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Apple has agreed to pay $250 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing it of falsely advertising an AI-upgraded Siri that failed to arrive as promoted. Owners of the iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, or iPhone 16 models bought between June 10, 2024, and March 29, 2025, can file a claim for a payout ranging from $25 to $95. Apple denies wrongdoing but is settling to close out the case.
Verita Global has launched a claims website for the class action lawsuit accusing Apple of overpromising Siri and Apple Intelligence features. Eligible buyers of Apple Intelligence-capable iPhones purchased between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025 can now submit claims for a share of Apple's $250 million settlement fund, with payouts expected around $25 per device, ranging up to $95 depending on claim volume.
Apple has reached a settlement in a class-action lawsuit accusing it of overstating the AI features available on certain iPhone models sold in 2024 and 2025. Under the deal, eligible customers who purchased affected devices can claim a payment of up to $95, though there is a limited window to file a claim.
Australia's government is considering banning camera-equipped smart glasses from public workplaces, a move Reuters says would be the first of its kind. Separately, more than 70 plaintiffs have filed an amended class-action lawsuit against Meta in a California federal court, alleging its smart glasses recorded intimate moments—including bathroom and bedroom footage—without users' knowledge, which was then reviewed by contractors in Kenya training Meta's AI.
Apple is distributing $250 million to settle claims that it advertised AI-enhanced Siri features that were never actually delivered. Owners of iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 model purchased between June 10, 2024 and March 29, 2025 in the US can now file for a payout through the settlement website.
Four paying subscribers of ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini have filed a proposed class action in California federal court, alleging that the four AI companies illegally coordinated to slow product development. The suit cites Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's September 12 essay calling for an industry-wide pace slowdown, which was publicly endorsed by Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis, along with an earlier July statement acknowledging pressure not to unilaterally slow progress. Plaintiffs say this coordinated restraint, not individual safety decisions, amounts to an antitrust violation that shortchanges paying customers.
A lawsuit alleges that Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI and Google entered into an unlawful agreement to coordinate the pace of AI development rather than compete independently. The claim frames this coordination as an antitrust violation rather than a safety measure, arguing it restrained competitive behavior among rival AI labs.
A proposed class-action lawsuit filed by four paying subscribers of ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini accuses the four AI companies of colluding to deliberately slow AI development, allegedly starting after the firms signed a joint safety statement. The plaintiffs' attorney, Nick Rowley, argues the coordinated slowdown reduces the value of paid subscriptions and lets powerful companies dictate AI safety policy through a private, self-serving arrangement rather than individual accountability.
Tera-Print, a small US company that has sold Tera-Fab branded beam pen lithography tools for about a decade, sent a cease-and-desist letter to Tesla, SpaceX and SpaceXAI in May over use of the Terafab name. Tera-Print, whose clients reportedly include the Department of Defense, has now filed a trademark lawsuit, while Tesla and SpaceX argue their planned high-volume chip manufacturing venture is unrelated to Tera-Print's tabletop bioengineering and prototyping tools.
Court documents in the New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, which pulled in Microsoft as OpenAI's top investor, quote Microsoft director Brent Hecht warning that AI systems are undermining the very publishers whose content trains them. CEO Satya Nadella separately acknowledged that chatbot conversations often replace visits to original source websites, cutting off traffic publishers depend on.
Newly unredacted court documents from copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal comments from executives acknowledging that scraping published journalism to train chatbots amounted to theft on a massive scale. Microsoft's Brent Hecht reportedly described it as possibly 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' while an OpenAI executive warned that products like ChatGPT posed an 'existential threat' to publishers.
Newly unsealed portions of a legal brief in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft show internal admissions from both companies' executives. Microsoft's director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, reportedly called AI training data scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history,' while OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, described the chatbot as an 'existential threat' to publishers. The filing also cites data showing Copilot slashed click-through traffic to the Times by up to 93% compared to Bing search.