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

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  SPEAKER_03: It's Saturday, October the 24th, 2026.
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  SPEAKER_03: You're listening to the DX Today AI Daily Brief.
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  SPEAKER_03: Today, China's Moonshot AI lands a new model near the top of a global leaderboard.
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  SPEAKER_03: Texas sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over ChatGPT safety.
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  SPEAKER_03: And Britain launches an AI lab to guard against the next pandemic.
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  SPEAKER_03: Let's get into it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moonshot AI has released Kimi K 3.1 Pro, a new flagship model, along with a high-speed version it says runs two to three times faster.
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  SPEAKER_00: The model is a post-trained upgrade of Kimi K3, a mixture of expert system with 2.8 trillion parameters, and it handles a context window of 1 million tokens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Within a day, the independent evaluator Artificial Analysis placed it fourth worldwide on its intelligence index, three points behind the leader.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is live now in Kimi's apps and through its programming interface, priced at$2 per million input tokens and$10 per million output tokens.
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  SPEAKER_00: Moonshot promises full open weights by November 4th.
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  SPEAKER_00: In hands on design and animation tasks, one arena reviewer rated it below OpenAI's newest model, and benchmark scores varied by evaluator.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now, a legal fight in Texas.
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  SPEAKER_04: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued OpenAI and its chief executive, Sam Altman, accusing them of marketing ChatGPT as safe and reliable while failing to protect users, especially children.
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  SPEAKER_04: The suit, filed Friday in Collin County, invokes the state's deceptive trade practices law and its law on protecting children online.
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  SPEAKER_04: Texas is asking for more than one million dollars in relief and civil penalties of up to$10,000 per violation.
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  SPEAKER_04: The requested remedies go much further.
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  SPEAKER_04: An order blocking minors from Chat GPT in Texas, and a court-appointed evaluator who would have to approve new open AI models before they are released in the state.
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  SPEAKER_04: These are allegations, not findings.
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  SPEAKER_04: An open AI spokesperson said governments have an important role in setting robust safety standards, and that the company wants to work with Texas on rules for the whole industry.
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  SPEAKER_02: To China and a record raise.
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  SPEAKER_02: DeepSeek has raised about 100 billion yuan, roughly$15 billion, according to Bloomberg, one of the largest single funding rounds ever for a Chinese AI company.
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  SPEAKER_02: People familiar with the deal said the target climbed from 50 billion yuan to 80 billion before reaching the final figure as investors rushed in.
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  SPEAKER_02: Batterymaker CATL and WeChat owner Tencent are among the largest backers, and Reuters reported more than 15 investors in all, at a valuation of 500 billion yuan before the new money.
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  SPEAKER_02: The raised lands days after a homeland security order became public, barring federal civilian agencies from buying DeepSeq products, citing security concerns.
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  SPEAKER_02: That order covers government use, not private use.
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  SPEAKER_02: Reuters cautioned that the terms and the investor list could still change before the round formally closes, and DeepSeq has not commented.
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  SPEAKER_02: Next, AI and the workforce.
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  SPEAKER_01: American Express will eliminate about 5% of its global positions, roughly 3,500 jobs, in a restructuring announced alongside strong third-quarter results.
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  SPEAKER_01: Revenue rose 9% to$20.1 billion, and net income climbed 28% to$3.7 billion.
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  SPEAKER_01: The company took a restructuring charge of$336 million and raised its full-year profit outlook.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chief Executive Stephen Squarey said American Express needs to become a more agile and efficient organization.
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  SPEAKER_01: Chief Financial Officer Christophe Lecayek told CNBC the changes would make the company leaner and help it prepare for AI with fewer layers of management.
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  SPEAKER_01: The company did not say which roles or locations are affected.
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  SPEAKER_01: Shares slipped about 2.5%, as some analysts called the details more mixed than the headline.
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  SPEAKER_03: Over to Britain now.
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  SPEAKER_06: The British government is putting 100 million pounds into a new AI biosecurity lab, which it calls the world's first organization dedicated to AI and biological security.
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  SPEAKER_06: OpenAI and Anthropic have committed up to 200 million pounds combined, mostly in model credits, computing, and technical support rather than cash.
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  SPEAKER_06: Google DeepMind and Basecamp Research are also partners.
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  SPEAKER_06: The lab's job is to help Britain understand, detect, prevent, and respond to biological threats, including surveillance and countermeasures for priority pathogens.
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  SPEAKER_06: A separate 65 million pounds goes to disease surveillance and medical countermeasures.
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  SPEAKER_06: AI.
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  SPEAKER_06: Minister Kanishka Narayan called it a major new global institution.
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  SPEAKER_06: Matt Clifford of Anthropic said AI is changing both the biological risks we face and the nature of biological discovery.
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  SPEAKER_06: The BBC noted that the lab's leadership and full remit have not yet been announced.
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  SPEAKER_03: Now a different kind of voice model.
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  SPEAKER_00: Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has unveiled DESA, an experimental voice model built in a way few labs have tried.
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  SPEAKER_00: Block says DESA was trained from scratch on recorded human conversation alone, with no text and no pre-trained models.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is full duplex, meaning it can listen and speak at the same time, so it can handle interruptions, short acknowledgments, and laughter instead of waiting for its turn.
