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Amazon is blocking Meta's Muse agent with a Conditions of Use popup and a bot wall, ten days after the Ninth Circuit refused to rehear its Perplexity case. Agent builders now have to plan for stores that refuse entry through their own terms, whatever the user asked for.
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Kalshi lost its Tennessee injunction at the Sixth Circuit, putting states ahead 2-1 in appeals courts over its sports contracts. New York's suit against Polymarket prices a loss at the alleged gains plus a penalty three times as large.
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Sixth Circuit judges let Ohio and Tennessee enforce gambling law against Kalshi's sports contracts, putting two of three appeals courts on the states' side. New Jersey's contrary ruling still stands, so the same federally registered contract now has a different legal status depending on the state.
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The proposal landed the same day Apple asked a judge to order settlement talks Epic had already refused, and the same day the Supreme Court refused to pause the case. Any app with a web checkout now has a number.
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A unanimous panel decided that Kalshi's contracts on who wins a game are likely bets rather than swaps, which turns one federal registration back into a fifty-state licensing problem for the exchange.
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Sports contracts run above 80% of a market that went from $2bn in August 2025 to $38.5bn. Whether the justices take New Jersey's petition this fall will decide which compliance bill the industry pays.
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Amazon has cut Meta's Muse off from shopping its store, using the Conditions of Use its own customers accepted. Anyone shipping a buy-on-behalf feature inherits the merchant consent problem that comes with it.
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Meta's Muse agent reached the top of Apple's free app chart by doing users' shopping for them, and Amazon shut it out of its store on contract grounds, a theory Amazon already lost a ruling on against Perplexity.
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Meta's Muse started hitting a Conditions of Use popup on Amazon.com on Sunday evening, and the next day Amazon filed a 41-page amended complaint against Perplexity. Anyone shipping a buying agent now needs the store's permission first.
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Amazon stopped Meta's agent at its own website on September 20, citing conditions of use that speak about robots and data gathering tools. Its court case against Perplexity's shopping agent had already been set back on appeal.
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A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel held that Copilot generates code instead of retrieving files, so the DMCA claim in Doe v GitHub is out. The two breach-of-contract claims against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI are still running.
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The justices agreed to review the contempt finding that followed Apple's compliance plan, the plan that allowed outside payment links and charged up to 27% on purchases made through them.
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The Supreme Court's June 30 refusal to stay the order keeping her in office leaves Part 3 publishable, a document that binds no court but that plaintiffs appealing the 9th Circuit's fair-use holdings would cite in every brief.
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Cornerstone Research counted 117 new federal securities class actions in the first half of 2026, and the 15 AI cases among them carried 73% of the alleged investor losses. Capability language now sits in counsel's file.
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The appeals court declined to block Nevada from overseeing Kalshi, so the question of where a contract may be offered goes back to a per-state eligibility list that product and legal have to maintain together.
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Meta withheld 30 percent of the payout unless two rivals ship a one-hour cap, night mode and age assurance. The 52 attorneys general who signed now have a reason to go collect.
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A PredictIt executive says the CFTC-versus-states fight could reach the Supreme Court as soon as November, with a ruling next June. That is not a glide path. It is a coin flip with a date on it.
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A New Jersey 15-year-old dropped her claims against Meta, Google and Snap seven weeks before trial, with all three defendants confirming she received no payment. October now has two test cases left.
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The Supreme Court's June 23, 2026 ruling shuts down aiding-and-abetting claims under the Alien Tort Statute and the TVPA. Compliance budgets built on that threat now need a different rationale.
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Forty-two attorneys general sued Meta over compulsive-use design. An appeal now asks whether Section 230 covers feature choices or only content, and the answer sets the liability surface.
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Product · August 17, 2026 · 1 publisher