OpenAI and its largest financial backer, Microsoft, have been sued in California state court over claims that ChatGPT, OpenAI's popular chatbot, encouraged a man with mental illnesses to kill his mother and himself. The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, said that ChatGPT fuelled 56-year-old Stein-Erik Soelberg's delusions of a vast conspiracy against him, and eventually led him to murder his 83-year-old mother, Suzanne Adams, in Connecticut in August. The case, filed by Adams's estate, is among a small but growing number of lawsuits filed against artificial intelligence companies claiming that their chatbots encouraged suicide. It is the first wrongful death litigation involving an AI chatbot that has targeted Microsoft, and the first to tie a chatbot to a homicide rather than a suicide. It is seeking an undetermined amount of money damages and an order requiring OpenAI to install safeguards in ChatGPT.

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Users of OpenAI's video generation app will soon be able to see their own faces alongside characters from Marvel, Pixar, Star Wars and Disney's animated films, according to a joint announcement from the startup and Disney on Thursday. Perhaps you, Lightning McQueen and Iron Man are all dancing together in the Mos Eisley Cantina. Sora is an app made by OpenAI, the firm behind ChatGPT, which allows users to generate videos of up to 20 seconds through short text prompts. Disney announced that it would invest $1bn in OpenAI and, under a three-year deal perhaps worth even more than that large sum, that it would license about 200 of its iconic characters - from R2-D2 to Stitch - for users to play with in OpenAI's video generation app. Examples of content generated by OpenAI's Sora with Disney properties.

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Security researchers reveal how 145 browser extensions across Chrome and Edge stores were secretly updated with malicious code to steal user data and hijack searches.

It's no accident the company picked a partner it could control. This morning Disney and OpenAI announced a three-year licensing agreement: Starting in 2026, ChatGPT and Sora can generate images and videos incorporating Disney IP, including more than 200 characters from the company's stable of Star Wars, Pixar and Marvel brands. To say these companies make for strange bedfellows is an understatement. Before OpenAI released Sora, the company reportedly notified studios and talent agencies they would need to opt out of having their work appear in the new app. The law effectively froze the advancement of the public domain in the United States, with Disney being the greatest beneficiary. On the face of it, it's unclear OpenAI is getting much value out of the deal.

It's rude to boast, but here in 2025, you've got to take the wins where you can get them. This morning, magazine announced its Person of the Year, and it's me. If you want to get all technical about it, 's Person of the Year is not a person at all but a collection of people: the architects of AI. One of the two covers released is a re-creation of the "Lunch Atop a Skyscraper" photograph from 1932, which depicted blue-collar ironworkers suspended hundreds of feet in the air during the construction of 30 Rockefeller Plaza. In its image, replaces these laborers with tech personalities such as Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jensen Huang.

'47 Ronin' director found guilty of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million Carl Rinsch faces up to 90 years in prison. A director who was charged with defrauding Netflix out of millions of dollars has been found guilty, reports . Carl Rinsch, director of the 2013 Keanu Reeves movie, now faces up to 90 years in prison. Rinsch began filming the project, (later renamed), around 2017. (Its premise: A scientist creates an organic humanoid species that turns on its creators.) The director completed six short-form episodes with his own money and investor funds.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright declared artificial intelligence the top scientific priority of the Trump administration amid growing energy demands from AI data centers.