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AI News Today: Texas Sues OpenAI and Sam Altman Over ChatGPT · DX Today | No-Hype Podcast & News About AI & DX

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  SPEAKER_05: It's Sunday, October the twenty-fifth, twenty twenty six.
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  SPEAKER_05: You're listening to the DX Today AI Daily Brief.
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  SPEAKER_05: Today, Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Chat GPT Safety.
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  SPEAKER_05: The owners of Elvis Presley's Music take Anthropic to court.
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  SPEAKER_05: And Amazon says its cloud capacity is largely sold out through next year.
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  SPEAKER_05: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, accusing the company of misleading Texans about the safety of Chat GPT.
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  SPEAKER_01: The 67-page petition, filed Friday in Collin County District Court, names six OpenAI entities and cites the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act and a state law requiring safety features to protect children.
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  SPEAKER_01: Texas asked the court to bar minors in the state from using Chat GPT, to require outside review of new models before they reach Texas users, and to impose civil penalties of up to$10,000 per violation.
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  SPEAKER_01: These are allegations, not findings.
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  SPEAKER_01: An OpenAI spokesperson said the company works with experts to improve ChatGPT and build safeguards, and that it is committed to working with Texas and other states on pragmatic AI policies.
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  SPEAKER_05: Now to the music industry.
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  SPEAKER_02: A complaint filed Friday by rights holders, including a unit of Authentic Brands Group, names classics, such as Can't Help Falling in Love and Don't Be Cruel.
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  SPEAKER_02: The plaintiffs claim Claude can reproduce protected lyrics despite its guardrails, and they seek up to$150,000 per song, roughly$41 million in total.
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  SPEAKER_02: The filing lands just two days after the independent publisher Reservoir brought its own federal suit against Anthropic over more than 800 songs.
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  SPEAKER_02: Anthropic had not responded publicly to the Presley complaint at the time of reporting, and none of the claims has been tested in court.
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  SPEAKER_04: Next, a major model launch.
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  SPEAKER_04: Chinese startup Moonshot AI has released Kimi K 3.1 Pro, a model in what it calls the 3 trillion parameter class, with a context window of 1 million tokens and a faster high-speed variant.
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  SPEAKER_04: The model is live in Kimi's apps and through its programming interface, and Moonshot says the full open weights will be published by November 4th.
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  SPEAKER_04: The company also says it removed cyber attack training data and deliberately weakened the model's hacking ability.
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  SPEAKER_04: Independent Evaluator Artificial Analysis ranked it fourth on its intelligence index, behind three American models.
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  SPEAKER_04: The launch has drawn scrutiny, though.
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  SPEAKER_04: Screenshots circulating online appear to show creators being told not to label paid promotional posts.
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  SPEAKER_04: Those documents have not been independently authenticated, and Moonshot had not commented on them.
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  SPEAKER_04: Turning to Britain.
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  SPEAKER_03: Next, cloud capacity.
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  SPEAKER_03: Amazon Chief Executive Andy Jassy says demand for AI computing has swallowed most of Amazon Web Services' capacity for years to come.
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  SPEAKER_03: In an interview on the A16Z show, the Andreessen Horowitz podcast, Jassy said this year's capacity is sold out, next year's is largely sold out, and a good chunk of the year after is already spoken for.
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  SPEAKER_03: He noted that AWS still holds back some capacity for on-demand customers, including its bedrock model service and standard compute instances, so not every offering is unavailable.
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  SPEAKER_03: Amazon did not disclose the contracts behind the remarks.
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  SPEAKER_03: The comments add to evidence that the constraint on AI growth is shifting from customer demand to the speed at which data centers, chips, and power can be brought online.
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  SPEAKER_05: Now to the workforce.
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  SPEAKER_01: American Express plans to cut about 5% of its global workforce and has taken a restructuring charge of$336 million.
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  SPEAKER_01: The company disclosed the move alongside its third quarter results on Friday.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chief Financial Officer Christophe Lecayek said the restructuring would help prepare the company for AI and automation, while the company framed the cuts more broadly as an effort to streamline operations.
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  SPEAKER_01: American Express did not say which roles or regions would be affected.
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  SPEAKER_01: The decision puts the card issuer among a growing list of large employers explicitly linking job reductions to artificial intelligence.
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  SPEAKER_01: A trend economists and labor groups are watching closely as companies move AI tools from pilot projects into daily operations.
