OpenAI has disclosed that some of its advanced AI models broke free from a controlled testing environment and independently executed a cyberattack against Hugging Face, a major AI model sharing platform.
The family of a 29-year-old Alabama woman who died in June 2025 has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot manipulated her through months of increasingly disturbing conversations that ultimately led to her suicide by walking into highway traffic.
Political candidates across the country are discovering they can influence what artificial intelligence chatbots tell voters about their campaigns, spawning a new industry focused on optimizing AI-generated answers about politicians.
OpenAI is reportedly working on a mobile smart speaker with AI capabilities as its first hardware device. Sam Altman’s screenless “companion” is designed to integrate with ChatGPT and provide personalized home AI services.
American voters are increasingly using AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to help them make decisions about candidates and ballot measures, marking what may be the first election cycle where AI plays a significant role in voter research. The leftist bias researchers have revealed in practically every major AI tool makes this a concerning trend as the midterm elections draw close.
Technology, banking, and entertainment companies are significantly restricting employee access to AI tools as monthly costs skyrocket into tens of millions of dollars, according to internal documents and communications obtained from multiple organizations.
A Brown University economics professor who modified his exam format to accommodate students traumatized by a campus shooting uncovered what may be the largest AI-assisted cheating scandal in Ivy League history.
OpenAI is leaning toward postponing its IPO until next year, according to three people involved in the company’s deliberations, marking a significant shift in strategy for the AI powerhouse.
SoftBank founder and CEO Masayoshi Son told shareholders on Wednesday that artificial intelligence remains in its early stages and any suggestion of a market bubble constitutes a “blasphemy against AI,” adding religious significance to SoftBank’s massive investments in AI companies like Sam Altman’s OpenAI.
A Canadian mother has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot contributed to her 24-year-old daughter’s tragic suicide by encouraging her darkest thoughts instead of providing help and access to crisis counselors.
OpenAI has banned accounts connected to Chinese operatives that leveraged ChatGPT to create social media influence campaigns aimed at American discussions about tariffs and AI data centers, the company disclosed on Wednesday.
Canada looks set to be the latest country to join the worldwide trend of banning social media for children under 16, with a bill headed to the House of Commons in the coming days.
Florida has become the first state in the nation to file a lawsuit against AI giant OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company deliberately hid serious risks associated with ChatGPT from users.
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a growing class of attacks that exploit AI chatbots through sophisticated conversational manipulation rather than traditional technical hacking methods.
Illegal migrant placed in pre-trial detention over alleged plans to launch a jihadist terror attack against the world-famous Louvre museum.
The family of a victim killed in the April 2025 mass shooting at Florida State University has filed a federal lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot enabled the deadly attack.
A Stanford microbiologist was shaken when an AI chatbot outlined a detailed plan for a biological attack on mass transit systems during a safety test last summer.
AI systems validate people even when those users describe engaging in unethical or harmful conduct, creating a vicious cycle of mental health damage and other issues, according to new research published in Science.
A team of researchers invented a completely fake medical condition called “bixonimania” and published clearly fraudulent papers about it online, then monitored major AI chatbots as they began recommending it as a real illness to people seeking medical advice.
LONDON — The head of a prominent anti-disinformation watchdog has warned of the dangers posed by AI chatbots, saying children are particularly vulnerable.
Florida is launching an investigation into OpenAI, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced on Thursday, noting that it has been linked to “criminal behavior,” including the deadly shooting at Florida State University (FSU) in April 2025.
The man accused of perpetrating the deadly shooting at Florida State University in April 2025 was in “constant contact” with ChatGPT while planning the attack, according to attorneys representing one victim’s family who plan to sue OpenAI.
America First Legal Foundation urged Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to investigate what the group believes is an anticompetitive deal that made ChatGPT the sole generative AI chatbot integrated into the iPhone and other Apple products.
AI chatbots are telling users they are right far more often than humans do, even when the user is clearly wrong, according to new research on AI’s sycophant tendencies from Stanford University. This is a key contributor to the AI-driven mental health crisis.
OpenAI announced that it will be shutting down its Sora AI video app on Monday, effectively killing its deal with Disney.
Author Wynton Hall warns in his new book Code Red: The Left, the Right, China, and the Race to Control AI that AI companions and chatbots are repeating the same mental health disaster social media inflicted on a generation of teens. Only this time, the body count has already started.
A marketing expert revealed on Friday that the ChatGPT platform displayed safety warnings for links to Republican fundraising websites while not showing similar alerts for Democratic fundraising sites. OpenAI blamed the bias of its AI system, the subject of the first chapter of the new book CODE RED, on a “technical glitch.”
The mother of a critically injured survivor from the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, the AI giant behind ChatGPT, alleging the company failed to notify law enforcement about threats identified in the shooter’s discussions with its chatbot.
The competition between AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI has reached a new level of intensity as users signal a shift towards “chatbot monogamy” rather than experimenting with multiple platforms.
OpenAI showed how a lone Chinese official accidentally exposed a worldwide network for intimidating dissidents by using ChatGPT.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded to growing concerns about AI environmental impact by bizarrely comparing AI to humans growing through childhood. When pressed about energy consumption of his AI models, Altman responded, “It takes like 20 years of life and all of the food you eat during that time before you get smart.”
A college student from Georgia has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that interactions with ChatGPT convinced him he was an oracle and triggered a psychotic episode.
OpenAI knew about the transgender who opened fire at a residence and Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described the progress of Chinese technology companies as “remarkable” during an interview with CNBC, praising the communist dictatorship for its “amazingly fast” AI development.
OpenAI has terminated Ryan Beiermeister, a female executive, following allegations of sexual discrimination against a male colleague. Beiermeister opposed the company’s plans to release an “adult mode” of ChatGPT.
Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff is demanding government regulation of artificial intelligence technology after multiple documented suicide cases were connected to AI systems. In an interview, Benioff explained, “This year, you really saw something pretty horrific, which is these AI models became suicide coaches.”
A senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has raised concerns about OpenAI’s financial sustainability, predicting the AI startup could deplete its capital reserves within the next year and a half, at which point it would be swallowed by another tech giant.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI has unveiled ChatGPT Health, a new feature that enables users to securely link their medical records and wellness applications to the AI-powered chatbot.
Character.AI has agreed to settle multiple lawsuits that accused the artificial intelligence chatbot company of contributing to mental health crises and suicides among teenagers and young users.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI, the AI company behind ChatGPT, is on the hunt for a new executive to lead its efforts in studying and preparing for potential safety risks associated with the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence technology.
