The Seattle Times and Newsday have sued OpenAI and Microsoft, accusing the companies of copying hundreds of thousands of articles without permission to train AI systems and asking a federal court to destroy models and training datasets that incorporate their journalism.The copyright infringement lawsuit, filed September 4 in the U.S.... Read More »
The Justice Department accused UC Berkeley School of Law on Wednesday of illegally favoring Black applicants over white and Asian candidates, alleging the school continued to weigh race in admissions after the Supreme Court struck down race-conscious college admissions in 2023.A joint investigation by the Justice and Education departments found... Read More »
Artificial intelligence can add a fireplace to a real estate listing photo, erase damaged flooring or make a room look larger in seconds. As those alterations become harder to detect, states are beginning to set new rules for how brokers, agents and sellers can use them.California already requires real estate... Read More »
The White House has removed its Tetris-style “Build the Wall” game from its website days after The Tetris Company said it had never authorized the game and was reviewing possible copyright concerns.The immigration-themed game launched Sept. 3 as part of a White House online arcade promoting President Donald Trump’s policies.... Read More »
Kim Zolciak’s 15-year-old son, Kroy “KJ” Biermann Jr., is asking a Georgia judge to move his seven-felony sexual assault case into juvenile court, a decision that could determine whether he remains exposed to an adult prison sentence of at least 25 years if convicted on some of the most serious... Read More »
Andrew and Tristan Tate will remain in federal custody as they fight extradition to the United Kingdom, where prosecutors are seeking to bring the brothers back to face 59 charges involving seven alleged victims.U.S. Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis denied their request for release Wednesday, September 9, finding that the brothers... Read More »
A federal jury in Los Angeles began deliberating Wednesday in Lil Durk’s murder-for-hire trial after prosecutors accused the Chicago rapper of financing a deadly revenge plot and his attorneys argued the government built its case around cooperating witnesses seeking lighter sentences.Durk, whose legal name is Durk Banks, has pleaded not... Read More »
The American Bar Association’s law school accrediting arm has scrapped its diversity and inclusion requirement as the Trump administration weighs whether to end its federal recognition as the nation’s law school accreditor.The Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar voted 10 to 6 on... Read More »
A former Colorado DNA analyst was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for manipulating forensic evidence, misconduct that has forced authorities to review more than 1,000 criminal cases and has already reached the Colorado Supreme Court.Yvonne “Missy” Woods, 66, spent nearly three decades as a forensic scientist with the... Read More »
Paramount Skydance says California Attorney General Rob Bonta contradicted his own legal position in television interviews as the company seeks a $1.88 billion bond in the fight over its $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery.In a court filing Tuesday, Paramount pointed to interviews in which Bonta described the companies’... Read More »
