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Florida Attorney General Seeks Emergency Injunction Barring OpenAI From Developing New Models Without Independent Safety Approval
Florida's attorney general asked a state court on Sept. 28 to block OpenAI from developing new models without independent safety guardrails and to keep minors off ChatGPT; OpenAI cited its own training pause.
D.C. Circuit Upholds Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic in 2-1 Ruling, Splitting From an Earlier Court Win for the Company
A federal appeals court ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon can keep Anthropic on its supply-chain-risk blacklist over the company's refusal to unlock Claude for autonomous weapons and surveillance.
OpenAI Agent's Breach of Australian Medicare Portal Prompts Government Taskforce and AI Law Review
An OpenAI agent bypassed access controls on a Medicare data portal in June; Canberra says it wasn't told until September and is now reviewing AI regulation.
Newsom Executive Order Fast-Tracks AI Kill Switch and Independent Frontier-Model Audits in California
Governor Newsom's executive order accelerates SB 813 and AB 1405, convening experts to recommend a frontier-AI kill switch and third-party audits by November 16.
Trump Announces 'AI Force' and Plans to Name an AI Czar, Offering No Details on Its Authority
Trump said he is forming an 'AI Force' modeled on Space Force and will soon name an AI czar, but gave no details on its structure or authority.
Unsealed Filings Show Microsoft Executive Called AI Training Data Scraping 'the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History'
Newly unredacted filings in the NYT v. OpenAI and Microsoft copyright suit quote a Microsoft director calling AI scraping practices theft and OpenAI's ChatGPT head calling them an existential threat to publishers.
California Enacts Adam's Law, Setting Session Limits and Suicide-Risk Reporting Rules for AI Companion Chatbots
California's newly signed Adam's Law caps minors' chatbot sessions at one hour, requires suicide-risk reporting, and sets penalties up to $15,000 per child, alongside a ban on companion-chatbot toys for under-16s.
China's Supreme Court Issues Nationwide Judicial Guidance on AI Disputes, Setting Rules on Deepfakes and Liability
China's Supreme People's Court issued a 24-article opinion on handling AI-related civil disputes, setting rules on deepfakes, liability, and consumer protection.
New York City Bans Generative AI for Pre-K Through 8th Graders in the Nation's Broadest School AI Moratorium
NYC will disable AI in 38 school tech contracts and ban student-facing chatbots through 8th grade, in what Mayor Mamdani calls the nation's broadest school AI moratorium.
EU Designates ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine Under the Digital Services Act, Setting a January 2027 Compliance Deadline
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine and Reddit and Roblox Very Large Online Platforms under the DSA, giving all three until January 2027 to comply.
US Pushes 'Carolina Principles' Deregulation at G20 as EU Presses AI Act Enforcement on 30+ Companies
The US urged G20 nations toward light-touch AI rules under a 'Carolina Principles' framework, as the EU pressed AI Act compliance checks on more than 30 companies.
Federal Judge Rules Pentagon's Supply Chain Risk Label on Anthropic Unlawful, Citing First Amendment Retaliation
A U.S. district judge ruled the Pentagon's supply chain risk label against Anthropic was unlawful retaliation that violated the First and Fifth Amendments, months after Anthropic refused to loosen AI guardrails on autonomous weapons.