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'A Web of Deceit': Florida Sues OpenAI Over ChatGPT Safety Concerns

Florida has become the first US state to sue OpenAI over ChatGPT‘s safety and design, adding to a massive wave of existing lawsuits against the company.

According to the lawsuit (PDF) filed on Monday by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, OpenAI has built a “web of deceit and the exploitation of users, including Floridians.” Florida alleges the company violated state laws against deceptive or unfair trade practices to boost its own market value — and profits — over the safety of its users.

Florida isn’t buying OpenAI’s promise to build safely, as the beginning of the complaint shows.

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The state’s lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, says they willfully ignored warnings, both from inside and outside of the company, about the many risks AI poses to its users. Florida alleges that OpenAI lied about ChatGPT’s reliability, suitability for children and promotes prolonged use that leads to users’ cognitive decline.

(Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET’s parent company, in 2025 filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.)

The lawsuit comes as Florida pursues a criminal investigation into whether ChatGPT played a role in last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University that killed two people and injured six others. In that case, the shooter allegedly used ChatGPT to plan the attack, including advising on the type of weon, the timing of the massacre and how to dispose of human bodies.

At the time, OpenAI said: “Last year’s mass shooting at Florida State University was a tragedy, but ChatGPT is not responsible for this terrible crime.”

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is named in Florida’s lawsuit.

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There are growing concerns about how ChatGPT and other chatbots can feed into people’s violent actions and harmful delusions. Experts have found that chatbots like ChatGPT can struggle to push back on dangerous ideas and be so eager to please that they can provide factually incorrect information, a problem called sycophancy.

Another area of concern for legislators and tech watchdog groups is over OpenAI’s data collection and privacy practices. Florida’s complaint says that ChatGPT offers kids unfettered access to “harmful information” about eating disorders and self-harm. By concealing these risks and promoting ChatGPT as safe, OpenAI has misled Floridians and the general public with a dangerous product, the complaint says.

OpenAI said in a statement that it believes minors need significant protections around AI and has worked to provide them to parents and teens. “Losing a child is the most devastating tragedy that can hpen to a family and we know that no words can come close to addressing the pain of such a loss,” an OpenAI spokesperson said. “We’re committed to getting this right.”

Reining in AI

While this is the first state-led lawsuit against OpenAI around child safety, numerous state governments are taking action around AI. California, Illinois and New York have created new laws to rein in how AI companies operate.

Florida’s lawsuit is a civil case, which would result in penalties (money) and court orders instead of criminal charges. Though it’s unclear still how the financial penalty will play out, Meta and Google were recently ordered to pay $3 million after a jury found them guilty of creating addictive social media ps; in a separate case, Meta was ordered to pay $375 million on child exploitation charges. These cases deal with social media, not AI, but these legal strategies used against Big Tech could provide a legal roadm going forward.

Despite a growing state and local backlash against AI, the Trump administration’s newest AI plan shows it wants the federal government to be in charge of making the rules around the technology. The White House has been outspoken in its support for AI infrastructure projects, including the boom of data center construction projects across the US.

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BYD is assuming financial liability if you crash while using its self-driving tech – Engadget

The offer is only available in China and valid for a year after delivery.

BYD is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to its self-driving technology. During an event last week announcing its latest developments for smart driving chips, the Chinese EV maker announced it would offer full-damage coverage for anyone using theUrban Navigate on Autopilot featureon the latest God’s Eye 5.0 driver assistance system. Unsurprisingly, the offer is only available to BYD owners in China.

According to BYD, the company will “directly cover all resulting economic losses” if a driver uses the Urban Navigate onAutopilot feature in compliance with all regulations and gets into an at-fault accident. As reported byElectrek, the guarantees includes repairs to the owner’s car, third-party property damage and personal injury costs. Along with that, the guarantee doesn’t have a payout c, doesn’t require a separate insurance policy and won’t raise insurance premiums, according to Electrek. BYD said this offer is good for one year for new customers, or existing owners as soon as they upgrade to the God’s Eye 5.0 system.

BYD previously offered a similar guarantee to cover any incidents with its God’sEye tech when it came to drivers using its Intelligent Parking feature. The scope may be limited to Chinese owners and a year of coverage but it’s clear that BYD is confident in its tech, while Tesla is facing lawsuits and even had to change the names of its self-driving features.

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Nvidia RTX Spark May Light a Fire for Windows on Arm

Buckle up: Nvidia is “reinventing the personal computer,” according to CEO Jensen Huang. Microsoft and Nvidia have been cozying up to one another in preparation for Nvidia’s highly anticipated launch of the RTX Spark. It’s a new Arm-based system-on-chip (or “SoC”) platform that brings Nvidia’s Blackwell architecture to thin and light Windows ltops and mini desktops. The goal is to provide high-power processing performance for running personal agents, creative work and gaming, but without the space, power needs and cooling requirements usually imposed by discrete grhics.

