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NEW YORK (AP) — Disney and Universal last week filed a copyright lawsuit against artificial intelligence image-generator Midjourney, marking the first time major Hollywood companies have entered the legal battle over generative AI. Filed in federal district court in Los Angeles, the complaint claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios to generate [...]
It was an unusual question coming from a police officer. Heather Brady was napping at home in San Francisco on a Sunday afternoon when the officer knocked on her door to ask: Had she applied to Arizona Western College? She had not, and as the officer suspected, somebody else had applied to Arizona community colleges [...]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Twenty-seven states and the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit in bankruptcy court seeking to block the sale of personal genetic data by 23andMe without customer consent. The lawsuit comes as a biotechnology company seeks the court’s approval to buy the struggling firm. Biological samples, DNA data, health-related traits and medical [...]
Sixteen states have sued the Trump administration over its plan to allow the sale of forced-reset triggers that make semiautomatic rifles fire more rapidly and return devices already seized to their owners. The suit argues that returning the triggers would violate federal law, pose a threat to residents and law enforcement, and worsen gun violence. [...]
LONDON (AP) — Getty Images is facing off against artificial intelligence company Stability AI in a London courtroom for the first major copyright trial of the generative AI industry. The trial could last for three weeks. Stability, based in London, owns a widely used AI image-making tool that sparked enthusiasm for the instant creation of [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court last week unanimously decided to toss out a $10 billion lawsuit Mexico filed against top firearm manufacturers in the United States that claimed the companies’ business practices were helping fuel cartel violence plaguing the country. In a victory for the firearm industry, the ruling tossed out the case under [...]
Federal authorities are moving to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a broader effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to halt the use of a key tool for enforcing the country’s civil rights laws. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which enforces workplace anti-discrimination laws, confirmed it has begun [...]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A three-judge appeals panel rejected Apple’s request to pause an April 30 order banning the company from charging a fee on in-app iPhone transactions processed outside its once-exclusive payment system in a two-page decision issued last week. The setback threatens to divert billions of dollars in revenue away from Apple while [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is slapping sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court over the tribunal’s investigation into alleged war crimes by Israel in its war against Hamas in Gaza and in the West Bank. The State Department said last week it would freeze any assets the ICC judges, who come [...]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A unanimous Supreme Court made it easier to bring lawsuits over so-called reverse discrimination, siding with an Ohio woman who claims she didn’t get a job and then was demoted because she is heterosexual. The justices’ decision last week affects lawsuits in 20 states and the District of Columbia where, until now, [...]