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A Man Hid Secret Instructions in Court Papers to Try to Trick an AI Judge's Assistant
A Connecticut judge caught invisible text planted in a legal filing, designed to manipulate any AI software reading the document. It is believed to be the first case of its kind in the US.

A $250 million startup exit looked like a triumph. Now there are forged documents, missing millions, and a founder in Dubai.
VideoVerse was supposed to be one of India's great startup success stories. Less than a year after the deal closed, investors are still waiting to be paid and courts are full of fraud claims.

OpenAI Fires Back at Apple's Trade-Secrets Lawsuit With Emails and Text Messages
Apple says two former employees stole confidential information on their way out. OpenAI says the allegations are false, and it published the messages to prove it.

Google Keeps Fighting AI Web Scrapers After Court Loss. Here's Why It Matters.
Google sued a company called SerpApi for selling search results it had scraped from Google. A judge dealt Google a setback last week. Google says it is pressing on anyway, and Reddit has quietly joined the fight.

Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors $3,000 Per Book in $1.5 Billion AI Copyright Settlement
A federal judge approved the deal on Monday, calling it meaningful relief for writers whose books were allegedly used without permission to train Anthropic's AI.