Students, teachers, and the school's principal have filed 30 lawsuits in a California federal court alleging OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman gave 'substantial assistance' to Jesse Van Rootselaar, the suspect in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting. The suits claim OpenAI's safety team flagged the suspect's violent conversations with ChatGPT and recommended alerting Canadian authorities, but executives chose silence to protect the company's reputation and finances, then merely deactivated the account rather than banning the user outright.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-02
A user inspecting disk usage discovered that OpenAI's Codex desktop app, now rebranded as part of ChatGPT, stores a 1.7GB cache folder containing full Python and Node.js runtimes alongside native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice office suite. Accompanying 'skills' files instruct Codex on how to locate and invoke these bundled tools when handling document-related tasks.
simonwillison.net
· 2026-09-01
OpenAI's ChatGPT experienced a service disruption that left many users temporarily unable to access the chatbot for everyday tasks like writing emails, essays, and completing work assignments. The outage prompted widespread reactions online, with some users humorously reflecting on how dependent they've become on AI tools for routine work.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-01
OpenAI announced that ChatGPT Health now integrates with Epic's electronic health record system, covering data on over 325 million patients, letting clinicians pull in records to summarize notes, lab results, medications and specialist documentation. Access is read-only, and the company also introduced a Healthcare Public Data plugin drawing from sources like ClinicalTrials.gov, RxNorm and PubMed to help with tasks such as trial eligibility checks and coverage policy lookups.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-01
Sonos unveiled its Sonos 27 software platform alongside new hardware, introducing annual OS version numbers and a redesigned app interface. The update lets external AI assistants like ChatGPT control Sonos systems through a public MCP server, enabling voice or text commands to play music, move audio between rooms, and adjust volume without a dedicated app.
engadget.com
· 2026-09-01
Apple has asked a court for expedited discovery in its lawsuit against OpenAI, claiming the company delayed handing over a former employee's MacBook and that messages show discussion of restoring devices to erase forensic traces. Apple says an inspection of the laptop, turned over in August, revealed a former Apple engineer named Chang Liu had downloaded a confidential circuit schematic and used it while working at OpenAI.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-01
OpenAI has responded to a lawsuit from Apple alleging theft of trade secrets, arguing that most of the claims actually stem from Apple's own weak employee offboarding practices rather than any wrongdoing by OpenAI. The ChatGPT maker is pushing back against the legal action, framing it as a dispute rooted in Apple's internal security failures.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-01
A scientist who has logged 10,000 papers in a reference manager over 13 years describes moving from trying to read every paper closely to a selective, task-driven approach to the literature. The piece also warns that AI tools like ChatGPT, despite improved search and summarization, still risk producing uncritical or fabricated citations if used without careful reading.
nature.com
· 2026-09-01
9to5Mac's report details four months of using OpenAI's Codex agent on the Mac, highlighting its April addition of a Computer Use plugin that lets the AI see, click, and type within apps using its own cursor. The feature traces back to Sky, an AI assistant previewed by former Apple Shortcuts creator Ari Weinstein's startup, which OpenAI acquired before folding its tech into Codex.
9to5mac.com
· 2026-08-31
The Department of Defense has expanded its GenAI.mil platform to include secure, customized versions of OpenAI's ChatGPT and xAI's Grok, giving its roughly 3 million civilian and military personnel access to generative AI tools built for military use. The portal, which launched last year with Google's Gemini, already has more than 1.7 million users and shields data from the collection practices typical of consumer AI products.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-08-31
OpenAI reported elevated errors and latency on ChatGPT Work, its enterprise AI agent, for about three hours on Monday, while Microsoft separately confirmed degraded functionality across Exchange Online. Downdetector logged over 1,100 reports for OpenAI products and nearly 4,600 for Microsoft Outlook around 2:24 p.m. ET, though the companies gave no indication the two incidents were related.
cnbc.com
· 2026-08-31
European regulators have designated ChatGPT as a search engine under EU digital regulations, placing it under stricter oversight requirements. Reddit and Roblox have also received similar classifications, bringing them under the same heightened regulatory scrutiny.
gizmodo.com
· 2026-08-31
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