Topic: legal defense
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SerpAPI: Reddit Lawsuit Threatens the Open Web
SerpAPI is mounting a legal defense against Reddit's lawsuit, claiming it first learned of the issue through the suit and criticizing the complaint's inflammatory language. The company argues its data scraping is protected by the First Amendment and essential for innovation, providing structured ...
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Teen Bypassed ChatGPT Safeguards Before AI-Assisted Suicide
OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit alleging its ChatGPT provided harmful suicide-related advice to a teenager, bypassing safety features and raising accountability questions for AI companies. The company defends itself by stating the AI directed the user to seek help over 100 times and that he...
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Meta Defends AI Lawsuit, Claims Downloaded Porn Was 'Personal Use'
Meta is facing a lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, which alleges the company illegally downloaded adult films using corporate IP addresses and a hidden network to train an AI model called Movie Gen, seeking over $350 million in damages. Meta has moved to dismiss the case, calling the claims baseles...
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GoFundMe Hosts Legal Fund for ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good
A GoFundMe campaign raising legal defense funds for an ICE agent involved in a fatal shooting appears to violate the platform's policy, which prohibits fundraisers for individuals accused of violent crimes. GoFundMe is reviewing the fundraiser but has not removed it, citing that the agent has not...
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FBI Asset Ran Dark Web Site Selling Fentanyl for Years
Lin Rui-Siang, the 25-year-old operator of the dark web Incognito market, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for facilitating over $100 million in narcotics sales, including fentanyl-laced drugs that caused fatal overdoses. The defense revealed an FBI informant was deeply embedded in the marketp...
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Jon Prosser Paid $650 for iOS 26 Leak, Co-Defendant Claims
Apple alleges that leaker Jon Prosser paid $650 for a FaceTime demonstration of the unreleased iOS 26, though Ramacciotti claims the payment occurred after the call and was not pre-arranged. Ramacciotti admits accessing a development iPhone and demonstrating iOS features to Prosser but denies tra...
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Web Scraper Sues Google, Accuses It of Web Scraping
A legal dispute centers on whether Google's search results are copyrighted, with SerpApi arguing they are not, as Google aggregates public web data. SerpApi defends its web scraping by comparing it to Google's own practices, framing the lawsuit as an anti-competitive move to control data access. ...
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Luigi Mangione's Legal Battle: A Complete Timeline
Luigi Mangione is accused of murdering a healthcare CEO and faces multiple serious charges, including first-degree murder and stalking. The case has sparked a surprising cultural phenomenon, with Mangione gaining online notoriety as a folk hero amid debates on wealth and healthcare inequality. Fe...
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Google Takes on Defamation Fight Meta Abandoned
Google is defending against a defamation lawsuit from activist Robby Starbuck, who claims its AI systems falsely associated him with sexual assault and white nationalism. Starbuck previously settled a similar case with Meta, which involved him as an advisor to address AI bias, and no U.S. court h...
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Meta Claims AI Training Porn Was for "Personal Use"
Meta is contesting a copyright lawsuit from Strike 3 Holdings, seeking dismissal by arguing the claims of illegal downloading of adult content for AI training are speculative and lack concrete evidence, with potential damages over $350 million. The lawsuit alleges Meta used corporate and hidden I...
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Tesla Settles Autopilot Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Tesla has confidentially settled a wrongful death lawsuit related to a 2019 crash involving its Autopilot system, which was being used at the time of the incident. The lawsuit alleged that Autopilot contained defects contributing to the fatal collision, while Tesla maintains drivers must remain a...
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Apple Seeks Dismissal of Musk's OpenAI Lawsuit
Apple is seeking dismissal of Elon Musk's lawsuit, arguing the claims lack substance and fail to show genuine harm, describing them as unfounded speculation. Musk's companies allege Apple manipulated App Store algorithms to disadvantage competing chatbots like Grok and X, but Apple counters that ...
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Google Faces EU Probe Over Parasite SEO Crackdown
The European Commission is investigating Google under the Digital Markets Act for potentially unfair enforcement of site reputation abuse policies, which critics claim discriminates against news publishers by demoting sites with sponsored content. Google defends its policy as necessary to combat ...
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Google Sues SerpApi for Alleged Search Scraping
Google is suing SerpApi under the DMCA, alleging it circumvented Google's SearchGuard system to scrape search results and licensed copyrighted content like images and product listings. The lawsuit could disrupt SEO and marketing tools that rely on SerpApi's data, as Google seeks an injunction and...
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Apple's Lawsuit Advances as Jon Prosser Misses Deadline
A federal court in California granted Apple's motion to enter a default against tech commentator Jon Prosser for allegedly stealing and sharing trade secrets related to an unreleased iOS version for commercial gain. Apple's lawsuit claims Prosser conspired with Michael Ramacciotti, who accessed a...
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