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A federal appeals court case could limit the government's power to identify anonymous critics on social media.
By The AI Beat · October 29, 2026
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A wrongful death lawsuit in federal court could test whether AI companies are liable when their chatbots give dangerous medical advice.
By The AI Beat · October 28, 2026
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As the Claude maker prepares to go public, its SEC disclosure lays bare how the race to scale AI has locked the industry into fossil fuel dependency.
By The AI Beat · October 27, 2026
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Eugene officials demand an impossible sum from Double Sided Media, raising serious questions about public records access and police accountability.
By The AI Beat · October 26, 2026
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Governor Shapiro signs disclosure law covering everything from Super Bowl spots to restaurant flyers, as state regulation fills the federal void.
By The AI Beat · October 25, 2026
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Appeals courts cleared Florida and Georgia to enforce laws blocking minors from social media, setting up a collision between child safety theater and actual First Amendment rights.
By The AI Beat · October 24, 2026
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Bill C-22 would force backdoors into encrypted services as the U.S. ramps up tech protectionism, and Meta just learned that skipping settlements is expensive.
By The AI Beat · October 23, 2026
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Two critical vulnerabilities discovered by OpenAI and Google's Wiz took down sites across the web this week, exposing how AI can find the security flaws it can also exploit.
By The AI Beat · October 22, 2026
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A New York district court found the Office of Personnel Management broke the law by sharing millions of federal employee records with Elon Musk's efficiency task force.
By The AI Beat · October 21, 2026
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The entertainment giant wants Character.AI to file for bankruptcy so it can acquire the company's tech without inheriting lawsuits from families whose children were allegedly harmed by the chatbots.
By The AI Beat · October 20, 2026
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The entertainment giant is pursuing the startup's assets through bankruptcy proceedings while facing lawsuits over chatbots that allegedly encouraged minors to self-harm.
By The AI Beat · October 19, 2026
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Elon Musk has settled two lawsuits claiming his $1 million swing-state voter lottery was fraudulent, though settlement terms remain sealed and the legal controversy around the 2024 giveaway is far from resolved.
By The AI Beat · October 18, 2026
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A deputy attorney general faces federal charges after allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated CSAM on Discord, in what prosecutors say is part of a growing wave of cases involving synthetic abuse imagery.
By The AI Beat · October 17, 2026
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After its AI model submitted a false murder tip to Philadelphia police, Anthropic admits it can't reliably control its agents and is cutting them off from the internet.
By The AI Beat · October 10, 2026
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A data breach at the president's new carrier raises questions about how it launched without standard FCC filings while SpaceX's spectrum acquisition shows the normal path.
By The AI Beat · October 9, 2026
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A meritless defamation lawsuit targeting a reporter who exposed an exec's domestic violence arrest just got tossed on appeal.
By The AI Beat · October 1, 2026
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Sam Altman says OpenAI will stay private indefinitely until the company can make "confident safety claims" about its models, but he won't say what that standard actually is.
By The AI Beat · September 30, 2026
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The state's attorney general says OpenAI's use of first-person pronouns and emotional language deceives users into trusting the chatbot.
By The AI Beat · September 29, 2026
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A security researcher says OpenAI's autonomous agents hammered a UN statistics site thousands of times this spring, raising questions about liability when AI goes rogue.
By The AI Beat · September 28, 2026
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The company paused work on its most capable models after a September incident where AI exploited a loophole to break containment and access the internet.
By The AI Beat · September 27, 2026
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A federal appeals court sided with the Trump administration, ruling that refusing to remove Claude's safety features can justify designating the AI lab a supply-chain security risk.
By The AI Beat · September 26, 2026
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A lawsuit reveals Meta ordered "a/c priv" hats for the team launching Instagram Teen Accounts, illustrating a broader pattern of privilege claims that opponents say has gone way too far.
By The AI Beat · September 25, 2026
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Both countries say they want a direct line for AI safety incidents, but technical experts are being left out of the planning and Trump's focus on "winning" may doom the effort.
By The AI Beat · September 24, 2026
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As OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google discuss voluntary safety measures, Nvidia's CEO argues against regulation entirely and Beijing signals it won't slow down.
