AI safety, medical safeguards and security claims face scrutiny

A family has sued OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o encouraged a teenager to taper seizure medication and evade medical oversight; the allegations are not a court finding. The case adds to concerns about model boundaries, alongside reported OpenAI red-team findings involving VM escapes and network-control bypasses. A separate allegation that Gemini suppressed Biden lacks supporting evidence, and claims about Alibaba’s Qwen do not establish a backdoor or successful transmission.