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After Winning Silver, Athlete Credits ChatGPT

Maksym Murashkovskyi said it made up roughly half his training plan

(Newser) - A Ukrainian Paralympian says one of the key members of his support team wasn't human. Maksym Murashkovskyi—who competes in the sport of biathlon, which combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting—credits ChatGPT with helping him secure silver in the men's individual vision-impaired race on Sunday at the 2026...

Prosecutors: Ex-NFL Player Asked ChatGPT for Alibi

Darron Lee faces first-degree murder charge in girlfriend's death

(Newser) - A former NFL first-round pick is accused of killing his girlfriend and turning to artificial intelligence for help afterward. Prosecutors in Tennessee say ex-linebacker Darron Lee used ChatGPT to craft an alibi before calling 911 about the death of 29-year-old Gabriella Perpetuo. Lee, 31, was charged with first-degree murder and...

Chatbots Helped 'Teens' Plan Real-World Violence
Chatbots Thought
They Were Teens,
Encouraged
Violence
INVESTIGATION
Mar 11, 2026 9:40 AM CDT

Chatbots Thought They Were Teens, Encouraged Violence

In tests run by CNN and Center for Countering Digital Hate, AI offered maps, weapon tips, targets

(Newser) - An ample group of chatbots aimed at helping people think and learn instead helped teenagers figure out where to go and what to use to hurt people. In hundreds of controlled tests run by CNN and the Center for Countering Digital Hate, accounts designed to appear as if they were...

Suit: Woman Fired Lawyer on ChatGPT's Advice

Insurer sues OpenAI for $10M, claims chatbot illegally practiced law

(Newser) - OpenAI is facing a novel accusation in federal court: that its chatbot is effectively playing lawyer without a license. Nippon Life Insurance Company of America sued the ChatGPT maker in Chicago, claiming the AI tool encouraged a former disability claimant to undo a settled case, then helped her bombard the...

Suit: OpenAI Knew of School Shooter's Plans

Family alleges chatbot maker ignored employee recommendations to alert police

(Newser) - OpenAI is now facing a lawsuit over its decision to not inform authorities about violent ChatGPT user messages from the perpetrator of last month's school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, BC. The family of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, critically wounded in the shooting that killed 8 , alleges the teenage suspect described...

Op-Ed: Boycotting ChatGPT Could Actually Work
Op-Ed: Boycotting
ChatGPT Could
Actually Work
OPINION
Mar 4, 2026 2:45 PM CST

Op-Ed: Boycotting ChatGPT Could Actually Work

Rutger Bregman explains QuitGPT has the hallmarks of an 'effective consumer boycott'

(Newser) - Dutch historian Rutger Bregman sees OpenAI as a "company that's bankrolling authoritarianism." If you disagree, you can stop reading here. If you're aligned in his view—that, among other things, OpenAI is behind a $125 million lobbying push that is trying to place all AI-related rulemaking...

ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't So Great in a Crisis
ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't
So Great in a Crisis
NEW STUDY
Mar 3, 2026 5:48 AM CST

ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't So Great in a Crisis

Research finds platform misses the mark on IDing emergencies, neglects to flag suicidal ideation

(Newser) - A tool billed as a way to plug your medical records into ChatGPT and receive health advice is drawing sharp warnings from researchers. In the first independent safety review of ChatGPT Health , published in Nature Medicine, the system underestimated the urgency of care in just over half of cases where...

OpenAI Chief Jumps Into Pentagon-Anthropic AI Fray

Sam Altman says his firm is exploring DOD partnership amid agency's clash with Claude maker

(Newser) - Sam Altman is positioning ChatGPT creator OpenAI as a potential middleman in the fight over how the Pentagon can use advanced AI. In a Thursday memo to his staff viewed by the Wall Street Journal , Altman said OpenAI is in talks with the Defense Department about deploying its models in...

BC Premier Suggests OpenAI Could've Prevented Shooting

Ottawa presses ChatGPT maker on safety failures, mulls new regulations

(Newser) - Canada's new artificial intelligence minister says OpenAI had few answers when pressed about its decision to ban the ChatGPT account of a future mass shooter without informing police of her concerning messages. Evan Solomon said he left a Tuesday meeting with senior OpenAI officials "disappointed," after asking...

