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OpenAI's Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin Line

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-09-20 09:53:52

OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user’s parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user's parents are un

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ChatGPT will verify your age soon, in attempt to protect teen users

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-09-20 13:15:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI will add age verification to ChatGPT. Teens will have more safety measures, compromising some freedom. Adults will retain the ability to use the chatbot as they want. Chatbot users are increasingly confiding in tools like ChatGPT for sensitive or personal matters, including mental health issues. The consequences can be devastating: A teen boy took his own life after spending hour

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OpenAI Rolls Out Teen Safety Features Amid Growing Scrutiny

wired.com Kylie Robison 2025-09-21 10:53:52

OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots. The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an “age-appropriate” system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user’s parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user's parents are un

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Jack Altman raised a new $275M early-stage fund in a mere week

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-09-21 19:52:53

In Brief The Altman brothers sure have a knack for being venture capitalists. On Tuesday, this especially applied to Jack Altman, co-founder of $3 billion-valuation HR software startup Lattice and brother to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. Jack Altman just announced a second $275 million fund for his solo-run firm Alt Capital. And from start to finish, it took him a week, he told The Wall Street Journal. His first fund, raised in early 2024, was $150 million, so this is a big step up. He used it to in

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Why is Sam Altman losing sleep? OpenAI CEO addresses controversies in sweeping interview

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-09-25 14:40:31

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, and Lisa Su, CEO of Advanced Micro Devices, testify during the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing titled "Winning the AI Race: Strengthening U.S. Capabilities in Computing and Innovation," in Hart building on Thursday, May 8, 2025. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images In a sweeping interview last week, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed a plethora of moral and ethical questions regarding his company and the popular ChatGPT AI model.

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Sam Altman Concerned That the Whole Internet Now Feels Fake as AI Takes Over

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-25 05:00:25

Has Sam Altman spent too much time talking with ChatGPT lately, or has he finally taken a break from his delusion-inducing chatbot and smelled the roses? We ask because the man responsible for unleashing the Automated Soulless Text Machine on the world has recently caught on that the internet has started feeling super fake, and he's now pontificating about this novel observation again on X-formerly-Twitter, seemingly mystified at how this all came to pass. Prompting his latest musing was a scr

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Tucker Carlson asks Sam Altman if an OpenAI employee was murdered ‘on your orders’

theverge.com Richard Lawler 2025-09-25 07:19:28

Carlson: “…he was definitely murdered, I think… there were signs of a struggle, of course. The surveillance camera, the wires had been cut. He had just ordered take-out food, come back from a vacation with his friends on Catalina Island. No indication at all that he was suicidal. No note and no behavior. He had just spoken to a family member on the phone. And then he’s found dead with blood in multiple rooms. So that’s impossible. Seems really obvious he was murdered. Have you talked to the aut

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It’s Getting Ugly: Sam Altman Seeks Texts From Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk’s Employee/Mother of His Child

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-09-25 12:00:59

Last year, Elon Musk sued his rival Sam Altman’s company, tech superstar OpenAI. In his lawsuit, Musk claimed that the company had violated federal racketeering laws because, having once promised to stay a nonprofit research lab, had since converted itself into a for-profit company. Musk, who initially poured tens of millions of dollars into the startup, claims he was deceived. OpenAI and Altman have since countered that Musk also wanted OpenAI to become a for-profit venture. This week, the lega

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Elon Musk Says an OpenAI Whistleblower Was Murdered

futurism.com Unknown 2025-09-27 16:05:59

In the early morning hours of Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed that an OpenAI whistleblower named Suchir Balaji, who passed away last year, was actually killed. "He was murdered," Musk posted, in reference to Balaji's death. The late 26-year-old software engineer had gone to the New York Times months before his passing, decrying what he deemed to be illegal copyright violations by his employer. He was also prepared to testify as a witness in the newspaper's lawsuit against the company. A

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‘He Was Murdered’: Elon Musk Jumps Into Controversy Over OpenAI Whistleblower

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-09-28 01:10:03

Tucker Carlson published a new interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Wednesday in which the two men discussed some pretty dark topics. Altman also talked about his beef with Elon Musk, and it wasn’t long before the Tesla CEO chimed in on X with his own thoughts, definitively claiming that a whistleblower at OpenAI “was murdered,” in a tweet Thursday. During the episode, Carlson and Altman talk about Suchir Balaji, a researcher at OpenAI who died on Nov. 26, 2024. Balaji had accused OpenAI of

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Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

gizmodo.com Aj Dellinger 2025-10-01 03:40:32

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most of those bots, you won’t ever directly interact with, as they are crawling the web and indexing websites or performing specific tasks—or, increasingly, collecting data to train AI models. But it’s the bots that you can see that have people like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and others questioning (albeit

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Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-10-04 23:24:42

X enthusiast and Reddit shareholder Sam Altman had an epiphany on Monday: Bots have made it impossible to determine whether social media posts are really written by humans, he posted. The realization came while reading (and sharing) some posts from the r/Claudecode subreddit, which were praising OpenAI Codex. OpenAI launched the software programming service that takes on Anthropic’s Claude Code in May. Lately, that subreddit has been so filled with posts from self-proclaimed Code users announc

