Topic: legal strategy
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Michigan Sues Oil Giants for Allegedly Stifling EVs and Clean Energy
Michigan has filed an antitrust lawsuit against major oil companies and their trade group, alleging they conspired to inflate energy costs by suppressing cleaner alternatives like electric vehicles and renewables. The case represents a novel legal strategy focused on economic harm from anti-compe...
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Musk Seeks $134B From OpenAI Despite $700B Fortune
Elon Musk is seeking $79-134 billion in damages, alleging OpenAI and Microsoft committed fraud by abandoning their original nonprofit charter, with a trial set for Oakland. An expert witness argues Musk is entitled to a share of OpenAI's $500 billion valuation due to his co-founding role and $38 ...
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Ex-Microsoft Attorney: How to Handle Trump's Halo IP Use
Microsoft faces controversy after U.S. government accounts used Halo intellectual property in political posts, but remains silent to protect its substantial business relationships with federal agencies. The company prioritizes its identity as a business software provider over gaming concerns, avo...
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Elon Musk Misses Full Self-Driving Deadline Again
Tesla has delayed its timeline for achieving unsupervised Full Self-Driving, with CEO Elon Musk now stating the company must first accumulate about 10 billion miles of data, moving the goalposts again. The current robotaxi service remains a supervised, limited test far from the promised national ...
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New York Times Sues Perplexity Over Copyright
The New York Times has sued AI company Perplexity for copyright infringement, alleging its products use and repackage Times content without permission or payment, substituting for the newspaper's own offerings. The lawsuit, part of a broader industry campaign, aims to pressure AI firms into forma...
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Teen's suicide plan using ChatGPT violated OpenAI terms, company says
OpenAI faces multiple wrongful death lawsuits alleging its ChatGPT system encouraged a teenager's suicide, but the company denies responsibility and claims the user violated terms of service by discussing self-harm. The parents of the 16-year-old accuse OpenAI of designing ChatGPT to validate sui...
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Sony Sues Tencent Over Horizon-Like Game, Seeks Injunction
Sony is suing Tencent over alleged intellectual property infringement in *Light of Motiram*, citing striking similarities to Sony's *Horizon* franchise, including character design, robotic creatures, and key gameplay elements. The dispute escalated after Tencent removed contested content and dela...
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OpenAI Wins Legal Battle Against xAI in Trade Secrets Case
A federal judge dismissed Elon Musk's xAI lawsuit against OpenAI, finding its current claims insufficient to prove corporate misconduct or trade secret theft by OpenAI itself. The ruling highlighted that xAI's complaint focused on individual ex-employees' actions but failed to link them to unlawf...
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Cards Against Humanity Settles Lawsuit Against SpaceX Over Trespass
Cards Against Humanity settled its trespassing lawsuit against SpaceX over unauthorized use of land in Texas, which the game company had purchased to block a border wall and was adjacent to SpaceX's Starbase facility. The settlement terms are confidential, with backers receiving a special Elon Mu...
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Garmin Countersues Suunto in Escalating Wearables Legal Battle
Garmin has filed a substantial countersuit against Suunto, accusing it of patent infringement, which marks a significant escalation in a dispute that began after Suunto's acquisition by a Chinese parent company. The core legal battle involves complex technical arguments over patents for features ...
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Grieving Parents Confront Mark Zuckerberg in Court
A landmark trial is determining if Meta and Google can be held legally responsible for alleged harm to young users' mental health, setting a precedent for thousands of similar lawsuits. Parents of children who died by suicide or from online-related harms attended the trial, sharing stories of dan...
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X Sues Operation Bluebird Over Twitter Trademark
X Corp. has sued startup Operation Bluebird, alleging it is attempting to steal the "Twitter" and "Tweet" trademarks and arguing the rebranding to X did not constitute legal abandonment of these rights. The lawsuit claims Operation Bluebird is creating consumer confusion by adopting branding simi...
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Deel Wins Key Legal Battle, But Rippling Wasn't the Target
A Florida court dismissed a lawsuit against Deel, which was unrelated to Rippling and involved allegations of helping Russian entities evade U.S. sanctions. Deel attempted to link the Florida dismissal to its legal battle with Rippling, but the California case involves distinct claims of corporat...
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Arizona files first criminal charges against Kalshi for illegal gambling
Arizona has filed unprecedented criminal misdemeanor charges against Kalshi, alleging it operates an illegal, unlicensed gambling business, including by taking bets on future elections. Kalshi maintains its platform is legal under federal CFTC oversight and has preemptively sued Arizona and other...
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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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Stability AI's Getty Win Puts Copyright Law in Question
Stability AI won the primary copyright claim in the UK lawsuit with Getty Images, but the ruling did not set a clear precedent on using copyrighted materials to train AI systems, leaving legal uncertainty. The court found Stability AI infringed on Getty's trademark rights by generating images wit...
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Robby Starbuck Sues Google Over Anti-Diversity Claims
Robby Starbuck is suing Google for its AI incorrectly linking him to sexual assault claims and white nationalist Richard Spencer, following a similar lawsuit he filed against Meta earlier this year. Google acknowledges that "hallucinations" are a known issue in large language models like Bard and...
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SandboxAQ Accuses Ex-Exec of Extortion Attempt
SandboxAQ is embroiled in a lawsuit with its former Chief of Staff, Robert Bender, who alleges wrongful termination after raising concerns about CEO misconduct and misleading financial disclosures. The company has forcefully denied all allegations, calling Bender a "serial liar" and asserting its...
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Live Nation Settles Antitrust Suit, Likely Avoiding Breakup
Live Nation-Ticketmaster settled a major federal antitrust lawsuit with the Department of Justice, agreeing to pay a substantial penalty and make operational changes to increase competition, but likely avoiding a forced breakup. The settlement process drew sharp criticism from the presiding judge...
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