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Prediction market Kalshi sent Netflix a cease-and-desist letter on Friday, calling the trailer for its upcoming "Prediction Games" documentary defamatory and demanding Netflix take it down.
U.S. prosecutors have charged two Volkswagen engineers with securities fraud, alleging they used confidential knowledge of VW's Rivian joint venture to make more than $300,000 in illegal profits.
The U.S. Justice Department has charged Atlanta man Samuel Tunick with allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' passcode during a border search, thought to be the first case.
An apparent notice from India's Ministry of Home Affairs directed GitHub to restrict three Bitchat repositories within three hours, and digital-rights groups question its legal basis.
Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral, and Nvidia signed a letter urging policymakers not to broadly restrict open-weight AI as Washington weighs a response to alleged Chinese IP theft.
Rivian filed suit against the US government seeking a full refund of tariffs the Supreme Court has ruled unconstitutional, joining a wave of companies pursuing similar claims.
AI labs' strict guardrails against malicious hacking are increasingly frustrating the legitimate offensive-security researchers who probe systems for flaws before criminals do.
US safety regulators have opened a rule-making process on emergency door releases after a series of incidents, including fatal ones, involving Tesla's flush electronic door handles.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said sanctions remain possible after a White House official accused Chinese AI company Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic's Fable model.
A Florida teenager dropped his social media addiction lawsuit against Meta without receiving any payment, a day after Snap reached a tentative settlement in the same case.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the U.S. will examine open-source Chinese AI models for intellectual-property theft and could sanction the companies behind them if theft is established.
Snap has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging social media harms children, following similar deals by TikTok and YouTube and leaving Meta as the only remaining defendant.
Incoming UK prime minister Andy Burnham has confirmed his government is scrapping a controversial digital ID card scheme, redirecting the savings toward a tax cut aimed at lowering household electricity bills.
A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement of a class action copyright lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, Reuters reported.
Chris Fall has resigned as director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI), the third person to lead the agency since March.
A U.S. judge issued a 14-day pause on Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery after a coalition of 12 state attorneys general sued to block the deal.
Apple has filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging a pattern of misconduct to obtain confidential information from Apple employees, and analysts say the case could delay OpenAI's hardware plans.
The Department of Justice says a 2022 law banning TikTok from federal employees' work devices no longer applies after a deal restructured the app's US ownership.
San Francisco has ordered Apple and Google to purge dozens of "nudify" apps from their stores, warning of possible civil penalties.
The FBI arrested a 21-year-old Florida man accused of uploading malware-laden video games to Steam that allegedly infected around 8,000 victims and drained at least $220,000 in cryptocurrency.