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OpenAI announces plan for flagging mental health crises and adding teen controls

A recent flurry of news reports highlights how teens and users facing mental health crises turn to ChatGPT for help, but the tool lacks features needed to alert others and dissuade self-harm.

Jon Keegan

9/2/25 9:57AM

Over the past few weeks, a number of alarming stories have surfaced describing ChatGPT users who turned to the AI chatbot for help during mental health crises, only to have the tool encourage their plans for self-harm.

In August, a Connecticut man killed his mother then himself after ChatGPT reportedly encouraged his paranoid delusions.
In April, A 16-year-old died of suicide after conversations with ChatGPT in which the chatbot provided specific information about how to kill himself.
In a New York Times op-ed, a mother shared the story of how her 29-year-old daughter had shared her suicidal thoughts with a ChatGPT “therapist” persona, yet it failed to alert anyone — something a real mental health professional would have done. ChatGPT helped the woman write her suicide note.

Today, ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced a 120-day plan to roll out new protections for identifying and helping users who may be facing a mental health crisis, including adding parental controls — even though they wouldn’t have helped in two of these cases.

The company plans to partner with councils of mental health and medical professionals to “shape a clear, evidence-based vision for how AI can support people’s well-being and help them thrive,” according to a blog post announcing the changes.

OpenAI said it also will route sensitive conversations to its “reasoning models,” which take longer to craft more accurate and helpful responses.

As kids head back to school, ChatGPT use is climbing as students widely adopt the tool for help with schoolwork. The planned parental control system will allow parents to link their teen’s account to theirs, control how ChatGPT responds, control features like chat history, and receive notifications when the system identifies “acute distress” in the teens’ conversations.

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Google’s Gemini 3.0 reportedly due to be released in December

Google is aiming to release the latest version of its flagship AI model, Gemini 3.0, in December, according to a report from Sources.news.

The updated model is expected to make significant gains that should boost it to the top of the leaderboards, according to the report.

The Gemini app also spent some time at the top of the iOS App Store leaderboards, propelled by Google’s Nano Banana image generation model, which proved popular with users looking to turn themselves into action figures. Gemini briefly knocked ChatGPT from the top spot, which is now occupied by OpenAI’s other hot app, Sora.

Recently, there have been signs of ChatGPT downloads slowing, which could provide an opening for Gemini to gain market share. Adding some premium Gemini features to the free tier is a plan under discussion within Google, per Sources.news.

Sources.news also reports that a “small, secretive team” inside Google is working to integrate Gemini into Apple’s operating systems.

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Sources.news also reports that a “small, secretive team” inside Google is working to integrate Gemini into Apple’s operating systems.

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Meta strikes $30 billion deal with Blue Owl to finance Hyperion data center

Meta’s Hyperion mega data center site in Richland Parish, Louisiana, is currently under construction. The city-sized development will be the home to one of the largest data centers in the world, housing around 2 million pricey GPUs, and will scale up to an eventual 5.5 gigawatts.

So, how is Meta planning to pay for this expensive project?

Bloomberg reports that Meta has signed a deal with asset management company Blue Owl Capital to finance $30 billion to pay for the project, marking what could be the largest private capital deal ever.

According to the report, Blue Owl and Meta would co-own the site, with Meta retaining a 20% stake in the project. PIMCO is also part of the financing for the deal, as the anchor lender.

Raising the massive capital to fund all of these huge AI data center projects is pushing companies to use unusual financing arrangements. The Information reported that xAI made such a deal with Valor Equity Partners worth $20 billion to rent the GPUs needed for its Colossus 2 data center.

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According to the report, Blue Owl and Meta would co-own the site, with Meta retaining a 20% stake in the project. PIMCO is also part of the financing for the deal, as the anchor lender.

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EssilorLuxottica surges to record high after saying Ray-Ban Meta glasses helped boost revenue growth

European eyewear company EssilorLuxottica said during its earnings call yesterday that its Ray-Ban Meta glasses helped boost its revenue growth, something that’s sent the ADR up to a record high.

“Clearly, there is a lift coming from Ray-Ban Meta wearables as a product category,” the company’s CFO, Stefano Grassi, said on the call Thursday. “The contribution from Ray-Ban Meta in wearables, as I mentioned before, is in excess of 4 percentage points overall for the group.”

EssilorLuxottica’s revenue was up 11.7% in the third quarter compared with a year ago.

Meta has a nearly 3% stake in the eyewear company, which it has partnered with on the smart glasses. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has also claimed that its Ray-Ban Metas are a hit, saying that the “sales trajectory that we’ve seen is similar to some of the most popular consumer electronics of all time.” We looked at the numbers and aren’t so sure.

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The revenue race between Anthropic and OpenAI is getting more heated

Hey Claude, when do you think you’ll start making more money than ChatGPT?

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JPMorgan economists estimate that the basket of stocks they use as a rough gauge of AI’s market impact is now worth about 44% of the S&P 500’s total market cap, up from 26% in 2022.

Using a basket of 30 AI stocks picked by the bank’s equity analysts as a barometer of AI, the economists find that American households have seen their aggregate wealth go up by about $5 trillion over the last year as a result of AI, they reported in a note published Thursday.

They also estimate the surge in stock market wealth could raise annualized US consumer spending by some $180 billion, due to wealth effects.

JPM acknowledges some uncertainty around this estimate, noting that the spending impact could be lower “if the wealth gains are accruing disproportionately to upper income households with lower [marginal propensity to spend].”