Author: Mikolaj Laszkiewicz

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An experienced journalist and editor passionate about new technologies, computers, and scientific discoveries. He strives to bring a unique perspective to every topic. A law graduate.

OpenAI has revealed that more than one million users per week discuss suicidal thoughts or readiness to act on them while chatting with ChatGPT. The company also reported that about 560,000 users weekly may show signs of psychotic or manic behavior during their interactions with the chatbot.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has filed a lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation in federal court, accusing the company of misleading around 2.7 million Australian users of Microsoft 365 regarding price hikes and the integration of its AI tool, Copilot.

Reddit has filed a lawsuit against Perplexity AI and three other companies, accusing them of industrial-scale data scraping — the unauthorized collection and use of Reddit users’ posts and comments to train AI systems, despite prior cease-and-desist notices.

In a pilot program involving more than 30,000 NHS England employees across 90 organizations, staff tested Microsoft 365 Copilot, an AI assistant integrated into tools like Outlook, Teams, Word, and Excel. The results are promising — an average of 43 minutes saved per person per day, which at scale could amount to 400,000 staff hours saved each month.

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to advance at a rapid pace, the growing demand for computing power is creating massive energy challenges for data centers. In response, companies are increasingly turning to modified jet engines, originally designed for aircraft, to keep their servers running.