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Op-Ed: Boycotting ChatGPT Could Actually Work
Op-Ed: Boycotting
ChatGPT Could
Actually Work
OPINION
Mar 4, 2026 2:45 PM CST

Op-Ed: Boycotting ChatGPT Could Actually Work

Rutger Bregman explains QuitGPT has the hallmarks of an 'effective consumer boycott'

(Newser) - Dutch historian Rutger Bregman sees OpenAI as a "company that's bankrolling authoritarianism." If you disagree, you can stop reading here. If you're aligned in his view—that, among other things, OpenAI is behind a $125 million lobbying push that is trying to place all AI-related rulemaking...

ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't So Great in a Crisis
ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't
So Great in a Crisis
NEW STUDY
Mar 3, 2026 5:48 AM CST

ChatGPT Health Tool Isn't So Great in a Crisis

Research finds platform misses the mark on IDing emergencies, neglects to flag suicidal ideation

(Newser) - A tool billed as a way to plug your medical records into ChatGPT and receive health advice is drawing sharp warnings from researchers. In the first independent safety review of ChatGPT Health , published in Nature Medicine, the system underestimated the urgency of care in just over half of cases where...

OpenAI Chief Jumps Into Pentagon-Anthropic AI Fray

Sam Altman says his firm is exploring DOD partnership amid agency's clash with Claude maker

(Newser) - Sam Altman is positioning ChatGPT creator OpenAI as a potential middleman in the fight over how the Pentagon can use advanced AI. In a Thursday memo to his staff viewed by the Wall Street Journal , Altman said OpenAI is in talks with the Defense Department about deploying its models in...

BC Premier Suggests OpenAI Could've Prevented Shooting

Ottawa presses ChatGPT maker on safety failures, mulls new regulations

(Newser) - Canada's new artificial intelligence minister says OpenAI had few answers when pressed about its decision to ban the ChatGPT account of a future mass shooter without informing police of her concerning messages. Evan Solomon said he left a Tuesday meeting with senior OpenAI officials "disappointed," after asking...

Altman: Training Humans Takes Resources, Too

OpenAI boss backs clean energy development

(Newser) - "People talk about how much energy it takes to train an AI model," OpenAI boss Sam Altman said, "but it also takes a lot of energy to train a human." The OpenAI chief executive made the comment while in India for an A1 Summit when addressing...

Before Mass Shooting, OpenAI Flagged Teen's Activity

Company decided to ban Jesse Van Rootselaar's account instead of contacting police

(Newser) - OpenAI is facing questions over whether it missed a warning sign months before a deadly school shooting in a small town in British Columbia. In June, employees at the ChatGPT maker debated whether to alert Canadian police about user messages from Jesse Van Rootselaar that described gun violence scenarios over...

What Happens When You Ask a Chatbot to Reveal Itself?

Google warns 'distillation attacks' targeting Gemini could threaten other AI developers

(Newser) - Google's flagship AI is getting peppered with questions, not all of them innocent. In a new report , the company says its Gemini chatbot has been targeted by "commercially motivated" actors trying to reverse-engineer it—by asking itself exactly how it works. The tactic, known as model extraction, involves...

With Reported $380B Valuation, Anthropic Is on Cusp of an IPO

Firm is now being watched, alongside OpenAI and SpaceX, to see if initial public offering materializes

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence company Anthropic says it's now valued at $380 billion, cementing its position alongside rival OpenAI and Elon Musk's SpaceX in a trio of the world's most valuable startups that investors will watch closely this year to see if they'll become publicly traded. "These...

OpenAI Fires VP Who Wasn't on Board With 'Adult Mode'

Ryan Beiermeister was reportedly told she was fired for sexual discrimination

(Newser) - OpenAI has parted ways with a senior safety leader just as it prepares to let ChatGPT get more explicit. The Wall Street Journal's sources say the company fired Ryan Beiermeister, a vice president who led product policy, in early January, citing what it described as sexual discrimination against a...

Anthropic Takes Its Fight With OpenAI to the Super Bowl

Commercial promises ad-free chats via Claude chatbot, as OpenAI tests ads on ChatGPT

(Newser) - Anthropic is bringing its AI grudge match to America's biggest screen, and it's gunning straight for ChatGPT's business model. The maker of the Claude chatbot is airing a 30-second spot during Super Bowl LX (with a longer pregame cut), anchoring a new campaign built around one message:...

