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Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to location data from his iPhone, security camera footage, and witness testimony. But they also turned to his ChatGPT logs. Prosecutors said that Rinderknecht had ChatGPT generate images of fire, asked the chatbot, "Why am I so angry all the time?", and ranted to it about how the wealthy were destroying the world. They also pointed to a screen recording in which Rinderknecht asked ChatGPT whether someone could be blamed for a fire if it was lit by their … Read the full story at The Verge.
Read full articleOpenAI's new AI plan could reshape research funding priorities, challenging traditional software budgets and intensifying AI competition. The post OpenAI develops ChatGPT for Science plan targeting universities and research labs appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
ChatGPT relieves me of my discomfort, but in doing so it robs me of contemplation, of the holy ground between question and answer Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life As a person of faith raised in a religious household, I have a fairly clear picture of what prayer means to me. Prayer is the practice by which I draw closer to God, petition for my needs and desires, request guidance and ask forgiveness. The deal has always been that in times of trouble I cast my anxieties and questions and emerge with either some answers or some sustaining sense of peace. Take it to the Lord in prayer, the song goes. Continue reading...
The use of AI chat logs in court raises privacy concerns and could set a precedent for digital evidence in future legal cases. The post Prosecutors use ChatGPT logs as evidence in Palisades fire arson trial appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
Set recurring tasks in plain language and let ChatGPT monitor the web, check connected apps, and deliver AI-generated updates automatically.
Anthropic’s Claude is gaining significant ground with paying consumers, according to credit card transaction data from Indagari, which analyses anonymised spending patterns across approximately 28 million US consumers. The data, covering weekly transactions from 2025 through May 2026, shows Claude’s paying consumer base and associated revenue growing roughly 75% since January 2026, with gains continuing […]
Sam Altman announces limited preview of GPT 5.6 in move that echoes launch of Anthropic’s Mythos Business live – latest updates OpenAI is staggering the release of its latest AI model after a request from the US government, in a move echoing the launch of Anthropic’s Mythos product. Sam Altman, the chief executive of the company behind ChatGPT, told staff this week that GPT 5.6 would be released in a limited preview to a small group of partners, according to the tech publication The Information. Continue reading...
You’ve heard the warnings! Don’t tell ChatGPT your secrets. The robots are reading everything. Your data is the product. And yet here you are: using them as a subscriber. Because AI is genuinely useful! The good news: that distrust is healthy, and you don’t have to choose between using AI and protecting yourself. You can […] The post Using AI When You Don’t Trust AI appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.
iPhone maker loses $263bn in market capitalisation, blames costs on AI-driven memory shortage
