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Private markets helped accelerate the artificial intelligence (AI) boom by pouring capital into generative AI companies such as OpenAI, xAI, Grammarly and Character.ai under the assumption that scale, speed and product adoption would be the dominant risks.  But that view is starting to shift.  A...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) filed a preliminary injunction aimed at stopping what they describe as air pollution from an xAI power plant. A preliminary injunction filed on May 6 alleges xAI is operating without the required Clean Air Act permits. It also...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration filed a lawsuit against Character.ai after its AI chatbot allegedly presented itself as a licensed psychiatrist in Pennsylvania. Character.ai is a large language model (LLM) that allows users to engage in conversations with customizable...

SpaceX is in the hot seat after around 80 South Texas residents filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, alleging that repeated sonic booms and shockwaves from Starship testing over the past two and a half years have damaged their homes. In the complaint, filed...

Software provider Cloudera is being sued by the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division for alleged intentional discrimination against U.S. workers in favor of those with temporary visas. The case was filed under the Immigration and Nationality Act and was lodged with the Office of the...

Families of victims involved in a mass shooting on Feb. 10 in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, sued Sam Altman and OpenAI in San Francisco federal court. The plaintiffs claim that OpenAI's chatbot, ChatGPT, failed to alert authorities to the mass shooting. The mother of one of the victims, a 12-...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is joining xAI's lawsuit against the state of Colorado, seeking to stop the state from enforcing a law that would impose significant operational demands on companies building AI products. The lawsuit names Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and asks the court...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei plans to visit the White House on Friday to meet with President Donald Trump's top adviser in an effort to resolve the company’s ongoing lawsuit with the Pentagon. Amodei is meeting with White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, Axios reported. Anthropic has been...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI of breaking federal air-pollution rules. The complaint aims to halt what the group says are unpermitted gas turbines that are sending harmful...

Elon Musk‘s xAI has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the state of Colorado from enforcing a law that sets compliance duties for certain artificial intelligence (AI) tools. The case adds to a widening fight over whether AI oversight should be handled state by state or through a federal standard...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is alleging that Florida-based venture capital firm Backswing Ventures and its CEO Kyle Asman misled investors in a private fund over a multi-year period. The case was filed in the Middle District of Florida and covers conduct the SEC says lasted from at...

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review how and when it can charge commissions on mobile purchases made through third-party payment systems in its ongoing legal battle with Epic Games. On April 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit granted Apple's motion to...

A class action lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California yesterday, alleging that Perplexity AI shared users’ personal information with Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META) and Alphabet Inc.’s (NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google, in violation of...

Fidelity Investments has reached a proposed $2.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit concerning an alleged data breach.  The settlement proposal received preliminary approval on Monday in the Massachusetts federal court. The lawsuit claims that more than 155,000 account holders had their...

Three Tennessee teenagers have filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging the company's AI chatbot, Grok, generated sexualized images of them without their consent, Reuters reported. The lawsuit, filed Monday in the Northern District of California, claims Grok was used...