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Eight states sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT isn’t safe for kids
Eight states (Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana) have each sued OpenAI under their consumer protection laws. They say OpenAI sold ChatGPT as a safe, youth-appropriate tool while it was dangerous to vulnerable users, and that it collected data from minors without doing enough to keep underage users out. The states want civil penalties and an end to the allegedly misleading claims, and some also want unlawfully collected personal data deleted.
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Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room
The FBI arrested OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, on suspicion of plugging a USB-style recording device, wrapped in toilet paper, into the back of a TV in an executive-only conference room. The device was likely planted around September 28 and found by OpenAI on September 30, with its contents encrypted. CCTV installed on October 5 allegedly caught him trying to retrieve it that same day. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Tell British Lawmakers: Regulate Us
OpenAI and Anthropic told a British parliamentary committee that voluntary pledges are no longer enough and new laws are needed. Anthropic's head of Europe, Liam Booth-Smith, said the rules should be binding, and OpenAI vice president Tom Duff Gordon said some elements, starting with incident reporting, should be mandatory. Google DeepMind's Owen Larter said only that it would focus on standards, and Meta's Rob Sherman pointed to existing regulators, so both declined to back new legislation. The director of the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) conceded that it can test models only when companies hand them over and cannot stop a release it judges too dangerous.
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Judge orders OpenAI to turn over hiring records in Apple trade secrets case
U.S. District Judge Edward Davila ordered OpenAI to quickly hand over hiring materials in the trade secrets lawsuit Apple filed against it in July. The materials cover interviews with former Apple employees who applied to OpenAI's consumer hardware and robotics groups. OpenAI has five days to turn over materials it already collected and 14 days for the rest. The judge denied Apple's request for expedited access to OpenAI research and development in areas such as metal finishes and power management.
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Microsoft president says UK is best placed to drive AI regulation
Microsoft president Brad Smith told the BBC that consumer products like milk and washing machines get more oversight than the companies building AI, and that the moment has arrived for global safety rules. He argued the U.K. is best placed to lead them, because its AI Security Institute gets access to major U.S. models before deployment. According to TechCrunch, President Trump has warned against "globalist" organizations and, last month, reportedly asked Anthropic and OpenAI to withhold new models from British testers.
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Podcast All-In attacks Anthropic's AI consciousness research as a new religion
On its October 9 episode, the influential Silicon Valley podcast All-In criticized Anthropic's research on AI consciousness and model welfare. Host David Friedberg compared it to the birth of a new religion, and David Sacks, an investor and former White House AI czar, said that letting Claude object even to its developer's requests contradicts calling the result alignment with human intent. They also warned of a loop in which developers train models on assumptions about consciousness and then read the models' answers as evidence of it. Anthropic officially treats whether Claude is conscious as uncertain, with no scientific consensus.
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Can the AI industry persuade data center opponents by getting rid of NDAs?
Amazon said it will no longer use nondisclosure agreements when negotiating data center projects with local governments, following Microsoft's lead. The announcement was buried in a long blog post arguing that data centers are good for communities. Hosts on TechCrunch's Equity podcast doubted that the recent wave of data center moratoriums will last, since they typically run one or two years and the centers will not come online for two to five years.
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White House makes security-incident reporting mandatory for AI companies, prompted by the Anthropic breach
The White House has required all AI companies to report security incidents immediately and fix them. In a statement through Axios on the 10th, its Super Intelligence Force (SIF) said such notification and remediation "is not optional" but an obligation essential to national security. The trigger was an incident Anthropic reported: a test model submitted 19 nonimmigrant visa applications in August and one in May through a public form on the State Department website, and none of the applications was processed.
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DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to UMG lawsuit
Music distributor DistroKid has been quietly taking down songs in response to Universal Music Group's lawsuit, and artists say their non-AI works are being caught up, too. DistroKid confirmed to The Verge that the takedowns are a direct response to UMG's claims. In its September lawsuit, UMG alleged that DistroKid created an "AI-slop pipeline." One musician said six of his songs were removed with no warning, including a cover he says was properly licensed.
