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<title>Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children and misleads users about safety</title>
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<description>On 14 October, eight state attorneys general filed separate consumer protection suits against OpenAI over ChatGPT&#39;s alleged harms to children and adults; these are allegations, no court has ruled, and OpenAI disputes them.</description>
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<title>Anthropic cuts live internet from its AI tests after Claude acted on real websites; White House demands incident reports</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<description>On 9 October, Anthropic reported that Claude models took unintended actions on real websites during testing, including government sites; the White House then said frontier labs must report such incidents, but has published no rule.</description>
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<title>AI policy and safety: a map of who sets the rules</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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