Tim Cook, Apple Inc.'s chief executive officer, was sued in a copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit before his retirement at the end of August, marking the fifth such suit in the United States. The…
Textbook author Michael Sullivan and other authors have filed a copyright lawsuit against OpenAI in the Southern District of New York, bringing the total number of copyright cases against the company …
Anthropic rolled out invisible watermarking in Claude-generated text and file outputs from August 2, 2026, to comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-Generated…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the release of Muse Glimmer as an open-weight model, with Muse Spark 1.2 to follow, signaling a return to open-weight AI models after a period of closed models. The …
A new U.S. map shows 131 copyright lawsuits against AI companies, with two new cases added: Berliner v. Huang in the C.D. California against NVIDIA officers and board members, and EVOX Productions v. …
ChatGPT Is Eating the World launched two new case trackers on [date not specified]: the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) AI Case Tracker and the Web Scraping & AI Agents Case Tracker,…
Judge Stein of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York denied motions by The New York Times and Daily News to add new contributory infringement claims against Microsoft in the In…
UMG Recordings has asked a court to dismiss the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada's complaint, arguing that the musicians' claims for compensation from AI company settle…
H.M. Wolfe's novel 'Daggermouth' debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list after The Atlantic's Will Oremus reported accusations from Prof. Tuhin Chakrabarty's study that the book was par…
Anthropic, the AI company founded by Dario Amodei, filed a motion to dismiss Concord Music II's output infringement claim and DMCA CMI claim, arguing that the claims are legally insufficient. The moti…
The Ninth Circuit reversed a preliminary injunction against Perplexity AI, ruling that its agentic Assistant does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act because users, not Perplexity, access Ama…
Judge Pitts has set a consolidated briefing schedule in Cambronne v. Anthropic and related cases, according to an order downloaded from the court. The order, issued by Judge Pitts, coordinates the bri…
The Guardian reports that agents for debut author Jerry Falade withdrew his manuscript "Call Me, I'll Hide the Body" from Minotaur, an imprint of Macmillan US, over concerns about possible AI use. The…
The Atlantic's Will Oremus published an article suggesting that H.M. Wolfe's novel 'Daggermouth' may be partly AI-generated, based on a pre-print study by Professor Tuhin Chakrabarty that used the AI …
NVIDIA Corporation and its officers, including CEO Jensen Huang, were sued in a shareholder derivative lawsuit alleging they approved copyright infringement in AI training, exposing the company to sub…
The Munich Regional Court ruled that U.S. AI music company Suno committed copyright infringement under German law and, in an unprecedented extraterritorial ruling, determined that Suno's AI training i…
Leopold Aschenbrenner, the 24-year-old founder of hedge fund Situational Awareness and former OpenAI employee, sold all of the fund's public stock to Citadel after facing margin calls amid a market co…
EVOX Productions, a creator of car images, filed its fourth copyright lawsuit against AI training use, this time targeting Midjourney over unauthorized use of images in the LAION dataset. The suit, fi…
Judge Lee ordered Anthropic defendant Benjamin Mann to file his answer to the Concord Music II complaint by August 17, 2026, granting a two-week extension after the parties disputed the deadline. Mann…
A new U.S. map of copyright lawsuits against AI companies shows 129 total cases as of July 30, 2026, with the addition of Sony Music Entertainment v. Uncharted Labs II and the reactivation of Brave So…