October 25, 2024 AI Surge, Vendor Risks Fuel Election Security Concerns The explosion of the tech known as artificial intelligence and persistent vendor security holes are amplifying longstanding concerns about efforts by hostile nations and other cyberattackers to disrupt and discredit U.S. elections as officials work to guard against both familiar and novel risks. October 25, 2024 OpenAI, Authors Battle Over Execs’ Texts And Proof Of Harm California labor law doesn’t shield OpenAI from producing CEO Sam Altman’s and President Greg Brockman’s texts and social media messages relevant to a copyright infringement lawsuit, authors alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally used their copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence program ChatGPT have told a New York federal judge. October 25, 2024 Delta Says CrowdStrike Must Pay For Catastrophic IT Outage When cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike implemented “untested and faulty updates” to its software, knocking out computers with Microsoft Windows operating systems worldwide, Delta Air Lines’ operations were crippled, costing it $500 million as thousands of flights were canceled, according to the airline’s lawsuit lodged Friday in Georgia state court. October 25, 2024 How Big Crash Verdict Revealed Blueprint For Suing Amazon A rare $16.2 million verdict against Amazon recently awarded by a Georgia jury is proof that a blueprint of sorts now exists for pinning liability on the retail giant in crash cases involving independent contractors, according to a veteran attorney who helped win the case. October 25, 2024 Crypto Rapidly Transforming IRS Criminal Cases, Agent Says Cryptocurrency is altering the size of many criminal cases that federal law enforcement agencies are handling, an Internal Revenue Service criminal investigator told the UCLA Tax Controversy Conference, commenting that over the past three years the agency broke its record for asset seizures three times. October 25, 2024 Apple-Google Pact Plaintiff Stuck With 9th Circ. Appeal A Ninth Circuit panel has refused to let a training school send its case accusing Google of paying Apple to refrain from developing its own search engine back to district court in light of a recent D.C. federal judge’s decision that Google monopolizes the search market. October 25, 2024 9th Circ. Backs 7-Year Sentence Over Chip Exports To China The Ninth Circuit on Friday upheld the seven-year prison sentence imposed on a former University of California, Los Angeles, electrical engineering professor convicted of illegally exporting high-powered semiconductor chips to China, saying the district court did not err in holding that the conduct amounted to an evasion of national security controls. October 25, 2024 Sports Co. Says SEC’s $4M Damages Bid Spells Disaster A multimillion-dollar securities fraud judgment against two companies linked to a virtual sports trading platform would be disastrous for the already-struggling organizations, their attorney argued before a D.C. federal judge Friday. October 25, 2024 Social Media MDL Judge Rips Meta, AGs’ Agency Doc Fight A California federal judge Friday slammed counsel for Meta and dozens of state attorneys general during a contentious hearing in multidistrict litigation over claims social media is addictive for not reaching agreements on Meta’s demands for documents from 275 state agencies, telling both sides’ attorneys, “we should’ve never gotten here.” October 25, 2024 AT&T Unit Continues To Argue FCA Does Not Apply To E-Rate Congress could have designed the E-rate program to be distributed by the government using its own money, but it didn’t, and that’s why reimbursements under the program don’t qualify as claims under the False Claims Act, an AT&T subsidiary has told the U.S. Supreme Court. October 25, 2024 ‘Open AI’ TM Owner Asks 9th Circ. To Nix Injunction A man accused by OpenAI of preventing the ChatGPT-maker from registering its name as a trademark urged the Ninth Circuit on Friday to vacate an injunction blocking him from using the “Open AI” mark while his case is pending, arguing he’s the mark’s senior holder and calling the injunction “extraordinary and unprecedented.” October 25, 2024 VLSI Urges Fed. Circ. To Punish OpenSky After Vidal Didn’t U.S. Patent Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal vowed to sanction OpenSky Industries “to the fullest extent of [her] power” for filing a bad faith patent challenge, but then imposed sanctions that, if anything, rewarded the misconduct, VLSI Technology has told the Federal Circuit. October 25, 2024 AT&T Settles Alleged FCC Subsidy Violations For Nearly $2.3M The Federal Communications Commission said Friday that AT&T has agreed to pay almost $2.3 million to resolve claims it broke the rules for two major federal broadband subsidy programs. October 25, 2024 Claims Court Can’t Hear DOJ IT Deal Corrective Action Case A Court of Federal Claims judge has tossed a dispute over the scope of the U.S. Department of Justice’s corrective action on an information technology task order, saying the case fell within a statutory bar on most task order-related protests. October 25, 2024 Copyright Head Touts Claims Board, AI Studies At Conference As Shira Perlmutter completes four years as the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, she told attorneys Friday the agency dealt “with just a dizzying array of issues” — with artificial intelligence technology being ever present — but the Copyright Claims Board was one of her top accomplishments. October 25, 2024 Lyft To Pay $2.1M FTC Fine Over Driver Earnings Claims Lyft Inc. will pay $2.1 million and clarify its claims about driver pay in order to settle allegations from the Federal Trade Commission that the ride-hailing company made deceptive statements about what drivers could expect to earn hourly and through special incentives, according to a Friday announcement from the agency. October 25, 2024 9th Circ. Dubious Of Tesla Investors’ Appeal Of $12B Trial Loss Ninth Circuit judges appeared skeptical Friday of Tesla investors’ argument that an erroneous trial instruction improperly led a jury to reject their $12 billion claim over Elon Musk’s 2018 tweets that he had “funding secured” to take the electric car giant private. October 25, 2024 AI Researchers Lose Bid For DMCA Anti-Hacking Carveout Researchers who want to look into whether generative artificial intelligence was producing content that was
