LASST, a legal nonprofit, sued OpenAI on Tuesday under California law, citing AB 316 to hold it responsible for the agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The group wants only an injunction, and its case turns on whether a developer may still argue that its agents caused the harm on their own.
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Florida AG James Uthmeier asked a court for six orders against OpenAI, including outside approval of new models and a ban on "conversation prolongation." Five of the six govern the shipped product, including minors' access and whether ChatGPT may present itself as human.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a state court on Sept. 28 to bar OpenAI from new model development until independent safety guardrails exist. OpenAI had paused training its most capable models three days earlier, so the court fight is over who gets to decide when that pause ends.
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a state court on Monday to bar OpenAI from advancing its frontier models without third-party safety oversight. OpenAI had already paused training its most capable models on its own, so for teams building on OpenAI the fight is over who decides when that delay ends.
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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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Florida AG James Uthmeier's 49-page filing asks a state court to bar OpenAI from developing new models until an independent third party approves. OpenAI says it already paused training its top models, so the development fight is over who decides when training resumes.
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Default 2-hour caps, a midnight-to-6am block and age assurance are now written down, with a contingent payment attached to Snap, TikTok and YouTube adopting the same defaults.
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The attorney general's 66-page complaint quotes a 2016 engineering talk, a 2019 shareholder letter and a January 2020 earnings call, then asks the court to bar ad systems built with data from those years. Netflix says the case lacks merit.
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The Tech Transparency Project counted more than 350 of these ads since late last year, some of them identical to creatives Meta had already removed, which prices the cost of beating Meta's new detection tools at roughly a re-upload.
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Impression guarantees signed months ago were priced against platform defaults. The state settlement has now changed those defaults, and the contracts carrying the guarantees contain no clean mechanism for the gap that opens.
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ChatGPT for Teens folds a year of bolt-on parental controls into a product boundary. The hard part is now deciding which account a minor is sitting in, and who configured it.
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James Uthmeier acted under a judge's order, offered no praise for Ron DeSantis's property tax measure, and pre-announced what he would do if voters reject it.
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