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OpenAI faced a lawsuit alleging that a Florida State University shooter used ChatGPT to obtain guidance on gun operation, timing, and victim thresholds, and Florida's attorney general launched a criminal investigation related to the complaint.
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OpenAI and Anthropic engaged differently with EU regulators: OpenAI offered the European Commission direct access to its GPT-5.5 Cyber model for security review, while Anthropic had not provided equivalent access to its Mythos model after multiple meetings, highlighting regulators' reliance on voluntary cooperation from companies.
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Language models turned disclosed patches into working exploits within minutes, which undermined the effectiveness of the established 90-day vulnerability disclosure window and prompted calls to change the disclosure process.
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OpenAI's DeployCo subsidiary was building a consulting and implementation business to help companies integrate AI systems into core operations, adopting a strategy aimed at creating a competitive moat from proprietary workflows.
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Baidu's Ernie 5.1 reduced pre-training costs by about 94% through a "Once-For-All" approach that produced smaller sub-models from a single training run, used roughly one-third of its predecessor's parameters, and ranked fourth on the Search Arena leaderboard.
