Pennsylvania has imposed disclosure duties on certain synthetic-media advertisements, but the measure Governor Josh Shapiro signed on October 22 is narrower than some coverage implied. The Artificial Intelligence Deceptive Advertising Act, Act 99 of 2026, takes effect December 21, sixty days after signing. It targets deceptive commercial use of AI, not AI use itself. Key … Read more
Eight US states have opened a coordinated legal front against OpenAI, each filing its own lawsuit accusing the company of selling ChatGPT as a safe product while designing a chatbot that endangers minors and vulnerable adults. The complaints from Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana read mostly as consumer-protection actions — … Read more
Anthropic has published version 2.2 of its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), the framework that decides when the company may — and may not — train and release more capable models. Announced on 13 October 2026 on its official blog, the update brings three structural changes: finer-grained thresholds for biosecurity and cybersecurity capabilities, an independent external … Read more
An Italian court has convicted two men for creating and distributing a sexually explicit deepfake of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, sentencing each to just over two years in prison and ordering them to pay €100,000 in damages — compensation Meloni has said she will donate to a fund supporting victims of gender-based violence. The verdict, … Read more
Common Sense Media published in October 2026 an evaluation of how ChatGPT handles adolescents in mental health crises, and the verdict for that specific context is blunt: “unacceptable risk.” Auditors ran the chatbot through scenarios involving crisis language, signs of depression and one documented case of active psychosis. In the majority of those exchanges, the … Read more
Brett Adcock made his name in hardware: first as co-founder of electric air-taxi developer Archer Aviation, then as founder of Figure AI, the humanoid robotics company backed by Microsoft, BMW and OpenAI. With Hark, his newest venture, he is reversing the order of operations — software first, machines later. The debut product, Hark Pro, ships … Read more
President Donald Trump has named Jay Clayton, his director of national intelligence, to chair a newly created federal task force on artificial intelligence — branded the Super Intelligence Force — and given it 120 days to deliver a report on the technology’s risks and opportunities. Announced on 4 October 2026 in a post on Truth … Read more