The FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic over AI safety incidents, as eight states separately sue OpenAI over ChatGPT and children. Plus OpenAI and Anthropic back a $15M Simons Foundation math initiative, Google opens frontier models to 200 European researchers, Gergely Orosz goes inside Uber's AI infra, Noah Smith compares the AI buildout to 1870s railroads, RubyLLM ships a built-in MCP client, Stripe says agentic commerce is revving up, Sean Goedecke on not diagnosing your opponents, and a wildcard: Cornell finds Marfan syndrome in two long-legged cats.

Axios · Oct 15

The FTC sent civil subpoenas to OpenAI and Anthropic seeking documents on safety incidents and marketing practices.

UPI · Oct 15

Eight state attorneys general sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT gave children dangerous advice and encouraged self-harm.

OpenAI · Oct 15

OpenAI pledged $5 million to a Simons Foundation program helping mathematicians verify AI-generated proofs.

Maureen Costello, Google · Oct 14

Google DeepMind and Google Cloud gave 200 European researchers access to frontier models and compute credits.

Carmine Paolino · Oct 8

RubyLLM 2.1 shipped a built-in MCP client, typed judgments, and an agent evaluation framework.

Gergely Orosz, The Pragmatic Engineer · Oct 14

Gergely Orosz profiles how Uber builds internal AI tooling and measures its engineering productivity impact.

Noah Smith, Noahpinion · Oct 15

Noah Smith compares today's AI data-center buildout to the boom-and-bust cycle of 1870s railroads.

Sean Goedecke · Oct 11

Sean Goedecke argues you should only question an opponent's motives alongside a substantive counterargument.

Payments Dive · Oct 15

Stripe's John Collison said agentic commerce volume rose sharply in September after its Sessions launch.