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iPhone Owners Can Now Submit Claims in Apple’s $250 Million Siri AI Settlement

September 21, 2026
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Apple’s $250 million settlement over the Siri features it demonstrated in June 2024 and did not ship until September 2026 is now accepting claims. Roughly 37 million US iPhone owners are eligible on seven models bought between 10 June 2024 and 29 March 2025, with a presumptive payment of $25 per device and a $95 ceiling. This guide covers the eligibility rules, the serial number requirement, the arithmetic that decides where in that range the payment lands, the court timetable through the 24 February 2027 final approval hearing, what Apple did and did not concede, and the questions the settlement leaves open — including everyone outside the United States.

Meta Sued Over Training Data for Its AI and Face-Recognition Systems

September 12, 2026
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A proposed class action filed in Chicago on 4 September 2026 says Meta harvested Facebook and Instagram photos to build the NameTag face-recognition feature for its smart glasses and to train the Emu and Muse Image models. We read the 66-page complaint, WIRED’s five NameTag stories, the ACLU letter, the patent, the Illinois statute and its 2024 amendment, and counted where the coverage and the complaint diverge.

Twitch and Amazon Hit With Lawsuit for Training AI With Streamers’ Content

August 24, 2026
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Eight days after Twitch switched on AI training by default, a Connecticut streamer filed a class action against Twitch and Amazon in the Northern District of California. The complaint accuses both companies of harvesting broadcasts, videos, clips and chat logs to train Amazon’s generative AI since as far back as 2024 — without consent and without payment. This article breaks the case down in plain language: the four legal claims and why copyright is deliberately missing, Mike Minton’s “nobody would opt in” admission, the same-day terms change, the market price of licensed training data, how the case compares with Bartz, Kadrey and NYT v. OpenAI, and the lessons for any business repurposing user content for AI.