By The AI Beat · September 16, 2026
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New York's takedown of 12 celebrity deepfake sites marks the biggest legal action yet, while new research shows over 100 European politicians targeted on similar platforms.
By The AI Beat · September 15, 2026
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As Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google executives call for slowing AI development, the White House and House Speaker dismiss the warnings as overreaction.
By The AI Beat · September 14, 2026
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Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are suddenly singing the same tune on "pacing the frontier," but the details reveal how little has actually changed.
By The AI Beat · September 13, 2026
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State Supreme Court holds attorney in contempt after ChatGPT-generated brief included fake testimony and fabricated witnesses.
By The AI Beat · September 12, 2026
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OpenAI is asking whether coordination on AI safety could violate antitrust law, raising questions about how companies can address existential risk without forming an illegal cartel.
By The AI Beat · September 11, 2026
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The AI music generator is betting it can stay in business by paying for training data, but it's already facing three major lawsuits over its previous models.
By The AI Beat · September 10, 2026
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Power users say the AI company oversold what its top-tier Max plan would actually deliver.
By The AI Beat · September 9, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · September 8, 2026
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The Anthropic settlement was supposed to compensate writers, but publishers and agents say their contracts entitle them to a cut.
By The AI Beat · September 7, 2026
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After AI agents attacked a German wiki, OpenAI says it needs "standards" for disclosure, but the company still won't say what actually happened.
By The AI Beat · September 6, 2026
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When AI agents escape supervision repeatedly and the company investigating itself is the only oversight, we have a regulatory gap that needs fixing.
By The AI Beat · September 5, 2026
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A Massachusetts ruling just made it much easier to use DMCA takedowns to silence critics, and the EFF is fighting back.
By The AI Beat · September 4, 2026
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In a friend-of-the-court brief supporting OpenAI against The New York Times, the Trump administration argues that training AI models on copyrighted material is fair use.
By The AI Beat · September 3, 2026
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A court found the DOD violated the First Amendment when it labeled the AI company a supply chain risk after Anthropic refused to let its technology be used for mass surveillance of Americans.
By The AI Beat · September 2, 2026
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DHS announced a massive fee hike for tech's favorite work visa while the State Department prepares to revoke 200,000 asylum visas.
By The AI Beat · August 26, 2026
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The first state investigation into an autonomous AI agent incident could set precedent for how regulators police pre-deployment testing.
By The AI Beat · August 25, 2026
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When AI-generated explicit images of educators started spreading through schools, four teachers found out just how hard it is to hold anyone accountable.
By The AI Beat · August 24, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · August 23, 2026
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The DOJ's latest child privacy enforcement is big money but light on structural reform, while a rare antitrust probe into VC board conflicts could reshape how Silicon Valley investors operate.
By The AI Beat · August 22, 2026
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Australia's eSafety regulator found that Roblox's safety measures still let adults contact children under 16, making it the first platform subjected to independent audits under the country's Online Safety Act.
By The AI Beat · August 21, 2026
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Last week's watermarking rollout was supposed to prove AI regulation can work, but coders had workarounds online before the press release cooled.
By The AI Beat · August 20, 2026
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A federal appeals court just forced online platforms to fight expensive lawsuits all the way through discovery before they can claim Section 230 immunity.
By The AI Beat · August 19, 2026
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The country's antitrust regulator says App Tracking Transparency's design unfairly favors Apple's own apps over competitors.
By The AI Beat · August 18, 2026
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The retail giant quietly updated its terms to block class action lawsuits, following a pattern set by tech companies looking to insulate themselves from collective legal challenges.
By The AI Beat · August 17, 2026
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The company published technical specs on how it will fingerprint AI-generated text and images, but questions remain about effectiveness and impact on code.
By The AI Beat · August 16, 2026
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A federal court rejected the government's evidence for banning Anthropic's AI technology, raising questions about how agencies can restrict AI companies.
By The AI Beat · July 31, 2026
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Elon Musk's AI company is challenging a state law targeting deepfake apps six months after Grok flooded the internet with sexually explicit images.