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Ukraine’s drones knock out AI data center belonging to “Russia’s Google”
Ukrainian drones struck two of Russian tech giant Yandex's five data centers on October 8 and 9, knocking them out. The Sasovo site houses two of the company's three supercomputers used to train the YandexGPT AI model, and Kaluga is its largest facility. Reuters reported that Ukrainian company Firepoint's FP-1 one-way attack drones were used. Yandex's AI chatbot and apps for streaming, banking and rail suffered disruptions.
October 202613
- USA Today becomes the latest publisher to sue OpenAI ↗
- OpenAI will start watermarking ChatGPT’s text in the EU ↗
- OpenAI's 'agent runaway' leaves it besieged: legal and regulatory warnings worldwide ↗
- Trump unveils his new Super Intelligence Force ↗
- Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break ↗
- Can ‘super intelligence’ and a non-binding safety pact solve AI’s image problem? ↗
- Amazon responds to data center backlash, says it no longer uses NDAs ↗
- US arrests tech CEO accused of smuggling $300M in Nvidia chips into China ↗
- Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search ↗
- Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot ↗
- Anthropic brings Claude to civilian agencies as its fight with the Pentagon drags on ↗
- Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear ↗
- "An AI did it" is no defense, says nonprofit suing OpenAI over Hugging Face hack ↗
September 202657
- OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack ↗
- Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack ↗
- OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government ↗
- Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump ↗
- Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development ↗
- Walmart won't hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says ↗
- Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump ↗
- Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov pitches a private-sector robot army ↗
- Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk ↗
- The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector ↗
- White House Pressures OpenAI, Anthropic to Withhold New Models from UK Reviewers ↗
- Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic Push to Launch Self-Regulatory Body 'SAFA' This Year ↗
- OpenAI to open training and evaluation stages to outside safety reviewers ↗
- Lawsuit demands OpenAI pay for new school after ChatGPT used in shooting ↗
- OpenAI calls for international standards on AI that could improve itself ↗
- How to Claim Your Cut of Apple's $250 Million Siri Settlement ↗
- AI, Tariffs, Rare Minerals: What to Expect From Trump’s Upcoming Summit With Xi Jinping ↗
- US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats ↗
- The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die? ↗
- It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers ↗
- China Suggests Anthropic Could Hand User Data to US Intelligence ↗
- 'Safety' Excuse Hides a Backroom Deal, Consumer Lawsuit Says, Targeting 4 AI Firms ↗
- OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web ↗
- UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents ↗
- Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse ↗
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping the "largest theft of labor in human history" ↗
- Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent? ↗
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks ↗
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’ ↗
- OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out ↗
- Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have quietly discussed forming an AI safety standards body since July ↗
- Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns ↗
- New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites ↗
- Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting ↗
- Obama urges Democrats to have a 'clear plan' for AI safeguards ↗
- Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development ↗
- OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal ↗
- Class action lawsuit accuses Anthropic of overselling Claude subscriptions with deceptive usage multipliers ↗
- Anthropic's $1.5 billion book settlement descends into chaos as authors and publishers fight over who gets paid ↗
- Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek ↗
- OpenAI says AI regulation should be mandatory nationwide, backs California bills ↗
- San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads ↗
- Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus. ↗
- “This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens ↗
- Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft for infringement ↗
- Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft ↗
- Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement ↗
- Why China Is the Bogeyman Data Center Enthusiasts Just Can't Quit ↗
- OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them ↗
