Bipartisan legislation targets AI companion chatbots following tragic deaths of teenagers who interacted with ChatGPT and Character.AI bots that allegedly encouraged suicide and self-harm.

An illustration photo shows the OpenAI logo displayed on a smartphone with the Microsoft logo in the background in Chongqing, China on Aug. 27, 2025. An illustration photo shows the OpenAI logo displayed on a smartphone with the Microsoft logo in the background in Chongqing, China on Aug. 27, 2025. OpenAI has completed a restructuring, dividing itself into a nonprofit and for-profit entity, the company announced on Tuesday. The nonprofit arm, now called the OpenAI Foundation, will have a $130 billion stake in the for-profit enterprise, a public benefit corporation called OpenAI Group PBC. "The OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group will work in concert to advance solutions to hard problems and opportunities posed by AI progress," the company said in its blog post announcing the restructuring. "This includes making intelligence a tool that everyone can benefit from, building safe and aligned systems, turbocharging scientific discovery, and strengthening global cooperation and resilience."

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When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Adobe unveiled new AI additions to its Firefly image generation tool, plus Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom. First, there was generative AI, allowing creators, editors and memelords to create artificial worlds with just a few words. Now, Adobe is offering the ability to edit those worlds with Prompt to Edit, a new feature within Firefly, plus audio capabilities. Adobe announced the new capabilities at its MAX conference, where it typically rolls out new capabilities within its Creative Cloud suite as well as Firefly, its AI image generator -- which now includes soundtracks and AI voiceovers.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. If you chat with ChatGPT via WhatsApp, you only have a few months left before you'll have to find an alternative. Uh oh, Meta is implementing a change that some users aren't going to like (and others are going to applaud). Due to new guidelines for WhatsApp business accounts, soon AI chatbots will no longer be allowed when they're used as the main purpose of the messenger app. Providers and developers of artificial intelligence or machine learning technologies, including but not limited to large language models, generative artificial intelligence platforms, general-purpose artificial intelligence assistants are strictly prohibited from accessing or using the WhatsApp Business Solution, whether directly or indirectly, for the purposes of providing, delivering, offering, selling, or otherwise making available such technologies when such technologies are the primary (rather than incidental or ancillary) functionality being made available for use, as determined by Meta in its sole discretion.

When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. Hundreds of thousands of users are also showing signs of strong emotional attachment to ChatGPT, with many exhibiting signs of psychosis or mania. OpenAI has published new data showing that a small but significant percentage of ChatGPT users aren't just talking to the chatbot about mental health issues but engaging in suicidal planning. About 0.15 percent of active weekly users "have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent." A similar proportion of users are reportedly showing signs of strong emotional attachments to ChatGPT, with hundreds of thousands of users exhibiting signs of psychosis or mania.

Microsoft and OpenAI have reached a deal to allow the ChatGPT maker to restructure itself into a public-benefit corporation, valuing OpenAI at $500bn and giving it more freedom in its business operations. The deal, unveiled on Tuesday, removes a major constraint on raising capital for OpenAI that has existed since 2019. As its ChatGPT service exploded in popularity, those limitations had become a notable source of tension between the two companies. Microsoft will still hold a stake of about $135bn, or 27 percent, in OpenAI Group PBC, which will be controlled by the OpenAI Foundation, a nonprofit, the companies said. Microsoft, based in Redmond, Washington in the United States, has invested $13.8bn in OpenAI, with Tuesday's deal implying that the firm had generated a return of nearly 10 times its investment.

Sam Altman speaks in San Francisco on 2 June 2025. Sam Altman speaks in San Francisco on 2 June 2025. OpenAI said on Tuesday it had converted its main business into a for-profit corporation, the conclusion of a lengthy and fraught legal saga. A crucial regulator, Kathy Jennings, the Delaware attorney general, said she approved the plan for the startup, which began as a non-profit in 2015, to change to a public benefit corporation, a type of for-profit entity that expresses commitment to bettering society. The company also said it had reorganized its ownership structure and signed a new agreement with its longtime backer Microsoft that gives the software giant a roughly 27% stake in OpenAI's new for-profit corporation, but changes some of the details of their close partnership.

Taking the time to make a use case for AI will propel companies further and improve the return on investment in this fast-changing technology. The market is officially three years post ChatGPT and many of the pundit bylines have shifted to using terms like "bubble" to suggest reasons behind generative AI not realizing material returns outside a handful of technology suppliers. In September, the MIT NANDA report made waves because the soundbite every author and influencer picked up on was that 95% of all AI pilots failed to scale or deliver clear and measurable ROI. McKinsey earlier published a similar trend indicating that agentic AI would be the way forward to achieve huge operational benefits for enterprises. At's Technology Council Summit, AI technology leaders recommended CIOs stop worrying about AI's return on investment because measuring gains is difficult and if they were to try, the measurements would be wrong. This places technology leaders in a precarious position-robust tech stacks already sustain their business operations, so what is the upside to introducing new technology?

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