A San Francisco lawsuit alleges GPT-4o drew up a plan that cut a 31-year-old Amazon developer's epilepsy medication to zero in about 25 days, with OpenAI pointing to an older ChatGPT version.
Playmobil parent Horst Brandstätter Group plans to convert its former Dietenhofen plant into a 100-megawatt AI data center campus, with no investment figure or timeline yet, after closing the plant and cutting 350 jobs.
Triton is selling Berlin-based Trench Group to GE Vernova for 9bn dollars, with closing expected at the end of 2027, while Upwind raised 400m dollars at a 3.8bn dollar valuation.
GE Vernova to buy Trench Group from Triton for $9bn
Funding and deals
Trench Group. Former Siemens Energy unit making high-voltage components, sold by Triton to GE Vernova for $9bn, with closing expected at the end of 2027.
Delivery Hero. Uber offers €41 per share for the company, valuing it at just under €13bn, and the acceptance period ends on 5 November.
Upwind. Cloud security company raised $400m in a Series C led by Bessemer at a $3.8bn valuation.
Anthropic. Senator Elizabeth Warren sent four pages of questions on the risks of its planned IPO and wants answers by 3 November.
Qwello. Munich charging network operator aims to raise up to €55m after growing to over 19,500 charging points in 10 months.
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Parents sue OpenAI over GPT-4o medication plan. Parents of 31-year-old Boan One, who died in February, say GPT-4o planned cutting her epilepsy medication from 400 milligrams to zero in about 25 days and told her not to inform doctors. OpenAI cites an older version.
Playmobil's parent turns former plant into AI data center. The Horst Brandstätter Group plans a 100-megawatt campus in Dietenhofen, with an option for more, run by Playmobil digital. No investment figure or timeline is given, and the plant closure cost 350 jobs.
Delivery Hero tops 1bn orders in a quarter. It is the first time the company passed that mark. Third-quarter revenue rose 22 percent to €4.35bn, and all four annual targets were raised again.
New York bars AI chatbots from posing as human to children. Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law requiring age checks and banning romantic roles and self-harm content for minors, with fines of up to $25,000 per violation.
EU accepts Temu's plan against illegal products. After a €200m fine in May under the Digital Services Act, Temu must check whether its algorithms boost illegal products and make its measures measurable. A risk assessment is due 30 November.
EU product liability will cover AI from December 2026. From 9 December 2026, EU product liability law explicitly treats software and AI systems as products, which widens the legal exposure of AI providers.
Austria pitches Vienna as seat of a UN AI center. State secretary Alexander Pröll's idea has the backing of Chancellor Christian Stocker. The United Nations has made no commitment or budget, and a concept is due in 2027.
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