Anthropic, the creator of Claude AI, was sued for $1.5 billion USD in July 2026 over the training of its AI model on illegally sourced content, and a U.S. judge approved the settlement. The lawsuit re…
JamesTDG, an independent software creator and digital artist, has contributed to over 20 articles on the Consumer Rights Wiki, documenting anti-consumer practices by companies including Disney, Ninten…
Alex Israel, writing in Forbes on April 4, 2026, describes the Recognition Economy as a bridge between the digital and physical worlds, arguing that consumers' expectation of personal identification i…
Humane Inc., the American consumer electronics company founded in 2018 by Imran Chaudhri and Bethany Bongiorno, saw its AI Pin wearable device rendered unusable on 28 February 2025, after HP announced…
German Minister of Interior Alexander Dobrindt of the Christian conservative CSU party proposed a sweeping intelligence reform that would allow agencies to hack systems, use and buy AI including forei…
A Wikipedia editor revised the Flock Safety surveillance article to add misuse cases in Milwaukee and Georgia, correct a misquoted student, change a Columbine Valley recording to ring footage, and cit…
MercadoLivre, the Latin American e-commerce company, has released an AI assistant, as shown in a file uploaded to Wikimedia Commons on August 13, 2026. The file, titled 'MercadoLivre's AI Assistent - …
Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company, offers an integrated ecosystem of hardware and software including solar-powered automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), AI-powered video cameras, acou…
Metropolis Technologies, an American artificial intelligence company founded by former ParkMe CEO Alexander Israel with co-founders Travis Kell, Peter Fisher, and Courtney Fukuda, uses computer vision…
New Orleans' Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) uses an AI agent from Carbyne to answer some 911 calls when all human call takers are busy and the caller is within about 200 meters of an alr…
Suno, an AI music generation company, will implement a Terms of Service change effective September 3, 2026, that restricts subscribers' downloads of generated content to 20 or 60 per month depending o…