Eight states sue OpenAI, claiming ChatGPT's design deceives parents about child safety. The suits, filed individually in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana, cite harms including a Texas teen's overdose death. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird says OpenAI pushed ChatGPT knowing it hurt children. OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri cites age-specific protections.
Federal prosecutors charge OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national, with hiding a recorder in a company meeting room to eavesdrop on leaders. OpenAI says its own models helped trace the device, found Sept. 30 inside toilet paper behind a TV. U.S. Attorney Craig Missakian calls it a national security matter.
Meta, Walmart, Stripe and Sierra launch an open personal agent protocol designed to verify that AI bots represent real people and reveal their actions to businesses, as Amazon blocks Meta and Perplexity agents amid web-scraping disputes.
Former Groq engineers Joshua Rubin and Benjamin Serebrin sue to challenge Nvidia’s $20 billion transaction, alleging shareholders are denied a required vote as $17 billion funds a technology license and $3 billion goes to restricted stock for employees joining Nvidia.
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.