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  SPEAKER_02: Turning to Southeast Asia, Softbank founder Masayoshi Sun plans to invest$50 billion in Malaysia, according to Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
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  SPEAKER_02: Anwar said on Saturday that Sun had already selected locations for the planned investment, which would span artificial intelligence, new technology, and data centers.
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  SPEAKER_02: The figure has not been independently confirmed by Softbank, and no timeline or project breakdown was released.
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  SPEAKER_02: So it is best read as a stated intention rather than a signed commitment.
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  SPEAKER_02: If it proceeds, it would be among the largest single technology investments in Southeast Asia.
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  SPEAKER_02: Malaysia, and particularly the state of Jahor, has become one of the region's fastest-growing data center hubs, drawing projects from global cloud providers looking for land, power, and proximity to Singapore.
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  SPEAKER_04: Next, a meta acquisition.
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  SPEAKER_04: Meta has acquired Sundial, an AI analytics startup founded by two former Meta employees, Julie Juo and Chandra Narayanan.
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  SPEAKER_04: The deal was announced Friday, and the price was not disclosed.
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  SPEAKER_04: Sundial builds tools that let teams ask questions of their business data in plain language and get analysis back.
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  SPEAKER_04: As part of the deal, Sundial will stop serving outside customers once the acquisition closes.
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  SPEAKER_04: That is notable because reports listed open AI among its clients, leaving those companies to find replacements.
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  SPEAKER_04: For Meta, the purchase brings an experienced data science team back in-house as it spends heavily on AI across its apps, advertising, and its newer personal agent products, and as it races rivals for scarce talent.
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  SPEAKER_04: Now to AI Video.
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  SPEAKER_00: AI video startup Higgsfield says NVIDIA and the growth investor TCV have invested in an extension of its Series B funding round.
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  SPEAKER_00: The company did not disclose the size of the extension or a new valuation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Higgsfield's original Series B, announced in August and led by DST Global, raised$400 million at a valuation of$5.4 billion.
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  SPEAKER_00: The company says it will use the fresh capital for infrastructure and hiring.
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  SPEAKER_00: Higgsfield makes tools that turn text and images into short cinematic video clips aimed at creators and marketers.
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  SPEAKER_00: A fast-growing and crowded field.
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  SPEAKER_00: Backing from NVIDIA gives the startup a strategic link to the chipmaker whose hardware powers most video generation models.
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  SPEAKER_05: Turning to India.
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  SPEAKER_03: India is moving toward a dedicated law to regulate artificial intelligence.
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  SPEAKER_03: Speaking at the NDTV World Summit in New Delhi, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnava said the risks of AI now warrant legislation and new regulations, and that the government will release a consultation paper for public comment in the coming weeks.
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  SPEAKER_03: No draft bill has been introduced, and the minister did not say what the law would cover or when it might pass.
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  SPEAKER_03: Until now, India has largely relied on advisories and its existing information technology rules to oversee AI.
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  SPEAKER_03: A formal law would put the world's most populous country alongside the European Union and others in writing binding rules for the technology.
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  SPEAKER_05: Next, an update from Google.
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  SPEAKER_01: Google has added Gemini Notebook as a connected app inside the Gemini Assistant, letting users manage and query their notebooks directly from a chat instead of switching to a side panel.
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  SPEAKER_01: Users can ask Gemini to pull information from a notebook, add sources, or take actions on it in conversation.
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  SPEAKER_01: Google says the feature is available to personal Google accounts, workspace individual subscribers, and workspace business customers, though visibility may roll out gradually.
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  SPEAKER_01: The integration is turned off by default in the European economic area.
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  SPEAKER_01: The update is part of a broader push by Google to turn Gemini into a hub that reaches across its own products, as rivals compete to make their assistance the place where everyday work begins.
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  SPEAKER_02: And finally, AI hardware.
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  SPEAKER_02: Indian AI server maker Netweb Technologies has reported a sharp jump in profit as demand for artificial intelligence computing surges.
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  SPEAKER_02: For its fiscal second quarter, the company posted a net profit of about 1.37 billion rupees, roughly 4.3 times the figure a year earlier.
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  SPEAKER_02: NetWeb, based in Haryana, builds high-performance computing systems and AI servers, and it has become one of India's main domestic suppliers as the government and private companies expand their computing capacity.
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  SPEAKER_02: The results released Saturday come as India pushes to build sovereign AI infrastructure, with public programs subsidizing access to graphics processors for startups and researchers.
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  SPEAKER_02: NetWeb's growth shows how that national build out is reaching local hardware companies, not only global chip giants.
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  SPEAKER_05: For DX today, stay curious.