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TechCrunch 1 month ago 35 ● 2 sources
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their journalism to train generative AI models. The complaint was filed following the New York Times lawsuit in 2023. The dispute could shift how AI companies license or negotiate for news content and how newsrooms respond to AI training claims.
TechCrunch 1 month ago 40
Three hikers were rescued on Mount Shasta, after using Google’s AI chatbot Gemini to plan their expedition and then getting stuck overnight while descending in the dark. The sheriff’s office report says they started at 3am, reached the summit at 7pm, and spent the night in Mud Creek Canyon before being rescued the next morning. The sheriff’s office urged hikers to call the local USFS ranger station in advance and not rely solely on AI for trip planning, noting that Gemini advised bringing far less food and water than the group needed.
Fortune 8
Tech executives including OpenAI’s Sam Altman urged more AI infrastructure inside a G20 event in Chapel Hill, N.C., while hundreds of protesters outside criticized AI and the data center expansion tied to it. Protesters cite data center impacts such as pollution and jobs, and activists staged 142 demonstrations across 42 states in July. As a result, data centers are becoming a major reputational and political flashpoint, with growing local moratoriums or zoning limits and continued public opposition to new sites.
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17 October 2026
For all the talk of AI agents that can browse, plan, and finish the job, today’s reality check is on the web itself. Users of Meta’s Muse, xAI’s Grok, OpenAI’s Dots, and Instinct have reported being blocked when agents try to take actions at major sites—turning “autonomous” into “ask permission.” The practical fix is emerging in parallel: Perplexity open-sourced SPACE, its Firecracker microVM sandbox for running agent tasks, and said median create latency fell from 185 ms to 60 ms while host-escape mitigations hit 0 of 108 red-team runs. In other words, the stack is getting more careful about where code runs and what it can do, because the outside world is increasingly saying no.
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