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“We do not use any customer data to train our models without explicit authorization to do so,” a Figma spokesperson said in a statement. “Even with that authorization, we take additional steps to de-identify that data and protect our customers’ privacy, and ensure that our training is focused on general patterns – not on customers’ unique content, concepts and ideas.”

“This case underscores a simple and important principle: consumers and businesses have a right to ensure that their most sensitive and proprietary data and unique creative works are not being used to secretly train AI models,” plaintiffs’ attorney Carter Greenbaum of Greenbaum Olbrantz said in a statement.

The lawsuit is one of a slew of cases brought against tech companies over their use of content without permission to train generative AI systems. Most of those lawsuits focus on copyright infringement claims, unlike the Figma lawsuit, which alleges the company stole customer trade secrets and illegally accessed their data.

Founded in 2012, Figma provides cloud-based collaborative design tools, with a roster of marquee clients including Alphabet, Microsoft and Netflix. Figma has also partnered with OpenAI to integrate its app into ChatGPT.

Firms like Figma are racing to integrate generative AI tools that automate tasks like image creation, layout suggestion and code generation. According to the lawsuit, Figma automatically opted users into allowing the company to use their data to train its AI software without informing them or receiving permission.

“For years Figma promised its customers that Figma would not use their data for its own purposes, including to train its AI models,” the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit said the value of Figma users’ intellectual property is “reasonably measured in the tens or hundreds of billions of dollars.” The plaintiffs requested an unspecified amount of monetary damages and a court order permanently blocking Figma from using AI models that violate its customers’ rights.

The case is Khan v. Figma Inc, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No. 3:25-cv-10054.

For the proposed class: Carter Greenbaum and Casey Olbrantz of Greenbaum Olbrantz; Tina Wolfson, Robert Ahdoot and Theodore Maya of Ahdoot & Wolfson; Joseph Delich and Kyle Roche of Freedman Normand Friedland

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The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has announced it will not release inflation information for the month of October, citing the consequences of the recent government shutdown.

On Friday, the bureau updated its website to say that certain October data would not be available, even now that government funding has been restored and normal operations have resumed.

“BLS could not collect October 2025 reference period survey data due to a lapse in appropriations,” it wrote in a statement. “BLS is unable to retroactively collect these data.”

The cancelled data includes the Consumer Price Index (CPI) — a report that is commonly used to calculate inflation by measuring the changing costs of retail items — and the Real Earnings summary, which tracks wages among US workers.

For some of the reports, including the Consumer Price Index, the bureau said it would use “nonsurvey data sources” to make calculations that would be included in a future report for the month of November.

The November Consumer Price Index will also be published later than anticipated, on December 18.

The most recent government shutdown was the longest in US history, spanning nearly 43 days.

It began on October 1, after the US Congress missed a September 30 deadline to pass legislation to keep the government funded.

Republicans had hoped to push through a continuing resolution that made no changes to current spending levels. But Democrats had baulked at the prospect, arguing that recent restrictions to government programmes had put healthcare out of reach for some US citizens.

They also warned that insurance subsidies under the Affordable Care Act are set to expire by the end of the year. Without an extension to those subsidies, they said that insurance premiums for many Americans will spike.

Republicans rejected the prospect of negotiating the issue until after their continuing resolution was passed. Democrats, meanwhile, feared that, if they passed the continuing resolution without changes, there would be no further opportunity to address healthcare spending before the end of the year.

The two parties hit an impasse as a result. Non-essential government functions were halted during the shutdown, and many federal employees were furloughed.

Only on November 10 did a breakthrough begin to emerge. Late that night, seven Democrats and one independent broke from their caucus to side with Republicans and pass a budget bill to fund the government through January 30.

The bill was then approved by the House of Representatives on November 12, by a vote of 222 to 209. President Donald Trump signed the legislation into law that very same day.

Trump had openly sought to leverage the shutdown to eliminate federal programmes he saw as benefitting Democratic strongholds.

He also attempted to blame the political left for the lapse in government services, though he acknowledged public frustration with Republicans after Democrats won key elections in November.

“If you read the pollsters, the shutdown was a big factor, negative for the Republicans,” he told a breakfast for Republican senators on November 5. “That was a big factor.”

The Trump administration had warned as early as October that the month’s consumer price data would be negatively affected as a result of the shutdown.

In a White House statement, Trump officials touted Trump’s economic record while slamming a potential lapse in the government’s collection of data. Once again, they angled the blame for any slowed economic growth at the Democrats.

“Unfortunately, the Democrat Shutdown risks grinding that progress to a halt,” the statement said.

“Because surveyors cannot deploy to the field, the White House has learned there will likely NOT be an inflation release next month for the first time in history — depriving policymakers and markets of critical data and risking economic calamity.”

September’s Consumer Price Index, the most recent available, showed that inflation across all retail items rose about 3 percent over the previous 12-month period.

For food alone, inflation for that period was estimated at 3.1 percent.