Independent musicians led by Illinois-based artists have sued Google in Kogon et al v. Google LLC, alleging it copied millions of copyrighted works to build AI music products Lyria 3 and ProducerAI, stripped their copyright management information and distributed the results via YouTube. The suit also alleges Illinois biometric privacy violations and seeks class certification.
Testing seven chatbots across 10 European countries, Investigate Europe found three quarters of replies recommended gambling sites not licensed in Europe. Asked for UK casinos "not on Gamstop", all seven suggested sites that could skirt the self-exclusion scheme; one Meta AI chatbot hailed casinos without ID checks as the "Holy Grail!". Claude was most likely to avoid naming unlicensed operators.
Judge Rita Lin held that job applicants suing Workday in Mobley v. Workday may bring disparate-impact age discrimination claims under the ADEA, rejecting Workday's argument, but dismissed some California state claims and one plaintiff's disability claim, allowing amendment by March 27. The lead plaintiff alleges rejection from more than 100 positions at companies using Workday's screening tools; Workday denies the allegations.
Anthropic filed suit on March 9 in federal court in California to undo the Pentagon's supply-chain risk designation, imposed after it refused to drop guardrails against using its AI for autonomous weapons or domestic surveillance. The company says the designation is unlawful and violates its free speech and due process rights; a second suit was filed in the D.C. Circuit.
Meta removed several Vietnam-based Facebook pages after a BBC Wales investigation found them spreading fake news about UK politicians, often with AI-generated images, such as Nigel Farage being arrested in handcuffs and Keir Starmer removed as prime minister. New pages appeared almost daily during the investigation; Meta said it has a policy against 'inauthentic' accounts or pages.
In a lawsuit filed in the British Columbia Supreme Court, the parents of a girl critically wounded in the Feb. 10 Tumbler Ridge school shooting allege OpenAI had "specific knowledge" the shooter was using ChatGPT to plan a mass casualty event. OpenAI has said it considered but did not alert police about the shooter's activities months earlier.
Senior U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco granted Amazon a preliminary injunction against Perplexity's Comet AI shopping tool, finding Amazon likely to succeed on claims that it violates federal and California computer fraud laws. Amazon claims Comet covertly poses as a human shopper using Google Chrome; Perplexity argues Amazon wants to eliminate a competitor.
CodeWall says its autonomous offensive agent, with no credentials, used a SQL injection in an unauthenticated endpoint to gain read and write access to the production database of McKinsey's internal AI platform Lilli within two hours, reaching 46.5 million chat messages and writable system prompts. McKinsey patched the endpoints on March 2, according to CodeWall.
Calling it "most distressing," Senior District Judge Castel of the Southern District of New York found that a plaintiffs' brief quoted two federal cases with words that do not appear in them. The judge gave signing counsel Michael Stanton fourteen days to explain how it happened and certify he has checked every case cited.
Comedian Bharti Singh warned fans in a video on Sunday that fraudsters are using her name, her face and an AI-altered voice in ads falsely claiming she endorses "thin foot pads." "That is not even my real voice," she said, adding she does not know the company and that even her mother had sent the video asking if it was true.
