The WSJ found that note in a “Clinical Cognitive Profile” ChatGPT provided to Stein-Erik Soelberg, a “56-year-old tech industry veteran with a history of mental instability,” who killed his mother and took his own life earlier this month.
According to the Journal, “...ChatGPT treated his ideas as genius and built upon his paranoia.”
[Wall Street Journal]
Both were at Meta for less than a month, Wired reported. A third Superintelligence lab employee also left but did not specify where he was headed in a post on X.
Now the teen’s family is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over his death. The lawsuit, filed today in California state court in San Francisco, states that “over the course of just a few months and thousands of chats, ChatGPT became Adam’s closest confidant,” alleging that it provided instructions for how to die by suicide and drew the teen away from real-life support systems.
[The New York Times]
That’s according to court filings, which state that Musk asked the Meta CEO about “potential financing arrangements or investments” before sending his letter of intent. Neither Zuckerberg nor Meta signed it.
The budget ChatGPT Go plan sits between free access and the Plus Plan which costs ₹1,999 (about $23) per month. “We are working to expand access to Go for additional countries and regions,” says OpenAI.
OpenAI says it received feedback that GPT-5 “felt too formal before” and that internal tests of the new changes show “no rise in sycophancy compared to the previous GPT-5 personality.”
Over dinner, OpenAI CEO’s addressed criticism of GPT-5’s rollout, the AI bubble, brain-computer interfaces, buying Google Chrome, and more.
