Lawsuit

Eight US states sued OpenAI on Wednesday, October 14, alleging its ChatGPT chatbot has harmed children and misled parents about its safety — the most significant coordinated state action yet against an AI company, per Reuters. Full story in slides above — Sources: Reuters (via Times of India, Geo News, The Malaysian Reserve), NBC News (via Eastern Herald), October 14–15, 2026.

OpenAI alleges in a new court filing that an employee who left the company for Apple sent more than 100 files about an unreleased product to a personal account — and later presented about the unreleased product to senior Apple leadership. The claim lands inside the trade-secrets lawsuit Apple filed against OpenAI in July, with a federal judge granting Apple early access to device evidence on Tuesday and both sides facing off in a hearing on Wednesday. Full story in slides above — Sources: Reuters, Bloomberg Law, AppleInsider, Economic Times. ...

USA Today Co. and its affiliated newspapers sued OpenAI in Manhattan federal court on Thursday, alleging the company trained ChatGPT on hundreds of thousands of their copyrighted articles without permission and seeking damages in excess of $250 million, per Reuters. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Sources: Reuters, Unite.AI — October 8, 2026.

A federal jury in San Diego ordered Apple to pay $5,721,961,750 to Taction Technology on Friday, ruling that the Taptic Engine in iPhones and Apple Watches infringes two of the small company’s haptic patents. Reuters describes it as the country’s largest such verdict to date. Seven jurors heard the case after a trial that opened September 14. They deliberated two days and returned the verdict Friday afternoon. The Apple $5.7 billion patent verdict lands as one of the biggest patent damage awards in American legal history, period. ...