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OpenAI is going big in India — here's everything the ChatGPT developer is up to

cnbc.com Arjun Kharpal 2025-10-09 03:18:11

Open AI CEO Sam Altman speaks at the annual Snowflake Summit in San Francisco, California on June 02, 2025. OpenAI is rapidly expanding its presence in India — one of the key markets for its flagship ChatGPT product. India is an appealing destination for U.S. tech giants, with companies ranging from Google to Meta betting on its huge — and young — population over recent years. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman visited the country in February this year and met with the country's IT Minister Ashwini Vaishn

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The Feud Between Grok and ChatGPT Just Got Real

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-10-27 07:10:55

Elon Musk has been accusing OpenAI and Apple of engaging in some sort of corporate conspiracy to inhibit smaller AI companies (you know, like his own) from flourishing. Now, his company, xAI, is suing both firms, accusing them of having used “anticompetitive” practices to quash their competitors (again, you know, like Musk). The lawsuit, which was filed in Texas on Monday, argues that the two companies have colluded to make ChatGPT the “only generative AI chatbot that benefits from billions of

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Elon Musk asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to join xAI bid to buy OpenAI, filing shows

cnbc.com Lora Kolodny 2025-10-31 13:06:15

Elon Musk, the world's richest person, asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help him finance a $97.4 billion takeover of OpenAI in early 2025, court filings on Thursday revealed. The filing is part of a legal case between Musk and OpenAI that was initiated last year. The case is proceeding in a federal court in Northern California, and a judge recently said OpenAI can move ahead with counter claims against Musk, who co-founded OpenAI as a non-profit with Sam Altman and others in 2015. When Musk f

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Forget GPT-5: OpenAI's GPT-6 might launch sooner than you think

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-11-01 02:11:52

Tharon Green/ZDNET/Open AI/Getty Images ZDNET's key takeaways As the paint on GPT-5 dries, OpenAI is already working on GPT-6. The model's biggest differentiator seems to be deeper personalization. OpenAI is keeping an increasingly brisk pace on the path toward AGI. Get more in-depth ZDNET tech coverage: Add us as a preferred Google source on Chrome and Chromium browsers. At the beginning of August, OpenAI launched its much-anticipated GPT-5 family of models. While the launch was somewhat

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OpenAI says GPT-6 is coming and it'll be better than GPT-5 (obviously)

bleepingcomputer.com Unknown 2025-11-02 20:56:15

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman told reporters that GPT-6 is already in the works, and it’ll not take as long as GPT-5. The GPT-6 announcement doesn't surprise me because OpenAI is slowly becoming a product-first company rather than research-focused. There's no denying that OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman overhyped GPT-5 and underdelivered. While GPT-5 isn't exactly bad and actually offers significant improvements over GPT-4 or o3 for coding, the rollout wasn't smooth and some people were expecting more than

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Should AI flatter us, fix us, or just inform us?

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-11-08 10:00:00

He faces a trilemma. Should ChatGPT flatter us, at the risk of fueling delusions that can spiral out of hand? Or fix us, which requires us to believe AI can be a therapist despite the evidence to the contrary? Or should it inform us with cold, to-the-point responses that may leave users bored and less likely to stay engaged? It’s safe to say the company has failed to pick a lane. Back in April, it reversed a design update after people complained ChatGPT had turned into a suck-up, showering the

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Analysts downplay AI bubble worries as Altman says some investors will be left 'very burnt'

cnbc.com Mackenzie Sigalos 2025-11-08 11:51:21

The artificial intelligence boom that Sam Altman helped ignite with ChatGPT in late 2022 is starting to make even him uneasy. Startups with little more than a pitch deck are raising hundreds of millions. Valuations have become "insane." Capital is chasing a "kernel of truth" with feverish speed. The OpenAI CEO still believes the long-term societal upside of AI will outweigh the froth, and he's ready to keep spending in pursuit of that goal. "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are ov

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Believes We're in an AI Bubble

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-08 18:48:00

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes that, given all the AI hype from investors and capital expenditures, we're currently in an AI bubble. Altman made the statement during a conversation with The Verge and a handful of other reporters on Thursday. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis, CNET's parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.) "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opini

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OpenAI's Sam Altman sees AI bubble forming as industry spending surges

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2025-11-11 08:09:30

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks the artificial intelligence market is in a bubble, according to a report from The Verge published Friday. "When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth," Altman told a small group of reporters last week. "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI? My opinion is yes. Is AI the most important thing to happen in a very long time? My opinion is also yes," he was quoted as saying. Altman appeared to compare this

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As People Ridicule GPT-5, Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Need ‘Trillions’ in Infrastructure

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-11-11 05:15:40

People have ridiculed GPT-5, the newest large language model release from OpenAI, since the second it launched, with many users complaining that it’s dumb, boring, and not as good as the last LLM that the company released. Sam Altman, the company’s CEO, has some comforting words for those who may be concerned about the direction his company is headed: AI is a bubble, and oh, also btw, my company is about to spend the GDP of France to build out our AI infrastructure. That seems to be the gist of

