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Here's what we're reading:    🔵 Anthropic’s sudden disabling of its latest AI models for customers has sent frustration rippling across the cyber and technology sectors. https://aboutblaw.com/bl2O     🔵 The NAACP’s attempt to shut down gas-fired turbines that power data centers that support xAI’s Grok chatbot threatens national security and must be dismissed, the Justice Department said in a Mississippi federal court filing. https://aboutblaw.com/bl2P 

Here's what we're reading:    🔵 OpenAI convinced a federal judge for the second time to dismiss X.AI Corp.'s lawsuit accusing the AI giant of poaching employees and encouraging them to steal confidential information, including source code. https://aboutblaw.com/bl16     🔵 TikTok is violating Florida social media regulations for minors and state consumer protection laws by misrepresenting the graphic nature of posts teens can access, the state said in a complaint. https://aboutblaw.com/bl17  

Here's what we're reading: 🔵 FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried lost his bid to overturn his fraud conviction and 25-year prison sentence, with a federal appeals court rejecting his claims of not receiving a fair trial. https://aboutblaw.com/bl1v 🔵 Meta Platforms Inc. seeks to revive its case against its liability insurers, including units of Hartford Insurance Group Inc. and Chubb Ltd., for protection from legal claims that the social media giant got children hooked on its platforms. https://aboutblaw.com/bl1u

Here's what we're reading: 🔵 The Senate failed to pass an extension of a key spy powers tool through a unanimous consent request Thursday after opposition to President Donald Trump’s pick for acting intelligence director derailed the measure. {https://aboutblaw.com/bl0G} 🔵 Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on governments to tax AI companies to fund a universal basic income and introduce employee retention incentives to account for the potential impact the technology could have on the labor market. {https://aboutblaw.com/bl0H}

Here's what we're reading:    🤖 Artificial intelligence chatbots that interact with minors would face sweeping new restrictions under a new bill approved by New York lawmakers. https://aboutblaw.com/blXf     💬 WWE power players are expected to testify in a shareholder dispute that now threatens to overshadow sprawling litigation throughout their industry because of sanctions over deleted Signal app messages. https://aboutblaw.com/blXg  

Here's what we're reading:    🔵 Kirkland & Ellis has launched a multi-year partnership with Palantir Technologies Inc. to develop custom artificial intelligence solutions, starting with a tool to make private equity fundraising more efficient. https://aboutblaw.com/blVO     🔵 SpaceX’s blockbuster initial public offering has raised the prospect of a nearly $2 trillion valuation and IPO windfalls. But it also brings heightened scrutiny to its cryptocurrency holdings—and their sometimes wild fluctuations—under US accounting rules. https://aboutblaw.com/blVP

Here's what we're reading:    🔵 X and xAI must turn over some email accounts controlled by its high-level executives and owner Elon Musk at SpaceX and Tesla in a dispute accusing Apple of unfairly favoring OpenAI across iPhones. https://aboutblaw.com/blU9     🔵 California and more than a dozen other states attorneys general are rallying against a federal data privacy bill they said would shrink the rights of more than 100 million Americans, as well as restrict their enforcement powers. https://aboutblaw.com/blVa    

Here's what we're reading:    🔵 President Donald Trump ordered US agencies to work with artificial intelligence companies on protecting against AI-enabled cyber attacks under a long-awaited directive that he had postponed last month citing his concern that it risked stifling tech innovation. https://aboutblaw.com/blUt       🔵 A Mississippi newspaper publisher‘s copyright case has the potential to upend a legal shield for websites that embed and display—but never possess—copyrighted materials, after the Fifth Circuit appeared willing to reject the nearly two-decade-old test. https://aboutblaw.com/blUu

Here’s what we’re reading today:   💸 The cryptocurrency industry’s political machine, fresh off a signature win last week in Texas, is plopping down money for this month’s primaries in Tuesday races and a big-spending contest later to replace Rep. Steny Hoyer. https://aboutblaw.com/blTb   ➡️ The state of Florida sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the artificial intelligence company of ignoring safety warnings and releasing a product that is harmful to users. https://aboutblaw.com/blTf

Here’s what we’re reading today:   🤖 Kirkland & Ellis has committed $500 million over the next three to four years to develop its own proprietary artificial intelligence platform. https://aboutblaw.com/blRA   🏦 The US Justice Department is seeking the names, addresses, and banking information of Reddit and X users, ratcheting up efforts to identify social media critics of government deportation efforts. https://aboutblaw.com/blRB

Here's what we're reading:    🔵 WhatsApp is able to access user’s encrypted messages, Texas said in a lawsuit that accuses Meta Platforms Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg of lying to the US Senate in 2018 about the company’s steps to make them inaccessible. https://aboutblaw.com/blPt       🔵 Nevada and Washington’s enforcement actions against prediction market providers can proceed in state courts, a federal appeals court said. https://aboutblaw.com/blPu  