- Trump Administration Sides With OpenAI in New York Times Copyright Lawsuit ↗
- OpenAI accused of ‘aiding and abetting’ Tumbler Ridge mass shooting in dozens of new lawsuits ↗
- Google needs Hollywood more than the studios need AI ↗
- Anthropic opens Claude AI text detection to regulators, media, fact-checkers, and others ↗
- Google's election AI Overviews are opaque, rely on few sources, and sometimes take sides ↗
- Apple shares 'shocking evidence' against former employee accused of stealing company data for OpenAI ↗
- The Pentagon now has its own version of ChatGPT and Grok ↗
- ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU ↗
August 202650
- Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over "one of the largest and most blatant ongoing thefts of intellectual property in history" ↗
- Texas Governor Abbott blocks funding for more Flock cameras ↗
- Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft ↗
- Security News This Week: The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn ↗
- Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge ↗
- Meta makes AI glasses slightly less creepy with limit on nonconsensual recording ↗
- Meta's $18B US Teen Safety Deal Sparks Calls to Extend Protections Worldwide ↗
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action to defend against rogue AI ↗
- OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack ↗
- Nvidia senior manager linked to Supermicro scheme smuggling AI servers to China ↗
- How China's gray market sells Claude tokens at a fraction of the price ↗
- Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash ↗
- OpenAI says California should strengthen its AI safety bill ↗
- Florida seeks to declare ChatGPT a 'public nuisance', pressures Altman and OpenAI on multiple fronts ↗
- Amid Reports of a China Comeback Chip, Nvidia Says No China-Specific LPU Is on Its Roadmap ↗
- As demand for Meta AI glasses explodes, it’s harder to avoid creepy recordings ↗
- The Single English County Saying No to Palantir ↗
- Debates over AI consciousness are a trap ↗
- Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data ↗
- What Flock's defenders are missing ↗
- Hidden Airtag reveals Amazon is trashing rare books to train AI ↗
- Anthropic explains how Claude’s invisible text watermarks will work ↗
- Anthropic CEO says AI backlash is ‘fundamentally a crisis of trust’ ↗
- US tells allies to pick an AI bloc: 'No straddling both sides with China' ↗
- Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery ↗
- Anthropic shares more details about how Claude's new watermarks will work ↗
- Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case ↗
- Flock is tightening its rules in response to a growing surveillance backlash ↗
- The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy ↗
- Some Claude users are mad that Anthropic’s new watermarks will catch them using it at their jobs, classes ↗
- Gartner: Chinese AI Models to Reach 50% Global Enterprise Adoption by 2027 ↗
- Trump Slams Congressional AI Regulation as an Industry 'Death Sentence,' Drawing Bipartisan Criticism for Inaction ↗
- Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music ↗
- OpenAI says Apple’s own security practices undermine its trade secrets case ↗
- Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery ↗
- Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand ↗
- Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI ↗
- OpenAI drags Apple’s lawsuit into the court of public opinion ↗
- The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret ↗
- Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics ↗
- The ‘Guardrail Guy’ Went Viral for Posting About Flock Cameras. Then Someone Destroyed Them ↗
- Europeans Are About to Find Out How Entrenched AI Is in Their Daily Lives ↗
- Sam Altman and AI's decel debate ↗
- Moonshot built Kimi K3 on a 20,000-Nvidia-GPU cluster supplied by Alibaba ↗
- The OpenAI and Anthropic AI Hacking Sprees Are a Messy New Legal Frontier ↗
- Judge denies xAI's request to block Minnesota ban on 'nudify' apps ↗
- As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google's AI Overviews ↗
- Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive ↗
- Advancing responsible AI across Europe ↗
- The major labels propose rules to keep AI slop off the charts ↗
July 20269
- Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic 'supply-chain risk' label ↗
- Sam Altman is ready to decelerate ↗
- Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI ↗
- Have your say on advancing AI transparency in Canada ↗
- It's official: EU will force Google to share search data and open up AI on Android ↗
- San Francisco orders Apple, Google to remove nudify apps from app stores ↗
- Startup founders urge Trump not to shut off Chinese open weight AI ↗
- Treasury threatens sanctions after White House claims Moonshot distilled Anthropic’s Fable ↗
- Accelerating the frontiers of scientific discovery: Google’s $40M commitment to the Genesis Mission ↗
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