Berliner v Huang et al
| Case | Berliner v. Huang et al. |
|---|---|
| Court | United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division |
| Docket | 1:26-cv-09153 |
| Filed | July 31, 2026 |
| Plaintiff | Jessica Berliner, derivatively on behalf of NVIDIA Corporation |
| Defendants | Jen-Hsun Huang and other NVIDIA officers and directors; NVIDIA Corporation is the nominal defendant |
| Status | Active |
Berliner v. Huang et al. is a stockholder derivative action filed in the Northern District of Illinois on July 31, 2026, on behalf of NVIDIA Corporation against CEO Jen-Hsun Huang and other NVIDIA officers and directors.[1][2]
Allegations
editBerliner alleges that NVIDIA's leadership adopted and implemented an unlawful AI-training strategy that used unlicensed books, videos, and voice recordings, exposing the company to copyright and biometric-privacy litigation.[1][2] The complaint alleges that NVIDIA models used datasets including The Pile and Books3 for language-model training, YouTube-derived datasets for vision-language models, and speech recordings for commercial voice models.[1]
The complaint asserts breach-of-fiduciary-duty and securities-law claims, alleging that company proxy statements concerning trustworthy AI, privacy, and legal compliance were materially false or misleading because they did not disclose the challenged training practices.[1][2]
Procedural Status
editBerliner filed the verified complaint as docket 1:26-cv-09153 on July 31, 2026, and demanded a jury trial.[1] The complaint seeks corporate-governance changes and disgorgement of benefits allegedly obtained by the individual defendants.[1][2] Courthouse News reported on August 3 that NVIDIA had not responded to its request for comment by publication time.[2]
Significance
editThe case applies stockholder-derivative and securities theories to alleged legal and financial exposure arising from generative-AI training datasets, rather than asserting direct copyright claims on behalf of creators.[1][2]