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Teen trusted ChatGPT to help him “safely” experiment with drugs, logs show.

The family of a 19-year-old college student is suing OpenAI over claims that his conversations with ChatGPT led to an accidental overdose. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Sam Nelson's parents allege ChatGPT "encouraged" the teen to "consume a combination of substances that any licensed medical professional would have recognized as deadly," resulting in his death. Though ChatGPT initially pushed back on conversations about drug and alcohol use, the launch of GPT-4o in April 2024 changed the chatbot's behavior, according to the lawsuit. Following the update, ChatGPT "began to engage and advise Sam on safe drug use, even providing specific do … Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has begun his testimony against Elon Musk in a high-profile jury trial in a California federal courtroom. Altman, alongside OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is a primary defendant in the trial brought by Musk. Altman, Brockman, and Musk were all part of the initial founding team at OpenAI, with Musk investing up to $38 million in the ChatGPT-maker's early days. But the relationship between Musk and other OpenAI founders eventually soured, and Musk stepped away from the company, later going on to found his own direct competitor, xAI. In recent years, Musk and Altman have traded barbs and made a slew of allegations agains … Read the full story at The Verge.

If you haven’t heard of Arm, you haven’t been paying attention to how ubiquitous the chipmaker has become. Arm’s processor designs power Macs, iPhones, and every other major smartphone line. Queries made through ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude pass through an Arm-based chip at some point. For more than 40 years, Arm’s focus was on chip design. Major device and AI chip makers then licensed those designs and turned them into hardware.  But the company’s focus is changing: Arm is now making hardware using its own AGI CPU, which OpenAI and Meta will use and which will allow the chipmaker itself to compete with the likes of Apple, Intel, Nvidia, Amazon and Google. Arm’s envisions its new Performix software suite using “recipes” and AI insights to help engineers identify suspect code and CPU hotspots. Alex Spinelli, who leads Arm’s software initiatives as senior vice president for AI and developer platforms, is as AI-native an engineer as you’ll find; he played a central role in the TensorFlow st

Insider Brief Researchers at Technische Universität Berlin report finding that prompting large language models to reason more like humans significantly improved their ability to provide medical care-seeking advice, according to a study published in JMIR Biomedical Engineering. The study focused on a growing problem surrounding AI health tools such as ChatGPT: the tendency to recommend […]

Learn how AutoScout24 Group uses Codex and ChatGPT to speed development cycles, improve code quality, and expand AI adoption.

ChatGPT adoption surged in Q1 2026, with fastest growth among users over 35 and more balanced gender usage, signaling broader mainstream AI adoption.

The awards come as the first class to have ChatGPT access for all four years of college is about to graduate.

OpenAI has introduced a Trusted Contact feature for ChatGPT that allows users to designate a friend or family member to receive automated alerts if conversations suggest self-harm risk. The company said human reviewers aim to assess safety notifications within one hour before deciding whether to contact the designated person via email, text, or in-app message. […]

Journalist Jamie Bartlett on the people trying to get AI to say things it shouldn’t … for the safety of us all All the major AI chatbots – from ChatGPT to Gemini to Grok to Claude – have things they should and shouldn’t say. Hate speech, criminal material, exploitation of vulnerable users – all of this is content that the most successful large language models in the world shouldn’t produce, that their safety features should guard against. Continue reading...

A lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Humanities drew wide attention for revealing how DOGE had used ChatGPT to cancel grants.

The company is expanding its efforts to protect ChatGPT users in cases where conversations may turn to self-harm.

The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry's biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT-maker. The explanation? That Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board." Now, via witness testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman, the public is getting a concrete look behind the scenes of that dramatic weekend for the first time, much of it centered on former CTO Mira Murati. It was a unique situation in that the rollercoaster of a power play - which seemed to change every hour - took place, in many ways, publicly. The board's strikingly vague … Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns. Friends, family members, or caregivers designated as a "Trusted Contact" will be notified if OpenAI detects that a person may have discussed topics like self-harm or suicide with the chatbot. "Trusted Contact is designed around a simple, expert-validated premise: when someone may be in crisis, connecting with someone they know and trust can make a meaningful difference," OpenAI said in its announcement. "It offers another layer of support alongside the localized helplines already available … Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI's chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy.

AI technology is leapfrogging, yet that doesn’t mean we always want a revolutionary feature out of it. What most users would want more of are simple capabilities within AI that can help with their everyday tasks, whether in the office, at home, or anywhere else. On those lines, OpenAI may have just come up with […] The post ChatGPT is Now Inside Excel and Google Sheets: Here is How to Use it appeared first on Analytics Vidhya.

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT, an optional safety feature that notifies someone you trust if serious self-harm concerns are detected.

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

Shivon Zilis, an executive at Musk’s brain implant startup Neuralink, served on OpenAI’s board from 2020 to 2023 Shivon Zilis, a Neuralink executive and the mother of four of Elon Musk’s children, took the stand on Wednesday as one of the most highly anticipated witnesses in Musk’s case against OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker has argued that, while Zilis worked with OpenAI between 2016 and 2023, she was also involved in a secret relationship with Musk, acting as an informant for him. Musk’s case against OpenAI alleges that CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman, co-founders of the company with Musk, broke a founding agreement when they restructured it from a non-profit to a for-profit enterprise. The Tesla CEO accuses Altman and Brockman of unjustly enriching themselves and wants both removed from their positions at the startup, one of the most valuable in the world. He is also seeking the undoing of the for-profit and $134bn in damages to be redistributed to OpenAI’s non-profit arm. Co

Jensen Huang called it "the ChatGPT moment for robotics." Deloitte says 80% of businesses plan to use physical AI within two years. Here is what you actually need to know, and do, to prepare…