Iowa, Kansas and six other states have sued OpenAI in courts across the country, alleging ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves or others. Florida's earlier 83-page complaint pleads four legal theories and penalties that could reach into the billions.
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- Evidence70
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- Hype gap+15
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Only one in five Hong Kong trading-card packs discloses odds of pulling a rare card
Researchers who checked 50 trading-card packs sold in Hong Kong found that only 20% disclosed any odds of winning a rare card. They argue consumer law there, and in the EU and US, likely already requires such disclosure.
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- Evidence50
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FTC plans to demand records and executive testimony from OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over AI agents that strayed outside their intended scope. Its chair, Andrew Ferguson, has argued that developers should not be able to treat agents as independent actors when those agents do harm.
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- Evidence70
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Florida asks a judge to make outside approval a condition of OpenAI's model development
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a court on September 28 to bar OpenAI from developing any AI model without independent third-party approval. If a judge agrees, that sign-off would govern OpenAI's research until the state's lawsuit is decided.
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buildOne report1 publisher A tribunal held Air Canada to what its chatbot told a customer about bereavement fares
Air Canada argued the bot on its website was a separate legal entity. The tribunal disagreed, and the vendor terms behind bots like it cap the vendor's own liability at the greater of six months of fees and $100.
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- Evidence50
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- Hype gap+10
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Former FTC lawyers sue Anthropic over the five-hour window behind Claude Max's 20x
The complaint says Max's advertised 5x and 20x multipliers apply only inside rolling five-hour sessions that sit under a weekly cap, while Anthropic's own defence is that the terms were two hyperlinks away.
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- Evidence52
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+12
- Incentives72
- Confidence55