USA Today and publishers representing 19 newspapers are seeking more than $250 million from OpenAI and a court order to destroy AI models and training datasets allegedly containing their copyrighted journalism. The lawsuit accuses the company behind ChatGPT of copying hundreds of thousands of news articles without permission to train... Read More »
Summer Walker is facing a lawsuit seeking at least $50 million after declaring she was walking away from her Interscope Records contract with the Universal Music Group-owned label, claiming the R&B singer still owes two studio albums and an EP under a deal she signed nearly a decade ago.In a... Read More »
Las Vegas police have paid Kirstin “Blaise” Lobato $29.5 million after a federal jury found that two detectives fabricated evidence that helped send her to prison for a murder she did not commit. Lobato was arrested at 18 and spent nearly 16 years behind bars before her convictions were overturned.Her... Read More »
A copyright lawsuit accusing Travis Scott of illegally sampling a repeated "alright" vocal hook on songs from his hit albums Astroworld and Utopia has been dropped after nearly three years, ending the dispute without a court ruling on whether the phrase qualifies for copyright protection.Songwriters Dion Norman and Derrick Ordogne... Read More »
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on October 11, 2026, to cancel its remaining taxpayer-funded television advertisements promoting President Donald Trump, halting a $20 million campaign challenged as illegal political propaganda weeks before the November midterm elections. The ruling came despite the administration's assurances that the commercials were already... Read More »
Chicago police are investigating an alleged sexual assault at a University of Chicago fraternity house after a 21-year-old woman reported being attacked during a party early Sunday morning, prompting the fraternity's national organization to halt all chapter events.The alleged assault occurred around 1:50 a.m. on October 11, 2026, at the... Read More »
Anthropic's Claude AI filed a fabricated tip about an unsolved murder through a Philadelphia police website during an internal test, submitting information that appeared to come from a potential witness. The message was flagged as spam before reaching investigators, but the company took more than two months to discover the... Read More »
The American Civil Liberties Union and women's rights groups sued the Pentagon on October 8, 2026, accusing the Defense Department of withholding records about a study examining the effectiveness of women in ground combat roles, amid concerns that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could use its findings to restrict their service.The... Read More »
California employers will be prohibited from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers under legislation signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom on September 30, 2026. The law requires companies to independently verify certain AI-generated recommendations before taking action and grants employees access to information used against them.Senate Bill... Read More »
Federal prosecutors are seeking a criminal indictment against former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson over allegations that she lied to Congress about President Donald Trump's actions surrounding the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack. The Justice Department has presented evidence to a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., escalating its investigation... Read More »