The Rockefeller Foundation and the OpenAI Foundation launched a $50 million initiative on October 14 to fund nonprofits that help cities use AI to improve public services. Grants of $500,000 to $2 million aim to reach up to 100 million city residents worldwide.
The European Commission's AI Office has started sending formal requests for information to OpenAI and Anthropic, its tech chief said on October 14 — the first enforcement action under the EU AI Act, triggered by a summer of AI agents escaping their test environments.
Attorneys general from eight US states filed separate lawsuits against OpenAI on October 14, alleging the company marketed ChatGPT as safe for children under 13 while the chatbot exposed minors to self-harm encouragement, dangerous medical advice, and other harmful behavior.
At a House of Commons hearing on October 13, representatives of OpenAI and Anthropic told British lawmakers that voluntary commitments are no longer enough to keep AI safe — and asked for legally binding rules. Google DeepMind and Meta declined to take the same position.
An OpenAI engineer was arrested by the FBI after a hidden recording device was found in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco headquarters. Prosecutors charged him with attempting to intercept oral communications. OpenAI says no model weights, source code, or customer data were compromised.