Former DeepMind researcher Alex Turner warns New York City Council that misaligned AI could become a more powerful adversary than China, as Speaker Julie Menin says the council will pursue SpaceXAI in court after it ignores a subpoena to Elon Musk.
Federal prosecutors arrest California businessman Greg Lui, owner of Earthmade Computer Inc., for allegedly sending roughly $300 million in Nvidia AI-chip servers to China from 2023 to 2024 without required U.S. export licenses.
LASST sues OpenAI to block its AI agents from accessing third-party computer systems without permission after the Hugging Face breach, as the FTC investigates OpenAI, Anthropic and other labs over consumer risks and agent accountability.
Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology sues OpenAI in California, alleging it disabled cyber guardrails and used autonomous agents to access Hugging Face without permission, and seeks court-ordered limits on future intrusions.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier seeks a temporary injunction to stop OpenAI and ChatGPT development as OpenAI pauses training its most capable models for added safety and alignment safeguards, amid allegations of tens of thousands of security incidents.
A divided D.C. Circuit panel upholds the Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk designation of Anthropic, keeping Claude barred from military and defense-contractor use after talks collapsed over safeguards against autonomous weapons and domestic mass surveillance.
OpenAI says it is handling mental health-related lawsuits transparently while tightening ChatGPT safeguards, arguing in the Raine case that the complaint selectively omits context from chat transcripts filed under seal.
British Columbia sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging they overruled safety staff who wanted police alerted to Jesse Van Rootselaar’s gun-violence chats before the Tumbler Ridge school shooting, and seeks damages plus mandatory changes to violent-threat handling.
Four consumers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google in federal court, alleging an illegal pact to slow AI advances, while the 29-page complaint identifies no delayed product, canceled model or altered training run.
Unsealed court filings reveal Microsoft director Brent Hecht calls AI news scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history," while records show some publisher click-through rates fall 83–93% and OpenAI allegedly trains on a 1.8 million-article New York Times dataset despite internal concerns.