARY: Artificial Intelligence Experts Discuss Potential Changes In 2025

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  • February 03, 2025

    Judge: Microsoft Must Comply With Constitutional Notice Rule In AI Copyright Suit

    NEW YORK — A federal court rule governing notice for constitutional questions applies to Microsoft Corp.’s “as applied” challenge to New York’s trademark dilution statute in an artificial intelligence case, a federal judge in the state said in ordering Microsoft to comply with the rule.

  • February 03, 2025

    User Dismisses Class Suit Claiming LinkedIn Trained AI On Users’ Private Messages

    SAN FRANCISCO — Less than two weeks after filing a putative class action in California federal court accusing LinkedIn of violating federal law and California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by accessing its premium users’ private messages to train artificial intelligence models without their consent, the plaintiff, a premium user of LinkedIn’s professional networking and social media site, filed a notice of voluntary dismissal without prejudice.

  • February 03, 2025

    Hoverboard Fire Defendants: Motion In Limine’s Fake Cites Look Like ChatGPT’s Work

    CHEYENNE, Wyo. — ChatGPT appears to have authored eight incorrect legal citations in plaintiffs’ motion in limine seeking to exclude evidence and expert testimony, the defendants told a federal judge in Wyoming in opposition to the motion in a suit in which the plaintiffs say a hoverboard exploded and set fire to their home.

  • February 03, 2025

    Suit Over Investments Gone Bad Dismissed As Sanction For AI-Created Fake Cites

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A pro se plaintiff’s inclusion of fake cites in a brief opposing dismissal of his suit against former investment partners leads to the “firm conviction” that he used artificial intelligence (AI) to craft that brief regardless of his other explanations for the mistake, a federal judge in Florida said in dismissing the action as a sanction.

  • January 31, 2025

    Hotel Pricing Amici Warn Antitrust Law Must Keep Up With AI

    PHILADELPHIA —  Artificial intelligence will permit cartels to avoid antitrust laws by conspiring on prices without ever interacting unless courts focus on the impact the alleged conduct has on prices and not on a formulaic analysis based on human action, amici warned the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an appeal of the dismissal of a hotel price-setting case.

  • January 28, 2025

    Judge Issues Show Cause Order After Potential AI Citation Issue In Employment Case

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — After concluding that a plaintiff’s attorney may have used artificial intelligence (AI), a federal judge in the District of Columbia dismissed the employment case and ordered the attorney to explain how briefing included nonexistent citations, in a lawsuit that involves a woman who claims that mental health issues prevented her from properly prosecuting the case.

  • January 28, 2025

    Character.AI Defendants: Speech Concerns, Other Defects Doom Negligence Suit

    ORLANDO, Fla. — The company behind Character.AI and various related parties urged a federal judge in Florida to dismiss a suit claiming its artificial intelligence led to a teen’s suicide, saying free speech, product liability law and jurisdictional issues all doom the action.

  • January 24, 2025

    Magistrate Judge Suggests Citations Were AI Fakes, Sanctions Federal Defender

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A fake citation contains all the hallmarks of an artificial intelligence hallucination despite the attorney’s claim that he never used the technology, and his repeated failure to remedy the situation with the court suggests bad faith, a federal magistrate judge in California said in imposing a $1,500 sanction on an assistant federal defender in a felony child exploitation case.

  • 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.