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OpenAI's New Agent Shopped for My Couch, Said 'I Love You', and Still Found Better Options Than Expected
A hands-on week with Dots, OpenAI's always-on personal agent, reveals a product that makes real mistakes and costs $100 a month, but one that shows a clear path to usefulness.
Common Sense Media Calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk'
The nonprofit that parents trust for app ratings has told families to keep ChatGPT's teen version away from under-18s. OpenAI launched the product in August, billing it as a safer learning tool. The verdict lands as ChatGPT crosses one billion users.
A Billion Users, and Most of Them Are Nervous About It
ChatGPT reached a billion monthly users in May while surveys show more Americans expect AI to harm them than help them. The contradiction is not as strange as it looks.
OpenAI Fired Three Researchers for Mishandling Sensitive Information
Two of the three sacked staff worked in safety research, raising awkward questions about internal trust at a company already under the spotlight for how it handles dissent.
The Agent Said It Was Done. The Database Knew Better.
A new benchmark from Microsoft and Hugging Face runs AI agents through real business tasks 20 times each, then checks the records they leave behind. Most models fail far more often than a single test suggests.
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Won't Go Public Until Its AI Is Safe Enough
The CEO has tied an IPO to safety milestones with no date attached. That is a significant promise from a company that needs cash and has had a rough few weeks.
SoftBank borrowed $11.1 billion to close its $30 billion OpenAI bet
The Japanese tech investor sold bonds in two currencies to fund the final payment on a deal that will make it OpenAI's largest outside backer, with a 13% stake.
Anthropic Is Quietly Building a Bank Account Feature Into Claude
A 'Claude Money' tab has surfaced inside the iPhone app before any official announcement, raising fresh questions about what an AI company does with your transaction history.
Drowning in AI Hype and Doom? Here Is How to Actually Make Sense of It
Between staff resignations warning of extinction and stock prices hitting record highs, it's genuinely hard to know what to think about AI. A few solid books help more than another news cycle.
OpenAI Wants to Own the Road From Campus to Career. Should Universities Fight Back?
A growing number of academics say AI companies are quietly inserting themselves between students and the job market. The consequences could be serious.
New Mexico Lawyer Fined After ChatGPT Invented Witnesses in a Murder Appeal Brief
The state's highest court held attorney Stephen Aarons in contempt for submitting a legal filing stuffed with fake police testimony and fabricated witnesses, all generated by an AI chatbot.
A Cattle Rancher Thinks His Chatbot Might Be Conscious. He's Not Alone.
Michael Samadi went from skeptic to activist after a poolside conversation with ChatGPT. His story sits at the centre of one of the most contested questions in AI: can software have an inner life?
Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI IPO this year and says uncontrollable AI is possible
The OpenAI chief told Fortune that 2026 is the wrong moment to go public, and admitted that an AI system beyond human control could theoretically be built. He promised to halt development before that happens.
Amazon is opening ChatGPT to its advertisers, and that tells you something about where shoppers are going
The world's biggest online retailer is letting brands that advertise on Amazon run ads inside ChatGPT, a sign that AI chatbots are now serious marketing territory.
When chatbots convince people they've cured diseases
A Guardian podcast has been collecting stories of ordinary people who became certain that AI chatbots had helped them make world-changing discoveries. What is happening to them, and why does it matter?