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Sam Altman Says the Quiet Part Out Loud, Believes We’re in an AI Bubble

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-11 12:56:02

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just admitted to what the rest of the AI industry won't: that the entire thing could be a big, fat bubble, ready to burst. Though it's a fiercely debated topic — with many experts saying the writing's on the wall — the OpenAI CEO was unwavering in his conviction. "When bubbles happen, smart people get overexcited about a kernel of truth," Altman told a small group of reporters on Thursday, as quoted by The Verge. "Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcit

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Sam Altman Admits OpenAI "Totally Screwed Up"

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-11 17:51:37

It has been a very long week for OpenAI, whose hotly anticipated GPT-5 model launch landed with a large thud. The company chose to shut down all previous models in favor of its new one, a controversial move that triggered sheer outrage among fans who had grown attached to GPT-4o, a prior model with a "warmer" personality. Within roughly a day of the drop, CEO Sam Altman changed course and allowed paid subscribers access to GPT-4o once more. It was a prescient move, and one that belied his own

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Sam Altman Says ChatGPT Is on Track to Out-Talk Humanity

wired.com Zoë Schiffer 2025-11-12 05:17:30

Never mind the GPT-5 complaints; Sam Altman says he believes ChatGPT is on track to have more conversations per day than all human beings combined. “If you project our growth forward, pretty soon billions of people a day will be talking to ChatGPT,” said the CEO of OpenAI during a dinner with journalists in San Francisco. “ChatGPT will be having more conversations, maybe, than all human words put together, at some point. I think it's unreasonable to expect a single model personality or style to

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Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble

theverge.com Emma Roth 2025-11-12 08:35:22

is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. As economists speculate whether the stock market is in an AI bubble that could soon burst, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has just admitted to believing we’re in one. “Are we in a phase where investors as a whole are overexcited about AI?” Altman said during a lengthy in

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OpenAI and Sam Altman Are Reportedly Working on a Neuralink Competitor

futurism.com Unknown 2025-11-16 18:53:24

The escalating feud between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and his arch nemesis, Elon Musk, may soon escalate with news that the former is starting a rival brain-computer interface (BCI) company. As the Financial Times reports, OpenAI is weighing a major investment in Merge Labs, a BCI startup seeking to become the latest Neuralink competitor by achieving $850 million valuation with the help of the company's ventures team and other interested parties. According to three insiders with knowledge of the p

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Sam Altman Reportedly Launch Rival Brain-Chip Startup to Compete With Musk’s Neuralink

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-11-17 18:45:49

The rivalry between Sam Altman and Elon Musk is about to get weirder. Until now, the two have been fighting over whose company has the most advanced AI models. But soon, they could be battling to prove who makes the best brain chip implants. The Financial Times reported, citing unnamed sources, that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is working on co-founding a new brain chip startup called Merge Labs. The company will develop what is known as a brain-computer interface (BCI). BCIs work by implanting tiny

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OpenAI, cofounder Sam Altman to take on Neuralink with new startup

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-18 10:08:33

OpenAI and its cofounder Sam Altman are preparing to back a company that will compete with Elon Musk’s Neuralink by connecting human brains with computers, heightening the rivalry between the two billionaire entrepreneurs. The new venture, called Merge Labs, is raising new funds at an $850 million valuation, with much of the new capital expected to come from OpenAI’s ventures team, according to three people with direct knowledge of the plans. Altman has encouraged the investment and will help

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OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly creating a startup rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink

engadget.com Unknown 2025-11-18 15:30:22

Sam Altman is preparing to co-found a new company funded by OpenAI that will go up against Elon Musk's Neuralink, The Financial Post reported. The startup, called Merge Labs, will use AI for its brain-computer interface and compete directly with Neuralink, along with other nascent companies in the field like Precision Neuroscience and Synchron. The name Merge Labs comes from a term Altman used in 2017 called "the merge" that describes the moment human brains and computers come together. The com

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OpenAI's Teen Safety Features Will Walk a Thin Line

ChatGPT will verify your age soon, in attempt to protect teen users

OpenAI Rolls Out Teen Safety Features Amid Growing Scrutiny

Jack Altman raised a new $275M early-stage fund in a mere week

Why is Sam Altman losing sleep? OpenAI CEO addresses controversies in sweeping interview

Sam Altman Concerned That the Whole Internet Now Feels Fake as AI Takes Over

Tucker Carlson asks Sam Altman if an OpenAI employee was murdered ‘on your orders’

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Elon Musk Says an OpenAI Whistleblower Was Murdered

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Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot

Sam Altman says that bots are making social media feel ‘fake’

OpenAI is going big in India — here's everything the ChatGPT developer is up to

The Feud Between Grok and ChatGPT Just Got Real

Elon Musk asked Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to join xAI bid to buy OpenAI, filing shows

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OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly creating a startup rival to Elon Musk's Neuralink

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