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X is fighting a Turkish order to block Ekrem Imamoglu’s campaign account

X has been ordered to silence one of the most closely watched accounts in Turkish politics. A court has told the platform to restrict access, within Turkey, to the presidential-campaign account of jailed Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu. The company is not going quietly. X said it was complying with the order as required by Turkish […]

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Taiwan is investigating 17 Chinese firms for poaching its chip talent

Taiwan is again accusing China of trying to buy the talent it cannot build. The island’s Investigation Bureau said it is probing 17 Chinese companies suspected of illegally recruiting local high-tech engineers. The sweep was substantial. Between mid-July and early August, investigators searched 64 locations and questioned 114 people, in one of the larger actions […]

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Court lets Perplexity’s AI agent shop on Amazon, overturning a ban

An AI agent can shop on Amazon whether Amazon likes it or not. A US appeals court has overturned an injunction that barred Perplexity’s shopping agent from the retailer, handing an early win to the software that browses and buys on people’s behalf. The Ninth Circuit ruled that Amazon’s core legal claim did not hold. […]

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OpenAI took the Apple lawsuit public and posted the receipts. Apple doubled down the same day.

The legal fight between Apple and OpenAI turned public and personal this week. OpenAI published a blog post titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” airing private messages and emails to rebut Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit. On the same day, Apple escalated in court. Two former partners are now trading blows in the open. Apple sued in […]

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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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