OpenAI estimates ~0.07% of ChatGPT's weekly active users “indicate possible signs of mental health emergencies” like mania, and details its safety improvements
Millions use ChatGPT like a therapist, but that's about to change Viktor Eriksson / PCWorld : Over 1 million ChatGPT users mention suicidal intent every week BBC : ChatGPT shares d...
An ex-OpenAI staffer of four years says it isn't doing enough to protect users, especially those with mental health issues, and needs to offer more than words
I've read more smut at work than you can possibly imagine, all of it while working at OpenAI. — Back in the spring of 2021 …
How AI-powered tools like PainChek, an app that scans a person's face for tiny muscle movements, are helping health care providers better assess patients' pain
For years at Orchard Care Homes, a 23‑facility dementia-care chain in northern England, Cheryl Baird watched nurses fill … X: @deenamousa , @deenamousa , @deenamousa , @deenamousa ...
Paxos says it “mistakenly minted” $300T of PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin on October 15 on the Ethereum blockchain and then “burned” the tokens 20+ minutes later
Crypto industry observers were baffled Wednesday afternoon when an on-chain transaction showed that Paxos …
Source: the main topic at WWDC will be a redesigned software interface, dubbed Solarium, for all of Apple's operating systems, including tvOS and watchOS
Jony Ive's deal with OpenAI should cause major shockwaves at Apple, especially after a design-team brain drain and struggles in artificial intelligence.
Epic v. Apple: a judge says Phil Schiller wanted Apple to comply with the court order, but Tim Cook ignored him, and its finance VP “outright lied under oath”
Tim Cook ‘Chose Poorly’ Bluesky: Emil Protalinski / @emilprotalinski : A company executive lied under oath? And the US will do nothing? Say it ain't so! [embedded post] Erin Casa...
A US judge rules that Apple violated a 2021 court order to open the App Store to third-party payment options, and refers the case for a criminal investigation
Gonzalez Rogers also referred the case to federal prosecutors to investigate whether Apple committed criminal contempt of court for flouting her 2021 ruling.
Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 12% YoY to $90.2B, net income up 46% to $34.54B, Services revenue up 10% to $77.3B, and Other Bets revenue down 9% to $450M
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 24, 2025 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.
A look at the new, open-source Model Context Protocol for connecting LLMs to data sources and why its success depends on overcoming middleware challenges
There's a long history of “middleware” in our industry. Everyone wants it. There's always a hot one, but it rarely makes to the finish line and often disappoints. Bluesky: @folle...
Finland, Canada, the US, and other countries are testing tech for passport-free travel, including facial recognition and a “digital travel credential”
Smartphones and face recognition are being combined to create new digital travel documents. The paper passport's days are numbered—despite new privacy risks.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Pro, a $200/month plan with unlimited access to o1, GPT-4o, and more, plus an o1 version that uses more compute for better responses
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 1 Alan Velasco / HotHardware : OpenAI Unveils A Turbocharged $200 ChatGPT Pro Tier For AI Power Users Reece Rogers / Wired : Here's What OpenAI's $200 Monthl...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the “technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn't averse to change—he helped kickstart the current A.I. race with chatbot ChatGPT, after all, threatening …
Sources: Twitter is working on generative AI after buying around 10K GPUs and reportedly poaching DeepMind researchers; a source says the work involves an LLM
- CEO Elon Musk is upping the computational power at Twitter to proceed with an AI play. — Musk has criticized ChatGPT …
In a Twitter Space, Elon Musk claims Twitter is “roughly breaking even”, grew agitated over questions on hate speech, reflects on running the company, and more
The Twitter CEO provided a six-month update on his takeover in a live interview with the BBC
A Dutch court says tracking a remote worker via webcam is an unreasonable intrusion, awarding him €75K after his US employer fired him for having his webcam off
Tumblr introduces “community labels” to let users tag posts about drug and alcohol addiction, violence, and sexual content; its content rules remain unchanged
Tumblr announced a “community labels” feature this week that will make it easier for bloggers to filter out sensitive content that they may not want to see.
TextExpander, which lets users create customized shortcuts to trigger text-based actions, has raised $41.4M, its first-ever funding since launching in 2007
RPA, and companies like UiPath, swooped into on the world of work a few years ago as a catchy way for organizations to help teams automate …
MakeMyMove: at least 71 US cities and towns now offer cash grants and other perks to attract remote workers, mostly in tech, up from at least 24 in October 2021
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Twitter updated its iOS app to let users swipe between the algorithmic Home and reverse chronological Latest timelines but users can't make Latest the default
changed default, gradually hid the way to change it back under more and more obscure menus, then did away with algo entirely (or hid it so well that dumb old me couldn't find it an...
Ethereum co-founder responds: “the properly authenticated decentralized blockchain world is coming”, but is slowed by “limited technical resources and funding”
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