AI Law Wiki News for August 2026
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FSB cyber warning; EU DSA designations; Apple–OpenAI filings; California attorney, workplace-AI, child-chatbot, and AI-toy bills; musicians sue Suno. AB 1709 also passes.[1]
California sends AI workplace emotion and neural-surveillance limits to the governor.
Technology groups filed a fair-use brief in the Mosaic LLM litigation; Arizona’s high court rejected a judicial AI moratorium; Texas paused Flock camera funding; Sony and Warner publishers sued Anthropic over Claude training.
A federal judge rules that the Pentagon’s blacklisting of Anthropic violated the First Amendment and due process; New Jersey enacts semiannual data-center energy and water reporting and ends $250 million in AI data-center tax credits; California enacts a human-instructor requirement for Cal State faculty.
Meta settles state child-safety litigation; OpenAI details the Hugging Face agent breach; a Senate subcommittee opens an AI-powered Flock camera privacy investigation; an FSU shooting survivor sues OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged role in the attack; California gives final approval to a public higher-education AI procurement bill; a CSAM survivor files a proposed class action alleging xAI trained Grok on abuse material depicting her.
Carl Sagan’s estate sues Luma AI over alleged unauthorized voice use; California gives final approval to three AI bills; UMG and Sony add a DMCA stream-ripping claim against Suno; the Seventh Circuit affirms dismissal of an AI-generated obscenity possession charge.
South Korea announces national AI ethics principles; Taiwan prosecutors indict nine people over alleged illegal exports of AI servers to China; Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over a Hugging Face security incident; Montana dismisses three AI-generated campaign-mailer complaints under a satire exception; Argentine publisher Editorial Perfil sues OpenAI and Microsoft over alleged unauthorized use of journalism; Folha de S.Paulo sues Perplexity over alleged unauthorized use of journalism; New Zealand introduces an under-16 social media and AI companion safety bill; federal lawmakers introduce sponsored-content disclosure rules for AI chatbots and generative search. Gavalas conference reset.[2]
The Dutch privacy regulator fines Uber €825 million over automated driver-account deactivations; xAI sues over alleged Grok safeguard bypasses; Minnesota suspends a lawyer over AI-hallucinated citations; OpenAI urges California to strengthen SB 53 frontier-model safeguards; New York proposes FOCUS Act limits on classroom screens and AI; advocacy groups ask the FTC to investigate destructive AI book scanning; wikiHow sues OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement and DMCA violations.
A federal judge partly overturns former Google engineer Linwei Ding’s conviction; technology companies contest Illinois AI voice-data suits; Nevada approves paid robotaxi fleets; California gives final approval to SB 1159; a Twitch streamer sues Twitch and Amazon over alleged use of creator videos for AI training; an Oura sleep-tracking class action challenges AI accuracy claims.
SpaceXAI faces a Clean Air Act injunction hearing; the FTC proposes a personalized-pricing policy; a former Meta engineer testifies in a child-safety trial; a court delays Google's purchase of Spirit Airlines data.
The FDA seeks input on generative-AI-enabled medical-device oversight; State Farm lawyers acknowledge AI-generated false citations; OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Teens; four states open a Meta child-safety trial; Pennsylvania imposes binding requirements on AI data centers; six children file an xAI CSAM class action; DOJ files a statement in xAI's Minnesota nudification-law challenge.
The MPA and ByteDance set AI copyright safeguards; DOJ investigates Andreessen Horowitz; Round Hill sues Suno and Anthropic; Minnesota defends its AI nudification ban against xAI; California advances workplace-AI surveillance limits.
Two Suno suits are dismissed; a fourth Grok child-safety action is filed; California approves Waymo expansion; a Florida candidate wins a temporary order over a disputed AI campaign image.
A federal court allows privacy and biometric claims against Otter.ai to proceed; Flock Safety adds privacy and police-accountability controls; India's Supreme Court sends government-AI safeguards for policy review; an Alberta court allows a First Nation's AI data-centre water-licence challenge to proceed; California gives final approval to a human-instructor requirement for CSU courses; Apple's settlement final-approval hearing is advanced.[3]
HateAid files a German criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses; Indian courts order AI-video takedowns and address deepfakes and harmful synthetic content; Twitch defaults creators into Amazon AI training unless they opt out.
Colorado proposes automated-decision and chatbot-safety rules; Babylon Bee challenges New Mexico's AI political-satire disclaimer law; Meta–Manus acquisition unwind advances.
Delhi High Court deepfake takedowns; House AI-hearing push; California AI cyber defense and State Bar AI-disclosure bill; Ninth Circuit youth-addiction rulings; South Korea fictional-person deepfake bill; Sanders urges major labs to pause AI development; Anthropic's EU AI Act watermark plan; South Australia launches an AI royal commission.
Third Arkansas family brings Grok CSAM lawsuit against xAI; Philippine lawmakers push a national AI-governance bill covering workers, privacy, and transparency.
Khanna's proposed Data Center Bill of Rights; House Democrats unveil an AI-tax-funded worker-protection bill; New Mexico court orders a $567 million Meta youth-harm remedy; Connecticut court bars hidden prompt injections in filings.
Senate Commerce advances bipartisan AI-toy and CHATBOT child-safety bills; OpenAI moves to dismiss Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit. Gavalas dismissal hearing.[2]
DOJ secures $3.2 million OpenAI worker-discrimination settlement; 15 state attorneys general demand OpenAI records after a security breach; Tabu petitions Delhi High Court over AI misuse; Ninth Circuit vacates Amazon injunction against Perplexity's AI shopping agent; UK AISI reports unsanctioned agent actions during cyber testing.
White House advanced-AI testing framework; Texas pauses data-center grid connections for a comprehensive audit; Connecticut AI-citation ruling; UK regulatory signal; Apple-OpenAI trade-secrets injunction bid; South Korea registers qualifying AI-assisted songs; Udio copyright case transferred to New York. Winters complaint bears an August 3 court stamp.[4]
EU AI Act enforcement and Article 50 transparency duties begin; California's AI Transparency Act becomes operative.
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References
- ↑ California Legislative Information, AB 1709 Bill Status, checked September 7, 2026
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 N.D. Cal., Gavalas v. Google, No. 5:26-cv-01849-EKL, court docket entries reproduced by Justia; snapshot retrieved August 25, 2026
- ↑ Landsheft v. Apple Inc., Order Resetting Final Approval Hearing, ECF 97 (August 13, 2026)
- ↑ Winters complaint, court-stamped August 3, 2026, p. 1