A Las Vegas jury found Duane “Keffe D” Davis guilty of first-degree murder Monday in the 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur, making the former gang leader the first person convicted in the rapper’s death nearly 30 years after the fatal drive-by shooting.Jurors deliberated for less than three hours on Aug.... Read More »
Universal Music Group and Sony Music Entertainment are pointing to Suno’s licensing deals with Warner Music Group and BMG as they pursue claims that the AI music company used copyrighted recordings without permission to train its models.Suno maintains that its use of copyrighted music for artificial intelligence training is protected... Read More »
AI-generated music is facing new restrictions across streaming services and official charts as the recording industry begins setting rules for how artificial intelligence is disclosed and whether AI-made songs can compete for chart positions.Australia’s ARIA Charts began excluding wholly AI-generated tracks from its Aug. 31 ranking, while the International Federation... Read More »
Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, named 14 people on the House floor Monday as Jeffrey Epstein “co-conspirators” who he said should be investigated and prosecuted. He also launched a discharge petition to force a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act II.The bill would expand access to federal... Read More »
A Florida grand jury found that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration misappropriated $10 million from a Medicaid settlement by directing the money to the Hope Florida Foundation, where most of it later reached political groups. No one was criminally charged because jurors said they could not determine who made the original... Read More »
A federal judge has rejected Trader Joe’s bid to dismiss a trademark claim in J.M. Smucker’s lawsuit accusing the grocer of copying the distinctive look of its Uncrustables sandwiches.The dispute pits Smucker’s familiar round, crimped sandwich design against a Trader Joe’s product the retailer describes as a “squircle,” or a... Read More »
Bank of America will pay $72.5 million to women who accused the bank of helping facilitate Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation after a federal judge approved a settlement in Manhattan.U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff entered final judgment Friday following an August 27 approval hearing. The agreement covers women who were... Read More »
AI-generated nude and sexual deepfakes can now lead to criminal charges under federal law and in a growing number of states, as lawmakers move to punish realistic sexual images created or shared without a person's consent.The rules remain a patchwork. Federal law largely targets publication, while states including Florida, Texas... Read More »
Amazon was sued Monday by the Federal Trade Commission and 22 states over allegations that it secretly changed how its advertising auctions set prices and overcharged about 1.2 million U.S. advertisers by more than $20 billion.Filed August 31 in federal court in Washington state, the lawsuit claims Amazon altered the... Read More »
Singer D4vd pleaded not guilty Monday in the murder case involving 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and replaced his private attorneys with lawyers from the Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office.The 21-year-old singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, faces charges of murder, continuous sexual abuse of a child under... Read More »
