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A family is suing OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT played a role in a fatal accidental overdose. The complaint centers on Sam Nelson, and claims the chatbot began offering drug use advice following the rollout of GPT-four-o. It raises hard questions about where AI guardrails end and liability begins.
Shifting to the road, Chinese automaker Nio has crossed a striking threshold, swapping more than one million electric vehicle batteries in a single week. While battery swap technology has long been dismissed in Western markets as impractical, Nio's numbers suggest China is quietly turning a so-called gimmick into genuine infrastructure at scale.
And in the world of engineering leadership, Braze co-founder and CTO Jon Hyman is opening up about how he transformed his engineering organization into what he calls an AI-first team, and did it in just a matter of months. After nearly fifteen years building the company, Hyman says the agentic era demands a fundamentally different way of thinking about how software gets made.
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