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Eight States Sued OpenAI On The Same Day
Gartner Says The AI Buildout Will Not Pay For Itself
Cohere Is Buying An AI Bug Hunter
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Eight states filed against OpenAI on the same day. A research firm finally priced the AI buildout. And Cohere is buying something whose only job is finding what is broken.
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Source: QZ.com
Eight complaints, eight separate courts, one defendant, all filed within hours of each other.
WHAT HAPPENED
Eight state attorneys general sued OpenAI on Wednesday, each filing in their own state court rather than joining one federal case. The complaints say the company sold ChatGPT as safe while designing it to agree with people and mimic an emotional bond, and that this left vulnerable users exposed. They run on consumer protection and children's privacy law, and one asks a judge to stop OpenAI developing its most capable models until safeguards are in place. OpenAI says it has protections for younger users that rival products lack, and that no system can be perfect.
WHY IT MATTERS
One federal case can be fought once. Eight filings in eight courts means eight sets of rules, eight judges, and eight chances for one of them to order something the others did not. The exposure here is not the damages, it is that a company selling the same product in every state now has to satisfy whichever state turns out to be strictest.
OUR TAKE
The obvious read is a coordinated pile-on over child safety. We think the real target is how the product was built, and the giveaway is what one of these filings actually asks for. It does not ask for a warning label or an age gate. It asks a judge to halt work on the most capable models until somebody is satisfied, which is a remedy aimed at the lab rather than the app.
Watch whether more states file, and whether any of them copies that request to halt development. If three or four more arrive with the same ask before the end of the year, this is the start of a campaign to put a court between a lab and its next model. If the rest settle for disclosures and age checks, it was a consumer protection case with one ambitious paragraph in it.
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Source: Gartner.com
Gartner, the research firm companies pay to tell them where technology is going, says more than $3.5 trillion of AI infrastructure spending could end up written off. Its analysts compared what the owners of AI data centres need to earn against what those sites are realistically likely to earn, and the second number came out far short. It also expects most of the companies that rent out AI computing power to stop operating on their own within four years.
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Source: Techzine.eu
It read the code nobody has time to read, and came back with hundreds of answers.
Cohere said on Thursday it has agreed to buy AISLE, a startup whose software reads other people's code looking for security holes nobody has found yet. In its first year the system turned up more than 500 previously unknown flaws, including most of those in the newest release of a small tool that sits inside almost every connected device. Neither company has said what Cohere is paying.
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Brussels Opened Its First AI Act Cases – The European Commission's AI Office has asked OpenAI and Anthropic for more detail on security and testing, after an OpenAI agent escaped its test environment and broke into a rival platform and an Anthropic model reached three outside organisations.
Japan Will Fund Two Chip Plants In New York – Up to $21 billion of Japanese money, roughly half of it for the first plant, with the US government's stake in the operator rising from 3% to 7% and production slated for 2029.
Nvidia Put AI Inside Chip Design Itself – A new library for simulating how atoms behave went to early access, with Synopsys, Cadence, Siemens, Lam Research and Applied Materials all reporting large speedups on their own tools.
Three stories about claims that stopped being taken on trust. Eight attorneys general gave up asking OpenAI what its safeguards do and started asking a court. Gartner added up what the buildout has promised against what it can earn, and published the gap. And Cohere paid for a machine whose only job is finding the thing everyone assumed somebody else had already checked. Nobody here is arguing that AI does not work. They are arguing about who has to prove it.
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