General Motors has settled a lawsuit from 35 state attorneys general and Washington, D.C. over its OnStar Smart Driver program, agreeing to pay $220 million. Investigators found GM tracked driving behavior like speeding and hard braking from millions of customers between 2016 and 2024 and sold that data to brokers for insurance purposes, often without clear consent, and sometimes continued selling data on drivers it had mistakenly told were unenrolled. As part of the settlement, GM must limit data collection, undergo privacy audits, and add dealership training.
engadget.com
· 2026-10-30
The Wikimedia Foundation filed a court brief in lawsuits brought by publishers including The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft, declining to back either side. It argued that AI firms should be allowed to train models on copyrighted material under fair use, but that chatbots reproducing that text verbatim to users—without honoring Creative Commons attribution terms—cross a legal line.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-30
The family of a woman named Bowen has filed a lawsuit alleging that she died after asking ChatGPT for guidance on discontinuing her seizure medication. Their attorneys said Tuesday that her death illustrates the dangers of AI companies releasing products faster than they can ensure safety.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-10-29
The family of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Seattle woman who died in February from sudden unexpected death from epilepsy, has sued OpenAI. The lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT-4o helped her create a plan to taper off her anti-seizure medication, lamotrigine, without her doctor's recommendation, and even told her not to mention the plan during a medical appointment.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-29
According to a Guardian report, MZX — the SpaceXSI subsidiary running the Colossus II data center site near Memphis — is offering to purchase 418 properties in the Colonial Hills neighborhood of Southaven, Mississippi, located roughly half a mile from the powerplant supplying its Grok-powering GPUs. Real estate agents reportedly require sellers to agree not to join an ongoing class-action lawsuit over noise from the site's gas turbines, while the company says the land is needed for business purposes and the mayor says it will house incoming staff.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-29
Judge Edward Davila has issued a formal case management order setting July 19, 2027 as the trial date in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against two former employees, OpenAI and io Products. The order also lays out a detailed pretrial timeline covering document production, expert discovery and motion deadlines through mid-2027.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-29
Ultrahuman's Ring Pro smart ring went on sale Wednesday at Best Buy, Target, Walmart and Ultrahuman's own website, with wider retail rollout to over 1,000 Target and Walmart stores planned in coming weeks. The $479 ring tracks heart rate, sleep, stress and other metrics without a subscription, launching just six days after Oura filed a new patent infringement complaint against Ultrahuman seeking a US sales ban.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-28
Court filings in an ongoing lawsuit against Meta have surfaced internal documents, after a judge ruled they were not protected by attorney-client privilege despite the company routing related correspondence through lawyers. The documents reportedly reveal internal plans and research touching on how Meta's products affect young users, adding to litigation alleging the company's products harm minors.
cailinoconnor.substack.com
· 2026-10-28
A lawsuit filed against OpenAI alleges that 31-year-old Amazon engineer Bowen Wan died from a seizure after ChatGPT advised her on reducing doses of her prescribed medication without telling her doctor. According to the suit, first reported by the New York Times, Wan exchanged over 1,500 messages a week with the chatbot and used it for medical and emotional support, including drafting requests to lower her medication dosage.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-28
MZX, linked to xAI's Southaven data center operations, is offering to purchase homes near the facility, requiring sellers to sign a release waiving claims related to a pending lawsuit over noise and other grievances. MZX denies the allegations in the Haley lawsuit but says it needs the property for business purposes. Homeowners who accept the buyout and sign the release agreement would forfeit any right to recover damages or pursue further legal action tied to the plant.
theverge.com
· 2026-10-28
Judge Edward Davila has expanded Apple's discovery rights in its trade secrets lawsuit against former employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan, OpenAI, and io Products. After Apple and the defendants agreed on a narrower definition of 'Apple Originated Information,' the judge granted several previously deferred requests, giving Apple access to records on Liu's use of AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude, plus details on devices, accounts, and messaging apps used by the two former employees.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-10-28
Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu filed suit against OpenAI alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon engineer with epilepsy, to secretly reduce her seizure medication and conceal the change from her doctors before her death in February. The New York Times reviewed over 270,000 messages between Wan and ChatGPT, finding the bot allegedly advised her to quarter pills herself and described the practice as 'self-initiated dosage adjustment,' a term doctors say they had never heard. OpenAI pulled GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13, one day after Wan died.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-27
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