Medical AI Platforms Report Settlement Amid Discovery Battle

By Julie Manganis

Medical artificial intelligence startup OpenEvidence and competitors Doximity Inc. and Pathway Medical Inc. told a Massachusetts federal judge on Thursday that they have reached a settlement in principle to resolve a contentious lawsuit and counterclaim.

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Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Safety Risks

By Emily Field

A group of attorneys general of eight states, including Arkansas and Arizona, on Wednesday hit OpenAI with suits alleging that the company knowingly misled the public about the safety risks of its ChatGPT artificial intelligence bot.

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Cyber Incident Halts Bankruptcy Court Noticing Nationwide

By Hilary Russ

The nationwide system for providing notice to creditors in bankruptcy cases has been disrupted by a cybersecurity incident, and it is not currently known when the outage will end.

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11th Circ. Says Ga. Can Enforce Social Media Age Check Law

By David Aaro

The Eleventh Circuit struck down an injunction Thursday that blocked Georgia from enforcing its age verification law for social media platforms, finding that internet trade group NetChoice hadn't shown it was likely to prevail on its legal challenge to the statute.

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Anthropic Urges DC Circ. To Revisit Defense Supply Risk Ban

By Rae Ann Varona

Anthropic has urged the D.C. Circuit to reconsider a split panel's decision allowing the Pentagon to exclude Claude artificial intelligence models from its supply chain, saying the decision, if left standing, puts U.S. companies at risk of punishment for refusing Pentagon demands.

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NYC Comptroller Urges Anthropic To Ease Risks Before IPO

By Nate Beck

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine is urging Anthropic PBC to pause plans for an initial public offering it says could value the company at $2 trillion, calling on the business to first resolve concerns over the technology's governance, safety and development pace.

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Ex-Marvel CEO Drops Punitive Damages Bid In DNA Feud

By Carolina Bolado

The former CEO of Marvel Entertainment asked a Florida court Thursday to enter a final judgment in his long-running feud with a neighbor over the surreptitious collection of DNA evidence, after he dropped a claim for punitive damages that was the subject of a high-profile Florida Supreme Court case.

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Redfin Hit With Breach Suit Over Hacked Worker, User Data

By Ben Adlin

A former Redfin Corp. employee filed a proposed nationwide class action against the real estate listings company Wednesday, accusing it of failing to meet "even the most basic requirements of cybersecurity" to protect workers' and customers' personal information from hackers.

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Google Will Seek To Pause Ad Tech Case For DOJ Appeal

By Matthew Perlman

Google will ask a New York federal court to pause a scheduled April trial in the private antitrust litigation over its advertising placement technology while it appeals a loss in a similar case from the U.S. Department of Justice in Virginia.

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Fintech Regulator Outlook: Collaboration In North Dakota

The recent speed of new digital asset products entering the market continues to introduce compliance challenges, so regulators and companies alike must examine the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, collaboration and modernization to navigate regulatory complexity, says Lise Kruse at the North Dakota Department of Financial Institutions.

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Missouri AG Alumni Make Their Mark In Trump 2.0

By Courtney Bublé

Missouri is hundreds of miles from Washington, D.C., but the legal community of the Show-Me State has taken a significant hold in the second Trump administration.

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Norton Rose Beats $100M Suit Over Withdrawn Patent App

By Celeste Bott

Norton Rose Fulbright has defeated a former client's malpractice suit over a missed patent fee payment, after an Illinois state judge ruled that the deadline to sue began before the firm allegedly acknowledged its mistake and dismissed the company's $100 million lawsuit against the firm with prejudice.

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Murdaugh Tells 4th Circ. To Revive Jury Tampering Civil Suit

By Cara Salvatore

Disgraced lawyer Alex Murdaugh asked the Fourth Circuit on Thursday to revive his suit accusing a court clerk of interfering in his murder trial, arguing he has standing because the alleged tampering "destroyed the value" of his $600,000 defense.

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Judge Who Called For Philly DA Probe Rejects Recusal Bid

By Matthew Santoni

A federal judge who called for an investigation of the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office will not reconsider or recuse himself from the underlying habeas corpus case, calling DA Larry Krasner's bid to undo his rulings "frivolous" and "intemperate."

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Crowell Faces DQ Bid Over AI Tool At Heart Of Client's IP Suit

By Dorothy Atkins

DeviantArt urged a California federal judge Wednesday to disqualify Crowell & Moring LLP from representing Evox Productions in litigation alleging multiple AI companies used Evox's copyrighted car photos to train artificial-intelligence image generators, arguing the firm "unquestionably" represented DeviantArt and has "sued its own client on behalf of another client."

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Gov't Urges Justices To Reject Google, Intel Fight Over Fintiv

By Adam Lidgett

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reject Intel Corp. and Google LLC's challenge to a precedent allowing Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions to be denied based on related litigation.

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Would-Be Kavanaugh Assassin Slams Feds' Skewed Facts

By Lauren Berg

A woman accused of trying to kill U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh told the Fourth Circuit that federal prosecutors have presented a "wildly inaccurate description" of a Maryland federal judge's sentencing decision, rejecting their argument that she got off too easy because of her gender identity.

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NYC Sanctuary Policies Survive Trump Admin. Lawsuit

By Rae Ann Varona

A New York federal judge on Thursday tossed the Trump administration's lawsuit challenging New York City policies that the administration alleged unconstitutionally obstruct federal immigration enforcement, saying federal law the administration leaned on does not preempt the sanctuary provisions.

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