Anthropic Says Claude Gave False Murder Tip To Philly Cops

By Hailey Konnath

Anthropic on Friday disclosed a series of incidents in which its Claude artificial intelligence tool went rogue, particularly in interactions with federal and local government websites, including an incident in which it submitted a false tip about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department.

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Analysis

Can Trade Secret Law Protect Indigenous Knowledge?

By Ivan Moreno

As the U.S. and other countries struggle to agree on new international protections for Indigenous knowledge, trade secret law is drawing renewed attention as a possible solution for material that communities actually keep confidential.

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9th Circ. Says AmeriBen Data Breach Enough To Allege Injury

By Gina Kim

The Ninth Circuit on Friday revived a proposed data breach class action alleging health plan administrator AmeriBen unlawfully revealed patients' information, ruling the disclosures were enough to sustain a lawsuit even if the underlying information might seem "mundane."

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Amazon Can't Push Back FTC Antitrust Trial

By Bryan Koenig

A Washington federal judge refused Friday to delay the Federal Trade Commission antitrust trial accusing Amazon.com Inc. of creating an artificial pricing floor in online retail, forcing the company to try to navigate a potential timing overlap in parallel state court litigation from the California attorney general.

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Apple Faces Trimmed Down BIPA Trial Over Faceprint Claims

By Celeste Bott

An Illinois federal judge has ruled Apple must face a jury over claims its Photos app unlawfully collects Illinois users' faceprints, rejecting the company's argument that encryption shields it from liability under the state's biometric privacy law but scrapping claims over cropped facial images.

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Atty With False AI Citation Filings Ordered To Pay $39K

By Bonnie Eslinger

A New York federal judge who imposed case-terminating sanctions on an attorney who submitted filings with false citations generated by artificial intelligence ordered him on Friday to pay nearly $39,000 to lawyers who uncovered the problematic AI use, noting he had given them the "runaround" when they tried to collect directly.

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Squires Grants 4 PTAB Petitions, Rejects 3 In New Drop

By Dani Kass

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted four new America Invents Act reviews at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and turned down three in his newest mass order.

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Analysis

FBI Portal Hack Sharpens Focus On Cyber Regulation Path

By Allison Grande

The recent hack of the FBI's jobs portal underscores mounting cyberthreats to government agencies and critical infrastructure, fueling the debate over whether internal fixes or formal regulation can best address the growing cyber risks powered by artificial intelligence.

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Up Next At High Court: Criminal Sentences & Video Privacy

By Katie Buehler

The U.S. Supreme Court will close out its October sitting by hearing oral arguments in two cases that ask what level of deference federal district courts should give to commentary interpreting the federal sentencing guidelines, and what purchases are protected under a video consumer privacy statute.

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FCC To Begin Search For Upper C-Band Clearinghouse Admin

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission has begun the process of selecting an entity that will serve as the clearinghouse charged with reimbursing incumbent spectrum users for making way for 5G wireless in the upper C-band.

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FCC Proposes Rules To Vet Broadband Subsidy Recipients

By Nadia Dreid

Almost five months after the Rural Broadband Protection Act was signed into law, the Federal Communications Commission is getting the ball rolling on establishing the vetting process mandated by the law for internet service providers taking part in the agency's "high cost" program.

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FCC Aims To Boost Mexico, Canada Telecom Border Security

By Aneeta Mathur-Ashton

The Federal Communications Commission will vote on proposed new rules that would strengthen border security by improving transparency and disclosures for communications across the U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canada borders.

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FCC Urged To Put Hold On Repeal Of Media Ownership Cap

By Christopher Cole

Several groups are calling on the Federal Communications Commission to stay a recent order lifting its long-standing 39% cap on national broadcast audience reach while a court battle plays out.

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Phaseout Of FCC's E-Rate Could Dampen GDP, Report Says

By Christopher Cole

An advocacy group warned that a Federal Communications Commission plan to eventually phase out the E-Rate connectivity aid program could dampen U.S. economic output.

