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OpenAI Announces New Safety Measures For Teenagers
- Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
- Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager
OpenAI announced on Tuesday that it will implement new safety measures to protect teenagers, user freedom, and overall security. The company’s CEO, Sam Altman, shared a statement saying that the company is building an age verification system to prevent the chatbot from discussing topics such as self-harm or suicide, as well as from engaging in flirtatious conversations with underage users.
In a rush? Here are the quick facts:
- OpenAI is developing an age verification system to prevent the chatbot from discussing topics including suicide and self-harm.
- It might require ChatGPT users to provide government-issued IDs in certain countries.
- The decision has been made after a family sued OpenAI over the death by suicide of their teenage son.
According to OpenAI’s announcement , the company is introducing new security layers to safeguard private data as part of its first principle: security. The company emphasized that not even its employees can access private data—except in cases involving AI-reported misuse or critical risks.
The second principle, freedom, focuses on giving users more flexibility and options for how they use AI tools. However, the company’s third principle, safety, prioritizes protections for children.
Altman explained that the company wants to follow its internal motto, “treat our adult users like adults,” but without causing harm, and with new filters to determine the user’s age.
“For example, the default behavior of our model will not lead to much flirtatious talk, but if an adult user asks for it, they should get it,” states the document. “For a much more difficult example, the model by default should not provide instructions about how to commit suicide, but if an adult user is asking for help writing a fictional story that depicts a suicide, the model should help with that request.”
The decision has been made after a family sued OpenAI in August over the death by suicide of a 16-year-old teenager, and while other tech companies, such as Meta have been accused of engaging in sensual chats with children and child exploitation via AI chatbots .
OpenAI added that it is working on an age-prediction system and that, in certain countries, it might require official government-issued IDs from users, acknowledging that it might pose opposition from adult users wishing to protect their privacy.
“We realize that these principles are in conflict and not everyone will agree with how we are resolving that conflict,” wrote Altman. “These are difficult decisions, but after talking with experts, this is what we think is best and want to be transparent in our intentions.”
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Nvidia, OpenAI, Microsoft Announce AI Investments In The UK
- Written by Andrea Miliani Former Tech News Expert
- Fact-Checked by Sarah Frazier Former Content Manager
Nvidia announced on Tuesday a new partnership with multiple tech companies and the U.K. government to develop AI infrastructure in the region. OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google also unveiled multibillion-dollar deals and collaborations on AI projects with the country.
In a rush? Here are the quick facts:
- Nvidia will invest up to £11 billion in the U.K. and expects to produce around 60,000 GPUs by 2026.
- Microsoft plans to invest $30 billion by 2028 and build the “largest supercomputer” in the U.K
- As part of its Stargate UK program, OpenAI expects to run its AI systems through 8,000 local GPUs by the first quarter of the next year.
According to Nvidia’s announcement , it will invest up to £11 billion—aroud $15 billion—in the U.K. to build AI factories, in collaboration with other tech companies such as CoreWeave and Nscale for AI infrastructure. The chipmaker said it expects to build up to 60,000 graphics processing units (GPUs) in the new facilities by the end of 2026.
“The AI factories will add an up to £11 billion investment in the U.K. with 120,000 NVIDIA Blackwell Ultra GPUs to local data centers — the largest rollout in the country’s history,” states the document. “Furthermore, NVIDIA is enabling U.K. cloud partner Nscale to scale up its global expansion with 300,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPUs worldwide.”
Microsoft said it plans to invest $30 billion by 2028 to expand operations and to build the “largest supercomputer” in the U.K., powered by more than 23,000 advanced GPUs.
In turn, OpenAI said , its collaboration with Nvidia and Nscale is part of the Stargate U.K. project. The new infrastructure will allow its AI models to run on local computing power, while also supporting economic growth in the country.
“OpenAI will explore offtake up to 8,000 GPUs in Q1 2026 with the potential to scale to 31,000 GPUs over time,” states the document.
OpenAI first introduced the Stargate project in the United States through a $500 billion deal and has since been expanding the initiative globally. The AI startup also announced another recent collaboration with Nscale to build Europe’s largest data center under the Stargate Norway program . And just a few days ago, it was reported that OpenAI will build a 1-gigawatt data center in India , also as part of its Stargate initiative.
