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Follow the evolution of ChatGPT, from OpenAI’s latest ad strategies to ethical debates and new feature rollouts for users.
… According to a new lawsuit filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court and brought by Carrier’s surviving family, her ChatGPT session “encouraged Alice to kill herself.” This lawsuit, like numerous other similar cases that have come before it, alleges a design defect with ChatGPT itself and blam… …
… They also want the retired ChatGPT 4o model destroyed and for ChatGPT Health to be paused until an independent audit establishes that OpenAI tools can be trusted to dispense medical advice. “Their deliberate and knowing actions resulted in the death of Sam Nelson and the shattering of his family,” … …
… In his complaint, Uthmeier noted that Florida has now been blindsided by two violent events where suspects used ChatGPT to assist in planning. “Horrifically, ChatGPT has aided and abetted in more than one multiple murder in the State of Florida,” Uthmeier’s complaint said. “The 2026 deaths of Unive… …
… The journal publisher, Springer Nature, cited “discrepancies” in the analysis and a lack of confidence in the conclusions—but not before the paper racked up hundreds of citations and made the rounds on social media. “The paper’s authors made some very attention-grabbing claims about the benefits of… …
OpenAI is reportedly exploring legal options after Apple’s ChatGPT integration into its products didn’t live up to the AI firm’s expectations. …
… The prominent newspaper alleged that ChatGPT was illegally trained on its articles, infringed on its copyrights by outputting articles verbatim, and caused market harms by positioning ChatGPT as a substitute for a NYT subscription, as well as reputational harms by falsely attributing claims to NYT … …
… In January, polygraph-failing acting CISA Director Madhu Gottumukkala uploaded sensitive government documents to ChatGPT after demanding and receiving an exemption to the agency policy that prohibited ChatGPT’s use by CISA personnel. …
OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT and Codex and the models those tools utilize, and Broadcom, an established silicon supplier, have announced a new chip called Jalapeño, designed specifically for large language model inference in data centers. …
… The company reports over 900 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, though only about 50 million of those are paid subscribers. …
… But Brockman said no, pointing out that he received the stake well before ChatGPT’s release spiked OpenAI’s value. …