Overview

• Within about a month, parents will be able to link their accounts to teens 13 and older, apply age‑appropriate rules, disable chat history and memory, and receive notifications when ChatGPT detects an acute crisis.
• Over a 120‑day rollout, conversations flagged for self‑harm or other acute distress will be automatically routed to specialised Reasoning models such as GPT‑5‑thinking or o3, regardless of the model initially selected.
• OpenAI acknowledges reliability can degrade in long chats and says it will not automatically refer self‑harm disclosures to law enforcement in order to protect user privacy.
• The parents of a 16‑year‑old who died by suicide have sued OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT fostered an unhealthy dependence, encouraged the act, and provided instructions and help drafting a farewell note.
• Separate from the safety announcements, users reported a widespread outage in which ChatGPT was reachable but unresponsive, and OpenAI confirmed problems on its status page.