Here's what we're reading:    🔵 The FIFA World Cup kicking off next month will serve as a litmus test for how the US is able to handle potential disease threats, amid cuts to the CDC’s workforce and funding, a surge in measles cases, and the emerging threat of Ebola. https://aboutblaw.com/blOo     🔵 Meta reached an agreement to settle a landmark lawsuit alleging that addiction to social media platforms upended learning across America and pushed US public schools to spend enormous resources fighting a mental health crisis. https://aboutblaw.com/blOq  

Here's what we're reading:    🔵 OpenAI Inc., Tinder, Palantir Technologies Inc., and more than thirty other digital companies make it difficult for users to control what happens to their personal data, a privacy advocate’s report found. https://aboutblaw.com/blNv    🔵 The Justice Department’s new $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund lacks the rigorous controls that typically guide programs compensating victims out of litigation settlements or congressional mandates, said officials involved in prior efforts. https://aboutblaw.com/blNw  

Here’s what we’re reading. 1️⃣ Richard Alexander Murdaugh, the disbarred South Carolina attorney found guilty in 2023 of murdering his wife and son, won his bid to overturn his conviction and get a new trial over comments the county clerk made to jurors. https://aboutblaw.com/blJV 2️⃣ Online gaming platform provider Roblox exploits minors to provide game development work for little or no pay, violating US and California labor laws, a Roblox user’s parent alleges in a federal lawsuit. https://aboutblaw.com/blJZ 3️⃣ Nvidia was sued by award-winning journalists and podcasters accusing the trillion-dollar tech giant of using their voices without permission to train its AI products. https://aboutblaw.com/blJW

Here’s what we’re reading. 🟣 Meta and Google failed to win dismissal of a proposed class action alleging that Meta exploited a vulnerability in Google’s Android operating system to unlawfully track and collect users’ private information. https://aboutblaw.com/blIO 🟣 Court battles by workers with long Covid are a new test of the nation’s private insurance system, which lawyers and academics say is stacked against them. https://aboutblaw.com/blIL 🟣 Federal prosecutors announced criminal charges in the case of the M/V Dali container ship disaster that destroyed Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge in 2024. https://aboutblaw.com/blIM

Here’s what we’re reading. ✳️ Pennsylvania is suing Character Technologies Inc. to shut down a chatbot that’s allegedly been holding itself out as a licensed medical doctor in conversations with the public. https://aboutblaw.com/blEQ ✳️ OpenAI said that it will partner with PwC to build AI tools that will work autonomously to modernize how companies track revenues and, eventually, how they close their books. https://aboutblaw.com/blEP ✳️ The Southern District of Florida has emerged as an epicenter of Trump’s highly public push to use the DOJ to pursue individuals he believes have wronged him. The moves have bolstered the office’s profile with leaders in Washington, but critics say the efforts are also taking a toll. https://aboutblaw.com/blER

Here’s what we’re reading. ⏺️ The stage is set for a wave of legal tech consolidation long anticipated by industry founders, users, and investors. https://aboutblaw.com/blDR ⏺️ The Supreme Court temporarily restored the ability of patients to get a widely used abortion pill by mail, pausing a ruling that required people to visit a healthcare provider. https://aboutblaw.com/blDV ⏺️ Nearly all of the 20 state-run health insurance exchanges in the US have added advertising trackers that transmit user activity back to big tech companies, in some cases sending more data than state officials realized. https://aboutblaw.com/blD1

Here’s what we’re reading. 🗳 The Supreme Court limited the use of the Voting Rights Act to create predominantly Black or Hispanic election districts in a major ruling that buttresses Republican efforts to keep control of the House in this year’s midterms and beyond. https://aboutblaw.com/blAC ⚖️ OpenAI is the target of new lawsuits over the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, that allege the AI company could have stopped the suspected killer from using its popular chatbot, ChatGPT, ahead of the attack. https://aboutblaw.com/blAA

Here’s what we’re reading. ⚫️ Jury selection can play a critical role in the outcome of a trial. That process is even more fraught in the matter of Musk v. Altman, a San Francisco federal court case pitting the world's richest man, Elon Musk, against his OpenAI co-founder, Samuel Altman as each enter the fray Monday with considerable sociological baggage. https://aboutblaw.com/blxX ⚫️ Google’s effort to fend off damages claims from consumers alleging its Chrome browser continued to collect their data after they activated the browser’s private “incognito mode” is moving to federal court. https://aboutblaw.com/blxY

Here’s what we’re reading. ➖ MrBeast’s company wrongfully terminated a female staffer shortly after she returned from maternity leave, the woman said in a lawsuit alleging a sexist culture that pressured her to join a conference call from the labor and delivery room. https://aboutblaw.com/blwj ➖ OpenAI released a customizable model it says can help users spot and redact personally identifiable information like names and bank account numbers from text—including from AI models’ training. https://aboutblaw.com/blwh ➖ Companies in the US have largely abandoned requiring the law firms they hire to meet any diversity thresholds, falling in line with a Trump administration push to strip DEI from the legal profession. https://aboutblaw.com/blwg