OpenAI moved the court for a preliminary injunction against Open Artificial Intelligence, Inc., enjoining the company and its officers, employees and agents from any and all development, production, promotion, sale and distribution of products or services that use the name “‘OpenAI,’ or any confusingly similar variant, including ‘Open AI’” said its Friday motion (docket 4:23-cv-03918) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.
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Various interested party responses and notices of related action and oral argument were filed late last week before the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (JPML) involving Progress Software Corp.’s (PSC) May MOVEit file transfer software data breach, court records show.
Temu failed to secure and safeguard customers’ personal data, enabling hackers to steal their personal and financial data and put that information at “serious and ongoing risk,” alleged a fraud complaint (docket 1:23-cv-06962) Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Eastern New York in Brooklyn.
Without the copyrighted works of 17 plaintiff authors and a proposed class, OpenAI would have a “vastly different commercial product,” said Rachel Geman of Lieff Cabraser in a Wednesday news release announcing a copyright infringement suit (docket 1:23-cv-08292) brought by 17 authors and the Authors Guild against OpenAI in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. OpenAI copied authors’ works to train their large language models (LLMs) without offering choice or compensation, which “threatens the role and livelihood of writers as a whole,” said Geman, the suit's co-counsel.
The FTC added three Amazon executives and included “significant new details” in an amended complaint Wednesday (docket 2:23-cv-00932) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. The details were redacted in its original June complaint.
The court should dismiss a fraud class action arising from a 2022 LastPass data breach because the plaintiffs lack standing and failed to plead facts sufficient to constitute plausible claims under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6), said defendants GoTo Technologies and LastPass in their motion to dismiss Monday (docket 1:22-cv-12047) Monday in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts. The defendants also requested oral argument.
Meta intercepted individuals’ personal health data from their “covered entities” and via the Meta Pixel tracking tool profited from it without their consent, said a fraud class action Monday (docket 4:23-cv-04784) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in Oakland.
Peacock TV engages in an illegal automatic renewal scheme for its subscription streaming service with consumers who enroll in its membership programs through its website, mobile app or set-top devices, alleged plaintiff Holly Winston's fraud class action Friday (docket 1:23-cv-08191) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan.
The plaintiffs’ claims in a June privacy complaint against Google and its Admob subsidiary are time-barred, fail to state a claim under Rule 12(b)(6) and are preempted by the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), said the defendants' motion to dismiss Thursday (docket 5:23-cv-03101) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Jose.
California’s $93 million settlement with Google resolves a multiyear investigation into the tech company’s location-privacy practices, said Attorney General Rob Bonta (D) in a Thursday news release. The California Department of Justice determined Google was ” deceiving users by collecting, storing, and using their location data for consumer profiling and advertising purposes without informed consent,” Bonta said.