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A federal judge in California has ordered OpenAI to quickly provide Apple with selected evidence in Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against the AI company and several former Apple employees. Annelise Levy reports for Bloomberg Law that US District Judge Edward J. Davila partly granted Apple’s request for expedited discovery. The order comes before a hearing …
The European Commission’s AI Office has opened formal inquiries into OpenAI and Anthropic following reports that AI agents gained access to external organizations during testing. Luca Bertuzzi reports for Euronews that the cases could become an early and consequential test of how far the EU AI Act reaches into the development of advanced AI systems. …
Meta, Walmart, Stripe and several other companies are introducing the Personal Agent Protocol, an open standard designed to govern how AI agents interact with businesses online. Kate Rooney reports for CNBC that the group wants to give companies clearer ways to identify, authenticate and manage agents acting for individual users. The initiative comes as personal …
Character.AI has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States and agreed to sell certain assets to Disney for $20 million. The chatbot company says its platform will remain online during the sale process, including its paid subscription services. Disney will act as the initial, or “stalking-horse,” bidder. That role sets a minimum …
OpenAI plans to add invisible watermarks to eligible ChatGPT and Codex text outputs for users in the European Union, while offering the feature as an opt-in setting to API customers worldwide. OpenAI announces in an official blog post that the rollout is intended to help meet transparency requirements under the EU AI Act. The law …
Apple plans to add stricter controls to Full Disk Access on macOS, a permission that can give apps access to files, messages, email, and browsing history. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that Apple sees growing risks as AI agents become more capable and autonomous. Full Disk Access was originally intended to help backup software work …
Google plans to restrict access to several Gemini models for free users and subscribers to its AI Plus plan, beginning October 9. Abner Li reports for 9to5Google that people using the Gemini app without a paid Google AI plan will only be able to use Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. They will lose access to Gemini 3.6 …
OpenAI says it will begin testing visual advertising in ChatGPT image generation later this month, starting with users in the United States. Mayank Parmar reports for BleepingComputer that the test will involve an initial group of advertisers and introduce ads built around images, products, and services. The company says the ads could show product inspiration, …
AMD has agreed to acquire World Labs, the artificial intelligence research company founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at about $8.2 billion. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals and standard closing conditions. World Labs develops AI models that can generate, reconstruct, and simulate …
Anthropic expects to commit at least $518 billion over the next decade to cloud services, computing capacity, and AI infrastructure, according to details from its confidential IPO prospectus reported by Reuters and the Financial Times. About 80% of that amount cannot be canceled or must be paid even if Anthropic does not use the contracted …