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August 26, 2026
PHOENIX — A federal judge in Arizona formally reprimanded an attorney after finding artificial intelligence-generated errors in her opposition to a motion for $496,879.44 in attorney fees and three other filings, saying that even if unintentional, the mistakes showed negligence on the attorney’s part.
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August 26, 2026
MILFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut judge stripped a pro se plaintiff of the ability to electronically file documents in his case after finding artificial intelligence prompt injections in court filings, including at least one instance that was designed to influence how an AI reviewing the case would rule.
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August 26, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge partially dismissed claims brought against Otter.ai Inc. by individuals who argue that the company does not obtain prior consent of all participants in a virtual meeting before its Notetaker transcription function is engaged to record a conversation, ruling that the plaintiffs failed to sufficiently plead unauthorized computer access, and as to several plaintiffs, a reasonable expectation of privacy, but allowed claims predicated on real-time interception, third-party eavesdropping and collection of biometric voice data to proceed.
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August 26, 2026
SAN DIEGO — A California federal judge denied as moot OpenAI Global LLC’s motion to dismiss a class action complaint after a user of ChatGPT filed an amended complaint in which she alleges that OpenAI improperly disclosed ChatGPT users’ conversation information to third parties without obtaining user consent.
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August 25, 2026
FLINT, Mich. — A federal judge in Michigan vacated an order for an attorney to show cause why he should not be sanctioned under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)(2) & (c) for “apparently misrepresenting the holdings of various cases, possibly in reliance on AI-generated content,” finding that the attorney took the appropriate action to satisfy the show cause order in a coverage dispute arising from the death of a minor who was receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy at the insured’s facility.
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August 21, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Firms that represented publishers’ interests and authors involved in a $1.5 billion class action settlement between a large group of authors and Anthropic PBC in a copyright suit over texts used to train Anthropic’s artificial intelligence programs have filed two notices of appeal, challenging only a portion of the final judgment that relates to more than $100 million in attorney fees awarded to the class counsel.
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August 21, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — The United States filed a statement of interest in response to x.AI LLC’s lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s anti-nudification law, comparing and contrasting the state’s law with federal laws prohibiting the same type of computer-facilitated sexual harm. In a motion to dismiss the complaint, defendant Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says x.AI lacks third-party standing and that the law’s focus on child and revenge pornography is constitutional.
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August 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — The en banc Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals should review a panel ruling reversing an injunction barring an agentic agent from accessing password-protected areas of Amazon.com to ensure that a ruling applying the improper standard of review does not “occupy the field” in an area with little case law, the retailer tells the court in a petition for en banc review.
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August 20, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — It is the user of an artificial intelligence company’s shopping assistant who accesses Amazon.com and not the AI company or its shopping assistant, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in vacating an injunction preventing the company’s bots from accessing the retailer’s website while noting the limits of its holding.
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August 20, 2026
CHICAGO — Plaintiffs in a federal court in Illinois defended a motion to amend their complaint alleging that their insurer’s use of artificial intelligence subjected minorities to additional scrutiny, saying discovery produced additional data supporting the allegations.
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August 19, 2026
NEW YORK — An independent music artist’s attempts to use a motion for reconsideration of a ruling dismissing one of his claims as a means to amend allegations in his artificial intelligence copyright action and comes too late to save the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act or common law claims, a federal judge in New York said in denying the motion.
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August 18, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — An expert in large language model (LLM) training and use easily passes the low bar for admissibility, and his reliance on an LLM for testing is not a reason to exclude his opinion that an artificial intelligence model memorizes authors’ styles and works, a proposed copyright class tells a federal judge in California in opposing the expert’s exclusion.
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August 17, 2026
NEW YORK — OpenAI entities defending consolidated copyright actions told a federal judge in New York on Aug. 14 that the news plaintiffs have built a request for sanctions for alleged discovery violations on routine discovery practices in heavily litigated cases and a mischaracterization of events.
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August 14, 2026
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate court referred an attorney to the state bar after he admitted to submitting a petition containing artificial-intelligence-generated errors and chalked the mistakes up to the filing of the wrong version of the document.
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August 12, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Meta Platforms Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg must sit for a deposition in consolidated artificial intelligence copyright actions after a federal judge in California denied a motion to quash the apex deposition, according to an Aug. 11 docket entry.
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August 12, 2026
LAS VEGAS — An insurance company objects to a magistrate judge’s decision not to sanction counsel for nearly a dozen artificial intelligence-generated errors, and the defendants tell the federal court in the Nevada breach of contract case that their counsel withdrew the filings and took steps to ensure that the errors would not be repeated.
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August 11, 2026
LOS ANGELES — An anonymous music producer filed a complaint in California state court accusing rapper Kanye West, now known as “Ye,” two of his companies and 20 unknown Doe defendants of failing to pay the producer or provide a written contract for his AI music production services used on two albums commercially released by Ye, allegedly in violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL), as well as city and state laws protecting freelance workers.
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August 04, 2026
NEW YORK — Reddit Inc. adequately alleges that both it and its users’ content are entitled to copyright protections and that Perplexity AI Inc. and SerpApi LLC evaded technical measures designed to protect that content, a federal judge in New York said while dismissing state law unfair competition and unjust enrichment claims as preempted.
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August 04, 2026
WILMINGTON, Del. — Filmmaker Robert Starbuck moved to add three new claims to his suit just days after a Delaware judge found that Google LLC must face his defamation per se claim alleging that its artificial intelligence products told millions of people false information about him.
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August 03, 2026
CHICAGO — OpenAI entities’ admission in the days following a ChatGPT security incident shows that the program pursued its own goals and directly contradicts the companies’ contention that the program is merely a tool and lacks the necessary intent or knowledge, an insurer tells a federal judge in Illinois in a motion for leave to file a surreply in a case alleging unlicensed practice of law.
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July 31, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Plaintiffs may proceed anonymously in their proposed class action alleging that users of the Grok artificial intelligence platform created fake images of them either naked or in compromising positions, a federal judge in California said July 30.
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July 31, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — Artificial intelligence could facilitate the type of coordinated pricing and collusion resulting in reduced competition, and a proposed class plausibly alleges that casinos shared otherwise nonpublic information about hotel room pricing through such a program and acted in a way they likely would not have otherwise, a Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held in reversing dismissal of the putative class action.
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July 30, 2026
MINNEAPOLIS — Elon Musk’s x.AI LLC on July 29 asked a federal court in Minnesota to temporarily enjoin a recently passed state law banning the “nudification” of individuals that the company claims would hold platforms liable for all manner of conduct, even if the platform took good faith and state-of-the-art steps to prevent it.
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July 30, 2026
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Anthropic PBC must preserve more than 500 million individual Claude prompts and outputs, with half of the randomly selected records coming from before Jan. 28, and the other 250 million from between that date and March 24, as well as any records from that time frame containing certain terms relevant to the copyright battle over artificial intelligence song lyrics, a federal judge in California said.
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July 29, 2026
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A Florida appellate panel affirmed an attorney fee and costs award worth more than $65,000 in favor of an attorney who was sued by a seller in a failed real estate deal and ordered the pro se appellant to show cause why she should not be sanctioned by being barred from making further pro se filings after finding that her brief was filled with “nonsense” arguments and “legal double talk,” signs of what the panel said is the “growing problem” in Florida of pro se litigants using AI-generated briefs in appeals.