Editing Berliner v Huang et al

{| class="wikitable"
! Case
| ''Berliner v. Huang et al.''
|-
! Court
| United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division
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! Docket
| 1:26-cv-09153
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! Filed
| July 31, 2026
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! 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.<ref name="complaint">[https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/nvidia-v-huang.pdf ''Berliner v. Huang et al.'', No. 1:26-cv-09153, verified stockholder derivative complaint, N.D. Ill., filed July 31, 2026]</ref><ref name="cns">[https://www.courthousenews.com/investors-blast-nvidia-over-avalanche-of-ai-copyright-suits/ Courthouse News Service, “Investors blast Nvidia over avalanche of AI copyright suits,” August 3, 2026]</ref>

== 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.<ref name="complaint" /><ref name="cns" /> 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.<ref name="complaint" />

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.<ref name="complaint" /><ref name="cns" />

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

== 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.<ref name="complaint" /><ref name="cns" />

== See Also ==
* [[News-July-31-2026|July 31, 2026 AI Law Digest]]
* [[Beaulier v NVIDIA et al]]
* [[SEIU Pension Plan Master Trust v Narayen]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Corporate Governance]]
[[Category:Copyright Litigation]]
[[Category:Data Privacy]]
[[Category:Northern District of Illinois]]