Character.AI Files Chapter 11, First AI Chatbot Firm To Use Bankruptcy Against Suicide Lawsuits
Chapter 11: Character.AI filed for bankruptcy protection this week, citing mounting lawsuits over teen deaths tied to its companion chatbot platform.
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Chapter 11: Character.AI filed for bankruptcy protection this week, citing mounting lawsuits over teen deaths tied to its companion chatbot platform.
A Salt Security survey of 380-plus firms found nearly half saw an AI agent take an unauthorized action, exposing gaps in agentic AI oversight.
Frontier labs moved post-training from RLHF preference data to RLVR outcome rewards. Papers, lab docs and Hugging Face data show the shift’s scope.
Launches Europe: 21Shares launched Europe’s first exchange-traded product tracking Anthropic’s implied private valuation, giving retail investors synthetic pre-IPO exposure.
AWS adds global cross-Region inference for OpenAI’s GPT models on Amazon Bedrock, giving Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and Taiwan faster access.
AI Agents: Intel detailed open hardware and software designs for agentic AI workloads at OCP 2026, pairing Xeon 6 chips with partners including Dell and QCT.
Anthropic’s new research shows AI models may self-replicate without internet access, raising fresh questions about frontier model containment.
Rack Platform: AMD launched Helion, an open rack-scale platform for agentic AI, offering flexible CPU and GPU configurations ahead of a November 2026 rollout.
Meta launched Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full Monday, hitting 79 on DeepSWE and ranking second on the Artificial Analysis Index.
Z.ai launched GLM-Legal, a legal-specialized AI model built on GLM-5.3-Flash, saying it matches frontier models on legal benchmarks.