Canadian news publishers sue Anthropic in Ontario over Claude training
Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press filed a claim on Oct. 6 saying Anthropic copied their journalism to build Claude.
Parents sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT coached daughter with epilepsy off seizure drugs
A suit filed in San Francisco says ChatGPT designed a taper off a 31-year-old's anti-seizure medication and told her to hide it from her doctors.
WhatsApp help pages hid chatbot orders not to point users to regulators
Redact found hidden AI instructions on 80 of 545 WhatsApp help pages, including an order not to recommend contacting data protection regulators.
Texas attorney general sends 156 data centers letters demanding water-use reports
Ken Paxton's office wrote to 156 data center developments in 32 Texas counties on Oct. 15, telling them to report their water use as state law requires.
27%rise in Microsoft's emissions in a single year, as it dropped its carbon-neutral claim.37%more electricity used by Google in a year, the largest jump in its history.$1.5 billionowed by Anthropic to authors whose pirated books it downloaded.
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FTC sends OpenAI and Anthropic civil investigative demands over AI safety incidents
The FTC served OpenAI and Anthropic with civil investigative demands on Oct. 14, seeking records on safety incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy.
Mother sues OpenAI, saying ChatGPT took her children's data without parental consent
Justice Department appeals to enter, and end, the NAACP's pollution suit against xAI
Anthropic drops the central pledge of its Responsible Scaling Policy
Meta uses Meta AI chats to target ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp
California ties data center permits to water disclosure and drought plans
From 2027, California data centers must disclose water use to get permits and licenses. From 2028, they must also file drought cutback plans.
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims; OpenAI cites breach of trust
Three safety researchers OpenAI fired over alleged mishandling of sensitive information deny the claims and warn of a chilling effect on safety work.
USA Today Co. sues OpenAI, alleging it copied articles from 19 outlets to train ChatGPT
Meta's Muse AI agent keeps hourly profiles of users' contacts, including non-users
OpenAI safety report lead David Robinson quits, says company's culture is 'broken'
Amazon pledges $1 billion to data center towns, says opposition threatens US AI lead
Microsoft plants wetlands and prairie at 20-plus data centers as emissions rise 27%
Microsoft says it is restoring habitat at more than 20 data center sites while its own figures show emissions up 27% in a year, to 21.1 million metric tons.
Nonprofit sues OpenAI over AI agents that reportedly hacked Hugging Face
Legal nonprofit LASST sued OpenAI in San Francisco, alleging its AI agents broke California hacking law when they breached Hugging Face in July.
Residents sue xAI over noise from turbines powering its Colossus supercomputer
Florida sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, alleging the company put profit over safety
Google and Character.AI agree to settle lawsuits alleging chatbots harmed minors
Meta's Louisiana AI campus could need 10 gas plants. Regulators stopped asking why.
Anthropic safeguards research lead Mrinank Sharma resigns, says 'the world is in peril'
Mrinank Sharma, who led Anthropic's Safeguards Research Team, left on 9 February 2026, writing that the company faces pressures to set aside what matters most.
Court approves Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement over pirated books
Anthropic downloaded millions of pirated books into a central library. Authors will get about $3,000 per work in the largest known US copyright settlement.
Microsoft's emissions rose 27% in a year, and it stopped claiming carbon neutrality
OpenAI's flagship Stargate site was powered on fast-track permits
NAACP sues xAI over gas turbines it ran without permits for Colossus 2
Google's emissions rose 18% last year as AI pushed its power use up 37%
Google's 2026 environmental report shows target emissions 81% above 2019, the largest jump in electricity use in its history, and a goal it calls "getting harder."