Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers

Ashlee Difuntorum is an entertainment litigator who covers new media

Accused of fueling addiction among adolescents, concealing the harmful effects of their platforms (which can drive young users into depression) and illegally harvesting children's personal data, Meta and its social networks Instagram and Facebook are facing their most serious reckoning yet

Parents see landmark Meta trial as turning point in protecting kids online

Meta faces multistate lawsuit over alleged teen addiction and mental health harms

The San Francisco-based 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the companies’ bid to reverse a lower court’s ruling forcing them to face some 2,400 lawsuits over the claims filed in federal court

The blockbuster legal battle between the two tech titans has exposed tensions over mission versus money and the future of artificial intelligence

The world's richest man Elon Musk lost his blockbuster lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI on Monday, with a federal jury finding that the tycoon had waited too long to bring his case forward

Closing arguments concluded Thursday at the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building, capping roughly three weeks of testimony in a trial that opened with jury selection April 27

After Musk invested $38 million in its first years, his lawsuit filed in 2024 accused OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his top deputy of shifting into a moneymaking mode behind his back

Elon Musk traveled to China with President Donald Trump this week, despite his ongoing trial over his lawsuit with OpenAI and a federal judge’s order that he remain at the ready to be recalled to testify at short notice

It turned sour, and the jury is charged with settling the ensuing legal dispute between the two Silicon Valley titans

Musk trial puts OpenAI’s $30 bn equity, IPO plans and nonprofit mission under scrutiny

The world's richest person alleges OpenAI, its co-founder and CEO Sam Altman and its President Greg Brockman wooed his $38 million in donations and personal help by promising to build a nonprofit that would prioritize safe development of AI, before pivoting to create a for-profit entity to enrich themselves

His testimony at the Oakland, California, federal courthouse kicked off a legal drama that is expected to brim with intrigue and potentially embarrassing details about the two tech moguls

Elon Musk's long-running legal battle with Sam Altman and OpenAI officially reached the courtroom Monday as jury selection began in a federal case that could reshape the artificial intelligence industry and determine billions of dollars in potential damages

Musk was a cofounder of OpenAI in 2015 but left in 2018 and now runs an AI company that competes with it