Podcast · Episode 12
Daily Brief: Florida asks a court to halt OpenAI model training and bar minors from ChatGPT, Bayer's mRNA patent suits against Pfizer and Moderna survive dismissal
Florida seeks an injunction barring OpenAI from training new models without outside approval and keeping minors off ChatGPT, a Delaware judge keeps Bayer's mRNA patent suits against Pfizer and Moderna alive, and Florida sues insulin makers and PBMs over pricing.
Read by two synthetic voices, Alex Carter and Jordan Ellis.
Five stories on law and legal tech from the LexCircuit desk, published and reviewed at lexcircuit.com.
1. Florida asks a court to halt OpenAI model training and bar minors from ChatGPT
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier moved in Highlands County Circuit Court for a temporary injunction that would bar OpenAI from training or releasing new models without independent third-party approval and bar minors from ChatGPT, and OpenAI says it has paused training its most capable models pending additional safeguards.
2. Bayer’s mRNA patent suits against Pfizer and Moderna survive dismissal
Circuit Judge William Bryson, sitting by designation in the District of Delaware, denied motions by Pfizer, BioNTech and Moderna to dismiss Bayer CropScience’s mRNA patent infringement suits, holding the asserted claims are not directed to patent-ineligible natural laws.
3. Florida sues insulin makers and PBMs over pricing
Florida sued Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk, Sanofi, three pharmacy benefit managers, three rebate aggregators and UnitedHealthcare Insurance in Miami-Dade County, alleging they inflated list prices for insulin and related diabetes drugs while paying PBMs rebates for formulary placement.
4. Fifteen states and Harris County challenge the FAA’s drone delivery review
Fifteen states and Harris County, Texas petitioned the Second Circuit to vacate the FAA’s programmatic environmental assessment for nationwide commercial drone deliveries, alleging the agency violated the National Environmental Policy Act.
5. Education Department repeals the 2024 Title IX rule
The Department of Education issued a final rule repealing its 2024 Title IX regulations and recodifying the prior text at 34 CFR part 106, effective September 29, 2026.
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