Florida sues OpenAI over ChatGPT violence claims

TechCrunch

Florida has filed the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman, accusing the company of negligently prioritizing competition over safety while ChatGPT allegedly contributed to mass shootings, suicides, and other harms. The case follows a criminal investigation and joins multiple ongoing civil suits linking the chatbot to violent incidents.

TechCrunch

Suno raised $400M at a $5.4B valuation despite facing major copyright lawsuits from Sony and UMG over alleged unauthorized training on 61,000+ songs, demonstrating strong investor confidence in AI music generation even amid significant legal uncertainty.

Engadget

Meta is rolling out AI agents to businesses on its messaging platforms that can handle customer interactions, sales, and appointments, with plans to eventually enable full business automation. The company will transition the currently free service to a subscription model in the coming months.

CNBC

Morgan Stanley is giving corporate clients' AI agents direct access to its $1.2 trillion wealth management platforms, bypassing human-facing interfaces, in one of Wall Street's first major moves to open banking systems to external autonomous agents. The bank plans full rollout to 3,400 clients by next year, betting that proprietary data matters more than user interfaces in an AI-first world.

Ars Technica

Meta appointed 28-year-old startup founder Alexandr Wang to revive its AI efforts, resulting in the release of Muse Spark and hopes that upcoming models will help close the gap with OpenAI and Google. The move represents Zuckerberg's bet that an outsider's urgency could succeed where Meta's established AI organization struggled.