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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How judges, not politicians, could dictate America’s AI rules It’s becoming increasingly clear that courts, not politicians, will be the first to determine the limits on how AI is developed and used in the US. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission opened an investigation into whether OpenAI broke the law by scraping people’s online data to train its chatbot…

For nearly a decade, sales representatives from a prominent medical device maker operated a bribery scheme at a Kansas veterans hospital that wasted millions of taxpayer dollars and jeopardized the lives of patients, a recently unsealed whistleblower lawsuit alleges.The sales reps from the company, Medtronic, "bribed hospital staff to purchase its devices over those of competitors and to purchase grossly excessive inventory," according to the suit.In 2017, Tom Schroeder filed the lawsuit, United States ex rel. Schroeder…

Valve, the owner of the popular gaming client and storefront Steam, appears to be grappling with the legal implications of generative AI in the gaming industry. According to reports, the company is purportedly preventing games that utilize AI-generated art assets from being sold on its platform.An anonymous developer recently shared their experience of having their game submission to Steam rejected. The developer's post gained significant attention on Twitter, where they disclosed that a substantial portion of the game's…

The News Corporation headquarters, which is also home to Fox News, stands in Manhattan on April 18, 2023 in New York City.Spencer Platt | Getty ImagesFox News has settled another lawsuit, this time with a one-time producer for former primetime host Tucker Carlson. The Fox Corp. network agreed to pay $12 million to settle the lawsuit brought by Abby Grossberg, who alleged she was coerced into giving false testimony for the Dominion Voting Systems defamation case."While I stand by my publicly filed claims and allegations,…

Chemical manufacturer 3M Co. will pay at least $10.3 billion to settle lawsuits over contamination of many U.S. public drinking water systems with potentially harmful compounds used in firefighting foam and a host of consumer products, the company said Thursday.The deal would compensate water providers for pollution with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, known collectively as PFAS — a broad class of chemicals used in nonstick, water- and grease-resistant products such as clothing and cookware.Described as "forever…

Too Long; Didn't ReadPessimistic Archive is a newsletter based around clippings from old newspapers. Past generations express their concerns about the future and new technologies. Three independent visual artists have gone so far as filing a class-action lawsuit against Stable Diffusion. The lawsuit is essentially taking on every generative AI model trained on copyrighted data. Too Long; Didn't ReadPessimistic Archive is a newsletter based around clippings from old newspapers. Past generations express their concerns…

Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 10, 2023 in New York City.Michael M. Santiago | Getty ImagesThe pharmaceutical industry's largest lobbying group and two other organizations on Wednesday sued the Biden Administration over Medicare's new powers to slash drug prices for seniors under the Inflation Reduction Act. Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, along with the National Infusion Center Association and the Global Colon Cancer Association, argue that…

On April 3, 2010, Steve Jobs debuted the iPad. What for most people was basically a more convenient form factor was something far more consequential for non-speakers: a life-­changing revolution in access to a portable, powerful communication device for just a few hundred dollars.But a piece of hardware, however impressively designed and engineered, is only as valuable as what a person can do with it. After the iPad’s release, the flood of new, easy-to-use augmentative and alternative communication apps that users were…

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Goldman, in a paper published in March, calls this type of lawsuit a “Schedule A Defendants Scheme” (or “SAD Scheme”). When these cases are filed, the names of defendants are put into a document, Schedule A, that is often immediately made confidential at the request of the plaintiff. As a result, the cases can involve hundreds of sellers at the same time, yet the sellers don’t know who else is being sued, and they usually don’t know they are being sued themselves until the court orders Amazon to freeze their accounts.…