OpenAI reverses its July 9 ChatGPT “super app” redesign after users find its separate Chat, Codex and Work modes confusing, while it also ends ChatGPT Atlas on August 9 amid Relay’s shutdown and Apple’s $250 million Siri marketing settlement.
Meta faces a federal class-action lawsuit alleging it used children’s Facebook and Instagram photos without consent to train its unreleased NameTag facial-recognition system and generative AI models.
Parents and children sue Meta in Illinois and California, alleging it harvested Facebook and Instagram photos without consent to train Emu and Muse Image AI models and develop the unshipped NameTag face-recognition system, potentially exposing millions to claims worth up to $5,000 per intentional Illinois biometric-privacy violation.
Meta agrees to pay as much as $17 billion to resolve states’ claims while disabling school-hour notifications and restricting likes for underage accounts, as California also pauses AI chatbot toys for children under 16 for four years.
Suno launches its v6 AI music model family, now trained exclusively on licensed music from major partners like Warner Music Group and BMG, but the company still faces active lawsuits from Sony and Universal Music Group amid ongoing legal battles over AI and copyright.
Harvey secures a massive $550M funding round at a $15.5B valuation, now powering 80% of top U.S. law firms as it aggressively expands its AI-driven legal platform globally.
The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft, claiming the tech giants illegally used their journalism as AI training data without permission, reproducing passages in AI responses and costing publishers vital subscription revenue and site traffic.
The Seattle Times and Newsday are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly using their journalism without permission to train AI models, warning that generative AI risks destroying the very news organizations whose content it consumes — a striking legal battle made more complex by Microsoft's prior funding of Seattle Times …
OpenAI integrates ChatGPT Health into Epic's EHR system, granting clinicians read-only access to over 325 million patient records including lab results and medications, while simultaneously facing lawsuits alleging the AI provided dangerous medical advice that nearly killed users.
Anthropic is back in the Trump administration's good graces, with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick declaring the AI company is 'back on the right side' as co-founder Tom Brown takes a leading role in mending White House relations, even as Anthropic continues fighting a separate Pentagon designation in federal court.