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xAI Sues Grok User Over Nonconsensual Sexualized Deepfakes
xAI filed a civil lawsuit against a man for using its Grok AI to generate nonconsensual sexualized images of adults and children.
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AI
xAI Sues User Who Allegedly Used Grok to Generate CSAM
xAI is suing a South Carolina man already facing eight felony CSAM charges, claiming he bypassed Grok's safeguards to generate and distribute the material.
AI
Hacked Data Reveals Suno Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius
A hack exposed that Suno trained its AI music generator on millions of scraped songs and lyrics from YouTube Music, Deezer, and Genius.
AI
Publishers Sue Google Over Gemini Training Data
A coalition of book publishers and author Scott Turow allege Google used millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its Gemini AI.
Policy
Delaware Wants AI Agents to Sign Contracts and Get Sued
A proposed Delaware AI legal entity would let autonomous systems run companies and face lawsuits under their own name, inside a supervised sandbox.
Policy
Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft by Ex-Engineers
A bug in Apple's own systems let a former employee retain server access for weeks after termination, allegedly funneling confidential data to OpenAI.
Security
Ransomware Negotiator Who Worked for the Attackers Gets 70 Months
Angelo Martino, hired to help victims survive ransomware attacks, was secretly feeding BlackCat intelligence and helping infect clients.
AI
Apple's Trade Secret Suit Is Already Slowing OpenAI's Hardware Push
Apple's lawsuit over stolen trade secrets is reshaping OpenAI's hiring and supplier relationships before any judge has ruled anything.
AI
Apple's OpenAI Lawsuit Is Already Costing OpenAI Before Trial
Apple's trade-secret suit may take years to resolve, but the disruption to OpenAI's hardware ambitions and IPO timeline is happening now.
AI
NYT Accuses OpenAI of Hiding Evidence in Copyright Suit
News publishers say OpenAI concealed tools and datasets that could link ChatGPT outputs to copyrighted journalism, and are now seeking sanctions.
AI
AI Tools Are Leaking Client Secrets. Lawyers Need to Know How.
A new paper maps three ways generative AI exposes confidential data and argues the legal standard of care is shifting under lawyers' feet.
AI
Swiss Court Study Finds AI Guardrails Block Legitimate Legal Work
Researchers built a 5,200-prompt benchmark after finding that safety filters on court AI tools routinely refuse to summarize criminal case files.
AI
German Law Benchmark Puts 12 LLMs to the Legal Test
A new dataset of 1,127 German legal reasoning tasks finds closed flagship models at the top and AI co-authoring beating solo human work.
Policy
Sarah Wynn-Williams Sues Meta Over Silencing Efforts
The former Meta executive and Careless People author has flipped the legal dynamic, now suing the company that spent over a year trying to quiet her.
AI
The Lawyer Who Beat Meta in Court Used AI to Triple His Prep Speed
Mark Lanier won a $6 million social media addiction verdict against Meta and Google, and says AI compressed 30 hours of trial work into 10.
AI
Musk's OpenAI testimony wraps — and the fight is just heating up
Three days on the witness stand reveal internal emails and texts as Musk claims Altman betrayed OpenAI's founding mission.
AI
Women sue men who used Instagram feeds to create AI porn influencers
Four women claim their Instagram content was scraped to build AI-generated adult influencers without consent.
Policy
Meta threatens to pull apps from New Mexico over legal demands
The company says it may exit the state if a judge grants New Mexico's requests in an ongoing privacy case.
Policy
OpenAI Cites User Privacy to Block NYT's Chat Discovery Request
OpenAI is resisting a demand for 20 million ChatGPT conversations, framing a legal discovery fight as a user-protection effort.