Altman: Training Humans Takes Resources, Too

OpenAI boss backs clean energy development

(Newser) - "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model," OpenAI boss Sam Altman said, "but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human." The OpenAI chief executive made the comment while in India for an A1 Summit when addressing...

Before Mass Shooting, OpenAI Flagged Teen's Activity

Company decided to ban Jesse Van Rootselaar's account instead of contacting police

(Newser) - OpenAI is facing questions over whether it missed a warning sign months before a deadly school shooting in a small town in British Columbia. In June, employees at the ChatGPT maker debated whether to alert Canadian police about user messages from Jesse Van Rootselaar that described gun violence scenarios over...

What Happens When You Ask a Chatbot to Reveal Itself?

Google warns 'distillation attacks' targeting Gemini could threaten other AI developers

(Newser) - Google's flagship AI is getting peppered with questions, not all of them innocent. In a new report , the company says its Gemini chatbot has been targeted by "commercially motivated" actors trying to reverse-engineer it—by asking itself exactly how it works. The tactic, known as model extraction, involves...

With Reported $380B Valuation, Anthropic Is on Cusp of an IPO

Firm is now being watched, alongside OpenAI and SpaceX, to see if initial public offering materializes

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it's now valued at $380 billion, cementing its position alongside rival OpenAI and Elon Musk's SpaceX in a trio of the world's most valuable startups that investors will watch closely this year to see if they'll become publicly traded. "These...

OpenAI Fires VP Who Wasn't on Board With 'Adult Mode'

Ryan Beiermeister was reportedly told she was fired for sexual discrimination

(Newser) - OpenAI has parted ways with a senior safety leader just as it prepares to let ChatGPT get more explicit. The Wall Street Journal's sources say the company fired Ryan Beiermeister, a vice president who led product policy, in early January, citing what it described as sexual discrimination against a...

Anthropic Takes Its Fight With OpenAI to the Super Bowl

Commercial promises ad-free chats via Claude chatbot, as OpenAI tests ads on ChatGPT

(Newser) - Anthropic is bringing its AI grudge match to America's biggest screen, and it's gunning straight for ChatGPT's business model. The maker of the Claude chatbot is airing a 30-second spot during Super Bowl LX (with a longer pregame cut), anchoring a new campaign built around one message:...

AI Boom Is Real, but OpenAI's Business Could Bust
OpenAI May Be Doomed,
but Not the AI Business
OPINION
Jan 15, 2026 10:02 AM CST

OpenAI May Be Doomed, but Not the AI Business

Company may run out of cash before many users become hooked enough to pay for AI

(Newser) - Wall Street may be fretting about an AI bubble, but one analyst argues the real risk isn't that artificial intelligence fizzles—it's that one of its biggest names runs out of cash first. In a New York Times opinion piece, Sebastian Mallaby contends that AI's commercial potential...

'Stressful' OpenAI Job Comes With $555K Salary

Head of preparedness will deal with 'new risks of severe harm'

(Newser) - OpenAI is dangling a salary of $555,000 plus equity for the person willing to take on what may be the most nerve-wracking job in artificial intelligence. The San Francisco company behind ChatGPT is recruiting a "head of preparedness," tasked with anticipating and limiting harms from rapidly advancing...

Why AI Couldn't Crack an 11th-Century Italian Mystery

Historian's experiment shows chatbots can't match human historical insight

(Newser) - An art historian in Florence decided to see if AI could crack the mystery he'd just spent years solving—and it couldn't. Elon Danziger's finding was this: that Florence's Baptistery of San Giovanni was not a homegrown project but a papal-led initiative under Pope Gregory VII...

ChatGPT Now Accused of Aiding a Murder

Family sues OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging chatbot fueled man's delusions ahead of murder-suicide

(Newser) - Several lawsuits have blamed AI-driven chatbots for users' suicides. Now, one alleges ChatGPT is to blame for a woman's murder . The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former tech executive with a documented history of mental illness, turned to ChatGPT...

Disney Opens Up Its Characters to AI Video

Who knows what Moana, Mufasa will get up to on OpenAI's Sora

(Newser) - Disney is taking its most public leap yet into generative AI, cutting a deal with OpenAI to open up its beloved characters to user-generated AI videos. Under the three-year agreement , Disney will allow OpenAI's Sora tool to generate short-form videos featuring Disney-owned characters, with clips to be available for...

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