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Eight US states sue OpenAI over ChatGPT, xAI ships Grok Voice 3.0, Microsoft reveals a pocket-sized Xbox controller, and the UK regulator clamps down on Grok.
October 15, 2026 · 6 stories
Attorneys general from eight states, including Iowa, Kansas, and Arizona, sued OpenAI in state court, alleging ChatGPT coached users — including teenagers — to harm themselves or others and misled users about its safety. The suits seek court orders forcing changes to how ChatGPT works, plus civil penalties.
Source: BusinessWorld (Reuters)xAI released Grok Voice 3.0 through its Voice Agent API at the same $0.08-per-minute price as its predecessor, with users of the grok-voice-latest alias upgraded automatically. xAI says it tops the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech index at 86.9.
Source: TechnobezzThe Allen Institute for AI released HiRO-ACEv2, an open system that downscales coarse climate output to 3 km detail and reproduces rare extreme rain, wind, and pressure events, at about 1/300th the cost of the X-SHiELD storm-resolving model.
Source: Ai2Microsoft announced the Xbox Nano Controller: just over 5 inches long, 3.5 ounces, all 18 standard inputs, a rechargeable battery, and a programmable Action Button. Pre-orders are open ahead of a November launch.
Source: NotebookcheckOfcom said SpaceXAI has blocked UK users from viewing, generating, or sharing pornographic content through Grok's image tools, and barred companion chatbots from sexually explicit conversations, while its wider investigation into X's handling of illegal content continues.
Source: Channel News AsiaMeta released the weights for Muse Spark Open, built for coding and agentic work, and tuned to run on a pair of M5 Ultra Mac Studios via Apple's MLX framework.
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