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Nobody is quite sure who owns what an AI makes News
Three separate documents on AI and copyright are being conflated into a single false claim that AI output cannot be owned, when the actual position on both sides of the Atlantic is narrower and identical: the test is human authorship, and it always was.
Mistral patented letting the model write the tool call as code News
Mistral AI holds a granted US patent, "Code implemented tool calls," covering an agent architecture in which a model writes a code block wrapping tool calls, a server runs it in a sandbox, pauses at each external call, and resumes with the result substituted in.
A judge did not rule that ChatGPT users have no rights to their chats News
A New York magistrate denied one individual permission to intervene in the OpenAI copyright litigation, and the order explicitly says the data preservation hold was for a possible spoliation inquiry rather than to hand conversations to the New York Times.
Google loses its DMCA claim against a search scraper News
A federal judge dismissed both of Google's copyright anti-circumvention claims against SerpApi, ruling that a general anti-bot wall around non-copyrightable search results cannot be treated as a copyright access control.
OpenAI launched Health in ChatGPT. The next day, a lawsuit asked a court to pause it. News
OpenAI began rolling out Health in ChatGPT on July 23; a complaint filed by a pastor who suffered a pulmonary embolism asks a court to halt consumer health AI products pending independent safety audits - though the advice he alleges came from GPT-4o in 2025.
26 Meta Workers Sue, Saying AI Picked Them for Layoffs While on Leave News
A group of 26 Meta employees sued the company, alleging its AI-assisted layoff-selection systems disproportionately targeted workers on medical, parental and family leave -- a first-of-its-kind test of liability for AI-driven HR decisions.
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging it poached staff and stole hardware secrets to build AI devices News
Apple filed suit against OpenAI in federal court on July 10, 2026, alleging former Apple employees now at OpenAI directed current staff to hand over unreleased-device secrets and that one ex-employee downloaded confidential files after leaving.
Authors file a new $75M suit against Anthropic as scholars redefine what an AI 'copy' is News
Authors who opted out of Anthropic's $1.5 billion Bartz settlement filed a separate $75 million copyright suit over how their books were sourced, landing the same week two law scholars argued that AI weights may be 'probabilistic copies' the law hasn't defined yet.