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404 Media reports that contractors hired to review and critique real ChatGPT conversations to improve OpenAI's models have been terminated for secretly using AI tools to generate their feedback instead of doing it themselves. Multiple contractors told the outlet this is a widespread and frequently punished practice among the thousands of workers doing this human-review work.
Moxie Marlinspike, the developer behind the encrypted messaging app Signal, has released a new AI chatbot called Confer that uses cryptographic techniques to keep user conversations private. The launch responds to growing concern that mainstream AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini collect and store deeply personal user data with few restrictions on how it can be shared, sold, or subpoenaed.
British Columbia's government has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California, alleging the company was negligent and designed an unsafe product by failing to alert the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about a shooter's concerning conversations with its chatbot. The suit claims OpenAI's own human reviewers had recommended notifying police in 2025, but the company did not act until after the shooting occurred, despite later banning the shooter's account and discovering a second one.
British Columbia has filed suit against OpenAI and Sam Altman in San Francisco federal court, alleging the company's negligent design and failure to alert police to a user's violent ChatGPT conversations contributed to a mass shooting at a Tumbler Ridge school that killed nine people, mostly children. The suit claims OpenAI's own safety reviewers had recommended notifying the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about the shooter's chats, but the company decided the messages didn't meet its threshold for legal referral.
Meta's new personal AI agent app, Muse, has become the top free iOS app in the U.S. with over 2.5 million downloads in under two weeks, surpassing ChatGPT and other rivals. Amazon began blocking Muse from browsing its site over the weekend, saying Meta never disclosed that the agent would access Amazon's platform or that it captures and stores customer login credentials.
The Canadian province of British Columbia has sued OpenAI, alleging that its ChatGPT chatbot assisted an individual in planning a mass shooting at a school. The lawsuit claims OpenAI failed to alert law enforcement despite warning signs and points to broader gaps in the product's safety safeguards.
Apptopia data shows Meta's new AI app Muse recorded 1.8 million iOS downloads in the U.S. and Canada during its first 12 days, versus 1.3 million for ChatGPT in the same window after its 2022 debut. Muse also topped ChatGPT in daily active users at a comparable stage, with 642,000 U.S. daily users versus ChatGPT's 231,000, and has climbed to the No. 1 spot on the U.S. App Store.
Meta's newly launched Muse personal AI agent app has climbed past ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Meta's own AI app to lead the free app category on Apple's US iOS store. Sensor Tower data shows Muse pulled in roughly 730,000 downloads in its first five days after launching September 8, outperforming rival assistants in the same post-launch period. The app lets users direct AI agents to handle tasks like filling out forms and managing email, built on Meta's Muse Spark model family.
A tech commentator argues that while AI tools like Claude, Codex/ChatGPT and Gemini are useful for coding and research, they should not be used to generate written documents from scratch. The reasoning is that writing itself is the process of thinking through a problem, and outsourcing that to AI means skipping the deep thinking required to produce genuinely useful, well-considered content. The author does allow for AI to be used afterward, to polish writing once the original thinking and drafting is complete.
Apple's CarPlay now lets drivers use voice-based AI assistants including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Meta AI, Grok, and Anthropic's Claude, with Siri AI added for iOS 27 users on iPhone 15 Pro or newer. Drivers can launch a new voice chat or resume prior conversations directly from the CarPlay Home Screen, and can rearrange app icons via iPhone Settings for easier access.
ChatGPT's mobile app now includes a dedicated feature under its Images tab that lets users generate custom stickers by picking a style, reference photos, and emoji prompts. The tool produces a set of nine stickers that can be exported directly into iMessage or WhatsApp, with options to edit or regenerate results if they don't match expectations.
OpenAI runs an advertising collector at bzr.openai.com that sets a persistent, account-linked cookie called __obi on the openai.com domain. When companies that advertise on ChatGPT embed OpenAI's tracking code on their own websites, that cookie is transmitted back to OpenAI along with details of the page being viewed, including products searched, articles read and purchases made. A security researcher says they reproduced the mechanism on their own device and found it active across 936 advertiser pixels spanning 1,029 hostnames.