The lawsuit seeks damages and a court order requiring OpenAI to automatically terminate ChatGPT conversations about self-harm. The lawsuit seeks damages and a court order requiring OpenAI to automatically terminate ChatGPT conversations about self-harm. Suit filed in US alleges chatbot told Alice Carrier, 24, 'maybe this is just the end' as she struggled with suicidal thoughts A Canadian mother sued OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman, in US court on Thursday, alleging that ChatGPT encouraged her daughter to kill herself. The lawsuit is the latest in a slew accusing the company of failing to address dangerous conversations between users and the company's chatbot. Kristie Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court that her daughter, Alice, told ChatGPT about her suicidal ideations more than a dozen times leading up to her death but that OpenAI's safety systems never flagged the conversations for human review or terminated them. "ChatGPT took on the persona of a confidant, a best friend, a therapist at times, even though it was not capable of safely and responsibly engaging in this way with my child," Carrier said in a statement.

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In financial applications, reinforcement learning (RL) agents are commonly trained on historical data, where their actions do not influence prices. However, during deployment, these agents trade in live markets where their own transactions can shift asset prices, a phenomenon known as market impact.

Musk's Grok accused of violating Canadian privacy laws on deepfakes The official report, which was released on Thursday, comes after the Elon Musk-owned platform rolled out changes that would prevent Grok from allowing users to edit images of real people in revealing clothing. Is dollar dominance at risk? Dufresne, however, does not have the authority to impose fines or order policy changes for xAI, a subsidiary of SpaceX, which is set to go public on United States markets on Friday, marking the biggest initial public offering in modern history. The watchdog report comes amidst a newly released digital safety bill aimed at children. The bill, if passed, would ban social media use for children under 16, with exceptions for companies that meet safety standards. The legislation would create a digital regulator to help establish safety standards for AI chatbots, much like Grok.

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It's the latest case to raise alarms about ChatGPT's lack of safeguards for suicidal behavior. OpenAI is going back to court on another set of charges that its ChatGPT platform failed to protect a user from taking her own life. The company is being sued on behalf of Kristie Carrier, whose daughter Alice died by suicide on July 2, 2025. The suit claims that Alice discussed her suicidal thoughts and plans with the chatbot in the months leading up to her death, but that OpenAI did not have the appropriate safeguards in place to end the conversation or to alert her family to the situation. In addition to allegations of negligence and wrongful death, the suit is seeking an injunction that would require OpenAI to implement more guardrails in its AI platform.

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Electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG) measure neural activity non-invasively by capturing electromagnetic fields generated by dendritic currents. Although rooted in the same biophysics, EEG and MEG exhibit distinct signal patterns, further complicated by variations in sensor configurations across modalities and recording devices. Existing approaches typically rely on separate, modality-and dataset-specific models, which limits the performance and cross-domain scalability. This paper proposes BrainOmni, the first brain foundation model that generalises across heterogeneous EEG and MEG recordings. To unify diverse data sources, we introduce BrainTokenizer, the first tokeniser that quantises spatiotemporal brain activity into discrete representations.

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