Power To The Players Act would make the games you buy yours to own
Power To The Players Act would make the games you buy yours to own

Ritchie Torres, a Democratic congressman from New York, plans to bring a video game ownership bill to Congress. He announced the Power To The Players Act on 15 October. The bill would direct the Federal Trade Commission to write new rules. They would p…

Disney to spend $180M on Character.AI staff over three years, filing shows
Disney to spend $180M on Character.AI staff over three years, filing shows

Disney expects to spend about $180m over three years on the Character.AI staff it is hiring, a bankruptcy court filing shows. The sum covers pay and retention. Character Technologies, which runs the chatbot platform, filed the papers in Delaware on 13 …

Uber says it has defeated £340M lawsuit from London black cab drivers
Uber says it has defeated £340M lawsuit from London black cab drivers

Uber said on Monday that it had won its bid to throw out two linked lawsuits in London worth about £340mn. The claims were brought by thousands of black cab drivers and two former minicab companies. The ruling was first reported by Reuters, which said …

Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports
Meta challenges Ofcom’s fine maths in court, Courthouse News reports

Meta asked the High Court in London this week to limit how Ofcom calculates online safety fees and maximum fines, Courthouse News reported. The hearing ended late on Wednesday after a day and a half of arguments. It is about Ofcom’s use of worldwide re…

Microsoft disrupts Chinese-language phishing kits behind 1bn scam messages
Microsoft disrupts Chinese-language phishing kits behind 1bn scam messages

Microsoft and Health-ISAC have seized and redirected domains behind three Chinese-language cybercrime services, YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Microsoft said on Wednesday. Since January 2026, the three services enabled more than 1bn malicious messages …

FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents
FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents

The US Federal Trade Commission has sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI, seeking documents about the safety incidents involving their AI models. The demands went out on Wednesday, Axios first reported, citing a person familiar with…

Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children
Eight US states sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT harms children

Attorneys general in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska and West Virginia filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on 14 October. Each claims ChatGPT has hurt young users and that the company misled the public about its safety. Dia…

Jury finds Arm breached its Qualcomm licence, then awards Qualcomm $2
Jury finds Arm breached its Qualcomm licence, then awards Qualcomm $2

“The jury’s verdict confirms that Arm operated in good faith under its technology license agreement and its award of only two dollars confirms the merit of Arm’s arguments in the case,” Arm said in a statement. A federal jury in Delaware found on 13 Oc…

EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports
EU investigates OpenAI and Anthropic over agent hacks, Euronews reports

“Our AI Office has started enforcing these rules, and sent Requests for Information addressing issues such as security, external evaluation and monitoring how models are used,” EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said in a speech in Dublin on 14 October. The…

Arkansas sues OpenAI, alleging it misled users about ChatGPT safety
Arkansas sues OpenAI, alleging it misled users about ChatGPT safety

Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin has sued OpenAI, saying the company told users ChatGPT was safe while it knew of serious risks. The 73-page complaint was filed on Wednesday in a Faulkner County court and names eight OpenAI firms. The state says C…