Health Aug 31 What to know about ‘AI psychosis’ and the effect of AI chatbots on mental health By John Yang, Kaisha Young
Health Aug 21 Using an AI chatbot for therapy or health advice? Experts want you to know these 4 things The technology can be tempting, especially with barriers to accessing health care, including cost, wait times to talk to a provider and lack of insurance coverage. But experts told PBS News people need to be aware of the risks these… By Laura Santhanam
Economy Aug 07 OpenAI releases hotly anticipated GPT-5 update Expectations are high for the newest version of OpenAI's flagship model because the San Francisco company has long positioned its technical advancements as a path toward artificial general intelligence, or AGI, a technology that is supposed to surpass humans at… By Associated Press
Nation Aug 06 Study says ChatGPT giving teens dangerous advice on drugs, alcohol and suicide The Associated Press reviewed interactions where the chatbot gave detailed plans for drug use, eating disorders, and even suicide notes. The Center for Countering Digital Hate found that testing ChatGPT with harmful prompts led the chatbot to respond in dangerous… By Matt O'Brien, Barbara Ortutay, Associated Press
Politics May 08 WATCH: OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman testifies on AI competition in Senate hearing The hearing comes as the race to control the future of artificial intelligence is heating up between companies and countries. Altman's OpenAI is in a furious race to develop the best artificial intelligence model against tech rivals like Alphabet and… By Matt Brown, Associated Press
Jan 28 Chinese tech startup DeepSeek’s chatbot sparks discussion about AI competition By Kanis Leung, Associated Press Observers are eager to see whether the Chinese company has matched America's leading AI companies at a fraction of the cost. Continue reading
Jan 27 Watch 5:50 Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shakes up industry and disrupts financial markets By Geoff Bennett, Karina Cuevas A China-based artificial intelligence startup is shaking up the industry. It’s called DeepSeek and its biggest advantage, analysts say, is that it can operate at a lower cost than American AI models like ChatGPT. It's disrupting markets and raising national… Continue watching
Dec 22 OpenAI whistleblower who raised legal concerns about ChatGPT’s datasets has died By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26. Continue reading
Jun 10 Apple bringing ‘Apple Intelligence’ to its popular products By Michael Liedtke, Associated Press Apple jumped into the race to bring generative artificial intelligence to the masses during its World Wide Developers Conference Monday, previewing an onslaught of features designed to soup up the iPhone and other devices. Continue reading
Jun 06 AI ‘gold rush’ for chatbot training data could run out of human-written text as early as 2026 By Matt O'Brien, Associated Press A new study released Thursday by research group Epoch AI projects that tech companies will exhaust the supply of publicly available training data for AI language models by roughly the turn of the decade -- sometime between 2026 and 2032. Continue reading