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Brief

EU, China Make Trade Pledges On Hybrid Vehicles, Minerals

By Dylan Moroses

The European Union and China said Friday that they reached mutual understanding on several key trade matters following a bilateral meeting, including the facilitation of Chinese minerals to EU companies and limiting China's exports of hybrid vehicles to the bloc.

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Legal Marketing Co. Inks $600K Call Center Rep Wage Deal

By MJ Koo

Legal marketing company Lawyer.com Inc. agreed to pay $600,000 to settle claims in a New Jersey federal court that it misclassified call center representatives as independent contractors and failed to pay them overtime wages required under federal law.

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Microsoft Gets Azure Cloud Computing Patent Suit Narrowed

By Elliot Weld

A Texas federal judge has trimmed a suit by a patent-holding company accusing Microsoft of infringing patents covering improvements in virtualization and cloud monitoring, tossing allegations of infringement that occurred before the company obtained the patents.

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DirecTV, AGs Can't See Nexstar-Tegna Benefits Yet

By Bryan Koenig

A California federal magistrate judge refused to make Nexstar and Tegna explain how their $6.2 billion merger will boost local news against streaming competition and accelerate technological transition, rejecting as premature a motion to compel from DirecTV and the bipartisan coalition of state attorneys general challenging the deal.

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College Students' Data Privacy Suit Mostly Survives Toss Bid

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A Pennsylvania federal judge has trimmed a New Jersey state claim from community college students' privacy lawsuit alleging a business software company failed to safeguard personal information from a data breach, allowing the bulk of the suit to proceed.

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Del. Justices Back ATG In Empery Proxy Fight

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Supreme Court has upheld a Chancery Court ruling requiring digital asset company Empery Digital Inc. to allow activist investor ATG Capital Opportunities Fund LP's nine board nominees to stand for election, rejecting the company's challenge less than a week before its annual meeting Oct. 14.

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Amazon Wants Out Of Website Patent Suit, Citing EBay Ruling

By Adam Lidgett

Amazon said Thursday it shouldn't have to face a lawsuit accusing it of infringing a pair of patents on customizing access to websites, telling a Washington federal court that not only are the patents expired, the inventions were not patent eligible in the first place.

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Taiwanese Tech Co. Asks To Toss Device Update Patent Suit

By Elliot Weld

Taiwanese technology-maker Getac Holdings Corp. has asked a Texas federal judge to dismiss a patent infringement suit brought by Media Key LLC over a patent covering methods of remotely updating smart device applications, saying the suit was nothing more than a threadbare pleading that didn't connect Getac to the patent.

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Alight Seeks To Nix Investors' Deceptive Growth Claims Suit

By Patrick Hoff

Employee benefits and human resources provider Alight urged an Illinois federal court to toss a suit alleging its executives misled investors about the company's ability to hit financial targets, arguing it repeatedly warned about the risks of its strategic overhaul.

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Apple, Amazon Hit With New IPad Sale Antitrust Suit

By Gina Kim

Amazon and Apple were hit with a proposed antitrust class action again on Friday in Washington federal court by customers who alleged the tech giants violated the Sherman Act through an illegal arrangement to eliminate nearly all Apple reseller competitors from Amazon, which raised prices for iPads.

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Symbotic Hid Contractor's Delays From Investors, Suit Says

By Katryna Perera

The top brass of warehouse robotics company Symbotic Inc. has been sued in Delaware Chancery Court by a shareholder who claims they hid problems with a contractor, including project delays and major cost overruns, that later forced the company to restate its financials and caused its share price to drop.

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Intel Contractor Not Covered For Injury Suit, Travelers Says

By Abraham Gross

An Intel contractor is not owed coverage for a worker's $9.4 million personal injury suit stemming from an alleged chemical inhalation at the technology corporation's plant, two Travelers units told an Oregon federal court.

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Brief

Pictiva, Samsung Resolve LED Television Patent Cases

By Elliot Weld

Samsung and Irish patent licensing company Pictiva Displays have resolved two cases accusing Samsung of infringing patents covering light-emitting diodes after the patent board knocked out one of Pictiva's patents tied to a $191.4 million verdict.

