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Eight states have filed suit against OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves and others. It's a serious legal challenge that puts the question of AI safety for minors front and center, and it signals that state attorneys general are no longer willing to wait for federal action on platform accountability.
That lawsuit lands as the startup world gathers for Disrupt two thousand twenty six, where five finalists are set to compete in the Startup Battlefield. TechCrunch has unveiled the competing companies, and the stakes are high — Battlefield has historically been a launchpad for firms that go on to reshape entire industries, so the names revealed this year are worth watching closely.
And in a development nearly ninety years in the making, American researchers now believe they may have located the wreckage of Amelia Earhart's plane. CBS News, which has followed this mystery since Earhart vanished in nineteen thirty seven, reports that new evidence could finally bring answers to one of aviation history's most enduring questions.
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