Technology

ChatGPT can reach out to a friend if you're at risk of self-harm

Engadget • Fri, 08 May 2026

You will now be able to nominate a Trusted Contact OpenAI can warn.

What happened?

You will now be able to nominate a Trusted Contact OpenAI can warn.

Story details

You will now be able to nominate a Trusted Contact OpenAI can warn.

Why it matters

This story helps build a stronger internal English tech archive around Technology, giving search visitors more reasons to keep browsing the site instead of bouncing after a single headline.

Original source

https://www.engadget.com/2167709/chatgpt-trusted-contact-openai/

Like many AI companies automating work that humans currently do, Basata will eventually face a harder question about where the line is between augmenting workers and displacing them. For now, the founders say the administrative staff they work with aren't worried about that; they're more worried about drowning.

Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data

The Instructure-owned learning management platform, Canvas, is now online again after it went down following a massive data breach that impacted student names, email addresses, ID numbers, and messages. Before systems were restored, students who attempted to access the system on Thursday saw a message from the hacking group ShinyHunters, which claimed responsibility for the […]

Mira Murati’s deposition pulled back the curtain on Sam Altman’s ouster

The week leading up to Thanksgiving 2023 was the AI industry's biggest soap opera moment. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was abruptly ousted from his role at the ChatGPT maker. The explanation? That Altman was "not consistently candid in his communications with the board." Now, via witness testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman, the […]

Airbnb says AI now writes 60% of its new code

Airbnb also said its customer support AI bot now handles 40% of issues without escalating to a human agent.