Trump’s legal woes …
An Illinois state judge barred Donald Trump from appearing on the state’s Republican presidential primary ballot … Meanwhile, Trump appealed the ruling that disqualified him from Illinois ballot … Trump’s lawyers asked the 11th Circuit to throw out a Florida judge’s sanction for his failed lawsuit accusing Hillary Clinton and others of rigging the 2016 election … In the classified document case, Trump told a U.S. judge that he believes he cannot get a fair trial this year … Trump’s lawyers will seek to delay the classified documents trial … Patrick Orlando, the former executive of ARC Global Investments II that plans to take Trump’s social media company public sued to block the deal … A judge overseeing Trump’s election interference case in Georgia is set to hold a final hearing on the former president’s bid to disqualify the prosecutor Fani Willis from the case.
AI …
Legal research startup, Bench IQ, co-founded by a former Kirkland & Ellis partner, says it can use AI to help lawyers understand how individual judges think … Elon Musk sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, saying they abandoned the startup’s original mission to develop AI for humanity’s benefit … OpenAI convinced a California federal court to preliminarily block another company’s use of the trademark “Open AI” … Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company plans to disclose more about its AI plans later this year after rejecting a shareholder measure asking for a disclosure … The Intercept, Raw Story and AlterNet sued OpenAI, accusing it of misusing their articles to train ChatGPT … OpenAI asked a judge to dismiss parts of the New York Times’ copyright lawsuit against it, arguing that the newspaper ‘hacked’ ChatGPT to generate misleading evidence … Microsoft President Brad Smith announced a set of principles to foster innovation and competition in AI.
Reproductive rights …
Senate Republicans blocked the Democrats’ bill guaranteeing Americans’ access to IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies … Here’s what Alabama IVF ruling could mean for patients with frozen embryos … The Alabama Attorney General’s office said it had “no intention” of prosecuting providers of IVF or families who use their services … Meanwhile, Florida lawmakers paused efforts to pass an “unborn child” protection bill in the wake of Alabama ruling … In Missouri, the state’s Republican attorney general sued a Planned Parenthood affiliate, accusing it of helping minors travel to Kansas to get abortions.
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In the plethora of copyright lawsuits against AI developers, a pair of complaints filed on Wednesday against OpenAI and related defendants stands out: Unlike most of the authors, artists and news organizations that have sued AI developers, The Intercept and Raw Media are not alleging straightforward copyright infringement claims. The media companies are instead asserting only that OpenAI and its co-defendants violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Alison Frankel explains why it matters.
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Additional writing by Kuheli Biswas.
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