Members of a U.S. Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs subcommittee Wednesday sent letters to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeking answers about the company's artificial intelligence models breaching Hugging Face's security. 
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OpenAI Faces Senate Probe Into Hugging Face Breach

By Craig Clough

Members of a U.S. Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs subcommittee Wednesday sent letters to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman seeking answers about the company's artificial intelligence models breaching Hugging Face's security. 

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SpaceXAI Says Alleged Grok Child Porn Maker Must Indemnify It

By Spencer Brewer

SpaceXAI LLC on Thursday accused a Pennsylvania man of using its artificial intelligence tool Grok to generate child sexual abuse material, telling a Texas federal court that the man breached the terms of service agreement and must indemnify the company.

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DOJ Wants To Quash Apple's Look At Fed Phone-Buying

By Matthew Perlman

The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a New Jersey federal court to overrule an order in the government's monopolization case giving Apple a look at how the Pentagon, CIA, U.S. Department of State and other agencies purchase smartphones and smartwatches.

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Calif. Enacts Laws To Curb Addictive Feeds, AI Risks For Kids

By Dorothy Atkins

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed more than a dozen kids online safety bills into law Thursday, expanding student data privacy laws while barring social media companies from offering teens personalized accounts with addictive features and requiring artificial intelligence companies to implement guardrails to prevent teen suicide and self-harm.

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Zuckerberg Testifies List Of Kid-Glove Users Not A Problem

By Cara Salvatore

Mark Zuckerberg strenuously disputed in testimony seen Thursday by a New Mexico jury that Facebook's internal list of parties whose content receives special treatment undercuts the company's public declarations that policy-violating content must be taken down without exception.

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POLICY & REGULATION

States Press Court To Block DOT's CDL Data Request

By Jared Foretek

A Virginia federal judge on Thursday questioned the Trump administration's claim that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's chief counsel wasn't speaking for the agency itself when she told a nationwide commercial driver database operator to either hand over millions of driver files or see its federal funding slashed.

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Network Group Worries FCC Regs Could Hinder AI Growth

By Christopher Cole

A group advocating for networks that power artificial intelligence has voiced concern that the Federal Communications Commission's latest push to restrict foreign equipment could hinder AI's growth.

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Squires Grants 10 Patent Reviews, Rejects None

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted 10 more Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions, largely in the pharmaceutical space.

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ENFORCEMENT

Fla. AG Pushes Liability For Chatbots' Role In Crimes

By Carolina Bolado

Florida's attorney general — who has accused OpenAI of facilitating a deadly mass shooting at Florida State University — is now pushing for legislation that would impose heavy fines, payments to victims and monitorship on tech companies whose artificial intelligence chatbots participate in criminal activity.

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Bankman-Fried Asks Justices To Review His Fraud Conviction

By Rae Ann Varona

Incarcerated FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to review the Second Circuit's decision affirming his fraud conviction and $11 billion forfeiture order, saying now is the time to resolve whether evidence of fraud victims' losses belongs in fraudulent-inducement prosecutions and whether his "crushing fine" is constitutional.

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LITIGATION

Roblox Brass Seek Exit From Insider Trading, Child Safety Suit

By Jarek Rutz

Roblox Corp. directors and executives urged Delaware's chancellor on Thursday to dismiss a stockholder derivative suit accusing them of insider trading and failing to protect children on the video gaming platform, arguing that the board consistently monitored safety risks and that insiders did not trade on material nonpublic information.

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Clinical Trial Buyer Says Ex-Owner Breached $100M Deal

By Jarek Rutz

Surge ECN Holdings LLC and ECN Operating LLC have accused the former owner of a clinical trial research network of violating a five-year noncompete and other restrictions tied to a deal worth more than $100 million, alleging he diverted customers, recruited key physicians and used confidential information to build a competing business.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Series

Juggling And Unicycling Make Me A Better Lawyer

Because I juggle (sometimes with fire) and ride the unicycle, friends and family used to joke that I should join the circus, but I pursued the practice of law instead and learned that my hobbies benefit my profession in several important ways, says Morgan Eddy at Smith Currie.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

ABA Study Shows 20% Of Attys Under Severe Mental Distress

By Tracey Read

About one-fifth of attorneys across the country meet moderate-to-extremely severe symptom thresholds for depression, anxiety and stress, according to the largest-ever study of mental health and well-being in the legal profession.

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Mass. Judge Sanctioned Over Handling Of ICE At Courthouse

By Julie Manganis

Massachusetts' highest court on Thursday sanctioned a judge over her handling of a case involving a defendant wanted by immigration agents in 2018, an incident that led to federal charges that were dismissed after the judge agreed to a disciplinary process.

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Ed Martin Reprimanded Over Unauthorized FBI Contacts

By Courtney Bublé

Last summer, when Ed Martin was still head of the weaponization working group at the U.S. Department of Justice, he was reprimanded after his team communicated with the FBI without authorization, according to recently released emails.

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2 At DOJ Sued Over Conn. Immigration Court Record Access

By Christine DeRosa

The American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Connecticut has filed suit in Connecticut federal court challenging the Hartford Immigration Court's refusal to provide access to immigration court records.

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JPMorgan Aided Ex-Atty Kossoff's $18.5M Theft, Trustee Says

By Hailey Konnath

The Chapter 7 trustee representing bankrupt firm Kossoff PLLC on Wednesday sued JPMorgan Chase Bank NA, claiming the bank helped the firm's principal steal at least $18.5 million from clients, and it "should be made to account."

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Analysis

Executive Privilege Questions Cloud Congressional Probe Prep

By Phillip Bantz

As corporate leaders brace for the possibility of Democrats retaking control of Congress and launching aggressive investigations into the Trump administration's dealings with a vast array of companies, attorneys say a U.S. Justice Department opinion on executive privilege could complicate the probes.

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DOJ Urges High Court To Revisit 9th Circ.'s Bar Of Nev. US Atty

By Madison Arnold

The Justice Department has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit a recent Ninth Circuit ruling disqualifying the Trump administration's top federal prosecutor in Nevada, calling it a decision that imposes "ongoing confusion" in the executive branch.

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Jay-Z Can't Undo Buzbee's Win In Rapper's Defamation Suit

By Y. Peter Kang

A California state appeals court has refused to revive claims that Texas attorney Tony Buzbee defamed and extorted music superstar Jay-Z by roping him into a sexual abuse suit against Sean "Diddy" Combs, saying the case was properly thrown out under California's free speech statute.

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Brown Pruitt

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Freshfields

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Miller & Chevalier

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COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators

American Bar Association

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American Civil Liberties Union of Connecticut

Anthropic PBC

Apple Inc.

Bloomingdale's Inc.

Boyer Co.

Citigroup Inc.

Google LLC

Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Instagram Inc.

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Jake's Fireworks Inc.

Johnson & Johnson

K12 Inc.

Merck & Co. Inc.

Meta Platforms Inc.

Okta Inc.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Pinterest Inc.

Raine

Roblox Corp.

Snap Inc.

Thales SA

TikTok Inc.

TotalEnergies SE

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GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

California Attorney General's Office

Central Intelligence Agency

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Delaware Court of Chancery

European Commission

European Union

Executive Office for Immigration Review

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Federal Communications Commission

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Information Commissioner's Office

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Security Agency

New Mexico Attorney General's Office

Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia

Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Patent Trial and Appeal Board

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Census Bureau

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of State

U.S. Department of Transportation

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. General Services Administration

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Nevada