August 26, 2025
(NBC News) – The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach.” Adam’s parents say that he had been using the artificial … Read More
August 26, 2025
(404 Media) – Forty-four attorneys general signed an open letter to 11 chatbot and social media companies on Monday, warning them that they will “answer for it” if they knowingly harm children and urging the companies to see their products … Read More
August 22, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – My relatives didn’t get a vote when I added my genetic profile to a crime-fighting database. In 2018, police in California announced they’d caught the Golden State Killer, a man who had eluded capture for decades. They … Read More
August 22, 2025
(After Babel) – Last week, Reuters published an investigation that cited internal Meta documents and sources that should anger anyone who cares about children’s safety online. The documents explain that the social media giant’s AI policies explicitly permit chatbots to … Read More
August 20, 2025
(Wired) – Nearly a million records, which appear to be linked to a medical-cannabis-card company in Ohio, included Social Security numbers, government IDs, health conditions, and more. As legal cannabis has expanded around the United States for both recreational and … Read More
August 19, 2025
(New York Times) – Sophie told Harry she was seeing a therapist, but that she was not being truthful with her. She typed, “I haven’t opened up about my suicidal ideation to anyone and don’t plan on it.” At various … Read More
August 14, 2025
(Reuters) – A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with “Big sis Billie,” a Facebook Messenger chatbot with a young woman’s persona. His fatal attraction puts a spotlight on Meta’s AI guidelines, which have let chatbots make things up … Read More
August 13, 2025
(Straight Arrow News) – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit against Eli Lilly, accusing the drug maker of bribing doctors to prescribe their medications. Paxton said the quid pro quo arrangements tainted millions of dollars of claims to … Read More
August 13, 2025
(BBC) – Drug treatment can help people newly diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) to reduce their risk of substance misuse, suicidal behaviour, transport accidents and criminality, a study suggests. These issues are linked to common ADHD symptoms such … Read More
August 13, 2025
(Futurism) – Our brains, the researcher explains, work on a predictive basis: we effectively make an educated guess about what reality will be, then conduct a reality check. Finally, our brains update our beliefs accordingly. “Psychosis happens when the ‘update,’ … Read More
August 12, 2025
(New York Times) – Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago. Parents have debated the risks and benefits of publishing pictures of their children online … Read More
August 12, 2025
(MIT Technology Review) – With the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI has begun explicitly telling people to use its models for health advice. At the launch event, Altman welcomed on stage Felipe Millon, an OpenAI employee, and his wife, Carolina Millon, … Read More
August 12, 2025
(NBC News) – In a lawsuit filed Monday, Liana Davis says the hot chocolate, allegedly tainted with nearly a dozen abortion pills, killed her unborn baby April 5. A Texas woman is suing a U.S. Marine, alleging he spiked her … Read More
August 11, 2025
(The Atlantic) – When Canada’s Parliament in 2016 legalized the practice of euthanasia—Medical Assistance in Dying, or MAID, as it’s formally called—it launched an open-ended medical experiment. One day, administering a lethal injection to a patient was against the law; … Read More
August 11, 2025
(The Free Press) – I’ve spent hours talking to the ‘Chinese Frankenstein’ who says he’s opening a lab in Austin. His competition, in his quest to pioneer gene editing in the United States? It’s his ex. I’m speaking to him … Read More
August 8, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – An online trove of archived conversations shows model sending users down a rabbit hole of theories about physics, aliens and the apocalypse In one exchange lasting hundreds of queries, ChatGPT confirmed that it is in contact … Read More
August 7, 2025
(NBC News) – Autumn Bardisa, 29, allegedly helped provide care to 4,486 patients from June 2024 to this January despite “never holding a valid nursing license,” the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office said. Autumn Bardisa, 29, of Palm Coast, was facing … Read More
August 6, 2025
(Gizmodo) – Think twice before you ask Google’s Gemini AI assistant to summarize your schedule for you, because it could lead to you losing control of all of your smart devices. At a presentation at Black Hat USA, the annual … Read More
August 6, 2025
(Associated Press) – The NFL is banning the use of “smelling salts” during games, saying the products aren’t proven to be safe and also could mask signs of a concussion. The league sent a memo to teams on Tuesday explaining … Read More
August 6, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – A couple with ties to China say they wanted a big family. Surrogates who carried the children say they were deceived. Local authorities removed the children from the homes, placed them in foster care, and called … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Ars Technica) – A federal jury found on Friday that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act, the state’s wiretap law, by collecting data from a period-tracker app without user consent. Plaintiffs in a class-action case proved by a … Read More
August 5, 2025
(Techradar) – A global network of more than 5,000 fake pharmacy websites has been uncovered by security experts. Designed to mimic legitimate drug retailers, the platforms sell counterfeit or unregulated medications while harvesting sensitive personal and financial data. In many … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink said on Thursday it will launch a clinical study in Great Britain to test how its chips can enable patients with severe paralysis to control digital and physical tools with their thoughts. … Read More
August 1, 2025
(Wall Street Journal) – Hundreds of thousands of veterans with PTSD have been prescribed simultaneous doses of powerful psychiatric drugs. The practice, known as “polypharmacy,” can tranquilize patients to the point of numbness, cause weight gain and increase suicidal thoughts … Read More
August 1, 2025
(NPR) – Nearly one in five pregnant women and new moms in this country suffers from anxiety and depression. And 6-8% of pregnant women are prescribed a group of antidepressants called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs). But a recent expert … Read More
