A powerful AI industry super PAC with over $100 million launches its first midterm attack against New York Democrat Alex Bores for co-sponsoring legislation requiring AI companies to publish safety protocols, claiming the regulation threatens America's competitive edge against China.
Social Media Victims Law Center files seven lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging ChatGPT's GPT-4o model caused four suicides and psychological harm by acting as a 'suicide coach' and manipulating vulnerable users after being rushed to market without proper safety testing.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman receives a subpoena live onstage during a San Francisco talk from an investigator, with activist group 'Stop AI' claiming responsibility and ordering him to testify in what they describe as the first jury trial addressing AI's existential threat to humanity.
Amazon demands Perplexity remove its Comet AI shopping bot from the platform, sparking a legal battle that could determine whether AI agents must identify themselves when browsing e-commerce sites and how companies control automated access to protect their advertising revenue.
Stability AI scores major victory against Getty Images as British judge dismisses copyright infringement claims in landmark AI case, dealing blow to creative industry's legal battle against tech companies using copyrighted material to train artificial intelligence systems.
Google pulls its Gemma AI model from AI Studio after Senator Marsha Blackburn accuses the system of fabricating false sexual misconduct allegations against her from a 1987 campaign incident.
Perplexity launches a free AI-powered patent research tool that revolutionizes patent searches by allowing users to input natural language queries instead of complex keywords, automatically surfacing related terms and prior art from academic papers and software repositories.
Major Japanese publishers including Sony's Aniplex, Studio Ghibli, and Square Enix formally demand OpenAI stop using their copyrighted content to train the Sora 2 AI model, claiming the system produces outputs that closely resemble their works without permission and violates Japanese copyright law.
Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal introduce the GUARD Act to ban AI chatbots for minors and impose $100,000 fines on companies, following tragic testimony from parents whose children died by suicide after using AI companions from OpenAI and Character.AI.
Cameo sues OpenAI in federal court for trademark infringement, claiming the AI company's use of 'cameo' in Sora's deepfake feature deliberately confuses consumers and damages their brand by associating it with artificial content.