The DOJ is investigating Andreessen Horowitz for potential antitrust violations after partners took board seats at competing AI data firms Databricks and Fivetran, raising concerns under a century-old law banning interlocking directorates.
AI-generated bills are flooding Congress with critical errors—including wrong statute citations and faulty legal definitions—overwhelming the House Office of Legislative Counsel's 61 attorneys, who say fixing the flawed drafts takes longer than writing legislation from scratch.
Anthropic is embedding invisible watermarks into Claude's AI-generated text using Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text system to comply with the EU AI Act's mandate that synthetic content be machine-readable identifiable, with no impact on output quality or user costs.
The Motion Picture Association strikes its first-ever copyright deal with an AI company, reaching a landmark agreement with ByteDance to enforce stronger intellectual property protections in its AI video tool Seedance and image tool Seedream, following allegations that the tools were trained on copyrighted material and generating unauthorized content featuring …
Frontier firms are pulling ahead of rivals at an explosive rate, generating 8x more AI output per user as agentic AI spreads from engineering into legal, sales, and marketing, while early-career employees are outpacing executives in adoption, signaling a massive shift in how knowledge work gets done.
OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple's trade secret lawsuit, defending its employees' actions as standard industry recruiting practices and calling Apple's theft allegations completely meritless.
Apple seeks a preliminary injunction against OpenAI over alleged stolen trade secrets involving two former employees, but OpenAI fights back by releasing text messages and emails it claims prove its innocence, as the high-stakes legal battle threatens to delay OpenAI's AI hardware launch and shake investor confidence ahead of its …
A federal judge allows Minnesota's groundbreaking ban on 'nudify' apps to take effect August 1, rejecting Elon Musk's xAI company's last-minute request to block the first-of-its-kind U.S. law, while the broader legal battle continues.
The EU AI Act now empowers the European Commission to fine U.S. AI giants like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic up to 15 million euros or 3% of annual turnover, inspect their models, and restrict market access, escalating transatlantic tech tensions as President Trump threatens tariffs in response.
A German court rules that AI music giant Suno illegally trained its models on copyrighted music without licenses, ordering the company—which generates 7 million songs daily—to disclose revenues and pay damages in a landmark case with sweeping global implications for the AI music industry.