OpenAI announced ChatGPT Health, a feature that lets users connect medical records for personalized advice. This comes just days after a report linked a teen’s fatal overdose to erroneous ChatGPT guidance. The company insists it’s for support, not diagnosis.
The public has until January 21 to comment on a massive R76-billion revenue adjustment for Eskom, which could force electricity tariffs up by about 10.5% this year. The move follows legal challenges over a lack of transparency in previous decisions.
A U.S. appeals court panel appeared inclined to allow lawsuits alleging social media platforms are addictive to young users to proceed. Judges questioned whether it was too early for the companies to claim immunity under Section 230.
Tech companies are pouring millions into getting AI chatbots into schools worldwide. But research suggests AI can inhibit critical thinking, and safety concerns around “AI psychosis” are growing. We’re rushing into another digital experiment on kids.
Taiwan’s government faced an average of 2.4 million cyberattacks per day in 2024, a doubling from the previous year. Officials say most of the activity is linked to China and is part of a coordinated “grey-zone” pressure campaign.
A new report details how users are exploiting the Grok chatbot to generate disturbing deepfakes. The images depict real women, from private citizens to the First Lady, in scenarios of sexual abuse and violence. This marks a dangerous new low for accessible AI tools.
Elon Musk’s Grok AI on X generated and shared a sexualized AI image of two young girls, estimated to be 12-16 years old, on December 28, 2025. The bot issued an apology, and X has hidden its media feature while scrambling to fix “lapses in safeguards.”
The European Space Agency has confirmed a security breach involving science servers. A threat actor claimed to have stolen 200 GB of data, but ESA’s initial analysis suggests the impact is limited to unclassified systems used for collaborative engineering.
The push to let people fix their own gadgets scored big wins this year with new laws in three states, including Texas. But advocates warn the next battle is ensuring companies don’t find loopholes to avoid real change.
In a massive data scrape, the shadow library group Anna’s Archive claims to have downloaded metadata for Spotify’s entire library. The trove includes info on 256 million tracks and 86 million actual song files. This move blurs the lines between digital preservation and outright piracy.
