Judges are increasingly using AI to draft rulings and prepare for hearings
AI use in court has made headlines for a stream of fabricated citations and other mistakes in filings that have embarrassed attorneys.
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Can ChatGPT practice law? OpenAI faces first-of-its-kind lawsuit in Illinois.
The suit challenges the relationship between clients and attorneys, attorneys and artificial intelligence, and artificial intelligence and the rule of law.
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Carmel tech firm sues IEDC, others over alleged IP theft
DynamoEdge’s core product uses 5G technology to analyze real-time data to anticipate problems before they occur.
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Indiana man sues Bondi, Noem over removal of ICE monitoring app from App Store
The lawsuit seeks a ruling that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem violated the First Amendment after they allegedly “strong-armed” Apple to remove an app developed by a company founded by a Brown County resident.
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Trump’s executive order on AI creating uncertainty for businesses
The order seeking to preempt state regulation of artificial intelligence has added another wrinkle as attorneys attempt to advise their clients on AI usage and how to mitigate risk, as more and more companies incorporate the technology into their business practices.
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Iran conflict raises cyberattack risk, experts say
International conflicts in the physical world can lead to a spike in cyberattacks — both on government entities and on private companies that don’t necessarily have any connection to the conflict itself.
That 1% incentive to encourage data center approvals? Final deal watered it down.
Private meetings between legislators and lobbyists for data center companies resulted in rewritten incentive provisions that were not reviewed in public and were inserted in the final bill.
Verdicts against Meta, YouTube reshape legal protections for Big Tech
There are thousands more cases waiting to be heard, with young internet users, parents, school districts and state attorneys general all seeking compensation and changes to how social media services operate.
Jury finds Instagram and YouTube liable in landmark social media addiction trial
The multimillion-dollar verdict will grow, as the jury decided the companies acted with malice, or highly egregious conduct, meaning they will hear new evidence shortly and head back into the deliberation room to decide on punitive damages.
Jury begins deliberations in landmark trial over children’s safety risks on Meta
Jurors heard closing arguments after six weeks of testimony from scores of witnesses that included local teachers, psychiatric experts, investigators, top Meta officials and whistleblowers.
Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to jury
The case, along with two others, has been selected as a bellwether trial, meaning its outcome could impact how thousands of similar lawsuits against social media companies are likely to play out.
Microsoft backs Anthropic, urging a judge to halt Pentagon’s actions
The Pentagon’s action “forces government contractors to comply with vague and ill-defined directions that have never before been publicly wielded against a U.S. company,” Microsoft’s legal brief says.
Family sues ChatGPT-maker OpenAI over school shooting in Canada
OpenAI has said it considered but didn’t alert police about the activities of the person who months later committed one of Canada’s worst school shootings on Feb. 10.
Anthropic sues Trump administration seeking to undo ‘supply chain risk’ designation
This is the first time the federal government is known to have used the designation — designed to prevent foreign adversaries from harming national security systems — against a U.S. company.
AI use by pro se litigants presents challenges for courts
AI’s presence in court filings seems to only be gaining traction. According to data from legal analyst Damien Charlotin, parties are increasingly using the technology to bolster their cases.
US military would only use Anthropic’s AI technology in legal ways, Pentagon says
Anthropic is the last of its peers to not supply its technology to a new U.S. military internal network.
Police are finding suspects based on their online searches as courts weigh privacy concerns
Unlike traditional search warrants that target a known suspect or location, keyword warrants work backward by identifying internet addresses where searches were made in a certain window of time for particular terms.
Supreme Court to use software to identify justices’ conflict of interests
Supreme Court justices are required to recuse themselves from cases in which they own stock in a party in the case.
Longtime NPR host spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it.
Now a Santa Clara County, California, court may be asked to determine whether the resemblance is uncanny enough that ordinary people hearing the voice would assume it’s his – and if so, what to do about it.
Indiana Supreme Court offers AI guidance for trial court judges
Hamilton County Circuit Court Judge Andrew R. Bloch said AI has amazing potential, but judges must have a knowledge base first to understand the technology’s capabilities.
Amazon scraps partnership with surveillance company after Super Bowl ad backlash
Ring and Flock said last year they were planning on working together to give Ring camera owners the option to share their video footage in response to law enforcement requests.
Google, Meta, push back on addiction claims in landmark social media trial
Jurors in a landmark social media case that seeks to hold tech companies responsible for harms to children got their first glimpse into what will be a lengthy trial characterized by dueling narratives from the plaintiffs and the two remaining defendants, Meta and YouTube.
Trump set off a surge of AI in the federal government. Here’s what happened.
On top of automating rote tasks, government agencies have launched hundreds of artificial intelligence projects in the past year, many of them taking on central and sensitive roles in law enforcement, immigration and health care.
Lawsuit claims WhatsApp has a gaping security hole. Experts doubt it.
The suit cited unidentified whistleblowers who the lawsuit claims have discovered that WhatsApp staff could send an electronic request to the company’s engineers asking for messages from a specific user ID.