23 AI-related lawsuits now tracked in U.S. federal courts

23 federal lawsuits in our tracker name a major AI company as a party, filed between 2026-07-13 and 2026-08-06. This is not every AI-adjacent suit in the country — it is what our watch, reading CourtListener's public RECAP mirror of PACER, has structurally matched against an AI-signal allow-list so far. Nothing here is summarized by a model: every field below — case name, court, docket number, filing date, nature-of-suit code — is copied verbatim from the docket metadata.

### By nature of suit - **360 P.I.: Other** — 3 cases - **830 Patent** — 3 cases - **190 Contract: Other** — 2 cases - **190 Contract: Other Contract** — 2 cases - **365 Personal Inj. Prod. Liability** — 2 cases - **820 Copyright** — 2 cases - **850 Securities/Commodities** — 2 cases - **890 Other Statutory Actions** — 2 cases - **440 Civil Rights: Other** — 1 case - **442 Civil Rights: Jobs** — 1 case - **840 Trademark** — 1 case - **950 Constitutional - State Statute** — 1 case - **not coded** — 1 case

### By company named in the case - **xAI** — named in 6 cases - **Anthropic** — named in 3 cases - **OpenAI** — named in 2 cases - **Alibaba** — named in 1 case - **Dropbox** — named in 1 case - **Google** — named in 1 case - **Granola** — named in 1 case - **IBM** — named in 1 case - **Keru AI** — named in 1 case - **Meta** — named in 1 case - **Midjourney** — named in 1 case - **Suno** — named in 1 case - **Taboola** — named in 1 case - **Uncharted Labs (Udio)** — named in 1 case - **Wix** — named in 1 case

xAI is the single most frequently named company, appearing in 6 of the 23 tracked cases — but not all in the same direction: 3 are xAI itself suing a counterparty (contract and constitutional-challenge matters), and 3 are suits filed against xAI by anonymous "Doe" plaintiffs (personal-injury and civil-rights claims). A litigation count that only asked "how many suits against this company" would have missed the first half of that picture.

OpenAI's two tracked cases — Askins and Mall, both v. OpenAI Foundation — were filed the same day (2026-07-14) in the same district (N.D. Florida) under the same nature-of-suit code (Personal Injury – Product Liability), which is the kind of clustering an insurer underwriting product-liability exposure for a foundation model would want flagged rather than buried in a 23-line list.