AI Boom Is Real, but OpenAI's Business Could Bust
OpenAI May Be Doomed,
but Not the AI Business
OPINION
Jan 15, 2026 10:02 AM CST

OpenAI May Be Doomed, but Not the AI Business

Company may run out of cash before many users become hooked enough to pay for AI

(Newser) - Wall Street may be fretting about an AI bubble, but one analyst argues the real risk isn't that artificial intelligence fizzles—it's that one of its biggest names runs out of cash first. In a New York Times opinion piece, Sebastian Mallaby contends that AI's commercial potential...

'Stressful' OpenAI Job Comes With $555K Salary

Head of preparedness will deal with 'new risks of severe harm'

(Newser) - OpenAI is dangling a salary of $555,000 plus equity for the person willing to take on what may be the most nerve-wracking job in artificial intelligence. The San Francisco company behind ChatGPT is recruiting a "head of preparedness," tasked with anticipating and limiting harms from rapidly advancing...

Why AI Couldn't Crack an 11th-Century Italian Mystery

Historian's experiment shows chatbots can't match human historical insight

(Newser) - An art historian in Florence decided to see if AI could crack the mystery he'd just spent years solving—and it couldn't. Elon Danziger's finding was this: that Florence's Baptistery of San Giovanni was not a homegrown project but a papal-led initiative under Pope Gregory VII...

ChatGPT Now Accused of Aiding a Murder

Family sues OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging chatbot fueled man's delusions ahead of murder-suicide

(Newser) - Several lawsuits have blamed AI-driven chatbots for users' suicides. Now, one alleges ChatGPT is to blame for a woman's murder . The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, alleges that Stein-Erik Soelberg, a 56-year-old former tech executive with a documented history of mental illness, turned to ChatGPT...

Disney Opens Up Its Characters to AI Video

Who knows what Moana, Mufasa will get up to on OpenAI's Sora

(Newser) - Disney is taking its most public leap yet into generative AI, cutting a deal with OpenAI to open up its beloved characters to user-generated AI videos. Under the three-year agreement , Disney will allow OpenAI's Sora tool to generate short-form videos featuring Disney-owned characters, with clips to be available for...

Altman: 'We Are at a Critical Time for ChatGPT'

OpenAI pauses other projects as CEO orders focus on its chatbot to keep pace with rivals like Google

(Newser) - OpenAI has declared a "code red" and is putting almost all of its resources into improving ChatGPT in a bid to keep pace with rivals, especially Google, reports the Wall Street Journal . CEO Sam Altman announced the move on Monday in a company memo, saying that other initiatives—including...

Time Person of the Year May Not Be a Person at All

Betting markets predict artificial intelligence will beat all human contenders for the honor

(Newser) - Artificial intelligence is emerging as the frontrunner for Time magazine's Person of the Year, according to bettors on Polymarket , who see AI as having a better shot than any human candidate, including President Trump, who Axios notes took the honor last year . AI had a 46% chance of being...

OpenAI Bigwig Wants ChatGPT to Be Unavoidable

Fidji Simo, firm's chief of applications, aims to close the gap between AI potential, real-world use

(Newser) - OpenAI's new applications chief, Fidji Simo, is on a mission to turn ChatGPT into an indispensable tool—one that users will eventually be willing to pay for. Simo, who joined the company in August after stints running Instacart and Facebook's main app, oversees the business side of OpenAI,...

Holiday Shopping, Now With More Bots

Big retail sites are rolling out AI shopping assistants to help you check off your list

(Newser) - When you're stumped by what to get Aunt Myrtle this holiday season, there's a bot for that. Although AI-powered purchases are in early stages, the shopping assistants and agents rolled out by the likes of Walmart, Amazon, and Google can do more than the chatbots of holidays past,...

Parents Suing Over Teen's Suicide: OpenAI Is Bullying Us

Lawyer says company is trying 'to find fault in everyone else,' including the victim himself

(Newser) - The parents who allege OpenAI's ChatGPT contributed to their 16-year-old son's suicide say the company's response, coming three months after their claims were filed, "abjectly ignore[s] all of the damning facts we have put forward." Jay Edelson, lead attorney for Adam Raines' parents, argues OpenAI...

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