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Case Information
Case name Berliner v. Huang et al[1]
Court U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois[1]
Docket 1:26-cv-09153[1]
Filed July 31, 2026[1]
Judge(s) Jorge Luis Alonso[2]
Plaintiffs Jessica Berliner, derivatively on behalf of NVIDIA Corporation[1]
Defendants Jen-Hsun Huang and other named NVIDIA officers/directors; NVIDIA Corporation (nominal defendant)[1]
Case type Shareholder derivative civil action[1]
Claims / issues Alleged fiduciary breaches and related corporate-governance claims arising from AI training practices[1]
Status Complaint filed July 31, 2026; docket reviewed through August 25, 2026. Later developments have not been verified.[2]

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.[3][4]

Allegations

Berliner 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.[3][4] 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.[3]

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.[3][4]

Procedural Status

Berliner filed the verified complaint as docket 1:26-cv-09153 on July 31, 2026, and demanded a jury trial.[3] The complaint seeks corporate-governance changes and disgorgement of benefits allegedly obtained by the individual defendants.[3][4] Courthouse News reported on August 3 that NVIDIA had not responded to its request for comment by publication time.[4]

Significance

The 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.[3][4]

See Also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Court filing / case record, reviewed September 7, 2026
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Case source, reviewed September 7, 2026
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 Berliner v. Huang et al., No. 1:26-cv-09153, verified stockholder derivative complaint, N.D. Ill., filed July 31, 2026
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Courthouse News Service, “Investors blast Nvidia over avalanche of AI copyright suits,” August 3, 2026
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