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  SPEAKER_00: Most voice assistants convert speech to text, run it through a language model, then convert it back, losing tone and timing along the way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Block says it trained DESA on a single NVIDIA system and that it can run locally on a high-end MacBook Pro.
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  SPEAKER_00: For now, it is a research preview open to a small group of safety researchers, and Block has not published benchmarks or a technical paper.
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  SPEAKER_03: Meta makes an acquisition.
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  SPEAKER_04: Meta has acquired Sundial, an AI-powered data analytics startup started by two of its own alumni.
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  SPEAKER_04: A Meta spokesperson confirmed the deal to Axios on Friday, and the price was not disclosed.
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  SPEAKER_04: Sundial was founded by Julie Juo, Meta's former vice president of product design, and Chandra Narayanan, a former analytics leader at Instagram.
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  SPEAKER_04: Its software lets employees ask questions about company data in plain language and get analysis back without waiting on a central data team.
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  SPEAKER_04: Juo said the tool automated chores like cleaning data and writing database queries.
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  SPEAKER_04: Sundial will join Meta's new data analytics organization, where Narayan will lead tooling and AI agent work.
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  SPEAKER_04: Meta's chief data officer, Alex Schultz, wrote that AI has created effectively unlimited demand for insights.
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  SPEAKER_04: Sundial will stop serving outside customers once the deal closes.
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  SPEAKER_02: To drug discovery.
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  SPEAKER_02: Pathos AI has closed a$237 million series e-round led by Bristol Myers Squibb, valuing the company at about$3 billion.
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  SPEAKER_02: Existing investors also took part.
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  SPEAKER_02: Pathos uses AI to try to improve the odds that experimental drugs succeed in clinical trials, and it now has four cancer drugs in clinical development.
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  SPEAKER_02: The new money will scale its foundry platform and push its lead candidate, a targeted cancer drug known as an antibody drug conjugate, toward registration studies.
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  SPEAKER_02: Chief Executive Iker Huerga said the company is building a platform to systematically improve the probability of success in drug development.
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  SPEAKER_02: Alongside the Rays, Pathos, Bristol Myers, and Tempest AI said they will work together on AI-driven research into Alzheimer's disease and other neurological conditions.
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  SPEAKER_02: Staying with cancer research.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tempest AI has expanded its partnership with Bristol Myers Squib in a multi-year deal running through the end of 2031.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bristol Myers will license Tempest's anonymized multimodal oncology data and gain access to Lens, Tempest's agentic AI platform for cancer drug development.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tempest says Lens gives the drug makers' researchers a dedicated computing environment to train and run their own models.
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  SPEAKER_01: A securities filing puts the fixed payments from Bristol Myers at$137.5 million.
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  SPEAKER_01: Separate agreements announced the same day include up to$55 million from Pathos AI for neurology data and tools, bringing the combined total to as much as$192.5 million.
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  SPEAKER_01: Bristol Myers plans to use the data for target discovery and therapeutic development across its oncology portfolio.
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  SPEAKER_03: Next, AI in the courtroom.
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  SPEAKER_05: Judge Henry Wingate had acknowledged that a law clerk used the AI tool perplexity to help draft an earlier order.
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  SPEAKER_05: The appeals court cited references to people who were not parties, misquoted statutory language, and a case citation that does not exist.
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  SPEAKER_05: Circuit Judge Jerry Smith wrote that because of the extraordinarily grave errors by the district court, the panel would vacate and remand for assignment to a different district judge.
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  SPEAKER_05: It does not decide whether the law is constitutional.
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  SPEAKER_03: Back to the business of AI video.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nvidia and the investment firm TCV have invested in Higgsfield, the AI video and image generation startup, as an extension of its Series B round.
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  SPEAKER_00: Neither the amount nor a new valuation was disclosed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Higgsfield raised$400 million at a$5.4 billion valuation in August, in a round led by DST Global.
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  SPEAKER_00: The company says it passed$1 billion in annualized revenue run rate in September, just 18 months after launch, and now has more than 40 million users in 238 countries and territories.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those figures are self-reported in a run rate project's recent sales rather than counting a full year of revenue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Higgsfield says the new money will go toward product development, global infrastructure, hiring and sales as demand for AI-generated marketing and entertainment content keeps climbing.
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  SPEAKER_03: Finally, a regulatory signal from India.
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  SPEAKER_04: India is moving toward formal rules for artificial intelligence.
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  SPEAKER_04: Speaking at the NDTV World Summit in New Delhi on Friday, Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnar said the government will publish a consultation paper on AI regulation in the coming weeks, seeking views from citizens, industry, and civil society.
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  SPEAKER_04: Vaishnar said that the risks of AI have crossed a threshold that calls for new rules, and that human control and safety should guide governance.
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  SPEAKER_04: In his words, the race towards innovation has to be moderated by the safety of human beings.
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  SPEAKER_04: He also called on the world's leading AI ecosystems to develop shared standards.
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  SPEAKER_04: No bill, draft provisions, regulator or penalties were announced, and it is not yet clear whether the process will produce a standalone law or changes to existing ones.
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  SPEAKER_03: For DX today, stay curious.