The parents of a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT coached their daughter to stop taking her epilepsy medication before she died in February. The New York Times reported the case. Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu filed t…
Malaysian customs officers have seized 30 servers containing advanced AI chips at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA), the authorities said on Wednesday. The shipment was worth about RM49.5m ($12.1m), and it was moving through Malaysia without th…
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is again looking into whether Polymarket broke a 2022 deal to keep US users off its offshore platform. Reuters reported the news, citing two people familiar with the matter. According to Reuters, the p…
A US federal judge has temporarily blocked a Pentagon rule that could cost companies their defence contracts if they share lobbyists with Alibaba, Reuters reported. The California court granted Alibaba’s request for an injunction on Monday while its le…
Authentic Brands Group and other owners of Elvis Presley’s catalogue filed a copyright lawsuit against Anthropic on Friday. They want about $41.1m from the company behind Claude, or $150,000 for each of 274 songs. Billboard first reported the suit. The…
Advertisers in Pennsylvania will have to label ads that use AI to mislead consumers about what they are selling. Governor Josh Shapiro approved the Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act on 22 October, and it became Act 99 of 2026, according…
The European Commission has accepted Temu’s plan to improve its compliance with the Digital Services Act (DSA), five months after fining the online marketplace €200 million over its failure to properly assess the risk of illegal products on its platfor…
The centrist parties behind Ursula von der Leyen split in the European Parliament on Thursday. The question was whether AI companies should answer for harm their models cause. Socialist and Green MEPs called for a new AI liability act. The centre-right…
Spain’s main opposition party has posted a campaign video built with AI deepfakes. In it, likenesses of people linked to Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialists appear to confess to wrongdoing. The conservative People’s party (PP) shared it on 21 Oct…
Texas has taken OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, to court. The state accuses them of misleading Texans about ChatGPT and of failing to protect the young people who use it. Attorney General Ken Paxton filed the 67-page petition in Collin Coun…