### Every tracked case - **EVOX Productions LLC v. Midjourney, Inc. (2:26-cv-08408)** — District Court, C.D. California · 2:26-cv-08408 · filed 2026-07-30 · 820 Copyright ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73698332/evox-productions-llc-v-midjourney-inc/)) - **VB Assets, LLC v. International Business Machines Corporation (1:26-cv-00868)** — District Court, D. Delaware · 1:26-cv-00868 · filed 2026-07-16 · 830 Patent ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73628519/vb-assets-llc-v-international-business-machines-corporation/)) - **University of Tennessee Research Foundation v. Anthropic PBC (1:26-cv-00887)** — District Court, D. Delaware · 1:26-cv-00887 · filed 2026-07-20 · 830 Patent ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73645114/university-of-tennessee-research-foundation-v-anthropic-pbc/)) - **Pilavian v. Suno, Inc. (1:26-cv-13400)** — District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1:26-cv-13400 · filed 2026-07-24 · 190 Contract: Other ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73669428/pilavian-v-suno-inc/)) - **X.AI LLC v. Ellison (0:26-cv-03425)** — District Court, D. Minnesota · 0:26-cv-03425 · filed 2026-07-27 · 950 Constitutional - State Statute ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73678486/xai-llc-v-ellison/)) - **Does v. x.Al Corp (4:26-cv-00750)** — District Court, E.D. Arkansas · 4:26-cv-00750 · filed 2026-07-23 · 440 Civil Rights: Other ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73663612/does-v-xal-corp/)) - **Does v. x.Al Corp (4:26-cv-00772)** — District Court, E.D. Arkansas · 4:26-cv-00772 · filed 2026-07-29 · 360 P.I.: Other ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73690979/does-v-xal-corp/)) - **Pascual v. Anthropic, PBC (3:26-cv-07699)** — District Court, N.D. California · 3:26-cv-07699 · filed 2026-07-24 · 190 Contract: Other ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73670930/pascual-v-anthropic-pbc/)) - **Patel v. Anthropic, PBC (3:26-cv-07837)** — District Court, N.D. California · 3:26-cv-07837 · filed 2026-07-28 · 360 P.I.: Other ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73683165/patel-v-anthropic-pbc/)) - **Chamberlain v. Granola, Inc. (3:26-cv-07926)** — District Court, N.D. California · 3:26-cv-07926 · filed 2026-07-30 ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73698016/chamberlain-v-granola-inc/)) - **Does 1 through 26 v. Meta Platforms, Inc. (4:26-cv-07122)** — District Court, N.D. California · 4:26-cv-07122 · filed 2026-07-13 · 442 Civil Rights: Jobs ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73607476/does-1-through-26-v-meta-platforms-inc/)) - **Pearson v. Google LLC (5:26-cv-07495)** — District Court, N.D. California · 5:26-cv-07495 · filed 2026-07-20 · 890 Other Statutory Actions ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73643294/pearson-v-google-llc/)) - **VE Opening LLC v. Dropbox, Inc. (5:26-cv-07549)** — District Court, N.D. California · 5:26-cv-07549 · filed 2026-07-22 · 830 Patent ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73654718/ve-opening-llc-v-dropbox-inc/)) - **MALL v. OPENAI FOUNDATION (4:26-cv-00334)** — District Court, N.D. Florida · 4:26-cv-00334 · filed 2026-07-14 · 365 Personal Inj. Prod. Liability ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73614528/mall-v-openai-foundation/)) - **ASKINS v. OPENAI FOUNDATION (4:26-cv-00335)** — District Court, N.D. Florida · 4:26-cv-00335 · filed 2026-07-14 · 365 Personal Inj. Prod. Liability ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73615017/askins-v-openai-foundation/)) - **Yappi v. Wix.com Ltd. (1:26-cv-08852)** — District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1:26-cv-08852 · filed 2026-07-24 · 850 Securities/Commodities ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73670545/yappi-v-wixcom-ltd/)) - **X.AI LLC v. Harwood (7:26-cv-00078)** — District Court, N.D. Texas · 7:26-cv-00078 · filed 2026-07-14 · 190 Contract: Other Contract ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73616819/xai-llc-v-harwood/)) - **X.AI LLC v. Bloodworth (7:26-cv-00089)** — District Court, N.D. Texas · 7:26-cv-00089 · filed 2026-07-30 · 190 Contract: Other Contract ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73698219/xai-llc-v-bloodworth/)) - **Internet Forest Corporation v. Keru AI Inc. (1:26-cv-05948)** — District Court, S.D. New York · 1:26-cv-05948 · filed 2026-07-14 · 840 Trademark ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73615498/internet-forest-corporation-v-keru-ai-inc/)) - **Sony Music Entertainment v. Uncharted Labs, Inc. (1:26-cv-06120)** — District Court, S.D. New York · 1:26-cv-06120 · filed 2026-07-20 · 820 Copyright ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73641108/sony-music-entertainment-v-uncharted-labs-inc/)) - **De La Torre v. Taboola, Inc. (1:26-cv-06338)** — District Court, S.D. New York · 1:26-cv-06338 · filed 2026-07-24 · 890 Other Statutory Actions ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73670559/de-la-torre-v-taboola-inc/)) - **Wistisen v. Alibaba Group Holding Limited (1:26-cv-06654)** — District Court, S.D. New York · 1:26-cv-06654 · filed 2026-08-04 · 850 Securities/Commodities ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73716399/wistisen-v-alibaba-group-holding-limited/)) - **Doe 3 v. X. AI Corp. (5:26-cv-05193)** — District Court, W.D. Arkansas · 5:26-cv-05193 · filed 2026-08-06 · 360 P.I.: Other ([docket](https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73729630/doe-3-v-x-ai-corp/))

### How this is built Counted from our own `news_articles` table on 2026-08-11: rows with change_type='litigation', status IN (approved, published). Each row was written by the court-records watch (scripts/court-records-watch.mjs), which queries CourtListener's public RECAP search for federal dockets matching a fixed AI-subject-matter allow-list (large-language-model, chatbot and named-defendant terms — see scripts/lib/court-records.mjs), keeps only allow-listed-source, allow-listed-signal hits, and writes one draft per docket with a deep link to the docket page. No filing text is fetched or summarized; no case is characterized as meritorious, frivolous, or anything else — "tracked" means "a real federal docket exists and matched the allow-list," nothing more. This is a floor on federal AI-adjacent litigation, not a census: state courts and matters CourtListener has not yet indexed are not visible to this watch.