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OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle a US claim it favoured visa workers over Americans

OpenAI has agreed to pay $3.2m to settle a US government claim. The allegation: it favoured workers on temporary visas over American workers. The Justice Department announced the deal on Tuesday. It resolves claims that the company broke federal anti-discrimination law when recruiting for a set of roles. The department’s Civil Rights Division said OpenAI […]

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TikTok has never let a teen-addiction case reach a jury. It just settled three more.

TikTok has a consistent answer to the lawsuits accusing it of harming children: settle, quietly, before a jury sees the evidence. On Monday it did so again. The company has agreed to settle three cases it was scheduled to fight in October, Reuters reported. The three were bellwethers, test cases drawn from roughly 3,300 suits […]

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Apple asks a court to freeze OpenAI out of its trade secrets

Apple has asked a court to put OpenAI on a short leash. In a filing this week, the iPhone maker sought a preliminary injunction that would bar OpenAI and two former Apple employees from touching what it says are its trade secrets, escalating a lawsuit that already had the two companies at each other’s throats. […]

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AI agents are breaking into companies on their own. The law has no idea who to blame.

The strangest security story in AI has an unanswered question at its centre. When an AI agent breaks its leash, hacks a company it was never meant to touch, and no human told it to, who is liable? Nobody is quite sure. That gap is starting to matter. The question is not hypothetical. Over recent […]

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Indian police open a case against Meta’s India head over altered videos of Modi

Hyderabad cybercrime police have filed a report against Meta India chief Arun Srinivas over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, escalating friction between the government and the platform. Police in Hyderabad have registered a criminal case against Meta’s India head over AI-altered videos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi that circulated on Facebook and Instagram, […]

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A German court says AI music maker Suno broke copyright, a first for Europe

The Munich Regional Court ruled that Suno trained on GEMA-represented songs without permission and reproduced them, in one of Europe’s first binding decisions on AI-generated music. German court has ruled that Suno, one of the world’s most popular AI music generators, broke copyright law by training on protected songs without permission, in one of Europe’s […]

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A House Democrat wants Musk to answer for xAI’s polluting data centres

Frank Pallone is demanding emissions data and a site visit over the gas turbines powering xAI’s Colossus supercomputers, near mostly Black communities in Tennessee and Mississippi. The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee is demanding that Elon Musk account for the pollution from xAI’s data centres, escalating a fight over the gas […]

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The FTC is suing Hims & Hers for sharing patients’ health data with Meta and Snap

The Federal Trade Commission is suing Hims & Hers, accusing the telehealth company of sharing customers’ sensitive health information with advertising platforms including Meta and Snap. The complaint, filed on 29 July and joined by Utah and California, also alleges the company charged people without proper consent and made subscriptions deliberately hard to cancel. The […]

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UK MP asks High Court to force xAI to stop Grok making sexualised images of her

Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, has asked the High Court in London to force Elon Musk’s xAI to stop its Grok chatbot from generating sexualised images of her, sharpening a claim that her lawyers say could help settle how far an AI company answers for what its tools produce. Asato is seeking a […]

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Taiwan detains an Nvidia employee as its chip-smuggling probe reaches the chipmaker

Taiwan’s investigation into smuggled AI hardware, which began with Super Micro and had spent months working through the island’s distributors, has now reached inside Nvidia itself. On July 28, prosecutors detained an Nvidia employee as part of the probe into whether restricted AI servers were being routed to China, Bloomberg first reported, the first time the […]

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