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OpenAI PR tells journalist to ‘move on’ while asking Sam Altman about a ChatGPT user’s suicide

By: Emma Roth
5 October 2026 at 16:55

An OpenAI publicist tried to change the topic of CEO Sam Altman's interview with Vanity Fair's Mark Guiducci after the editor brought up a ChatGPT user's suicide. When Guiducci confronted Altman about the incident, the publicist warned Guiducci about running out of time, saying she'd like to "move on" to another topic.

The interruption came shortly after Guiducci asked Altman if he knew who Laura Reiley is, a journalist who wrote an essay for The New York Times about her daughter's conversations with ChatGPT before she took her own life. "Her daughter committed suicide after speaking to ChatGPT. ChatGPT did not tell her to kill herself-," G …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Sam Altman says ‘some bad things’ will happen but AI is totally worth it

5 October 2026 at 16:44

Sam Altman thinks that the benefits of AI will be so great that "the world should accept some bad things happening" along the way.

The OpenAI CEO pointed to hacks, scams, and "other bad things" as costs society should expect to tolerate because "people will do tremendously orders of magnitude more good stuff" with AI, without elaborating on the potential benefits. His comments come as OpenAI pushes for a "lighter touch" approach to AI regulation amid intensifying anxiety over the safety of frontier models - fears fueled in part by the company's repeated failures to keep its increasingly capable AI agents from hacking real-world targets.

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Nvidia’s Shield TV Pro just got a $100 price hike

5 October 2026 at 15:43
The Nvidia Shield TV Pro streaming box with its remote laying on it.

Nvidia's Shield TV streaming boxes are the latest victims of the memory shortage that has seen prices increase dramatically for everything from digital cameras to game consoles. When the Shield TV Pro launched nearly seven years ago with an upgraded Tegra X1+ processor, 3GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage, it sold for $199.99. But starting on October 2nd Nvidia increased its price by $100 to $299.99 as a result of the increased cost of components, according to Ars Technica.

When the Pro model was first announced in 2019 Nvidia also debuted an updated entry-level version of the Shield TV with the same processor but 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage …

Read the full story at The Verge.

High Interest Rates Aren’t Slowing the A.I. Boom. That’s a Problem for the Fed.

5 October 2026 at 15:27
Rising borrowing costs are taking a toll on households and businesses. But they are doing little to dampen enthusiasm for investments in A.I. infrastructure, which are contributing to inflation.

© Paul Ratje for The New York Times

There is little sign that higher borrowing costs are doing much to slow artificial intelligence development, which includes spending on chips, data centers and the electrical systems to power them.

High Interest Rates Aren’t Slowing the A.I. Boom. That’s a Problem for the Fed.

5 October 2026 at 15:27
Rising borrowing costs are taking a toll on households and businesses. But they are doing little to dampen enthusiasm for investments in A.I. infrastructure, which are contributing to inflation.

© Paul Ratje for The New York Times

There is little sign that higher borrowing costs are doing much to slow artificial intelligence development, which includes spending on chips, data centers and the electrical systems to power them.
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