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25 mattersWoman's deepfake complaint against CJP activists: Delhi High Court's orders against Meta
An Indian judge ordered police protection for a woman after AI-generated explicit images morphing her face onto the prime minister were displayed at a protest and circulated online, and directed Meta to take the content down.
Supreme Court push for statutory minors' social media rules: Just Rights for Children Alliance case
Hearing a plea from Just Rights for Children Alliance, an Indian bench told the government that mere guidelines were not enough, prompting the Centre to commit to amending the IT Rules to bar under-18 users from opening social media accounts.
UPI merchant discount rate framework: rates, rollout and the Supreme Court challenge
An Indian bench declined to halt the new 0.4 percent UPI merchant discount rate on payments above Rs 2,000, but pushed the government, the Reserve Bank of India and the National Payments Corporation of India to justify the charge's legal character.
TikTok COPPA settlement and the bid to vacate the 2019 Musical.ly consent order
A federal judge in Los Angeles denied, without prejudice, the government's motion to vacate the 2019 COPPA consent order against Musical.ly, TikTok's predecessor, at a hearing on September 21. The bid was tied to a $400 million settlement. The court adopted its earlier tentative ruling as final and asked the parties to confer on a renewed motion.
EU KIDS Act: Commission proposal on children's access to social media, games and AI chatbots
The European Commission adopted the EU KIDS Act proposal on September 17. Children under 13 would be barred from social media, those aged 13 to under 15 would use parent-managed mini accounts with a one hour daily limit, and social media and video platforms would have to verify age when accounts open. Parliament and the Council must now examine it.
Times Publishing v. Microsoft: local publishers' AI copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft
Twenty-six local and specialty news publishers filed a copyright complaint in a US federal court in New York on September 16 against Microsoft and OpenAI entities. They allege their articles, including paywalled content, were copied to train ChatGPT and Copilot, and that copyright management information was stripped. The allegations have not been tested in court.
Amazon v. Cinevood: Delhi High Court real-time blocking order for the film VIBE
India's Delhi High Court on September 15 granted Amazon Seller Services an ex parte ad interim injunction against 11 piracy websites over its film VIBE, ahead of a scheduled September 18 release. Registrars must suspend the domains within 36 hours, and Amazon may seek real-time blocking of further sites.
TRAI's amended spam and unsolicited commercial communications rules
India's telecom regulator TRAI notified its Third Amendment to the Telecom Commercial Communications Customer Preference Regulations on September 18. The amendments require operators to use AI and machine learning to flag suspected spam senders, regulate automated calls, and bar call-management apps from blanket-blocking or spam-tagging designated commercial number series.
Buist v. Anthropic: antitrust class action over an alleged agreement to slow AI development
Four paying subscribers filed a proposed nationwide class action in the US District Court for the Northern District of California on September 18, alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google agreed to slow how fast they improve competing AI products, in violation of Section 1 of the Sherman Act. The Associated Press reported that the companies did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Doe v. GitHub: DMCA and contract claims over Copilot's use of open-source code
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on September 16 affirmed the dismissal of programmers' Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI over Copilot, holding that, as the plaintiffs pleaded it, Copilot creates new works instead of removing copyright management information from copies. Two breach of contract claims remain pending.
California's independent AI oversight push: SB 813, AB 1405 and the governor's executive order
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on September 18 directing state agencies to speed up two AI oversight laws and to convene national experts to recommend further changes, including onsite independent auditors and a "kill switch" for frontier AI models. The order's release points to the absence of federal action.
India's challenge to Meta's intermediary status over child sexual abuse material in paid ads
India's government has challenged Meta's intermediary status, arguing its algorithms actively determine which advertisements users see, after Meta acknowledged lapses in handling child sexual abuse material that a BBC investigation found running in paid Instagram ads, some using AI generated imagery. The legal question of whether Meta loses safe harbour protection has not been decided and remains for courts to resolve.
X Corp and SpaceXAI v. Apple and OpenAI: antitrust fight over ChatGPT's iOS integration
A federal judge ruled on September 17 that OpenAI cannot compel X Corp and SpaceXAI to produce their confidential settlement agreement with Apple, after reviewing the agreement privately and finding it contains nothing relevant to the summary judgment or trial issues remaining in the antitrust case.
