Technology

  • June 18, 2026

    DirecTV, AGs Tell 9th Circ. Not To Curb Nexstar-Tegna Block

    DirecTV and a coalition of state attorneys general urged the Ninth Circuit not to narrow a district court preliminary injunction blocking Nexstar's purchase of Tegna, arguing the only way to preserve competition while the case proceeds is a full block, not one restricted to 31 overlapping broadcast markets.

  • June 18, 2026

    Meta Says IRS Seeks 'Do-Over' Of Facebook Case

    The IRS, in increasing Meta's income under the periodic adjustment rule for years 2017-2019, is seeking a "do-over" of the Facebook case decided in 2025, valuing the same intangibles the U.S. Tax Court already valued under a different method, Meta argued.

  • June 18, 2026

    News Orgs Must Give Cohere AI Use Policies

    A New York federal magistrate judge has ordered a group of news and magazine publishers to turn over their policies on how artificial intelligence is used in their newsrooms to AI startup Cohere, as Cohere stands accused of improperly using copyrighted news content to train chatbots.

  • June 18, 2026

    Del. Bill Seeks Intermediary Municipal Rental Tax Collection

    Delaware would require accommodations intermediaries to collect short-term rental tax for municipalities under a bill introduced in the state House of Representatives.

  • June 18, 2026

    Bill For AI Deepfake Reporting System Clears Senate Panel

    A bill that would create a pathway for reporting AI-generated deepfakes online for removal cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday after a few senators had raised concerns over First Amendment implications but said they believed they could be resolved before a full Senate vote.

  • June 18, 2026

    Microchip Co. Strikes Deal In Decade-Old Severance Dispute

    A microchip maker has agreed to settle a long-running class action alleging the company illegally shut down its severance program following a 2016 merger weeks before the case was set to go to trial, according to a California federal court filing.

  • June 18, 2026

    ISP Tells FCC Minn. City Can't Force It Into Cable Agreement

    Internet service provider Gateway Fiber has asked the Federal Communications Commission to step in and declare that a Minnesota city can't decide that its cable franchise agreement ordinances suddenly apply to broadband providers now.

  • June 18, 2026

    Mint Mobile Faces Class Action Over Deceptive Ads

    Mint Mobile is facing a proposed class action alleging that it is baiting customers into ordering home internet with nonexistent advertised discounts and overcharging them.

  • June 18, 2026

    Rhode Island Supreme Court Lays Out GenAI Guidelines

    The Rhode Island Supreme Court has amended the state's rules to better address the use of generative artificial intelligence by attorneys and judicial officers while also laying out interim guidelines.

  • June 18, 2026

    Meta's Newspaper Analogy Doesn't Sway Instagram Judge

    Meta faced some pushback Thursday from a Massachusetts state judge for comparing Instagram's design to a newspaper publisher's decisions about what to put on the front page, as the company pushed to end the state's lawsuit over alleged harm to youth from social media use.

  • June 18, 2026

    5 Big ERISA Litigation Developments From 2026's First Half

    The U.S. Supreme Court's acceptance of a petition challenging Intel's 401(k) investment lineup and a Fourth Circuit ruling unraveling a class of Genworth Financial retirement plan participants headlined the court developments that caught benefits attorneys' attention in the first six months of 2026. Here, Law360 looks at those and other noteworthy ERISA decisions.

  • June 18, 2026

    DeepSeek's Valuation Soars To $50B, Plus More Rumors

    Artificial intelligence company DeepSeek hit a $50 billion valuation following its latest funding round, the original backers of artificial intelligence company Manus are planning to buy the company back from Meta, and private equity shop KKR wants to buy a majority stake in the Indian business of Sweden's Medicover for at least $1 billion.

  • June 18, 2026

    Accenture Unveils $4.2B Cybersecurity Software Buying Spree

    Accenture said Thursday it will acquire a majority stake in industrial cybersecurity company Dragos and buy runZero and NetRise in deals with a combined enterprise value of $4.175 billion, expanding its software offerings for securing critical infrastructure and industrial operations.

  • June 18, 2026

    FTX Trust Cleared For $600M Disputed Claim Fund Reduction

    The FTX Recovery Trust received approval Thursday from a Delaware bankruptcy court to reduce the funds in a disputed claims reserve by $600 million after the trust processed thousands of claims that were either allowed or modified.

