Bloomberg Law “Meta Platforms Inc., ByteDance Ltd., Alphabet Inc. and Snap Inc. must face trial over claims that they designed social media platforms to addict youths, a judge ruled, clearing the way for the first of thousands of cases to be presented to juries. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn B. Kuhl late Wednesday ruled against the Read more
Bloomberg Law “Companies are bracing for a new era of enforcement as New York, the most active state regulator on cyber, rolls out its last set of security requirements Nov. 1. The final amendments to the New York State Department of Financial Services’ Cybersecurity Regulation require companies to implement authentication Read more
Bloomberg Law ” Rivian Automotive Inc. agreed to pay $250 million to settle an investor lawsuit, against the electric vehicle maker, saying it’s eager to put the legal wrangling behind it. The Irvine, California-based company issued a surprise statementlate Thursday saying it doesn’t admit fault or wrongdoing in the proposed settlement, which Read more
Bloomberg Law “Udio AI music-generation service was sued by independent music creators alleging the company used their works without permission to flood the market with AI-generated music in violation of their intellectual property rights. The proposed class action is similar to copyright-infringement suits filed by the major music labels against Unchartered Labs Inc., Read more
Bloomberg Law “Apple Inc. flouted copyright law when it used pirated materials and copies of e-books sold on its own books app to train its AI tool Apple Intelligence, a pair of State University of New York professors alleged in a federal lawsuit. Apple’s OpenELM model, one of several comprising Apple Read more
Bloomberg Law “The Federal Trade Commission is changing the game for artificial intelligence companies. On Sept. 11, the FTC issued orders to seven tech giants, probing the unique risks posed by AI chatbot companions—a subset of emotional AI, which measures, understands, simulates, and reacts to human emotions. The FTC’s inquiry directs Alphabet, Instagram, Meta, Read more
Bloomberg Law “Disney, Warner Bros., and other entertainment giants put a new twist on the copyright war against generative AI by focusing lawsuits on audiovisual outputs rather than training data, altering both the obstacles and pathways to victory. The studios’ assaults on AI content companies Midjourney Inc. and Minimax allege copyright Read more
Bloomberg Law “The cyberattack that’s brought Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc factories to a standstill is affecting suppliers, with some European parts makers forced to pause or scale back their own production. German company Eberspächer Gruppe GmbH & Co., which manufacturers exhaust systems for the British carmaker, was forced to suspend production at its plant Read more
Bloomberg Law “The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Amazon.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google misled advertisers that place ads on their websites, according to people familiar with the matter. The investigations, which are being conducted by the agency’s consumer protection unit, focus on whether the companies properly disclosed the terms and pricing for Read more
Bloomberg Law “Walt Disney Co. will pay $10 million to the Federal Trade Commission to settle allegations that it violated a federal children’s privacy law by allowing children to be targeted with online advertising. By failing to correctly classify videos uploaded to its YouTube channels, Disney exposed children to data Read more