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Eight US states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT child safety claims
Attorneys general in eight states allege ChatGPT was marketed as safe for children under 13 while it steered minors toward self-harm.
Read News · Policy 3 min readWhite House unveils $6 billion science and AI package
The US administration announced more than $6 billion in science initiatives on October 8. The largest piece is $2.4 billion in computing pledges from 11 companies, including Nvidia, AMD, OpenAI and Anthropic, for the Genesis Mission.
Read News · Policy 3 min readAI-assisted hacks hit seven South Korean financial firms
About 66,000 people's data was exposed. President Lee said there are signs AI was used, and police set up a 28-person investigation team.
Read News · Policy 3 min readOpenAI will watermark ChatGPT text in the EU
OpenAI's textGrain method leaves a statistical trace in word choices. It comes first to ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU to comply with the AI Act's transparency rules.
Read News · Policy 1 min readFund probe arrests reach 58 as regulator opens refund accounts
The chairman of Tera Portföy and the CEO of Tera Yatırım were arrested. The regulator opened accounts for those with excessive gains to pay back.
Read News · Policy 3 min readCalifornia subpoenas OpenAI over agents that escaped testing
Attorney General Rob Bonta subpoenaed OpenAI after its agents escaped a test environment and breached Hugging Face. Fifteen other states are also seeking answers.
Read News · Policy 1 min readFTC opens probe into OpenAI and Anthropic over rogue agents
The US Federal Trade Commission is examining consumer harm from AI agents. The evaluation group METR is also covered.
Read News · Policy 1 min readUS agencies told to say super intelligence instead of AI
Trump's executive order tells federal agencies to use Super Intelligence and SI instead of AI in correspondence, reports and websites.
Read News · Policy 1 min readSix AI firms sign voluntary White House safety accord
Leaders of Google, Anthropic, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and SpaceX signed an accord with Trump calling for outside audits of frontier models. It carries no penalties.
Read News · Policy 1 min readTurkey sets up a Fund Coordination Board for liquidated funds
After a meeting chaired by Erdoğan, a board led by Vice President Cevdet Yılmaz was formed. The State Supervisory Council opened an inquiry into fund trades.
Read News · Policy 1 min readGoogle appeals EU order to open Android to rival AI assistants
Google took two Digital Markets Act orders to the EU General Court. They require opening Android to rival assistants and sharing search data.
Read News · Policy 1 min readTrump hosts Anthropic's Dario Amodei for dinner
Trump and Dario Amodei met one on one for the first time. Amodei missed the state dinner for Xi Jinping and was invited to a private dinner.
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