  • June 18, 2026

    Patent Claims On Novartis Unit Drug Invalid, Del. Judge Says

    A Delaware federal judge has cleared radiopharmaceutical companies of allegations they infringed claims in various patents owned by a French unit of Novartis after finding that all of those claims were invalid.

  • June 18, 2026

    NJ Tax Court Protects Taxpayer Methodology Ahead Of Trial

    A New Jersey tenant appealing the property tax assessment of a legacy data center is not required to provide the township with a detailed methodology of its assessment challenge prior to the case's trial, the state Tax Court ruled.

  • June 18, 2026

    Kilpatrick Hires Fried Frank Innovation Leader In NY

    A former artificial intelligence and knowledge management expert from Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP has joined Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP as director of innovation, executive search firm The Alexander Group announced Thursday.

  • June 18, 2026

    Amazon Wraps Up Ex-Worker's Race Bias, Retaliation Suit

    Amazon has reached an agreement to end a suit from a former executive assistant who claimed he was fired for complaining that he'd missed out on promotions and faced unwarranted criticism because he's Black, according to a filing in Georgia federal court.

  • June 18, 2026

    Troutman, Bennett Jones Guide Deluxe On $625M Celero Buy

    Deluxe said Thursday it has agreed to purchase payments company Celero Commerce for about $625 million in cash, with Troutman Pepper Locke LLP and Bennett Jones LLP advising Deluxe and DLA Piper representing Celero. 

  • June 18, 2026

    Judiciary Cites AI Deepfakes In Opposing Courtroom Cameras

    Two bipartisan bills to bring cameras into federal courtrooms advanced Thursday, but the policymaking body for the federal judiciary continues to oppose them and raised the issue of deepfakes in the age of artificial intelligence.

  • June 17, 2026

    Eve Legal Accused By AI.Law Of Infringing AI Drafting Tech

    Eve Legal ripped off legal tech company AI.Law's patent that allows lawyers and other legal professionals to use artificial intelligence to generate legal documents, AI.Law alleged in a patent infringement lawsuit filed Wednesday in California federal court.

  • June 17, 2026

    Ad Seller Can't Shake Wiretap Suit Over Temu Data Transfers

    An Illinois federal judge has refused to toss a putative class action accusing a global advertising technology company of breaking federal wiretap law by transmitting Americans' sensitive information to Chinese e-commerce giant Temu, finding it plausibly alleged the conduct violated a U.S. Department of Justice regulation restricting bulk data transfers to foreign adversaries.

  • June 17, 2026

    FTX Exec's Wife Must Face Campaign Finance Charges

    A New York federal judge Wednesday refused to throw out an indictment accusing crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond of campaign finance crimes, rejecting her argument that prosecutors previously promised her husband, a former FTX executive, that his guilty plea would mean she's in the clear.

  • June 17, 2026

    Acer Can't Nix Texas Jury's $10M Verdict Over Monitor Patents

    A Texas federal judge rejected Acer's effort to wipe out a jury's $10.3 million infringement award to rival SVV Technology Innovations over optical-film patents for monitors, finding the jury's verdict was supported by the evidence and the company's criticism of an SVV expert's methodology is too late.

  • June 17, 2026

    Bosch Receives First DOJ Declination Under New Policy

    German technology company Bosch on Wednesday became the first company to avoid criminal prosecution under a new U.S. Department of Justice enforcement policy after it cooperated with the federal government and agreed to pay $36 million to settle allegations it improperly exported technology products to sanctioned Chinese company Huawei.

Expert Analysis

  • 'Honeypot' Suit Spotlights Nuances Of Trade Secret Law

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    Fintech company MyCard's recent complaint filed in Delaware federal court, alleging that competitor Atomic FI copied its proprietary software, including a "honeypot" in the form of a specific 37-character string, highlights fact-intensive questions of when alleged trade secrets are actually secret, says Eugene Mar at Farella Braun.

  • FTC Focus: Calibrating Biden-Era Issues In 2026's 1st Half

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    In the first half of 2026, Federal Trade Commission actions have redefined which of the previous administration's theories it views as legally sustainable, institutionally worthwhile and consistent with a more restrained conception, including a pivot from rulemaking to case-specific noncompete enforcement this spring, say attorneys at Proskauer.

