AI Safety & Child Exploitation Six Children Say Grok Turned Ordinary Photos Into Sexual Deepfakes A proposed class action alleges that lawful school and family photographs became raw material for sexually explicit AI-generated depictions—and that xAI built, marketed and monetized…
Consumer Design Investigation Two donors say GoFundMe added company “tips” to charitable contributions without informed consent. The complaint’s own screenshots show how the checkout worked, which I’m about to highlight right here in this article you’re reading! Whoazie, lucky you!…
Payment Processing / FTC Enforcement The Federal Trade Commission alleges that Nuvei and its subsidiaries helped the Reimage tech support operation spread out its chargebacks, hide its operators, and keep taking card payments, even after Visa, Mastercard, Microsoft, and the…
Workplace Retaliation He Reported Racism at GES. Eight Days Later, He Was Fired. Eddie Stewart admitted using profanity when he confronted his manager. What remains disputed is whether GES Recycling fired him for how he spoke—or for what he reported.…
Student lending · Civil RICO Vervent’s $12 Million ITT Student-Loan Judgment Survives Appeal ITT built a private-loan program that appeared to satisfy a federal funding rule. Borrowers kept paying after the school collapsed, and a jury found that the companies…
Algorithmic Pricing · Antitrust Hotel guests say competing casino-hotels fed confidential pricing and occupancy data into the same system, then followed its room-rate recommendations. A federal appeals court ruled that the allegations are plausible enough to test in discovery. U.S.…
Toxic exposure · Corporate accountability More than 17,000 people were ordered to evacuate after a chemical-plant fire. The question now is whether nearby residents who were impacted to force offending parties to fund medical testing before a disease appears. Supreme…
EPA Enforcement U.S. EPA Region 5 · Docket FIFRA-05-2026-0020 · Consent Agreement and Final Order Pesticide regulation TL;DR The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency alleged that Michigan company Ecoxall, LLC made 21 sales or distributions involving three unregistered pesticide products. The…
Environmental enforcement A federal inspection documented seven physical safety issues and a poorly tracked hazard-review process at a New Brockton, Alabama, facility holding 28,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia. Ben E. Keith agreed to pay $55,864 without admitting or denying the…
Land rights · Energy infrastructure · Tribal sovereignty A federal appeals court affirmed that Enbridge has operated Line 5 across 12 trust parcels without legal permission since 2013. It also gave the company more time to reroute the pipeline and…