In a rare bipartisan effort to defend its institutional authority, Congress is quietly resisting President Donald Trump’s attempt to assert control over the Library of Congress — a move that experts say threatens the separation of powers and the integrity of the legislative branch’s premier research body.

(Subscription required) A Paris business court has ordered France’s main internet service providers to block access to a website accused of using artificial intelligence to massively plagiarize the content of daily newspaper Libération and dozens of other publishers. The case involving News.Dayfr.com—the third prominent French case involving the media, publishers and AI in as many months—highlights the growing need for clear rules around artificial intelligence.

(Subscription required) Alarm bells rang for the special master in the case, he said, when he used Westlaw to verify details in the briefing—only to discover, he said, that some of the quotations and court decisions cited by plaintiff's counsel, which appeared to "strongly support their position on the privilege issue," did not exist at all.

Groups trying to bring water back to the dry Kern River bed through Bakersfield have petitioned the California Supreme Court to review an appeals court decision that knocked down an order that had kept flows going for a few months last year.