  • High Court's FCC Ruling Adds To Comms Industry Paradox

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    The Supreme Court's recent decision in Federal Communications Commission v. AT&T, finding that the FCC's informal forfeiture process survives Seventh Amendment scrutiny, opens some doors for regulated entities, but the practical effect may be surprisingly constrained, says Jonathan Marashlian at The CommLaw Group.

  • A Lender's Guide To Fraud: Identifying Risks

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    The evolving lending landscape, particularly the private credit boom, has heightened lenders' exposure to fraud, but recent bankruptcies demonstrate where fraud risks most commonly materialize and how banks can mitigate exposure at the outset, say attorneys at Moore & Van Allen.

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    Founding An Autism Academy Made Me A Better Lawyer

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    Starting a nonprofit autism school with no building, no funding model and no guarantee that families would trust us taught me the importance of mission, patience and purpose — lessons that sharpened my practice and showed how meaningful work outside the office can make lawyers better, says Phillip Russell at Ogletree Deakins.

  • Mapping US-China Investment Compliance For EB-5 Deals

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    Chinese capital deployment through the U.S.'s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, alongside China's recently established outbound investment security framework, creates compliance gaps with the U.S. framework, and unique risks and considerations for practitioners, says Xuan Zhang at Reid & Wise.

  • Trump's AI Order Is Strategic, Not Merely Deregulatory

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    Although the framework presented in President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on artificial intelligence is styled as voluntary and innovation-friendly, it creates a new soft-power mechanism for bringing the most capable AI systems into closer alignment with federal security priorities, says Jesse Lemon at The Beckage Firm.

  • Opinion

    Rule Of Law Requires Gov't Engagement With Bar, Not Retreat

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    A federal agency's absence from national and local bar conferences, most recently illustrated by the U.S. Department of Justice's withdrawal from a New York City Bar Association white collar conference, disserves the bar, the government lawyers themselves and, ultimately, the administration of justice, says Muhammad Faridi at Linklaters.

  • How Boards Can Shrink The AI Governance Gap

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    While companies have overwhelmingly embraced artificial intelligence, most lack corresponding governance structures and director-level fluency to oversee these programs, highlighting the importance of board and executive supervision to keep pace with growing litigation risk, say attorneys at Alston & Bird.

  • Fannie, Freddie AI Rules Raise Stakes For Mortgage Lenders

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    Artificial intelligence governance frameworks recently released by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac impose monitoring and vendor oversight standards on mortgage lenders, potentially reshaping secondary-market eligibility, fair lending reviews and risk management as compliance deadlines approach, says Brendan Palfreyman at Harris Beach.

  • AI Deals Call For Tailored Approach To Address Hidden Risks

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    As artificial intelligence deals continue to advance, they raise complex intellectual property questions with hard-to-verify technical facts that require a different approach to due diligence, risk allocation and execution, say lawyers at Katten.

  • The Paradoxical Duty To Adopt AI When You Can't Bill For It

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    Both billing for hours saved using artificial intelligence and preserving billable time by not adopting AI may violate rules of professional conduct, but until bar associations' ethics rules catch up to this emerging economic dilemma, firms must decide how to adjust fee structures themselves, says Ines Lassalle at Peyrot & Associates.

  • Meta's AI Deals Test Scope Of China M&A Scrutiny

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    The Chinese government's recent approval of Meta's purchase of an AI and robotics company, shortly after blocking a similar deal, raises questions about how far China's legal authority extends over foreign companies connected to China, and highlights the regulatory and compliance risks involved in cross-border acquisitions of AI businesses, says Minda Huang at TsingLaw Partners.

  • Mapping 5 Fronts Of The Prediction Markets Regulatory Battle

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    The legal framework governing prediction markets is under simultaneous challenge in five independent areas, and the outcomes will determine not just who can operate prediction markets, but the compliance obligations of every participant in the ecosystem, says Ivor Wolk at Manatt.

  • UCC Digital Asset Update Is Altering Lender, Obligor Diligence

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    The rollout of the Uniform Commercial Code's Article 12 is transforming digital asset secured lending, forcing lenders and obligors to rethink diligence, control, custody, monitoring and contract terms, as well as collateral practices and financing structures, as jurisdictions continue to adopt the amendments, say attorneys at Lowenstein Sandler.

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