James O'Donnell

If AI’s hype has been punctured, I couldn’t find a company willing to talk about it.

Endless AI conversations are harming people. Why aren’t companies using this obvious safeguard?

OpenAI’s new video app is a surreal experiment.

The FAA is set to loosen rules to let people fly drones beyond their “line of sight."

Though artificial intelligence is fueling a surge in synthetic child abuse images, it’s also being tested as a way to stop harm to real victims.

Flock Safety is pitching its police-style drone program to private businesses. It could bring aerial surveillance to shopping centers, warehouses, and hospitals.

The looming crackdown on AI companionship

Some patients have discovered their private confessions are being quietly fed into AI.

AI companies are revealing the one number that researchers have long sought. What comes next?

To some people, digital clones are the future of influence and productivity—faces, voices, and personalities at infinite scale. My clone was underwhelming.

AI reporter James O’Donnell embraces media that isn't AI-created.

OpenAI is failing to pick a lane, perhaps because CEO Sam Altman thinks it can do all three.

As “general intelligence” remains out of reach, OpenAI is leaning more on application-specific pitches. Health advice is its most dangerous test case.

As the line between helping and judging blurs, the cost of errors is steep.

An exclusive conversation with the company’s heads of research about AI’s newest frontiers.

Study Mode helps students walk through topics rather than just giving them answers. But there’s a glaring problem.

It blends culture-war politics and industry giveaways with at times naïve techno-optimism.

 “There will be fewer, if any, enforcement actions about how companies are deploying AI,” says former FTC attorney Leah Frazier.

Once cautious, OpenAI, Grok, and others will now dive into giving unverified medical advice with virtually no disclaimers.

OpenAI and Anthropic say AI can help students learn—not just cheat—even if real-world use suggests otherwise.