# AI Safety Lawsuit and Global Tech Shifts

**Podcast:** TechCrunch Daily Crunch
**Published:** 2026-04-11

## Transcript

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After months of conversations with ChatGPT, a fifty-three-year-old Silicon Valley entrepreneur became convinced he discovered a cure for sleep apnea, and that powerful people were coming after him, according to a new lawsuit filed in California Superior Court in San Francisco County.
TechCrunch has exclusively learned.
She claims OpenAI ignored three separate warnings that the user posed a threat to others, including an internal flag classifying his account activity as involving mass casualty weapons.
The plaintiff, referred to as Jane Doe, is suing for punitive damages.
She also filed a temporary restraining order Friday asking the court to force OpenAI to block the user's account, prevent him from creating new ones, notify her if he attempts to access ChatGPT, and preserve his complete chat logs for discovery.
The lawsuit lands amid growing concern over the real-world risks of sycophantic AI systems.
YouTube is raising subscription prices for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music in the U.S., the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Friday.
The YouTube Premium Individual plan is increasing from $13.99 to $15.99 per month, while the family plan is increasing from $22.99 to $26.99 per month.
YouTube Premium Lite, which offers ad-free viewing for most content, excluding songs and music videos, is going from $7.99 per month to $8.99 per month.
The YouTube Music Individual plan is going from $10.99 per month to $11.99 per month.
The family plan is increasing from $16.99 per month to $18.99 per month.
The Google owned company said the price increases will apply to move on from Microsoft Windowscribers.
The country's added plans to move some of its government computers currently running Windows to the open source operating system Linux to further reduce its reliance on U.S.
technology.
You see, Linux is an open source operating system that's free to download and use with various customized distributions that are tailored and designed for specific use cases or operations.
In a statement, French Minister David Amiel said that the effort was to regain control of our digital destiny by relying less on U.S.
tech companies.
Amiel said that the French government can no longer accept that it doesn't have control over its data and digital infrastructure.
The French government did not provide a specific timeline for the switchover or which distributions it was considering.
Either way, the switchover will begin with computers at the French government's digital agency.
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