California drivers filed a proposed class action in Sacramento federal court accusing BP, Circle K, Marathon Petroleum, 7-Eleven, Walmart, Albertsons and software provider Kalibrate of using Kalibrate's AI tool to coordinate prices, in violation of the Cartwright Act and AB 325. The complaint says prices rose up to 30 cents a gallon where many stations use the tool.
U.S. District Judge Rita Lin in San Francisco mostly refused to dismiss amended claims that Workday's AI screening software discriminated against job applicants. She ruled the company could be held liable under California law and let an ADA claim over disability 'proxy indicators' like employment gaps proceed. She dropped an Asian American bias claim on procedural grounds. Workday calls the claims false.
Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting capabilities from its Claude model, calling it the largest distillation attack known against the company to date, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The report gives no technical details or Alibaba response, and mentions no lawsuit or sanctions.
Meta paused its Model Capability Initiative, which records most staff's keystrokes and mouse movements as AI training data, after a SEV 2 lapse left employees' private conversations, performance data and transcriptions accessible company-wide, according to screenshots seen by Business Insider. Meta confirmed the incident and said it had no indication data was improperly accessed by Meta employees.
Property manager LivCor agreed to pay $7 million to a coalition of nine attorneys general, including California's Rob Bonta. The settlement resolves allegations that LivCor used RealPage's revenue management software to align rents with competing landlords by sharing confidential pricing data. It still requires court approval. LivCor also agreed to drop such software and cooperate against RealPage.
Brazil's Superior Electoral Court, through minister André Mendonça, ordered the removal within 24 hours of a post showing a fake 'leaked' photo of presidential pre-candidate Flávio Bolsonaro at a never-held meeting with Master owner Daniel Vorcaro. The PL party's technical report put the AI probability at 78%. It is the court's first deepfake ruling of the 2026 elections.
Cherokee County, Georgia sheriff's investigators arrested Lt. Chris Bryant and Sgt. Mike Creeden after what the office says an internal audit showed: staff using automated license plate readers for non-law-enforcement purposes. Deputy Cynthia Jodesty was arrested June 12. Bryant and Creeden, both fired, face a felony oath-of-office count and a misdemeanor plate-data retention count.
Hagens Berman has joined Delgado Entertainment Law in proposed class actions alleging Udio and Suno circumvented protections on YouTube, Spotify and other platforms to copy independent artists' songs for AI training, the firm says in a press release. An amended complaint against Udio was filed June 22, 2026 in the Southern District of New York. Suno's motion to dismiss is pending.