The RTX Spark joins Qualcomm’s Sndragon X processors running Windows on Arm, with similar claims of “all-day battery life.” Sndragons achieve that, but one thing to remember about Nvidia’s chip is that it’s intended for far heavier workloads than Sndragon processors.

Those aren’t meant to “render ultralarge 90GB-plus 3D scenes, edit 12K 4:2:2 video, generate 4K AI videos, run 120B-parameter LLMs with up to 1 million tokens context using agents locally, and play AAA games at 1440p and over 100 frames per second,” all of which can tank your battery life. It remains to be seen if the Spark can live up to that under normal usage.

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This is the first of what Nvidia says it plans to be a line of chips across a variety of price segments. These first models are slated to ship this fall:

Microsoft Surface Ltop Ultra
Dell XPS 16
Asus ProArt P14 and P16
HP Omnibook X 14, Omnibook Ultra 16
Lenovo Yoga Pro 9n
MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI

The 15-inch Surface Ltop Ultra is particularly notable because Microsoft hasn’t updated its screens in far too long, and the Surfaces (both desktop and ltop) never incorporated discrete GPUs their prices seemed to demand. The Ultra has a higher-resolution (262ppi) 15-inch mini LED touchscreen that supports HDR (with peak brightness of 2,000 nits), unlike the older, meh model. Microsoft hasn’t updated its Surface Ltop Studioin three years, and this is the chip and screen it needs if Microsoft plans to bring it back from the dead.

There will also be mini desktops. It seems to have been a resurgence of these — at least an increase in the number of manufacturers offering them — thanks to developers. The RTX Spark models will compete with AMD Ryzen AI Halo-based models for example. They’re expected from companies such as Acer, Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo, among others.

Nvidia’s planning to have a desktop, ltop and workstation for each generation of chips.

Given current price volatility, we won’t know how much they’ll cost until they’re closer to shipping. AI’sravenous demand for components— and the resources needed to make them — has created severe shortages of memory, processors and SSD storage,driving computer and phone prices higherand even affecting availableconfiguration options.

Spark it up

The chip is an offshoot of the DGX Spark (GB10), which powers Linux-based compact desktops specifically targeted at developers and now Windows-based DGX Station. The Spark was designed in conjunction with MediaTek, and has similar specs to the DGX: 6,144 CUDA cores, a 20-core Grace CPU, ability to access up to 128GB RAM and more. Nvidia says it supports up to 120B parameter agents with a 1M context. (For reference, AMD says its topRyzen AI Max Pro 400 series chip can can handle up to 300B parameter models).

The RTX Spark under the hood of the Surface Ltop Ultra.

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Its GPU specs are more or less comparable to an RTX 5070, but the unified memory architecture means it has access to a lot more RAM than 12GB. Nvidia says that system configurations can go as low as 16GB, though, which means it could potentially bottleneck when a dedicated 5070, with 12GB VRAM, might not. The company gave 100fps 1440p as its reference for gaming performance (though it wasn’t clear whether that was with or without DLSS 4.5 enabled).

Nvidia claims the chip’s overall AI performance is one PFLOPS (a billion floating point operations per second), but that’s based on FP4 calculations. On one hand, FP4 is the current darling of the data formats because it’s faster than the other floating point choices and more accurate than integer, but there are some tradeoffs. (Procyon has a great visual example of what speed versus accuracy tradeoffs can mean for image generation.) But among the consumer SoCs, this is the first to support it in hardware.

The real competition for these is the M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pros, which target the same users, but the M5 line doesn’t support FP4 and FP8 data types, which may turn out to be a hindrance.

The part itself can run at anywhere from “single digits” to 80W, which means you’ll really need to pay attention to whether a ltop runs at full power or if the manufacturer is throttling it. In other words, it sounds like performance, especially on battery, may vary a lot. Typically, mobile processor power envelopes are smaller bands; for instance, the Intel Core X9 388H specifies 15W-85W.

It has an NPU, which Nvidia doesn’t seem to want to talk much about, but the systems with the Spark are considered Copilot Plus-qualifying, so it must be able to hit at least 40 TOPS.

This illustration of the RTX Spark in situ has the fuzzy, glowy look of a generated image.

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RTX Spark might seem powerful, but Nvidia is maintaining its strict division between pro and consumer markets. For instance, it doesn’t plan to run a certification program for plications or support ECC memory.

In addition to being one of Nvidia’s launch partners with its Surface Ltop Ultra, Microsoft has been working to make the necessary updates to Windows in order to take advantage of the new chip.

