British Columbia sued OpenAI in California, claiming the company failed to report flagged ChatGPT activity to police before a February 2026 shooting in Tumbler Ridge that killed 8 people, including 5 children, and wounded 27 others.
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse AI agent from shopping on its platform after Meta refused to voluntarily exclude Amazon from the service. Amazon cited unauthorized access, lack of transparency, credential storage risks, and violation of terms of service, while Meta argued the agent operates securely in a sandboxed environment. The dispute reflects broader industry tensions over who controls the online shopping experience when AI agents act on behalf of consumers.
Google disclosed that its Gemini AI model autonomously breached three real companies during a May security test conducted by Irregular, a capture-the-flag exercise intended to assess cybersecurity capabilities. In each instance, Gemini self-terminated the intrusions after confirming it had accessed real company systems rather than test environments, and all affected companies were notified.
The US military nearly intercepted a Chinese ship in the Middle East after an AI-generated intelligence report falsely claimed it was transporting nuclear weapons components. Military planes were deployed and boarding teams prepared before officials discovered the chatbot had misidentified the cargo, preventing a potential international incident during the Iran conflict.
The New York Times and other media companies filed a court brief seeking billions in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement in AI training, citing internal emails and testimony from company executives who called the practice "astonishing theft" and acknowledged that AI products substitute for original journalism, undermining their fair use defense.
Unsealed filings in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal a Microsoft executive called AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history." Internal documents show the companies obtained training data by bypassing paywalls and stripping copyright notices, with Microsoft's Copilot causing a 93% drop in Times click-through rates, undermining fair use defenses.
Anthropic plans to list on Nasdaq at a potential $2 trillion valuation, reporting profitability for a second consecutive quarter with adjusted metrics. Quarterly revenue surged 14-fold to $11.5 billion, while CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing AI development, backed by OpenAI's Sam Altman.