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xAI asks the 8th Circuit to freeze Minnesota’s nudification ban.Judge Cannon sends Florida’s OpenAI suit back to state court.Magistrate overseeing Times v. OpenAI sold her Microsoft stock — and is staying on the case.Judge Frank: xAI has not shown irreparable harm. The Minnesota ban stays in force.A judge told the Pentagon: you may not blacklist a lab for its speech.X and xAI drop Apple from the OpenAI antitrust suit. The OpenAI claims stay.Cut the cameras: Flock’s plate net draws a rare left-right revolt.Justice Department tells the judge: training ChatGPT on The Times is fair use — and a national-security interest.Florida’s attorney general wants to criminalize the model when a chatbot abets a crime.EFF: the CHATBOT Act forces one parenting model on every family.xAI asks the 8th Circuit to freeze Minnesota’s nudification ban.Judge Cannon sends Florida’s OpenAI suit back to state court.Magistrate overseeing Times v. OpenAI sold her Microsoft stock — and is staying on the case.Judge Frank: xAI has not shown irreparable harm. The Minnesota ban stays in force.A judge told the Pentagon: you may not blacklist a lab for its speech.X and xAI drop Apple from the OpenAI antitrust suit. The OpenAI claims stay.Cut the cameras: Flock’s plate net draws a rare left-right revolt.Justice Department tells the judge: training ChatGPT on The Times is fair use — and a national-security interest.Florida’s attorney general wants to criminalize the model when a chatbot abets a crime.EFF: the CHATBOT Act forces one parenting model on every family.

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MatterCourtStatus
X.AI LLC v. Ellison8th Cir. (from D. Minn.)PI denied Sept. 4; emergency injunction asked of 8th Circuit, No. 26-2806
Anthropic PBC v. U.S. Department of WarN.D. Cal.Summary judgment for Anthropic on 1A and due process; designation vacated
Florida ex rel. Uthmeier v. OpenAI & AltmanFla. 10th Jud. Cir. (Highlands Cty.)Remanded to state court Sept. 8 (Cannon, J.)
New York Times v. OpenAI & MicrosoftS.D.N.Y.Magistrate Wang staying on after Microsoft-stock divestiture; SJ briefs filed
Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. PaxtonU.S. Supreme CourtShadow docket
Bartz v. AnthropicN.D. Cal.$1.5B settlement approved
Schmidt v. City of NorfolkE.D. Va. (appeal planned)Deployment upheld; density caveat; appeal coming
Moody v. NetChoiceU.S. Supreme CourtDecided 2024 — algorithms are speech