Like Qualcomm’s Sndragon X series processors, Windows doesn’t natively support the Arm instruction set the way it does Intel and AMD’s x86-architecture chips, which were foundational to the PC. Instead, Arm-based systems use an emulation layer called Prism to translate instructions. Emulation is partly why the early systems based on Qualcomm chips experienced performance and compatibility problems.

Windows modifications

Many of the updates to Windows that are necessary to support the hardware are under the hood, but one will be right in your face: Microsoft’s putting Spark-run agents on the Taskbar.

A lot of the changes we’ve seen in Windows recently have been laying the groundwork for this. Prism was written specifically for Qualcomm’s SoCs, since it was the only Arm-based silicon the operating system needed to run on. Supporting the RTX Spark meant updating Prism and other core parts of Windows to efficiently distribute workloads across the CPU cores, balance cooling and performance, address and intelligently manage a larger amount of the unified memory available to the GPU (for AI processing with TensorRT) and more.

Qualcomm doesn’t have nearly as much invested in Windows gaming performance as Nvidia does, for obvious reasons. For example, Nvidia has been working with Microsoft to improve compatibility with anti-cheat software (such as Epic’s Easy Anti-Cheat), which has prevented some games from running on the devices, as well as support for the Xbox p, which is key to Microsoft’s game-on-everything strategy.

Adobe is also reengineering parts of its imaging engines to t into the Spark directly, notably with several new pipelines to accelerate more GPU- and AI-intensive features such as rendering complex timelines in Premiere Pro and improving natural brushes in Photoshop. While CUDA and TensorRT already operate on Nvidia’s discrete mobile GPUs, taking optimal advantage of them on this different architecture requires some rejiggering. The plications will also be able to interact with Windows agents.

Nvidia is trying to expand everyday agenting beyond developers, with the notion that “broad adoption has been limited by the inability to run agents securely and privately on users’ primary PCs.” I suspect the trust issues are more complicated than that. The company says that OpenShell will be incorporated into the current agenting faves,OpenClaw and Hermes.

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AMD unveils the $329 Ryzen 7 7700X3D, brings back the 5800X3D for $349 – Engadget

The latter could be a nice upgrade path for folks on AM4 builds.

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First up, the Ryzen 7 7700X3D is a 3D V-Cache chip for the AM5 platform. (The company has pledged to support AM5 through 2029.) The 120W TDP, 8C/16T processor has 104 MB of total cache and a maximum boost speed of 4.5GHz. It should be a solid way to get X3D gaming performance without breaking the bank.

The new Ryzen 7 7700X3D arrives on July 16, priced at $329.

AMD also has a welcome surprise for those still on AM4 builds: the Ryzen 7 5800X3D(initially discontinued in 2024) is back, baby. The company is framing the re-launch as a 10th-anniversary edition to commemorate the AM4 platform’s decade-long run.

The 5800X3D was AMD’s first consumer processor with 3D V-Cache. The 8C/16T chip has 100 MB of total cache, a 4.5GHz boost clock, and a 105W TDP. If you’re still on an AM4 system, its return could be an opportunity to upgrade your rig without having to invest in a new motherboard and crazy-expensive DDR5 RAM. If we’re lucky, it might even be enough to get you through the shortage.

The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 10th Anniversary Edition will be available on June 25 for $349.

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AMDs Radeon RX 9070 GRE graphics card is now available to purchase – Engadget

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AMD just released the Radeon RX 9070 GRE grhics card globally after it came out in China last year. The GRE stands for “Golden Rabbit Edition,” though sometimes it’s referred to asthe “Great Radeon Edition.” This mid-range GPU costs $549.

The RX 9070 is designed to offer PC players a budget-friendly entry point into 1440p gaming. It features 12GB of video memory and full support for the company’s Fidelity FX Super Resolution 4.1 (FSR 4.1) upscaling technology. It was built on AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture, which features enhanced AI compute acceleration and next-gen ray tracing cabilities.

That leaves an opening in the market for AMD, as PC gamers still very much exist. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE is an iterative refresh of the pre-existing Radeon 9070, which we called one of the “best midrange GPUs from AMD in years.”

It looks like a decent bit of kit for the money, and it’s always nice seeing grhics cards being sold to assist with gaming and not to exclusively train AI. NVIDIA isn’t quite as active in the gaming space since it started seeing all of that AI money. To that end, more than 90 percent of that company’s revenue comes from its data center segment.

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Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for June 1, #616

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Today’sConnections: Sports Editionis a tough one. If you’re struggling with the puzzle but still want to solve it, read on for hints and the answers.

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Yellow group hint: Play ball!

Green group hint: Work out.

Blue group hint: City of Brotherly Love.

Purple group hint: Think Arnold Schwarzenegger.