January 2026 – Page 7 – Chat GPT Is Eating the World

Trial of the Century: Judge Gonzalez Rogers says Elon Musk v. Sam Altman will go to trial due to sufficient evidence to support Musk’s claim

In stunning news, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers said, at a hearing on Wednesday, there’s plenty of evidence, albeit circumstantial, to allow Elon Musk’s fraud claim against Sam Altman and OpenAI to go to a jury trial this spring. As reported by Economic Times: “A 2017 diary entry by OpenAI’s Brockman was among the information that Gonzalez…
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Woulard files 1st Amended Complaint v. Uncharted Labs (Udio)

Music David Woulard filed a First Amended Complaint against Uncharted Labs d/b/a Udio. This comes after Udio had filed a motion to dismiss. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT
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Shoutout to Affinity (design) for being 100% free

Please indulge me as I have to digress from AI legal topics to give a shoutout to Canva for making its Affinity (designer, publisher, photo now bundled into 1) 100% free. I do subscribe to and pay for Canva. So I was pretty surprised to learn I can use Affinity for free. Here’s Canva’s co-founder…
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Judge Breyer grants request to amend scheduling order in suit v. Databricks, Mosaic. Summary judgment pushed back to August 24

On New Year’s Eve, Judge Breyer granted the Plaintiffs’ motion to amend the scheduling order in the In re Mosaic LLM Litigation. Summary judgment replies get pushed back a month and a half, with a new deadline of August 24, 2026. Court’s Order: This extension pushes back In re Mosaic LLM Litigation a little bit…
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Judge Engelmayer sets Jan. 23 for Reddit to either file amended complaint or oppose Perplexity’s motion to dismiss

In Reddit v. SerpApi, Judge Engelmayer set the alternative schedule for (1) Reddit to file an amended complaint (now that defendants filed their motions to dismiss, or, alternatively, (2) if Reddit doesn’t do so, to file their opposition to the motions to dismiss. Both have the deadline of January 23, 2026. If Reddit chooses the…
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Briefing on class certification complete in Google AI case. Huge issue for hearing on Feb. 4 before Judge Lee.

The Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Google recently filed their reply in support of class certification. Outside of summary judgment, there’s no more important issue in the proposed class action lawsuits against AI companies than class certification. The hearing is set for February 4, before Judge Eumi Lee. Past briefing: (1) Plaintiffs Motion for Class…
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Databricks, Mosaic file surreply to Plaintiffs’ request to file 2d Amended Complaint

Databricks and Mosaic filed their surreply opposing the Plaintiffs’ request to file a 2d Amended Complaint. The hearing is set before Judge Breyer on Jan. 16, 10 AM PDT. For past briefing: Excerpt:
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Plaintiffs seek to exclude William Patry’s expert testimony on issues relevant to class certification in Google AI suit

Plaintiffs are seeking to exclude the expert testimony of two experts proffered by Google: William Patry and Ryan Sullivan. Of course, as Plaintiffs say, “Patry formerly served as Google’s Senior Copyright Counsel for over 17 years and now works at Quinn Emanuel, where he represents other large technology companies in litigation involving the use of…
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Huckabee book authors’ copyright suit v. Bloomberg starts to rev up

The parties in Huckabee v. Bloomberg case have filed their proposed scheduling order. Judge Garnett denied Bloomberg’s motion to dismiss in late 2025. And now the case is starting to rev up. They disagree on whether class certification briefing should occur concurrently or after summary judgment motions, but the rest of the proposed schedule there…
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Kadrey book authors ask Judge Chhabria for concurrent briefing of class certification on torrenting claim and summary judgment on infringement

The Kadrey book authors filed a motion asking Judge Chhabria for concurrent briefing of (i) class certification and (ii) summary judgment on infringement, both related to the remaining part of the case involving Meta’s alleged torrenting, including uploading or sharing, of copyrighted works. The Kadrey plaintiffs cite the concurrent briefing in Bartz v. Anthropic in…
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Month: January 2026