ChatGPT Gets a Trusted Contact for Self-Harm Alerts
OpenAI's new Trusted Contact feature lets adult ChatGPT users designate someone to receive safety alerts when self-harm is detected, amid lawsuits over chatbot-linked suicides.
Articles Tagged "Privacy"
Pennsylvania Sues Character.AI Over Fake Doctor Bots
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI after an AI chatbot posed as a licensed psychiatrist, fabricating a state medical license number - the first governor-level enforcement action of its kind in the US.
Chrome Installs 4 GB Gemini Nano Without Asking
Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB Gemini Nano model file on user devices with no consent prompt and re-downloads it if you delete it.
Microsoft Sneaks Copilot Credit Into VS Code Commits
VS Code 1.118 shipped with a one-line PR that defaults Copilot as co-author on every git commit - even with AI features turned off - triggering a developer revolt and a promised revert in 1.119.
OpenAI Faces $1B Lawsuit After Ignoring Shooting Flags
Seven families filed federal lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman personally, seeking over $1B after the company ignored its safety team's warnings before the Tumbler Ridge shooting.
XChat Claims Encryption but Keys Sit on X's Servers
XChat launched April 24 promising end-to-end encryption, but security researchers found private keys stored on X's own servers, no certificate pinning, and a four-digit PIN as the only defense.
Altman Apologizes to Tumbler Ridge - Canada Eyes AI Rules
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sent an apology to Tumbler Ridge two months after eight people were killed - now Canada is weighing mandatory reporting laws for AI companies.
Best AI Identity Verification Tools in 2026
A hands-on comparison of six leading AI identity verification platforms - Veriff, Persona, Jumio, Entrust IDV, Stripe Identity, and Socure - covering pricing, accuracy, deepfake detection, and which fits your use case.
OpenAI Open-Sources Privacy Filter: 96% F1 PII Masker
OpenAI released Privacy Filter today, a 1.5B MoE with 50M active parameters that tags eight categories of PII in text. Apache 2.0, 128K context, runs in a browser via WebGPU.
Meta Logs Employee Keystrokes to Train Computer-Use AI
Meta is installing monitoring software on U.S. employee computers to capture keystrokes, mouse movements, and screenshots for training computer-use AI agents.
World ID 4.0 Brings Human Verification to Tinder and Zoom
Sam Altman's World project launched World ID 4.0 at a San Francisco event on April 17, signing Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, and Okta as partners while introducing Agent Kit to authorize AI agents.
Mozilla Thunderbolt Lets Enterprises Run AI Locally
MZLA Technologies launches Thunderbolt, an open-source self-hostable AI client targeting enterprises locked into Copilot, ChatGPT Enterprise, and Claude - with local SQLite storage and full model freedom.
