Three Californians filed a class action against Knowledge Support Systems, Inc., known as Kalibrate, and a host of gasoline retailers. They allege Kalibrate's AI-based pricing system lets stations stop undercutting one another, in violation of the state's Cartwright Act. According to the suit, Kalibrate tells customers that 'gross margins have increased significantly.' Kalibrate could not be reached for comment.
Leaked documents from the Social Design Agency, a private Russian agency, were reviewed by Bloomberg News. They describe 'Project 2026', a plan to build a sprawling network of Wikipedia-style reference sites, media outlets and phony think tanks. The aim is to shape how people and AI chatbots understand political issues, creating an alternative information ecosystem rather than merely spreading fabricated stories.
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Three Cherokee County Sheriff's Office deputies were fired and arrested, accused of unlawfully accessing the county's automated license plate reader database: Sgt. Mike Creeden, Lt. Chris Bryant and Deputy Cynthia Jodesty. Jodesty's arrest affidavit alleges she searched it repeatedly over about a month to locate a vehicle 'without a legal or investigative' purpose. A self-initiated audit prompted the investigation.
Hagens Berman, which values its tobacco settlement at $260 billion, has joined independent musicians' class actions against Suno and Udio. On June 22 it filed an amended complaint against Udio in the Southern District of New York. The suits allege the companies stream-ripped 'tens of millions' of recordings to train AI models whose songs compete with the originals.
New York's Appellate Division, Second Department, sanctioned attorney Michael Sanders and the Law Offices of Michael S. Lamonsoff over a GenAI-assisted brief citing nonexistent cases. An invented Court of Appeals case urged that a sidewalk-liability law be 'construed liberally'. The real Court of Appeals has said that law 'must be strictly construed.'
A complaint to Michigan's Bureau of Elections alleges that Michigan Values PAC's $365,000 cable ad buy against congressional candidate Bridget Brink used undisclosed AI. According to the complaint, the ad shows Donald Trump holding a portfolio bearing her image. The PAC did not respond to the Michigan Advance, and neither of the outlet's two AI-detection tools flagged the video as AI-generated.
An E.D. Wisconsin judge granted a blind plaintiff an injunction requiring Retention Brands to make Birchbox.com accessible. However, the judge withheld attorney's fees after finding that several citations in the default-judgment motion 'appear to be entirely fabricated' or were used for propositions they do not support. Counsel must show cause why he should not forfeit fees and costs.
A Houston federal judge denied Union Pacific's motion to dismiss a cargo-loss suit over a train-truck collision. The judge ordered the railroad to produce, by June 29, 2026, a copy of a Texas Supreme Court case its motion cited, Missouri Pac. R.R. Co. v. Shiflet, and to explain how it found it. Westlaw's editor's note flags unverified citations likely generated by AI.
