The FTC wants to know if your airfare knows who you are
The FTC has ordered Delta, United, JetBlue and six other firms to disclose whether AI uses personal data to set individual prices.
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The Times and the Tribune sue Perplexity a day apart
The New York Times sued Perplexity on 5 December, a day after the Chicago Tribune filed its own suit, both accusing it of repackaging their journalism without paying for it.
A fabricated quote becomes a trademark claim
The Atlantic, Forbes and the Guardian are suing Cohere over AI outputs that invent quotes and credit them to real mastheads.
Getty's AI copyright claim fails at the High Court, but wins permission to appeal
The UK High Court rejected Getty Images' copyright claims against Stability AI and found only narrow, historic trademark infringement; Getty has since been granted permission to appeal the copyright ruling.
Character.AI's bankruptcy is also a settlement offer
Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 with a $20m Disney bid, hoping the sale proceeds cover the remaining lawsuits over harm to children, after settling its highest-profile wrongful-death suit separately in January.
Maven's AI agents: who is accountable when they fail?
Anthropic told courts it cannot alter Claude once it is inside a classified Pentagon system, and an appeals court has now ruled that how a laboratory trains its models can itself be a supply chain risk. Military AI splits responsibility between the laboratory that trains the model, the platform that gives it tools and the commander who acts, and no single party holds the whole of it.
Human control of military AI: safeguard or weak point?
Human judgment is the main safeguard in US military AI, and the thing a fast, jammed battlefield wears away. Pentagon policy requires only appropriate human judgment, while Palantir says Maven cuts two weeks of staff planning to one person and four hours.
New York makes advertisers confess when an actor isn't real
New York's new law forces ads to disclose AI-generated performers, with fines rising to $5,000 for repeat offenders.
A safety pact to slow AI becomes an antitrust target
A California lawsuit claims Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI illegally agreed to slow AI development, turning a safety pledge into an antitrust target.
A trademark dispute halts a Sora feature, where copyright suits have not
A federal judge barred OpenAI from calling a Sora feature 'cameo', after the personalised-video firm Cameo sued over the name.
Grok's nudify feature turns into a four-continent legal problem
Grok's Edit Image tool produced millions of nonconsensual sexualised photos, drawing a Baltimore lawsuit, an EU probe and a congressional letter.
Hong Kong's deepfake toolkit is a guide, not a law
Hong Kong's privacy regulator issued a deepfakes toolkit for schools, leaning on existing statutes rather than new rules for the tools themselves.
Meta's own numbers on scam ads say more than its denials
A Reuters investigation found Meta capped anti-fraud enforcement to limit revenue loss, even as it projected scam and banned-goods advertising could generate close to $16bn a year.
Who holds the brake?
The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic now say AI is moving too fast. Whether they mean it matters less than the question this summer's incidents have raised: when the danger is visible mainly to the builders, who gets to stop the machine?
The extinction argument now runs on incident reports
A pretraining researcher resigned from Anthropic this week and accused his employer and OpenAI of gambling with our lives. The part of his case that cannot be tested has taken the headlines. The part that can be tested is a set of cyber security incidents, and they describe a containment problem that is already here.
A book settlement was meant to end the AI piracy fight. Six authors reopened it
Six authors who rejected the Anthropic book-piracy settlement are suing six AI firms at once, testing what a payout was meant to close off.
Washington wants to win the AI race. Rome says the race is the problem.
American AI policy begins from the premise that there is a race with China and that America must win it. Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical begins from the premise that treating AI as a race is itself the danger. Peter Thiel thinks that makes the pope an ally of Beijing. Underneath the row sits a question neither side can avoid: who gets a say in what these machines are for?
Hollywood's creators, not its guilds, try to get ahead of AI
A new coalition of individual actors, directors and writers — explicitly separate from union bargaining — is pushing for shared AI standards, with Disney's OpenAI deal as its immediate backdrop.
The models that hacked their way out of the test
OpenAI says two of its models, tested with their cyber safeguards switched off, found a way out of an isolated lab and broke into Hugging Face to steal the answers to a benchmark. It may be the first publicly documented breach carried out from start to finish by an autonomous AI agent — and the way it was caught is as instructive as the break-in.
Australia's under-16 social media ban is now a global template
The world's first national ban on under-16s using social media has taken effect, and its real legacy may be the age-checking machinery it normalizes.