A class action lawsuit filed by former FTC attorneys Monica Vaca and Kati Daffan accuses Anthropic of misleading Claude Max subscribers about how much extra usage their $100 or $200 monthly plans actually provide. The suit claims Anthropic's '5x' and '20x' usage claims, prominently advertised, are undercut by fine print restricting those multipliers to rolling five-hour windows capped by weekly limits, rather than a straightforward overall usage boost.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-08
Grindr has agreed to pay £26m to resolve a High Court class action brought by more than 11,000 claimants who alleged the dating app shared sensitive personal data, including HIV status, with third parties. The company will pay £13m by the end of this year and another £13m by March 2027, admitting no liability. Grindr says the allegations concern data practices before 2020, when the app was owned by China's Kunlun.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-07
OpenAI has been hit with 30 new lawsuits from survivors and families connected to the Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia school shooting, alleging the company enabled the attacker through ChatGPT interactions and failed to warn police despite internally debating whether to do so. These join seven earlier lawsuits filed in April, bringing OpenAI's total legal exposure to more than 50 cases claiming psychological, physical, or fatal harm linked to ChatGPT use.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-04
Apple is facing a new legal challenge in the UK targeting its App Tracking Transparency feature, marking the third such lawsuit in the country. The suit reportedly introduces a new angle compared to prior cases, though it continues to center on claims that Apple's privacy rules unfairly disadvantage third-party developers while exempting its own apps.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-09-03
Apple has asked a court for expedited discovery in its lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company delayed handing over a former employee's MacBook and that messages show discussion of restoring devices to erase forensic traces. Apple says an inspection of the laptop, turned over in August, revealed a former Apple engineer named Chang Liu had downloaded a confidential circuit schematic and used it while working at OpenAI.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-01
OpenAI has responded to a lawsuit from Apple alleging theft of trade secrets, arguing that most of the claims actually stem from Apple's own weak employee offboarding practices rather than any wrongdoing by OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker is pushing back against the legal action, framing it as a dispute rooted in Apple's internal security failures.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-01
The Federal Trade Commission, joined by more than 20 states, plans to file a lawsuit against Amazon alleging it deceived advertisers by manipulating ad pricing on its retail platform. The suit reportedly claims Amazon generated billions of dollars through this practice.
wsj.com
· 2026-08-31
The FTC, joined by attorneys general from 22 states, filed a lawsuit accusing Amazon of quietly inflating prices in its ad auctions since 2019. Instead of letting the winning bidder pay one cent above the second-highest bid as its auction system promises, the complaint alleges Amazon substituted a higher, internally calculated 'proxy' price to boost its own profits. Regulators estimate this scheme extracted more than $20 billion from advertisers, costs they say were largely pushed onto consumers—an allegation Amazon disputes, calling the suit misguided.
theverge.com
· 2026-08-31
A worker identifying himself as a 'Legacy Media Completion Specialist' describes his job shredding and burning antique books after they've been sliced apart and scanned to train generative AI models. The satirical account follows revelations from a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic, in which unsealed court documents showed the company used 'destructive scanning'—cutting spines off physical books to scan them faster, then discarding the remains—and allegedly tried to conceal the practice.
mcsweeneys.net
· 2026-08-29
Operation Bluebird, led by former Twitter legal counsel Stephen Coates, has launched a new social platform at Twitter.now featuring a blue design and bird logo reminiscent of the original Twitter. The launch comes even as a federal judge in Delaware has yet to rule on Elon Musk's request for an injunction in his trademark lawsuit against the group. Coates argues that Musk abandoned the Twitter name and bird logo when he rebranded the company to X in 2022.
engadget.com
· 2026-08-28
A class action lawsuit filed against Oura alleges the company misled consumers about how accurately its smart ring detects sleep stages, arguing it lacks sensors for brain waves, eye movement and other neurological signals needed to truly measure sleep. Plaintiff Madison Surber says she paid roughly $503 for the ring believing its tracking claims, and cites a Nature study suggesting the device's sleep-stage detection performs little better than random guessing.
zdnet.com
· 2026-08-27
A class action lawsuit filed against Oura claims the company misled consumers about the accuracy of its smart ring's sleep-stage tracking. The suit argues Oura lacks sensors for brain waves, eye movement, and muscle activity needed to properly detect sleep stages, and instead relies on AI guesswork from heart rate, temperature, and breathing data. The named plaintiff, who paid $503 for the ring, says she was overcharged for a device that doesn't deliver the accuracy Oura advertises.
zdnet.com
· 2026-08-27
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