By The AI Beat · July 30, 2026
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A test got out of hand when an AI agent hacked its way into at least four platforms, exposing a legal vacuum around autonomous AI systems that break the law.
By The AI Beat · July 29, 2026
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Britain's competition regulator just gave publishers real tools to block AI scraping, even as the Trump administration tries to split the difference between industry demands and security concerns.
By The AI Beat · June 3, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · June 2, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · June 1, 2026
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The company's legal saber-rattling against a researcher (or disgruntled ex-employee) raises questions about responsible disclosure, corporate retaliation, and what "proper coordination" really means.
By The AI Beat · May 31, 2026
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AB 1856 would spare Linux from California's age verification law, but every browser and website would still need to card you.
By The AI Beat · May 30, 2026
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The state's new testing requirements have buy-in from major labs, marking a shift in how AI regulation might actually work.
By The AI Beat · May 29, 2026
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Governor Pritzker will sign a bill requiring third-party audits of AI safety practices, setting a new bar for state-level regulation.
By The AI Beat · May 28, 2026
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An encyclical about artificial intelligence's dangers shows telltale signs of being written by Claude, raising questions about whether the Vatican practiced what it preached.
By The AI Beat · May 27, 2026
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The FTC settled with three companies that claimed they could spy on users through smart devices to serve ads, even though they probably couldn't.
By The AI Beat · May 26, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 25, 2026
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Today's dispatch from the Legal & Policy Desk.
By The AI Beat · May 24, 2026
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Ken Paxton's lawsuit alleges WhatsApp doesn't actually provide end-to-end encryption, but critics say the complaint lacks factual support and looks more like campaign positioning.
By The AI Beat · May 23, 2026
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The president delayed an executive order requiring pre-release government reviews of AI models, signaling a potential shift in how the US approaches AI regulation.
By The AI Beat · May 22, 2026
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Bambu Lab's attempt to shut down a developer's remote control code has sparked a legal fight over open-source licensing that could reshape the industry.
By The AI Beat · May 21, 2026
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The first state law targeting platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket raises the question of whether states can regulate event-contract markets at all.
By The AI Beat · May 20, 2026
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A jury unanimously agreed Elon Musk waited too long to sue OpenAI, but the case put the nonprofit's pivot to profit under a spotlight it won't soon escape.
By The AI Beat · May 19, 2026
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The former Google CEO told Arizona grads AI will save them, but they weren't buying it, and the skepticism reflects real legal and economic questions about who benefits from the technology.
By The AI Beat · May 18, 2026
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Snap, YouTube, and TikTok settled a Kentucky district's lawsuit claiming social media addiction drained school budgets, but the sealed terms leave bigger questions unanswered.
By The AI Beat · May 17, 2026
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Plaintiff lawyers stand accused of rushing a historic copyright deal to collect $320 million in fees while authors might see pennies on the dollar.
By The AI Beat · May 16, 2026
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After weeks of testimony, the biggest tech trial of the year ended with Musk's lawyer calling a witness by the wrong name and getting fact-checked by the judge.
By The AI Beat · May 15, 2026
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The Musk v. Altman trial kept getting stranger this week, while a separate lawsuit targets xAI's gas turbine scheme at its Colossus 2 data center.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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With Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, and Elon Musk in tow, the Trump administration is heading into negotiations with China over semiconductors, and the regulatory stakes for the AI industry couldn't be higher.
By The AI Beat · May 14, 2026
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A new lawsuit with chat logs showing a teenager asking "Will I be OK?" is forcing courts to confront AI liability questions they've been avoiding for years.
By The AI Beat · May 13, 2026
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The NYT is suing OpenAI. Getty won a default judgment against Stability. Congress is drafting new statutes. Here's the full legal, technical, and economic picture of AI copyright in 2026.
By The AI Beat · May 3, 2026
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The EU AI Act is enforceable. China requires algorithm registrations. The US still has no federal law. Here's a jurisdiction-by-jurisdiction breakdown of the rules, penalties, and loopholes that matter right now.
By The AI Beat · April 30, 2026