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The cases, among dozens pending against ChatGPT maker OpenAI, share a common legal theory: product liability.

OpenAI was hit with a trademark lawsuit in San ​Francisco federal court on Monday over its ‌new "Astra" AI model from a software company that says it has been using the "Astra" name since 2021.

The laws ban employers from using the technology to predict a worker’s emotional state by using their biometric data, require employers to send written notices to workers if AI is responsible for mass layoffs and ban employers from relying on AI to decide to fire someone.

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Moldova voted on Tuesday to impose a 60-day state of emergency on its energy and water sectors due to severely low water levels on the Dniester River and global conflicts that are driving up energy costs.

California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed seven bills aimed at regulating the fast-growing data center industry, imposing new ​requirements on electricity costs, water use and local oversight as communities ‌push back against a surge in AI-linked development.

The plaintiffs don’t object to the companies individually deciding to slow their own progress in favor of safety. They instead argue in the complaint that antitrust laws forbid them from taking the “shortcut” of agreeing to “substitute collective restraint for individual accountability.” A competitive market allows for responsibility and genuine progress, the lawsuit argues.

"You would have thought that the legal profession — armed with awareness that hallucinations can happen — would be more vigilant," said US District Judge P. Kevin Castel in Manhattan, whose 2023 order sanctioning ​lawyers for citing fake ChatGPT-generated cases became the profession's earliest warning.

An Oklahoma judge has acknowledged that a ruling he issued contained fictitious citations generated by artificial intelligence, according to state records, adding to a growing number of cases in which judges ​have faced scrutiny over AI use.

U.S. Senate negotiators are debating legislation that would put responsibility on tech companies to design safe AI products, according ‌to two Senate aides, and involve federal courts if the U.S. government wants to block their release, according to a Senate aide and a lobbyist involved in the negotiations.

A defense lawyer appealing his client's murder conviction submitted a brief containing made-up ‌police testimony and witnesses fabricated by OpenAI's ChatGPT, New Mexico's highest court said.

candidate for the Missouri House made an initial court appearance Thursday on a federal drug charge accusing him of trying to plant cocaine and Adderall on his Republican primary opponent.

A U.S. appeals court has asked to hear arguments over whether a lower court judge in Mississippi should be reassigned from a ​case after he issued an order containing errors stemming from the use ‌of AI.

OpenAI and rival Anthropic recently disclosed that their agents – AI models that perform tasks with ‌virtually no human intervention – had wormed their way into other companies' systems, admissions that have put the industry on edge.

Truman famously kept a “The Buck Stops Here” sign on his desk as president. That came from “pass the buck,” which, according to Truman’s presidential library, dates to frontier times, when poker players would pass a buckhorn handle knife to the person whose turn it was to deal the cards.

"I will primarily look for two things. One is the readiness of the project ... the second aspect I look for is the credit quality of the project," said Karen Fang, global head of infrastructure & sustainable finance at Bank of America. "Readiness means all the permitting and approvals that are required, and the community support from the people who are ​going to live around it."

Major artificial intelligence developers have reported cases of their autonomous AI models breaching other companies' cyber infrastructure, raising questions about who may be held legally responsible when AI systems act without direct human oversight.

A U.S. federal appeals court on Friday ordered President Donald Trump’s administration to ‌stop construction on a $400 million ballroom on the site of the White House's demolished East Wing, dealing the Republican leader a major setback in a case testing his presidential authority.

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