Separating AI hype from reality.
Nvidia's board accepted founder-CEO Jensen Huang's resignation Wednesday, ending his 33-year reign after he admitted to an affair with a woman U.S. intelligence officials deemed to be a Chinese spy and a second alleged affair with a subordinate emerged. Chief Financial Officer…
A group of Effingham County residents has filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against OpenAI, its affiliates, and local government officials, alleging a coordinated scheme to push through a $20 billion data center project behind closed doors. The 44-page complaint, filed November…
A group of Effingham County residents has filed a state racketeering and conspiracy lawsuit against OpenAI, local government officials, and development authorities, alleging a coordinated effort to push through a massive data center project behind closed doors. The complaint,…
A Charlotte man has filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot actively assisted his wife in planning to poison him, adding to a series of recent safety lawsuits against the AI firm.
The last time Senate Republicans tried to write a 10-year moratorium on state AI regulations into a budget bill, the chamber voted 99–1 to strip it out. That was July 1, 2025. Sixteen months later, after a midterm election that flipped both chambers to Democratic control, the…
Elvis Presley Enterprises filed a federal lawsuit against AI music startup Suno on Friday, alleging the company trained its models on copyrighted Elvis recordings without permission, stripped copyright metadata from the tracks, and violated Tennessee's ELVIS Act by cloning the…
Eight Mile Style, the Ferndale, Michigan publisher that administers nearly 270 Eminem compositions, filed a federal lawsuit on November 6 against AI music generator Suno, seeking more than $41 million in damages. The 36-page complaint (the filed document; press reports described…
A lawsuit filed this week in Santa Clara County Superior Court claims Google's Gemini artificial intelligence tools, integrated into its search platform and accessible on school-issued Chromebooks, contributed to a 13-year-old girl's suicide plan without alerting her parents or…
A federal class action filed in September alleges that Baidu misled investors about the ability of its AI business to offset a shrinking legacy advertising operation, marking a closely watched test of whether AI-related hype can cross into securities fraud.
Meta has indefinitely suspended proposed changes to its commercial terms that would have expanded its ability to crawl and use content from websites linked to business accounts on its platforms. The pause, confirmed November 5, leaves the updates on hold without a new…
A derivative lawsuit filed October 30 in Chicago federal court accuses Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and ten other directors and executives of directing Google to train its Lyria music generation models on copyrighted recordings,…
The New York Times and three newspapers owned by Alden Global Capital filed federal lawsuits on Monday accusing Brave Software of systematically scraping their copyrighted content, selling it to AI companies, and letting users bypass paywalls through its browser.
Google's plan for a 780-megawatt data center in Pine Island, Minnesota, has become a flashpoint in the national debate over AI infrastructure. The project, called Project Skyway, comes with a renewable energy package that Google and utility Xcel Energy say will benefit the…
A federal judge in Mississippi has denied xAI's motion to dismiss a Clean Air Act lawsuit brought by the NAACP, allowing the case to move forward to discovery and trial. The ruling, issued Friday by U.S. District Judge Debra M. Brown in the Northern District of Mississippi,…
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) sent a formal letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding detailed answers about how the company's AI-enabled Ray-Ban smart glasses are being used to capture and process intimate imagery without consent. The letter,…
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority has launched a formal investigation into whether Meta's proposed new commercial terms for publishers and advertisers amount to an abuse of a dominant position, the regulator announced on Friday.
The US Department of Justice has opened a new line of questioning around Nvidia’s proposed $12.93 billion purchase of Hugging Face, an open‑source AI platform, according to two people familiar with the matter. The inquiries run in parallel with a years‑long conduct investigation…
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against OpenAI and chief executive Sam Altman on October 27 in San Francisco Superior Court. The complaint, filed as an add-on to the coordinated ChatGPT Product…
A subsidiary of Authentic Brands Group, which controls much of Elvis Presley's intellectual property, filed a federal lawsuit Friday alongside other companies, trusts and individuals who own rights to his music. The suit accuses AI developer Anthropic of training its Claude…
A draft IPO prospectus reviewed by the Wall Street Journal and Reuters shows Anthropic posting third-quarter revenue of $16.8 billion, up 45% from the previous quarter. First-half 2026 revenue was $16.3 billion, roughly 15 times the $1.1 billion recorded in the first half of…