Litigation, intellectual property, liability, and case law.
October 13, 20262 min read
Character.ai has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after agreeing to a $20 million intellectual-property licensing deal with Disney. The chatbot platform will continue operating during a court-supervised sale process, but could close if no viable bid emerges.
By AI News Daily · Source: Los Angeles Times
October 9, 20262 min read
Starting January 1, 2027, California employers must add technology-displacement details to covered WARN notices when AI or automation substantially causes workforce reductions. Disclosures must identify affected positions, locations, automated job functions and the type of technology responsible.
By AI News Daily · Source: Morgan Lewis
October 9, 20262 min read
California enacted three laws governing automated discipline and termination, technology-driven layoffs and AI-enabled workplace surveillance. The measures begin taking effect in January 2027, with the No Robo Bosses Act becoming operative in July.
By AI News Daily · Source: Morgan Lewis
October 9, 20262 min readLitigation · Copyright & IP
USA Today Co and several of its newspapers sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court, alleging copyrighted journalism was used to train large language models. The claims have not been adjudicated.
By AI News Daily · Source: mezha.net
October 9, 20262 min readCopyright & IP
A report headline names OpenAI and Anthropic in an Australian music-industry copyright backlash, but the supplied excerpt concerns an unrelated case. The specific allegations and company responses remain unverified.
By AI News Daily · Source: Law Commentary
September 12, 20263 min readLitigation
The Ninth Circuit vacated a preliminary injunction against Perplexity’s Comet browser agent, finding that the user—not Perplexity—accessed Amazon’s computers on the current record. The ruling is the first federal appellate decision to examine computer-access laws in the context of agentic AI.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI liability ruling
September 3, 20262 min readLitigation
A lawsuit alleges that an AI company wrongly treated data trainers as independent contractors instead of employees. The dispute adds to scrutiny of labor practices surrounding the human work used to develop AI systems.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI litigation
September 3, 20263 min read
Nvidia is acquiring Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, taking control of a major repository for open and open-weight AI models. The deal also highlights licensing, intellectual property and European technology-funding questions surrounding the platform.
By AI News Daily · Source: Generative AI intellectual property
August 30, 20263 min readLitigation · Privacy & Data
ChatGPT conversations have appeared in at least a dozen US civil and criminal cases, showing that candid exchanges with AI systems can be subpoenaed, recovered from devices and placed in court records. The logs generally lack the professional privileges associated with communications involving lawyers or licensed therapists.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI litigation
August 17, 20263 min readCopyright & IP · Litigation
Round Hill Music has sued Suno and Anthropic, alleging that they used more than 500 copyrighted songs without permission to train AI systems. The publisher says an expansion of the cases to thousands of works could push potential damages above $1 billion.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI copyright lawsuit
August 7, 20263 min read
Suno plans to add tamper-resistant audio watermarks, fingerprinting, copyright detection and limits on mass downloads from its AI music platform. The measures arrive as the company faces lawsuits and wider scrutiny over training data, voice imitation and generated music distribution.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI copyright lawsuit
August 2, 20263 min readLitigation · Privacy & Data
A federal judge denied xAI’s last-minute request to block Minnesota’s law targeting AI nudification services, allowing the measure to take effect August 1. The ruling addressed xAI’s delay in seeking emergency relief, not the ultimate constitutionality of the law.
By AI News Daily · Source: AI liability ruling