ChatGPT’s medical advice nearly killed a Florida man, lawsuit against OpenAI claims

A Florida man sued OpenAI on Wednesday, alleging ChatGPT’s medical advice discouraged him from seeking treatment for symptoms that preceded a life-threatening pulmonary embolism, nearly costing him his life. Scott Winters, a former pastor, filed suit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman in San Francisco County Superior Court on Wednesday, claiming the chatbot made inaccurate … Read more

OpenAI says its technology, on its own, carried out

ChatGPT maker OpenAI said Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI startup Hugging Face said … Read more

Apple sues OpenAI, accusing ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets

Apple on Friday sued ChatGPT maker OpenAI and two of the firm’s executives, alleging that it stole Apple’s trade secrets to gain an edge in the AI arms race.  The civil suit, filed in the Northern District of California, Apple accuses OpenAI Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and Chang Liu, a technical staffer at the … Read more

She confided in ChatGPT the night of her suicide. Now, her mother is suing OpenAI.

About 18 months before Alice Carrier’s death in July 2025, the 24-year-old had been confiding in ChatGPT about her relationship problems and suicidal feelings. “I mean I’m at home pondering different way to kill myself,” she told ChatGPT late one night, about a month before she took her own life. In a lawsuit filed Thursday in California … Read more

OpenAI announces plan to go public, SpaceX set to launch IPO this week

Last week, Anthropic, valued at almost a trillion dollars, filed to go public. Yesterday, its chief rival OpenAI confidentially filed for an initial public offering. Later this week, SpaceX is set to go public in what could be the largest IPO ever. Jon Krohn, the co-founder and CEO of Y Carrot, joins CBS News to … Read more