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Roundup

UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London

By Megan Norcott

The past week in London has seen PrivatBank sue its former oligarch owner, building materials provider Kingspan face a €100 million ($112 million) claim over Grenfell Tower cladding and energy giants VaroPreem and Viaro Energy become embroiled in an intellectual property row.

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Analysis

M&A Attys See Resilience Through Q3 Amid Geopolitical Risk

By Al Barbarino

Global M&A activity remained strong through the first nine months of 2026 despite a third-quarter slowdown, as strategic buyers and private equity firms continued to pursue deals in areas ranging from technology and defense to essential services, attorneys told Law360.

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Hexagon Buying TA-Backed Rocscience In $535M Deal

By Al Barbarino

Hexagon AB said Friday it has agreed to purchase TA Associates-backed Rocscience, an engineering software solutions company, at an enterprise value of approximately $535 million.

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Clean Energy Data Center Developer Inks $300M SPAC Merger

By Nate Beck

Green AI Cloud, an operator of artificial intelligence data centers in Sweden, will merge with a special purpose acquisition company to go public in a deal valuing the company at $300 million in pre-money equity value, guided by Mannheimer Swartling Advokatbyrå AB and Winston Taylor.

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DOJ Aims To 'Attack Fraud From All Angles' Via New Division

By Sarah Jarvis

The U.S. Department of Justice's new fraud division has issued fresh guidance on its prosecution methodology, with the division's head directing prosecutors to seize assets before indictments and pursue upward variances in sentencing guidelines in some cases as part of a stated push to use the division's "full arsenal of criminal statutes" in combating fraud.

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Cybercrime Laundering Leader Pleads Guilty In $10M Scheme

By Corey Rothauser

A Ukrainian-Russian dual citizen pleaded guilty in North Carolina federal court to helping run an international money laundering organization that recruited more than 15,000 U.S. residents to transfer money stolen by hackers, federal prosecutors said.

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Squire Patton, Holland & Knight Report Data Breaches

By Jake Maher

Squire Patton Boggs LLP and Holland & Knight LLP were hit with cyberattacks exposing sensitive information, according to disclosures filed this week.

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Ill. Judge Lays Out Doc Demands For DOJ Misconduct Probe

By Lauraann Wood

An Illinois federal judge asked the government Friday to turn over six months of communications and certain other records as she investigates in-court inaccuracies Chicago prosecutors offered while prosecuting six anti-immigration protesters, rejecting its request to seal a filing in the process.

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Grassley Attacks Dems' Claims Of Rule-Breaking Over Hearing

By Courtney Bublé

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, clapped back at Democrats for their accusations that Republicans broke Senate rules during a hearing last week at which former special counsel Jack Smith appeared.

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Calif. Jurists' Atty Tips: 'Emulate Lincoln,' 'Don't Be Boring'

By Bonnie Eslinger

Three current and former Northern California federal judges and one Morrison Foerster LLP partner during a Federal Bar Association panel discussion Thursday gave attorneys tips on "courtroom persuasion," including knowing the judges, keeping things interesting and, like the nation's 16th president, getting quickly to the winning point.

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Brief

Legal Services NYC Gets $2.5M To Build Novel Resource Hub

By Tracey Read

Legal Services NYC announced Friday that it has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the New York State Interest on Lawyer Account Fund to create a first-of-its-kind statewide knowledge-sharing platform to help legal advocates spend more time seeking justice for low-income clients.

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GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week

By Sue Reisinger

The new federal fraud division is threatening faster action and broader targets under a new enforcement policy announced recently. And the SEC warned shareholder advocacy groups that join forces could face legal scrutiny in the future. These are some of the stories in corporate legal news you may have missed in the past week.​

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Law360's Legal Lions Of The Week

By Kevin Penton

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Alston & Bird LLP lead this week's edition of Law360 Legal Lions, after the Sixth Circuit overturned a pivotal decision in multidistrict opioid litigation that had dramatically expanded claims against the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers.

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In Case You Missed It: Hottest Firms And Stories On Law360

For those who missed out, here's a look back at the law firms, stories and expert analyses that generated the most buzz on Law360 last week.

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