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August 14, 2026
A California judge dismissed a suit against Meta over ads on its platforms from scammers impersonating financial professionals to run pump-and-dump investment schemes, saying the theory of the case was "not entirely clear" before giving plaintiffs one more chance to amend their complaint.
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August 14, 2026
A Pennsylvania man who says he has a gambling addiction filed a lawsuit in Pennsylvania state court against FanDuel, claiming the sports betting app intentionally included features designed to amplify and feed compulsive gambling.
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August 14, 2026
A Marathon Engineering environmental scientist has sued her former employer in New Jersey state court, alleging she was fired due to her gender, after an AI assistant that recorded her termination meeting sent her a transcript showing that one of her supervisors said he hoped to replace her with a "relatively strapping young man."
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August 14, 2026
The Nielsen Co. Friday lost its attempt at the Federal Circuit to revive claims of a patent it accused TVision Insights Inc. of infringing, as it fights a jury verdict clearing TVision of infringing a separate patent.
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August 14, 2026
Hospitality investment and operating platform Emerging Fund Management LLC and private equity firm Promethean Investments LLP announced Friday that they are teaming up as equal co-sponsors of a fund focused on technology underlying hospitality and experiential entertainment.
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August 14, 2026
A safe harbor for the carbon sequestration tax credit's reporting requirements will apply to a method that uses carbon oxide used as a tertiary injectant in qualified oil and gas extraction projects, the IRS announced Friday, expanding earlier guidance for the incentive.
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August 14, 2026
A New York federal judge refused to dismiss an insurer's claims alleging Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. entities gave misleadingly positive information about the finances of tech companies participating in a lending program, finding the insurer showed its financial loss could be connected to Gallagher's alleged failures.
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August 14, 2026
OpenAI on Friday urged a New York federal judge to reject sanctions that could bar it from relying on a 20 million-chat evidence sample in copyright litigation brought by The New York Times and other news organizations, arguing it did not violate a preservation order or misrepresent its ability to search for copyrighted material.
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August 14, 2026
Large drones and those with certain capabilities "that are particularly sensitive for national security purposes" and their components will face a 100% ad valorem tariff starting in September, President Donald Trump ordered, with smaller drones and other components facing a 25% tariff.
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August 14, 2026
A data analyst convicted by a North Carolina jury earlier this year of running a cyber extortion scheme against employees and executives of a company he contracted with has been sentenced to two years in prison.
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August 14, 2026
A group of r4 Technologies Inc. shareholders has sued the artificial intelligence company in the Delaware Chancery Court, seeking access to corporate records to investigate potential wrongdoing and determine the value of their holdings.
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August 14, 2026
Italian software company Bending Spoons' plan to buy Airtable is highlighting a surge in software industry consolidation following a sharp reset in private market valuations, as artificial intelligence adds another layer of pressure on companies to sell.
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August 14, 2026
Goodwin Procter LLP and DLA Piper are advising Dynatrace and Arize, respectively, on Dynatrace's $915 million planned acquisition of the artificial intelligence observability company.
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August 13, 2026
Elon Musk's xAI lost its bid to have a Grok user's proposed privacy class action sent to Texas, after a California federal judge ruled Thursday that Grok's platform, including its sign-up and chat screens, doesn't give reasonably conspicuous notice of its terms containing a mandatory forum selection clause.
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August 13, 2026
The Seventh Circuit rejected trading firm Jump Trading LLC's bid to arbitrate a putative securities class action Thursday, finding that courts, not arbitrators, must decide whether disputes belong in arbitration when the parties haven't signed an arbitration agreement, furthering a circuit split and holding that "Jump must litigate."
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August 13, 2026
An Eighth Circuit panel ruled that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment when they seized a phone from a South Dakota man accused of trying to trade vape pens to a 16-year-old for sex, saying they did not need a warrant because they saw him trying to delete evidence during an interview.
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August 13, 2026
DirecTV is pointing the Ninth Circuit toward a recent court order clarifying that when a federal judge told Nexstar and Tegna to remain separate while a challenge to their $6.2 billion merger plays out, that also meant they weren't allowed to put Nexstar execs on Tegna's board of directors.
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August 13, 2026
Following the expiration of a roughly 24-hour pause on the App Store dispute between Apple and Epic Games, Apple put a 15% commission on the table Thursday to try to comply with a mandate forcing it to dramatically cut what it charges for App Store sales.
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August 13, 2026
A California federal judge Thursday ordered Google LLC to streamline the steps for Android users to find rival app stores as part of his court-ordered remedies in antitrust litigation won by Epic Games Inc. against Google, saying the current user process includes "anti-competitive friction" to discourage competition.
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August 13, 2026
The Ninth Circuit has denied a group of consumers' petition for writ of mandamus challenging a lower court's order rejecting their repeated requests to depose Google's and Apple's CEOs and several other executives in antitrust litigation alleging the search engine giant shut out competitors.
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August 13, 2026
Netlist Inc. has filed a new U.S. International Trade Commission complaint accusing Micron and three other companies of infringing multiple memory patents with their imports, less than two weeks after the patent owner announced a nearly $1 billion licensing deal with Samsung over the same technology.
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August 13, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Thursday revived a surgical instrument repair company's antitrust suit accusing the makers of the da Vinci surgical robot of illegally blocking third parties from repairing its instruments, ruling that a district judge erred in applying the U.S. Supreme Court's Kodak factors to the dispute.
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August 13, 2026
U.S. defense technology company Aevex Corp. said it has agreed to purchase BlackSea Technologies in a deal valued at about $650 million, with Kirkland & Ellis LLP and Crowell & Moring LLP advising Aevex and Cooley LLP representing BlackSea.
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August 13, 2026
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been leaving independent inventors behind with patent grants, instead favoring large corporations based in the U.S. and abroad, according to a new report from Labrynth.
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August 13, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge has thrown out a proposed class action lawsuit accusing chipmaker Wolfspeed Inc. of deceiving investors about demand for its products, saying that the claims in the suit amount to "fraud by hindsight."