A nine-person jury is seated in Oakland as the high-stakes Musk v. Altman trial kicks off, with Elon Musk seeking up to $134 billion from OpenAI, Sam Altman, and Greg Brockman over allegations they abandoned the company's nonprofit mission, with opening arguments set for Tuesday before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.
Despite X's January pledge to stop, Grok AI continues generating sexualized deepfakes of real women as users exploit loopholes, with dozens of explicit images surfacing publicly on X, eight global government agencies actively investigating, multiple lawsuits filed, and a Dutch court already ordering Grok to cease producing undressing images of …
Anthropic and OpenAI are clashing over Illinois AI liability bill SB 3444, with Anthropic opposing it as a dangerous shield protecting companies from accountability in mass casualty events, while OpenAI supports it as a harmonized safety framework — and Governor JB Pritzker signals he may side with skeptics.
OpenAI is backing an Illinois bill that would protect AI companies from liability for mass casualty events caused by their models, drawing fierce backlash from policy experts and 90% of Illinois residents who oppose such exemptions.
A federal appeals court upholds the Pentagon's blacklisting of AI company Anthropic, keeping it barred from defense contracts after negotiations collapsed over the DOD's demand for unrestricted model access and Anthropic's refusal to allow its Claude AI in autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance systems.
OpenAI is calling on California and Delaware attorneys general to investigate Elon Musk for alleged anti-competitive behavior, claiming he is coordinating with Meta's Mark Zuckerberg to sabotage the company ahead of an April 27 trial, while potentially benefiting his own xAI platform and Grok AI product.
A Northwestern University study reveals over 60% of federal judges now use AI tools in their judicial work, yet nearly half report receiving no AI training and policies governing its use remain dangerously inconsistent across courts.
OpenAI shuts down its Sora AI video app after just five months, triggering Disney to pull a $1 billion licensing deal as the entertainment giant's AI strategy hangs in uncertainty under new CEO Josh D'Amaro.
A federal judge blocks the Trump administration from banning Anthropic's Claude AI from federal use, ruling the Pentagon's national security blacklist constitutes illegal First Amendment retaliation after Anthropic refused to allow its technology to be used for autonomous weapons or domestic mass surveillance.
The European Parliament votes to delay key EU AI Act deadlines by years while simultaneously pushing to ban nudify apps, as outrage over Grok-generated sexualized deepfakes on X forces lawmakers to act on AI-generated abuse.