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.
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.
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 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 journalism projects.