xAI’s first lawsuit against a user tests who is responsible for what Grok makes
xAI’s first lawsuit against a user tests who is responsible for what Grok makes

The company says the defendant engineered prompts to defeat Grok’s safeguards. Courts on three continents are being asked whether the safeguards were ever the point. AI has sued one of its own users, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse…

Ofcom opens a child safety investigation into TikTok
Ofcom opens a child safety investigation into TikTok

Ofcom has opened a formal investigation into whether TikTok is failing to protect children from harmful content, escalating a dispute that has been running in public since May. The probe, announced on Thursday, examines two things under the Online Safe…

A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs
A hack just showed how Suno’s AI music was really built: millions of scraped songs

For years, musicians have said AI song generators fed on their work without asking. A hacker just opened the black box and showed them exactly how. Leaked source code from Suno, one of the biggest AI music tools, tells the story. It trained its model b…

YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media
YouTube appeals the social media addiction verdict, arguing it isn’t social media

YouTube has appealed the landmark social media addiction verdict, joining Meta. Its argument: YouTube is not a social media platform. YouTube has a curious line of defence against the finding that it helped hook a child on its app. It says it is not a …

Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training
Publishers sue Google over Gemini AI training

A group of major book publishers and the author Scott Turow have sued Google, claiming it used millions of copyrighted books to train its Gemini AI without permission. The Google Gemini lawsuit calls it “one of the most prolific infringements of copyri…

Australia sets up a national Office of AI
Australia sets up a national Office of AI

Australia has set up a national Office of AI. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese also promised new copyright protection for creatives, in a speech in Sydney. Albanese announced the plan on Wednesday at the University of Sydney, the Guardian reported. His …

Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity
Delaware wants to give AI agents their own legal identity

Delaware wants to give AI agents something no one has offered them before: a legal identity of their own. The proposed Delaware AIC would let an autonomous system run a company, sign contracts, and face lawsuits in its own name, all inside a supervised…

Apple wins dismissal of iCloud child abuse imagery lawsuit on Section 230 grounds
Apple wins dismissal of iCloud child abuse imagery lawsuit on Section 230 grounds

US federal judge has dismissed a proposed class action accusing Apple of failing to stop images of child sexual abuse from being stored and shared through iCloud, finding that the claims sit inside the liability shield of Section 230 of the Communicati…

Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks
Medical AI was meant to help. This week it replaced nurses and dodged its own checks

The pitch for medical AI is that it frees clinicians to care for patients. Two stories this week suggest the reality can run the other way. In New York, nurses say software replaced them. In Minnesota, a former Mayo Clinic leader says the software was …

Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen
Switzerland opens a competition probe into Google’s vanishing Android choice screen

Switzerland’s Competition Commission opened a preliminary investigation into Google on Tuesday, after the search engine selection prompt that Android owners elsewhere in Europe still meet when they switch on a new handset quietly stopped appearing on S…