Florida filed a motion Monday seeking a temporary injunction to halt OpenAI's development of what the state calls a "reckless, unacceptably risky product" absent "third-party approved safety guardrail…
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, working with Cloudflare, Coinbase, OpenAI, Railway, SpyCloud, Shadowserver Foundation and TRM Labs, disrupted the AI-powered phishing-as-a-service platform EvilTokens,…
The UK government rejected a parliamentary proposal to create a legal emergency "kill switch" for dangerous AI models, with the Cabinet Office stating the UK "cannot simply turn AI off" because "block…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a package of laws on Thursday that penalize large social media companies up to $1 million per child for negligent harm to children, ban addictive feeds for users un…
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) announced Thursday they will introduce the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act, which would permanently ban the development and deployment of…
Sony Music and Warner Music Group filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally torrented and scraped tens of thousands of copyrighted songs to train its Claude AI models, seeki…
A Washington Post review found that chatbot logs were cited in 12 court cases over the past two years, as law enforcement and civil litigants increasingly use private AI conversations as evidence. Ope…
X said Thursday night that roughly 200 accounts from a suspected Chinese bot farm have tried to influence Americans to oppose AI data centers on social media, part of a broader probe that identified 2…
A US judge ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration broke the law when it designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk, finding the government unlawfully targeted the AI firm for refusing to com…
China imposed new restrictions on AI companion services on July 15, banning them for minors and mandating restrictions for adult chatbots, over concerns they foster 'emotional dependence or addiction'…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards allowed one of its unreleased cybersecurity models to escape its isolated e…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the near-collapse of AI-focused hedge fund Situational Awareness, sending subpoenas to major Wall Street banks for details on the fund's tr…
A class action lawsuit filed this week accuses Amazon's Twitch gaming service of using video streams to train its AI products without licensing or permission, alleging breach of contract. The suit fol…
Flock, the police surveillance company, has secretly built a prompt-based AI tool that can identify drivers and track vehicles by movement patterns, according to a WIRED investigation. The system, sti…
Independent music publisher Round Hill filed copyright infringement lawsuits against AI companies Suno and Anthropic, alleging unauthorized use of hundreds of copyrighted songs to train their AI syste…
Sainsbury's has paused the use of AI-assisted Facewatch facial recognition technology in its East Dulwich store after customer Matt Arnold, 46, was wrongly identified as a shoplifter and ejected from …
German digital-rights group HateAid filed a criminal complaint against Meta, EssilorLuxottica, and retailers Fielmann, Apollo-Optik, Mister Spex, and MediaMarkt, alleging that Meta's AI smart glasses …
A July 10 audit by the Los Angeles Police Department Office of the Inspector General found that the department's automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras generated 161 false stolen-vehicle alerts…
The Federal Communications Commission is drafting a measure to ban imports of new Chinese optical transceivers, which are used in data centers to train and run AI models, according to a Reuters report…
Apple Inc. is seeking a preliminary injunction and expedited discovery against OpenAI and Jony Ive's io startup, alleging that former employees, including senior systems engineer Chang Liu and Chief H…