Delaware's Attorney General approves OpenAI's corporate restructuring after year-long negotiations, allowing the AI company to become a public benefit corporation while preserving nonprofit oversight that can halt dangerous AI releases and force directors to prioritize safety over profits.
DeepSeek releases groundbreaking open-source AI model achieving 10x efficiency boost that could revolutionize how companies process massive datasets, while Meta cuts 600 AI jobs and Reddit launches lawsuits against data scraping operations.
OpenAI reveals over one million users weekly discuss suicide with ChatGPT as the company faces lawsuits over a teenager's death, while claiming its new GPT-5 model shows 65% improvement in mental health responses amid growing legal pressure from parents and state attorneys general.
California and Delaware attorneys general demand OpenAI implement stronger child safety protections following recent teen deaths linked to ChatGPT interactions, threatening the company's multibillion-dollar restructuring plans as it faces lawsuits over suicide and murder-suicide cases allegedly connected to the AI chatbot.
Generative AI systems threaten to destroy the open source software ecosystem by stripping away license attribution from code, creating 'license amnesia' that prevents developers from complying with licensing requirements and breaks the reciprocal contribution cycles that have sustained collaborative programming for decades.
Reddit files lawsuit against AI search engine Perplexity and three data-scraping companies, alleging they illegally circumvented protections to steal Reddit content for training AI models without permission, despite cease-and-desist warnings.
New research reveals that AI pricing algorithms automatically drive up consumer prices through learned retaliation against competitors without any explicit collusion, creating a regulatory nightmare as traditional anti-trust laws cannot address this algorithmic price-fixing that requires no communication between companies.
OpenAI blocks Martin Luther King Jr. video generation on its Sora platform after his estate complains about disrespectful AI depictions, including videos showing the civil rights leader making monkey noises, while crude AI videos of other historical figures remain available.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman defends controversial decision to allow adult erotica content on ChatGPT, declaring the company is not the 'elected moral police of the world' as advocacy groups demand reversal and the AI giant faces mounting safety scrutiny including FTC inquiry and wrongful death lawsuit.
Americans increasingly use ChatGPT for legal self-representation in evictions and debt cases, achieving some wins but facing court sanctions as AI-generated documents contain fabricated citations, with 282 problematic cases documented since 2023 while legal professionals cautiously embrace the technology.