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June 05, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Linguistic gymnastics” by an artificial intelligence-based legal research firm cannot transform its illegal copying and resulting distribution of case law data into contractually permissible internal use of the data, Fastcase Inc. and related parties told a federal judge in the District of Columbia in a motion for partial summary judgment.
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June 04, 2026
FORT WORTH, Texas — Because there is reason to believe that Elon Musk conducted X Corp. or x.AI LLC business through email at his other businesses, those accounts are subject to a motion to compel discovery in the antitrust suit against Apple Inc. and OpenAI entities, a federal judge in Texas said in overruling objections to a magistrate judge’s ruling.
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June 03, 2026
FORT WORTH, Texas — Two Elon Musk companies that have sued Apple Inc. and OpenAI for colluding to limit the market for artificial intelligence chatbots told a federal court in Texas that Musk is not a party to the suit and that there were no grounds to order him to produce emails associated with other companies he owns.
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June 02, 2026
As states, the U.S. government and courts grapple with what the rules should be for artificial intelligence, few areas are moving faster — or with more uncertainty — than AI governance. State legislatures are advancing their own varied approaches, the U.S. government continues to weigh federal action and businesses try to understand what it all means for them.
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June 02, 2026
SEBRING, Fla. — The state of Florida sued various OpenAI entities on June 1, opening its complaint with a screenshot from ChatGPT.com declaring that it was “built with safety in mind” but contending that the representation is not accurate.
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June 01, 2026
Over the last month, authors and other rights holders filed five federal lawsuits targeting artificial intelligence companies. In one of the most recent actions, Cable News Network Inc. (CNN) sued Perplexity AI Inc. claiming that the company’s bot unlawfully scrapes news stories and that its “answer engine” then outputs repackaged but nearly verbatim versions of original, copyrighted works.
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June 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Authors who opted out of a previous class action settlement that Anthropic PBC reached with authors over its use of their works to train its Claude large language model sued the company in a California federal court, alleging direct and contributory copyright violations and removal of copyright management information.
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June 01, 2026
ATLANTA — A divided Georgia Supreme Court imposed a six-month ban on an assistant district attorney’s ability to practice before it and admonished the Clayton County district attorney after artificial intelligence-generated fake citations in a brief opposing a new trial motion in a murder case also ended up in an order and the error repeated in briefing on appeal.
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May 29, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Companies that operate an artificial intelligence (AI) image and video generating service must face a suit alleging copyright infringement brought jointly by Disney Enterprises Inc., Universal City Studios Productions LLP and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. after a California federal judge rejected arguments that the film entities failed to state a claim.
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May 27, 2026
PHOENIX — A man sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for murder told an Arizona appeals court that the trial court erred in allowing an artificial intelligence-generated video of the victim to be played during the sentencing hearing. But in response, the state and the crime victims argued that the video was clearly credited as the work of the man’s sister and is no different than any other video shown at such proceedings.
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May 26, 2026
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A federal judge in Alabama removed an attorney from a case and barred him from practicing in the district, among other sanctions, after finding that he not only misused artificial intelligence but also destroyed evidence of that use as part of efforts to evade court inquiry.
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May 22, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — The special master involved in the federal multidistrict asbestos-talc ovarian cancer litigation said she would allow supplemental briefing on a trio of plaintiff-side specific causation experts after Johnson & Johnson entities complained about mid-hearing changes to opinions that altered the scope of the litigation. Among the complaints were that one of the experts used artificial intelligence on the stand, which required the special master to admonish the witness.
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May 22, 2026
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature and governor on May 21 took steps to track and analyze artificial intelligence’s impact on the labor force and ensure that the state has measures in place to manage that impact and assist workers in dealing with it.
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May 21, 2026
TRENTON, N.J. — Johnson & Johnson entities asked for supplemental briefing on specific causation experts after claiming that various problems arose during a hearing, including the experts changing opinions about talc’s role in ovarian cancer midhearing and an expert using artificial intelligence to respond to questioning. But in a motion to strike that filing, the plaintiffs told a federal judge in New Jersey that there are no grounds for supplemental briefing and that the judge clearly believes she has enough evidence to rule on the admissibility of the experts.
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May 19, 2026
NEW YORK — Artificial intelligence company Groq Inc. and health care app company Groq Health Inc. told a federal judge in New York that they resolved their long-running trademark dispute.
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May 19, 2026
CHICAGO — ChatGPT is a tool that predicts likely outputs, not a person, and cannot practice law, encourage conduct or have the requisite knowledge required to tortiously interfere with contracts, OpenAI entities tell a federal judge in Illinois in moving to dismiss breach of contract and unlicensed practice of law claims stemming from an insurer’s battle with a pro se plaintiff over a settlement.
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May 18, 2026
JACKSON, Miss. — An attorney in a veteran’s First Amendment case took responsibility for errors in a brief and pointed to steps he has taken to prevent future mistakes, saying in a May 15 declaration in response to an order to show cause that incorrect citations were likely the result of switching between legal research tools, tight deadlines and simple error and not the use of artificial intelligence.
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May 18, 2026
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Plaintiffs asked the federal court in Tennessee overseeing the algorithmic pricing multidistrict litigation for preliminary approval of an additional 11 settlements involving 14 defendants and $218,125,000.
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May 18, 2026
CHICAGO — The Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on May 15 affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of a suit against Meta Platforms Inc. and multiple parties filed by a man who said he was defamed by posts made about him in the Are We Dating the Same Guy? Facebook group, finding in part that the claim for violation of the Illinois Right of Publicity Act (IRPA) fails because the man did not allege that his likeness was used for a commercial purpose.
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May 18, 2026
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A Pennsylvania federal judge granted a photographer’s motion for summary judgment on claims that a dog-breeding entity infringed a photo of a dog standing on a scale by using it without permission on the breeder’s website, rejecting the breeder’s affirmative defense of fair use.
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May 15, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT advised a 19-year-old college student to take a combination of drugs that ultimately led to his accidental overdose death, his parents allege in a California lawsuit alleging strict liability, negligence, practice of medicine without a license and violation of the California unfair competition law (UCL).
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May 15, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — The dynamic outputs created by artificial intelligence chatbots are not suitable targets for products liability actions, and a father has not alleged any basis for his California unfair competition law (UCL) claims, Google LLC and Alphabet Inc. argue in a May 15 motion seeking to dismiss a suit attempting to hold them liable for his son’s suicide.
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May 15, 2026
DENVER — The Colorado House of Representatives began consideration of a measure that would repeal and reenact parts of an artificial intelligence law creating consumer protections for automated decision-making systems that the state enacted just two years ago.
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May 12, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Phoenix Ikner’s extensive conversations with ChatGPT would have tipped off any reasonable person to the fact that he was planning a mass school shooting, but OpenAI entities either ignored the warning signs or never implemented the measures needed to recognize them, a widow claims in the latest lawsuit tying OpenAI entities to a shooting.
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May 08, 2026
OAKLAND, Calif. — Authors in an artificial intelligence copyright case may proceed with their contributory infringement claim but not their vicarious infringement claim, a federal judge in California said in citing a March 25 U.S. Supreme Court ruling while partially denying a motion to dismiss filed by Nvidia Corp.