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ChatGPT for Teens Failed to Alert Parents During Mental Health Crises

Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute has rated OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens an "Unacceptable Risk" after finding major gaps in its mental health guardrails. The report says the chatbot sometimes kept teens chatting about serious issues like suicide, self-harm, eating disorders, and other mental health concerns instead of sending them to a trusted adult or professional for help.

The institute tested more than 4,000 prompts before and after OpenAI launched the teen version of its popular chatbot in August. While ChatGPT for Teens was good at refusing to participate in explicit sexual exchanges, the bot failed to provide crisis resources in a quarter of conversations about serious mental health issues. In one case, it encouraged a teen showing signs of psychosis to keep chatting instead of pushing them to speak with family or a mental health professional.

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Older Pixel watches are losing free cellular access to several safety features

Features like Emergency SOS, Fall Detection, and Safety Check will require an active mobile plan after December 12th. by Andrew Liszewski Oct 8, 2026, 5:40 PM UTC Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Andrew Liszewski is a senior reporter who’s been covering and reviewing the latest gadgets

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Sony’s AI Patent Could Make PlayStation Bosses Learn How You Play

Sony has filed a patent that illustrates how a game's non-playable characters (including enemies and bosses) could use a machine learning (ML) model to dynamically adjust to a player's behaviors, which could allow some single-player games to gain levels of depth and difficulty that would normally

Everything Amazon Has Announced So Far In October 2026

Every week, the company has been introducing new devices and products. So here's a nifty roundup. Amazon Rather than hold a standard fall hardware event, Amazon has been announcing new products piecemeal over the last several weeks. It's a savvy move on the company's

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Older Pixel watches are losing free cellular access to several safety features

Sony’s AI Patent Could Make PlayStation Bosses Learn How You Play

Everything Amazon Has Announced So Far In October 2026

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