US music publishers suing Anthropic make their case against AI 'fair use'Music publishers Universal Music Group, Concord and ABKCO have asked a judge in California to rule that US copyright law does not insulate ...
24 Mar, 2026, 10.07 PM IST
Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authorsUS District Judge William Alsup issued the preliminary approval in San Francisco federal court Thursday after the two sides worked to addre...
26 Sep, 2025, 08.21 AM IST
Trump government illegally ordered mass firings: JudgeA US judge determined that the Trump administration wrongly ordered the dismissal of many federal employees. The Office of Personnel Manage...
13 Sep, 2025, 11.57 PM IST
US authors suing Anthropic can band together in copyright class action, judge rulesUS District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic may have illegally downloaded as many as 7 million books from the pirate websites, which cou...
17 Jul, 2025, 08.12 PM IST
US judge backs using copyrighted books to train AIA US federal judge has sided with Anthropic regarding training its artificial intelligence models on copyrighted books without authors' per...
25 Jun, 2025, 08.17 AM IST
Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuitSiding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, US District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made "fair use" of boo...
24 Jun, 2025, 07.17 PM IST
US Supreme Court halts reinstatement of fired federal employeesThe Supreme Court has blocked a judge's order that would have forced the Trump administration to rehire thousands of fired employees, sidin...
08 Apr, 2025, 10.12 PM IST
Trump takes challenge to judge's federal worker rehiring order to Supreme CourtPresident Trump’s administration is seeking Supreme Court intervention against a judge's order to reinstate thousands of probationary feder...
24 Mar, 2025, 08.41 PM IST
US judges order Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired workersFederal judges in California and Maryland have ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary federal workers who ...
15 Mar, 2025, 01.27 PM IST
US judge orders Trump administration to reinstate thousands of fired workersThe ruling made by U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco during a hearing applies to the U.S. Department of Defense, Departmen...
14 Mar, 2025, 07.52 AM IST
Judge finds mass firings of federal probationary workers were likely unlawfulA federal judge in San Francisco found the mass firings of probationary employees likely unlawful and granted temporary relief to labor uni...
28 Feb, 2025, 06.36 AM IST
Elon Musk's X Corp loses lawsuit against Israeli data-scraping companyX Corp's legal battles over copyright violations against data-scraping companies were dismissed by Judge Alsup, raising concerns about mono...
10 May, 2024, 09.59 PM IST
Google must face trial over Sonos patents, says California judgeThe case, set for trial May 8, is part of a contentious intellectual property dispute between the former business partners over their smart...
14 Apr, 2023, 09.32 AM IST
Ex-Google executive sent to prison for stealing robocar secretsA former Google engineer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to stealing trade secrets before joining Uber's ef...
05 Aug, 2020, 04.53 PM IST
US judge says Uber withheld evidence, delays Waymo trialThe trial had been scheduled to begin on Dec. 4. Waymo said it learned of the new evidence last week after the US Department of Justice sha...
28 Nov, 2017, 11.59 PM IST
Uber fires executive at center of driverless car legal fightLevandowski joined the ride-hailing startup in 2016 after several years at Google's autonomous driving project, which is now called Waymo.
31 May, 2017, 10.10 AM IST
Uber faces significant setback in its driverless-car programmeAlsup wrote that Waymo, "has made a strong showing that Levandowski absconded with over 14,000 files" from the company when he left last ye...
16 May, 2017, 04.28 PM IST