Variety reported that the New York Times, the Daily News, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Intercept and Ziff Davis filed a 52 page motion for sanctions against OpenAI in the Southern District of New York on 9 July. The publishers allege the company concealed for more than two years that it could search its training datasets and output logs for their content, a claim they say surfaced only after a second deposition of its privacy engineering lead.
CNBC reported that Apple sued OpenAI and IO Products in the Northern District of California on 10 July, alleging trade secret theft connected to the hiring of former Apple hardware staff. The complaint names OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple engineer, and centres on material Apple says was taken to build a rival consumer device.
The Law Society Gazette reported that the High Court accepted apologies from the Crown Prosecution Service after two non existent authorities generated by AI appeared in submissions in two extradition appeals. Mr Justice Sweeting found the errors had no effect on the outcome but set them out in the judgment, recording the prosecution's position that the operative cause was a failure to verify authorities rather than the use of the tool itself.
Regulation
The European Commission published its Opinion on the assessment of the Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated content on 9 July 2026, having concluded the previous day that the code adequately covers the obligations in Articles 50(2), (4) and (5) of the AI Act. With the AI Board adopting its adequacy assessment the following day, the code becomes the EU wide instrument through which providers and deployers of generative AI systems may demonstrate compliance before the marking and labelling duties apply on 2 August 2026.
The European Commission preliminarily found on 10 July 2026 that the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook breaches the Digital Services Act, with the investigation centring on infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications and the platforms' highly personalised recommender systems. The findings call on Meta to adapt its recommender system so that it is less engagement oriented and to disable autoplay and infinite scroll by default, with a fine of up to 6 per cent of worldwide annual turnover available if they are confirmed.
Academia
arXiv hosts 'Governing Generative AI Across Financial Institutions: An SR 26-2-Compatible Framework for Generative AI Risk Control' by Yiqing Wang, Yixin Kang, Luyun Lin and Siqi Mao, posted 5 July 2026. The paper proposes a layered control framework for generative AI inside regulated banking workflows, arguing that the Federal Reserve's SR 26-2 leaves generative and agentic uses outside formal model scope even where they shape how regulated decisions are documented and explained.
arXiv hosts 'From Battlefield to Boardroom: Strategic Red Teaming as an Epistemic Governance Instrument in the Age of AI' by Jeroen Janssen, posted 2 July 2026. The paper sets out a six component board level process for stress testing the assumptions behind an AI strategy, covering regulatory exposure simulation and accountability boundary testing rather than model outputs or security controls alone.
Events
Informa Connect will hold the AI Regulation Forum on 22 and 23 September 2026 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Brussels City. The programme covers the Digital Omnibus package and AI Office guidelines, with dedicated sessions on the AI Act's transparency obligation and its implications for governance and compliance.
The IAPP will hold Privacy. Security. Risk. + AI Governance Global 2026 in Seattle from 6 to 9 October 2026, with the main conference on 8 and 9 October. Sessions include privacy and AI product counselling, guardrails for agentic AI in human resources, algorithmic pricing as a regulatory battleground, and risk reviews for AI enabled software vendors.
Sources: Variety, CNBC, The Law Society Gazette, European Commission, arXiv, Informa Connect, IAPP