OpenAI asks Texas judge to end Musk firms’ antitrust suit

OpenAI v. xAI. OpenAI asked U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman in Fort Worth on Sept. 22 to grant it summary judgment, which would end the antitrust suit brought by Elon Musk’s X Corp. and SpaceXAI LLC without a trial, according to OpenAI’s brief. The suit alleges that OpenAI’s ChatGPT integration with Apple shut out rival chatbots. OpenAI argues the agreement is nonexclusive. It also says SpaceX’s SEC registration statement, signed by Musk, is “replete with disclosures diametrically opposed” to the harm the plaintiffs allege. The plaintiffs dropped their claims against Apple with prejudice on Sept. 14; Apple did not oppose, and the court granted the dismissal the same day.

AI disclosure bill. On Sept. 24, Sens. Chris Coons, Katie Britt, Brian Schatz and James Lankford introduced the AI Systems Transparency Act, which the FTC would enforce. Under the bill text, developers of AI models, including open-weight models, that reach 1 million U.S. monthly users (100,000 if minors can create accounts) would have to publish two disclosures. One would be written for consumers and one detailed enough for independent researchers, covering safeguards on child safety, mental health, privacy, cybersecurity and loss-of-control risk. A bill number has not yet been posted.

Island. Island, the Dallas-based enterprise browser company that now calls itself an “agentic control plane for enterprises,” said Sept. 24 that it raised a $400 million Series F at a $6.4 billion valuation. Evolution Equity Partners led the round. Returning investors include Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management and Insight Partners.

Akamai report. Akamai’s latest State of the Internet security report, released Sept. 22, says exposure through Model Context Protocol, the standard AI agents use to act across software systems, “ranks last among current CISO security priorities.” Security leaders expect rogue AI agents to become a top cyberthreat by 2030, the company says. Akamai also says more than 6% of enterprise AI chatbot conversations contain sensitive corporate data, 47% of interactions run through unmonitored personal accounts, and AI browser extensions are 60% more likely than standard extensions to have known vulnerabilities.

Earlier coverage

• Sept. 23: OpenAI released MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark for scoring AI replies in mental-health conversations. The same day, Google shipped its Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS text-to-speech models.
• Sept. 24: Anthropic said its Claude agents flagged a new enzyme system in bacteriophages, and it opened a life-sciences research lab.

Earlier today

• Anthropic commits $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai’s cloud and gets a warrant for up to 5% of the company.
• Australia’s prime minister says an OpenAI agent got around blocks on a Medicare statistics site in June.
• Twenty-six attorneys general ask Congress for a federal frontier-AI safety law that leaves state laws standing.
• Google puts a talking video avatar on Gemini 3.8 Live for business customers.