CenterPoint Energy data breach: customer class action litigation
Houston based utility CenterPoint Energy confirmed hackers stole customer data through an external facing system, after a dark web post claimed nearly 7.49 million records were taken. Five proposed federal class actions filed before the disclosure allege a flaw in the utility's guest bill pay tool exposed the data.
Tesla and SpaceX v. TERA-print: Terafab trademark dispute over Texas AI chip factory name
Tesla, SpaceX and SpaceXAI sued Illinois nanotech company TERA-print in federal court, seeking a ruling that their Terafab name for a 16.8 billion dollar Texas AI chip factory does not infringe TERA-print's existing TERA-FAB trademark, after months of failed settlement talks over the name.
DOJ v. Google: ad tech monopoly remedies and appeal
A federal judge's full 106-page remedies opinion in the DOJ's ad tech antitrust case against Google was unsealed, detailing mandated integrations with rival ad tech and bidding restrictions rather than the breakup regulators sought. The order runs six years worldwide, with a court monitor overseeing compliance while Google says it will appeal.
China's AI Security Governance Framework: tracking successive versions and sector-specific guidance
A senior Cyberspace Administration of China official told a Cybersecurity Week forum in Jinan that AI regulators should use flexible "agile governance" tools, including sandbox testing and permission limits on autonomous AI agents, as a standards body issued new sector-specific AI security guidelines, a day after Beijing updated its national AI Security Governance Framework.
Broadcom's VMware licensing changes: EU antitrust scrutiny
European Commission antitrust officials sent cloud providers new questions in July, reviewed by Bloomberg and reported September 11, pressing them on how easily Broadcom's VMware products can be replaced and whether the company's revamped partner certification terms are unfair, deepening a competition complaint filed by a European cloud industry group in March.
Crowder v. LinkedIn: antitrust class action over Premium subscription pricing
Plaintiffs in a long-running federal antitrust class action against LinkedIn filed an amended complaint on September 11 adding allegations that the company's machine learning and AI infrastructure, not just its user data, functions as a barrier protecting its alleged monopoly over professional social networking and lets it overcharge Premium subscribers.
Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger: the interstate antitrust fight
The Supreme Court ordered California and ten other states to respond by September 25 to an original-jurisdiction complaint filed by Iowa and Montana, which argues the states' antitrust suit blocking Paramount Skydance's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery is a politicized effort rather than genuine antitrust enforcement.
ANI v. OpenAI: India's first AI-training copyright case
The Delhi High Court Division Bench of Justices Avneesh Jhingan and Manmeet Pritam Singh Arora issued notice directing OpenAI to respond to ANI's appeal, and deferred a decision on the Broadband India Forum's request to be added as an intervenor to the next hearing.
India's fragmented AI deepfake regulation litigation: consolidation at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court stayed all proceedings in a Gujarat High Court public interest litigation over AI-generated deepfakes on September 12, after the Union government sought to transfer the case to the Supreme Court to consolidate it with similar deepfake-regulation petitions already pending from Karnataka and Bombay High Courts.
DOJ investigation into Nvidia's Groq licensing deal
The Department of Justice is investigating whether Nvidia structured its $20 billion licensing agreement with AI chip startup Groq, announced in December 2025, as a non-exclusive license rather than an acquisition specifically to avoid the antitrust review a formal takeover would have triggered.
Fox's $22 billion Roku acquisition: DOJ review
The US Department of Justice issued a second request to Fox and Roku on September 8, extending its antitrust review of Fox's $22 billion acquisition of Roku. The request signals unresolved questions about competition in streaming and advertising rather than an intent to block the deal.
Nvidia's $12.93 billion Hugging Face acquisition: antitrust review
Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face, confirmed September 3, is expected to require US premerger review under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act. Whether it separately triggers EU merger control depends on turnover thresholds, and no EU notification had been confirmed as of publication. Nvidia expects to close in the first half of 2027, subject to regulatory approvals.