Justice & courts
State & law · entries: 8
events
- A company owner is arrested in California, charged with smuggling servers with American GPUs worth more than $300 million to China via Malaysia and SingaporeGeopolitics & defense · Justice & courts · Compute export controls · justice.gov ↗
- The court gives final approval to the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement: $1.5 billion, about $3,000 per work; earlier the judge had ruled that training Claude on books was fair use, but storing pirated copies was notJustice & courts · Culture & arts · Large language model · anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com ↗
- The Beijing labor dispute arbitration commission includes among the year’s typical cases a ruling in favor of an employee dismissed after data collection was switched to automation: replacing a position with AI as an ordinary business decision does not count as a “major change in objective circumstances”, and new technologies must not become a cover for unlawful dismissalWork & jobs · Justice & courts · AI and jobs · news.cn ↗
- The US Department of Justice shuts down an AI chip smuggling network to China: from October 2024 to May 2025 H100 and H200 chips worth at least $160 million were exported or attempted to be exportedGeopolitics & defense · Justice & courts · Compute export controls · justice.gov ↗
- Kenya's High Court orders World to delete Kenyans' biometric data within 7 days and bans its collectionPrivacy & surveillance · Justice & courts · Proof of personhood · theblock.co ↗
- The Federal Administrative Court of Austria rules that reCAPTCHA is not technically necessary for a website to work and may be enabled only with the visitor's consentPrivacy & surveillance · Justice & courts · Death of CAPTCHA · ris.bka.gv.at ↗
- The New York Times sues OpenAI and Microsoft over training models on its articlesJustice & courts · Media & information · Large language model · nytco-assets.nytimes.com ↗
- A New York court fined two lawyers and their firm $5,000 in Mata v. Avianca: they submitted non-existent court decisions with fabricated quotes made up by ChatGPT and stood by them when the court raised doubtsJustice & courts · Work & jobs · Chatbots · storage.courtlistener.com ↗