The OpenAI software engineer charged with using a hidden recording device in one of the company’s offices asked to be freed from custody and denied his purchase of a one-way plane ticket to his native Saudi Arabia was part of a plan to flee US justice.
A flood of lawsuits against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users.
A flood of lawsuits against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first personal injury case to go to trial, a Los Angeles jury in March found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms — awarding $6 million to a 20-year-old woman in a landmark verdict.
A judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Meta Platforms Inc.’s WhatsApp is able to access users’ encrypted messages and has made false claims about the privacy and security of its chat service.
OpenAI asked a judge to find that a lawsuit filed by xAI Corp. accusing the ChatGPT maker of trade secret theft “should never have been filed” and seeks to recoup more than $1 million in legal expenses from Elon Musk’s company.
Los Angeles won a court order dismissing a Trump administration lawsuit claiming its sanctuary city ordinance helped fuel riots during 2025 protests against the president’s deportation crackdown.
Law enforcement officers confront protesters during a demonstration in Los Angeles in June 2025. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
A flood of lawsuits filed in recent years against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first case to go to trial, a jury in March found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms — a landmark verdict.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., exits Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Zuckerberg testified that it’s “very difficult” to enforce Instagram’s age limits and downplayed how much teen users do for the company’s business during a landmark trial over social media addiction. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
Congressional Democratic leaders lost a bid for a court order to block the Trump administration from prohibiting mail-in voting for anyone not on a pre-approved list of citizens compiled by the Department of Homeland Security.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman says Elon Musk messaged him just before they faced off in a trial to talk about settling their fight — and then vowed to ruin his reputation.
Sam Altman, chief executive officer and co-founder of OpenAI Inc., right, and Greg Brockman, president and co-founder of OpenAI Inc., arrive at the federal court in Oakland, California, US, on Thursday, April 30, 2026. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI and Microsoft Corp. over claims that the startup abandoned its founding mission when it took billions of dollars in backing from the software stalwart and planned its restructuring. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
A flood of lawsuits filed in recent years against social media giants claim that by engineering their platforms to be hard to resist, the companies are causing serious harm to young users. In the first case to go to trial, a jury on March 25 found Meta Platforms Inc. and Google negligent in the design and operation of their platforms – a landmark verdict.
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer of Meta Platforms Inc., exits Los Angeles Superior Court in Los Angeles, California, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. Zuckerberg testified that it’s “very difficult” to enforce Instagram’s age limits and downplayed how much teen users do for the company’s business during a landmark trial over social media addiction. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
Holders of notes issued by Tricolor Holdings sued JPMorgan Chase & Co., Barclays Plc and Fifth Third Bancorp., accusing the banks of helping to perpetuate a fraud at the now-bankrupt used-car dealer and lender.
Two of the world’s largest social media platforms are facing a jury trial over allegations that they intentionally designed their products to be addictive to young people — drawing comparisons to Big Tobacco’s reckoning with consumer addiction three decades ago.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg Photographer: Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg
Meta Platforms Inc., Google, TikTok Inc. and Snap Inc. lost a chance to avoid going to trial over claims by public school districts across the US that social media platforms harmed the mental health of students and strained school resources.
Teenagers using mobile phones. Photographer: Daniel de la Hoz/Getty Images
A lawyer representing Nicolas Maduro has moved to strike a former top Justice Department lawyer during the Reagan administration, Bruce Fein, from serving on the ousted Venezuelan president’s criminal defense team.
Bruce Fein in 2009. Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images
The US Chamber of Commerce is appealing a federal court’s refusal to block the Trump administration’s $100,000 fee on applications for H-1B visas that are heavily relied on by American technology companies for hiring skilled foreign workers.
President Donald Trump delivers remarks alongside a poster of the "Trump Gold Card" before signing an executive order at the White House in Washington on Sept. 19.
Nvidia Corp. settled a lawsuit involving a former engineer who had inadvertently revealed autonomous driving trade secrets that he stole from a previous employer.
The Nvidia headquarters in Santa Clara, California. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
In a report filed to Congress on Dec. 3, the acting Pentagon inspector general concluded that sensitive messages Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth sent in a group Signal chat months prior risked putting US troops in danger, a person familiar with the matter said.
Donald Trump, JD Vance, Pete Hegseth, and Mike Waltz in the Oval Office of the White House. Photographer: Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg
President Donald Trump continues to expand troop deployments to US cities, escalating a campaign to assert military power at home with little precedent in US history.
Members of the National Guard patrol near the US Capitol on the National Mall in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. National Guard troops deployed to Washington, DC for President Donald Trump's "safe and beautiful mission" are set to keep working in the city, without pay, if the US government shuts down over a funding dispute between the White House and congressional Democrats. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg