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October 07, 2026
PHOENIX — A video of shooting victim created using artificial intelligence doesn’t portray actual events, and the judge’s own statements show that the video likely impacted the sentencing process, an Arizona appellate panel held in upholding a manslaughter conviction but vacating the sentence and remanding for resentencing.
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October 07, 2026
CHICAGO — McDonald’s USA LLC feeds nonpublic data of its franchises into an artificial intelligence pricing tool, which may have led to one restaurant offering an $18 Big Mac meal, a man says in the latest putative antitrust class action challenging the use of such tools.
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September 24, 2026
By Tamerlin Godley, Rachel Gaines and Hannah Jacobs
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October 06, 2026
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — A woman’s claims stemming from a Florida State University (FSU) shooting allegedly assisted by ChatGPT target communication that cannot be the subject of product liability or is constitutionally protected, and Florida does not impose a duty to prevent the conduct of third parties, OpenAI entities tell a federal judge in a motion to dismiss.
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October 06, 2026
LOS ANGELES — Summary judgment in favor of Quizlet Inc. stands following a California federal judge’s conclusion that a nursing test preparation company did not meet the standard for reconsideration in an artificial intelligence-related copyright infringement lawsuit.
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October 06, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Relying heavily on the conclusions of a federal judge who remanded a case challenging Anthropic PBC’s alleged use of Reddit Inc. data to train its artificial intelligence despite instructions otherwise, a California judge largely denied a demurrer and said that California unfair competition law (UCL) and two other claims survived preemption and that Reddit could amend its complaint to cure defects in the unjust enrichment and trespass to chattels claims.
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October 06, 2026
PORTLAND, Ore. — The Oregon Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling and issued a $250 sanction to a pro se litigant for using artificial intelligence (AI) to cite three fabricated cases in his appellate brief.
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October 06, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A minor identified in court documents as Jane Doe called Elon Musk’s Grok “an artificial-intelligence monster” while asking the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation to transfer and consolidate cases alleging that the program generates child sexual abuse material.
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October 02, 2026
GREENSBORO, N.C. — RealPage Inc. and various landlord defendants must continue to face states’ antitrust claims related to the company’s artificial intelligence-powered rental software, after a federal judge in North Carolina found that a settlement with the United States did not moot the claims.
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October 02, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals became at least the second federal appellate court to address artificial intelligence copyright issues after unsealing an opinion finding that while the technology is new, traditional principles govern the case and that a legal research competitor’s use of copyrighted material was not fair use.
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October 02, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a California federal judge’s decision to dismiss coders’ claims that Microsoft Corp. and online code platform GitHub Inc. violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate new code; the panel determined that the generation of new code without attribution could not support a claim that the technology entities removed copyright management information (CMI).
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October 02, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed a New Jersey federal judge’s dismissal of a professor’s copyright infringement suit against the New Jersey Institute of Technology, finding that the alleged similarities between two machine-learning courses concerned unprotected ideas and that the potentially protected expression of these ideas differed too much for a reasonable fact finder to find substantial similarity.
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October 01, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted Microsoft Corp.’s motion to dismiss federal antitrust claims brought by ChatGPT Plus subscribers who allege that Microsoft entered an agreement with OpenAI to provide it computational processing power (compute) that allegedly increased prices and worsened quality in the Consumer Generative AI (CGAI) market, denied Microsoft’s motion to compel arbitration and declined to dismiss the plaintiffs’ state law claims including for violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).
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September 30, 2026
PHILADELPHIA — A Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 29 issued a judgment announcing a sealed opinion affirming summary judgment for legal publisher Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GMBH on claims that Ross Intelligence Inc. trained its artificial intelligence on copyrighted material.
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September 30, 2026
FORT MYERS, Fla. — A federal magistrate judge in Florida rejected a request for $215,401.60 in fees and instead ordered an attorney in a dispute between two medical marijuana companies to pay $6,720 in attorney fees spent responding to fictitious citations in his motion.
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September 30, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A legal advocacy group filed suit Sept. 29 in a California court under the state’s unfair competition law seeking to enjoin OpenAI entities’ artificial intelligence models from accessing computers, networks or systems without authorization in the wake of allegations that the company’s AI agents hacked third-party websites.
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September 29, 2026
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A majority of a divided District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel said petitions for review involving artificial intelligence raise “profoundly difficult questions” but ultimately determined that the government had ample reasons to conclude that continued integration of Anthropic PBC’s Claude AI product posed a national security and supply-chain risk.
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September 29, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — A ruling vacating an injunction prohibiting Perplexity AI Inc.’s agentic artificial intelligence from accessing Amazon.com Services LLC’s website will stand after the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals declined en banc rehearing.
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September 25, 2026
BANGOR, Maine — A motion for leave to file an oversize motion for a new trial clearly came from artificial intelligence and lacks the precision that a human lawyer must ensure court filings contain, a federal judge in Maine said.
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September 24, 2026
BOISE, Idaho — The Idaho Supreme Court warned that litigants’ reliance on artificial intelligence is “fraught with potential peril” while ultimately declining to impose any sanction on a pro se litigant and affirming a $1,176,000 defamation judgment.
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September 22, 2026
OXFORD, Miss. — The United States is appealing to the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals a Mississippi federal judge’s “constructive denial” of an amended motion to intervene as of right as a plaintiff and dismiss a federal lawsuit filed by the NAACP against xAI Corp. and an energy infrastructure affiliate alleging Clean Air Act (CAA) violations involving the state’s federally approved implementation plan over construction and operation of dozens of gas combustion turbines that power a Memphis, Tenn., data center.
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September 22, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Two Canadian entities sued various OpenAI entities on Sept. 21, accusing them of negligence and strict products liability, claiming that a single phone call by the defendants to officials could have prevented a February shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School.
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September 22, 2026
SAN FRANCISCO — Four companies at the frontier of large language model development should not be able to agree to slow the development of artificial intelligence simply because the products are new, a proposed class alleges in a suit filed in California federal court.
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September 16, 2026
BURLINGTON, Vt. — A federal judge in Vermont barred the state from continuing an investigation into what appears to be an artificial intelligence-created video of a man dumping a politician into a dumpster, saying the “ridiculous nature” of the video means it likely falls under an exception to a recently enacted law on synthetic media and the investigation would violate speech rights.
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September 15, 2026
CHICAGO — Google LLC must face a limited public figure’s claim that the company’s AI Overviews reported that he was serving a life sentence for the murder of three women, a federal judge in Illinois said Sept. 14 in partially denying a motion to dismiss, rejecting the artificial intelligence (AI) company’s arguments that the defamation case failed because the statements contained disclaimers, expressed uncertainty, cited sources and could not be taken as a statement of fact.