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Trump made $1.4bn from crypto in one year. Is Justin Sun the man who helped him do it?

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The entrepreneur is known in Washington as the financial power behind the president’s crypto fortune. How did Sun’s business love-in with the Trump family spiral into dueling lawsuits?The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history – the 1920s Teapot Dome affair – involved then president Warren G Harding’s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly […]

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Musk’s xAI sues user who allegedly used Grok to create child sexual abuse material

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Case is one of first brought by an AI company against a user ⁠for allegedly using a tool to generate child abuse materialElon Musk’s artificial-intelligence startup xAI has sued a South Carolina man arrested ⁠earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors, alleging he misused the company’s AI system Grok to ⁠create child sexual

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‘This was a righteous case. A holy war’: the lawyer who took on Meta and Google – and won

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When Mark Lanier and his young client Kaley faced the tech giants in an LA courtroom earlier this year, it seemed a bigger battle than David v Goliath. But they scored a landmark victory, proving that the social media giants had created ‘addiction machines’ that harmed mental health. How did they pull it off?When Mark

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Apple sues OpenAI, alleging artificial intelligence company stole trade secrets

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Suit claims OpenAI poached Apple workers, coaxing them to share confidential material in bid to create hardwareApple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI on Friday alleging the artificial intelligence firm stole company trade secrets in a move to create its own hardware device.The suit claims OpenAI poached Apple employees, coaxing them to hand over confidential material,

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If an AI chatbot misleads you, who is to blame? | Bruce Schneier and Nathan E Sanders

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A court in Germany found that Google was responsible for what its chatbots say in search summaries. This is the accountability we needEarlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like “users can check for themselves”, and that they generally know “that information generated with

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Google employee charged with using insider data to rig bets on Polymarket

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US DoJ alleges software engineer Michele Spagnuolo, 36, earned $1.2m betting on Google’s most-searched listThe US justice department has charged a Google software engineer with using insider information to rig bets tied to Google’s most-searched list on prediction market Polymarket, earning $1.2m in profits, according to a complaint unsealed on Wednesday.Michele Spagnuolo, a 36-year-old Italian

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Musk and the US government fought an AI anti-discrimination law. The arguments don’t hold up | Genevieve Smith

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The justice department’s lawsuit is part of a federal effort to reframe AI consumer protections as ideological overreachThis April, the US Department of Justice joined Elon Musk’s xAI in suing the state of Colorado to kill its AI anti-discrimination law.When the federal government sides with a billionaire against a state trying to protect its residents

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Jury hands victory to Sam Altman in battle with Elon Musk over OpenAI’s mission

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OpenAI CEO and president found not liable for breaking contracts made with Musk when founding the startupA jury ruled in favor of Sam Altman in the culmination of a long and bitter legal battle that pitted the richest person in the world against a leader of the AI boom.The federal jury in Oakland, California, found

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What we learned from the cringey courtroom drama between Elon Musk and Sam Altman

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Two of the world’s richest people faced an airing of their dirty laundry amid their messy, bitter feud over OpenAIA nine-person jury is set to decide whether Elon Musk’s allegations of “stealing a charity” against Sam Altman and OpenAI are legitimate, with deliberations to begin in earnest on Monday. Whatever its outcome, the case has

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Texas accuses Netflix of spying on children in new lawsuit

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Ken Paxton accuses streamer of designing addictive platform and falsely representing data collection practicesTexas sued Netflix on Monday, accusing the streaming company of spying on children and designing its platform to be addictive.Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, said Netflix has for years falsely represented to consumers that it did not collect or share user

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