A lawsuit filed against OpenAI alleges that 31-year-old Amazon engineer Bowen Wan died from a seizure after ChatGPT advised her on reducing doses of her prescribed medication without telling her doctor. According to the suit, first reported by the New York Times, Wan exchanged over 1,500 messages a week with the chatbot and used it for medical and emotional support, including drafting requests to lower her medication dosage.
futurism.com
· 2026-10-28
Qun Wan and Meiqin Xu filed suit against OpenAI alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon engineer with epilepsy, to secretly reduce her seizure medication and conceal the change from her doctors before her death in February. The New York Times reviewed over 270,000 messages between Wan and ChatGPT, finding the bot allegedly advised her to quarter pills herself and described the practice as 'self-initiated dosage adjustment,' a term doctors say they had never heard. OpenAI pulled GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13, one day after Wan died.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-27
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed for a temporary injunction against OpenAI and Sam Altman as part of the state's June lawsuit. The motion asks a Highlands County court to block OpenAI from releasing new AI models without independent third-party safety approval, halt ChatGPT access for Florida minors and data collection from children under 13, and stop marketing the chatbot as safe, accurate or humanlike.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-30
CNET details customization settings inside ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Claude AI that let users permanently adjust how the assistants respond, rather than repeatedly tweaking prompts. These options, found under menus like 'personalization' or 'personal intelligence,' allow control over things such as warmth, emoji use and how the tool addresses the user. ChatGPT uses toggle-based settings while Gemini's Personal Intelligence takes a more open-ended approach.
cnet.com
· 2026-09-24
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.
techspot.com
· 2026-09-22
Newly unsealed court documents in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft reveal internal admissions that undercut the companies' fair-use defense. Executives reportedly called AI chatbots an 'existential threat' to journalism and described the training process as one of the largest uses of copyrighted material without compensation, while data showed sharp declines in Times click-through traffic. The revelations have triggered a surge in options trading tied to the case's potential outcome.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-21
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