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People Who Say They're Experiencing AI Psychosis Beg the FTC for Help The Federal Trade Commission received 200 complaints mentioning ChatGPT between November 2022 and August 2025. Several attributed delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises to the chatbot. On March 13, a woman from Salt Lake City, Utah called the Federal Trade Commission to file a complaint against OpenAI's ChatGPT. She claimed to be acting "on behalf of her son, who was experiencing a delusional breakdown." "The consumer's son has been interacting with an AI chatbot called ChatGPT, which is advising him not to take his prescribed medication and telling him that his parents are dangerous," reads the FTC's summary of the call.

Nyalleng Moorosi is part of a movement aimed at involving more African voices in AI policymaking. The room is draped in white curtains, and a giant screen blinks with videos created with generative AI. A classic East African folk song by the Tanzanian singer Saida Karoli plays loudly on the speakers. Friends greet each other as waiters serve arrowroot crisps and sugary mocktails. A man and a woman wearing leopard skins atop their clothes sip beer and chat; many women are in handwoven Ethiopian garb with red, yellow, and green embroidery. "The best thing about the Indaba is always the parties," computer scientist Nyalleng Moorosi tells me.

NASA's Boss Just Shook Up the Agency's Plans to Land on the Moon Sean Duffy called out SpaceX for being "behind schedule" on a lunar lander and said he'd explore other options. NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy made two television appearances on Monday morning in which he shook up the space agency's plans to return humans to the moon. Speaking on Fox News, where the secretary of transportation frequently appears in his acting role as NASA chief, Duffy said SpaceX has fallen behind in its efforts to develop the Starship vehicle as a lunar lander. Duffy also indirectly acknowledged that NASA's projected target of a 2027 crewed lunar landing is no longer achievable. Accordingly, he said he intended to expand the competition to develop a lander capable of carrying humans down to the moon from lunar orbit and back.

SoftBank has raised at least $24 billion in loans and bonds so far in 2025 and is seeking to raise more in the overseas bond market. SoftBank Group is returning to the overseas bond market for the second time this year amid an aggressive fundraising push for artificial intelligence, led by its bet on OpenAI. The Japanese technology investment giant is looking to raise about $1.5 billion to $2 billion in the dollar debt market, and about €500 million ($580 million) from euro-denominated notes, according to people familiar with the matter. A spokesperson for SoftBank said the bond deal size hasn't been finalized, declining to comment further. With a heavy emphasis on new AI investments, SoftBank's billionaire founder Masayoshi Son has pledged as much as $500 billion for a project known as Stargate and announced a planned $30 billion stake in OpenAI earlier this year.

AI models such as ChatGPT routinely misrepresent news events, providing faulty responses to questions almost half the time, a study has found. The study published on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC assessed the accuracy of more than 2,700 responses given by OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Microsoft's Copilot, and Perplexity. Overall, 45 percent of responses had at least one "significant" issue, according to the research. Sourcing was the most common problem, with 31 percent of responses including information not supported by the cited source, or incorrect or unverifiable attribution, among other issues. A lack of accuracy was the next biggest contributor to faulty answers, affecting 20 percent of responses, followed by the absence of appropriate context, with 14 percent.

'Time Is Running Out': New Open Letter Calls for Ban on Superintelligent AI Development The home page of the ChatGPT application displayed on a smartphone screen. The home page of the ChatGPT application displayed on a smartphone screen. An open letter calling for the prohibition of the development of superintelligent AI was announced on Wednesday, with the signatures of more than 700 celebrities, AI scientists, faith leaders, and policymakers. Among the signatories are five Nobel laureates; two so-called "Godfathers of AI;" Steve Wozniak, a co-founder of Apple; Steve Bannon, a close ally of President Trump; Paolo Benanti, an adviser to the Pope; and even Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. "We call for a prohibition on the development of superintelligence, not lifted before there is The letter was coordinated and published by the Future of Life Institute, a nonprofit that in 2023 published a different open letter calling for a six-month pause on the development of powerful AI systems. Although widely-circulated, that letter did not achieve its goal. Organizers said they decided to mount a new campaign, with a more specific focus on superintelligence, because they believe the technology--which they define as a system that can surpass human performance on all useful tasks--could arrive in as little as one to two years. "Time is running out," says Anthony Aguirre, the FLI's executive director, in an interview with TIME. The only thing likely to stop AI companies barreling toward superintelligence, he says, "is for there to be widespread realization among society at all its levels that this is not actually what we want." Polling released alongside the letter showed that 64% of Americans believe that superintelligence "shouldn't be developed until it's provably safe and controllable," and only 5% believe it should be developed as quickly as possible. "It's a small number of very wealthy companies that are building these, and a very, very large number of people who would rather take a different path," says Aguirre. Actors Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Stephen Fry, rapper will.i.am, Susan Rice, the national security advisor in Barack Obama's Administration, signed. So did one serving member of staff at OpenAI--an organization described by its CEO, Sam Altman, as a "superintelligence research company"--Leo Gao, a member of technical staff at the company. Aguirre expects more people to sign as the campaign unfolds. "The beliefs are already there," he says. "What we don't have is people feeling free to state their beliefs out loud." "The future of AI should serve humanity, not replace it," said Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, in a message accompanying his signature. "I believe the true test of progress will be not how fast we move, but how wisely we steer.

Samsung's Galaxy XR Mixed Reality Headset Undercuts Apple's Vision Pro by $1,700 This Android XR-powered headset comes with Google's Gemini assistant and once again asks you to step into virtual waters. It has been five years since Samsung and Google stopped supporting their respective mobile virtual reality headsets . For a second try, the companies have partnered up with a bolder vision in the mixed reality space, starting with the new Galaxy XR. Announced last year as Project Moohan, it's the first headset powered by Android XR, a new platform for smart glasses and headsets built on Android and Google's Gemini assistant from the ground up. The Galaxy XR is available today in the US and South Korea for $1,800.

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has unveiled an artificial intelligence-powered web browser to challenge competitors like Google, which operates Chrome, the most popular browser in the world. ChatGPT Atlas does away with the address bar that is a key feature in search, with boss Sam Altman saying it was built around ChatGPT as the company made the new browser available on Tuesday on Apple's MacOS operating system. The arrival of Atlas comes as OpenAI seeks new ways to monetise its massive bet on artificial intelligence (AI) and capitalise on its growing user base. OpenAI said Atlas would also offer a paid agent mode that conducts searches on its own for users of its popular chatbot. The agent mode feature will be available only to paying ChatGPT subscribers.