Jesse Van Rootselaar's chats describing gun violence were flagged by tools that monitor the company's LLM for misuse and banned in June 2025. Staff at the company debated whether or not to reach out to Canadian law enforcement over the behavior but ultimately did not, according to the Wall Street Journal. An OpenAI spokesperson said Van Rootselaar's activity did not meet the criteria for reporting to law enforcement; the company reached out to Canadian authorities after the incident.
"My wife and I were there just to enjoy the family day," Michael Black said. "I was watching the games, looking to my left, and in front of me, you heard a bang, bang."
Three people were killed at a Rhode Island ice rink after shots were fired at a high school hockey game Monday afternoon, Pawtucket authorities said. Three people are dead, including the suspected shooter, and three more were injured at Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, a spokesperson for Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien said. The shooting, which took place around 2:30 p.m., appeared to be "a targeted family dispute," the mayor's office said.
An 18-year-old trans woman has been identified by police as the suspected shooter responsible for nine deaths in the small Canadian town of Tumbler Ridge. The tragedy has sparked an alarming wave of anti-trans rhetoric, with influential right-wing figures using it to spread dangerous misinformation on the prevalence of trans-perpetrated violence. "This will just get uglier now for us and for our community as a whole, when our attention should be on the care of these victims and to support communities,"
When a gunman began firing inside an academic building on the Brown University campus, students didn't wait for official alerts warning of trouble. They got information almost instantly, in bits and bursts - through phones vibrating in pockets, messages from strangers, rumors that felt urgent because they might keep someone alive. On Dec. 13 as the attack at the Ivy League institution played out during finals week, students took to Sidechat, an anonymous, campus-specific message board used widely at U.S. colleges, for fast-flowing information in real time.
It was, it was six months, man. Not six months, six semesters. Uh... I had already planned this for a little more. It seems that I'm starting to see a bit better out of my eye, but very little or almost nothing. The time for the final conclusions has arrived. The time for the final conclusions has arrived. Uhm, it was all a little incompetent but at least something was done.
The two young men were peers, brilliant aspiring scientists working toward a degree at Portugal's most prestigious engineering school, a white building at the top of a grassy plaza in Lisbon. A quarter-century later, both were in the United States, but their paths had diverged radically. Nuno Loureiro was a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a beloved mentor who researched the behavior of plasmas.
One of the alleged Bondi beach shooters visited a firearms shop during his visit to the Philippines, local police have revealed as they investigate what the pair did in the weeks before the mass shooting. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed stayed in a hotel in Davao City for four weeks before returning to Australia on 28 November, only two weeks before they allegedly killed 15 people and wounded dozens of others at a Hanukah celebration in Sydney on Sunday.
On Sunday, father-and-son gunmen armed with shotguns killed 15 people and injured 40 more at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. Their target was Chanukah by the Sea, an annual event run by the Chabad of Bondi. The dead include a Holocaust survivor, a rabbi, and a 10-year-old girl. It is the deadliest mass shooting to occur in Australia since the Port Arthur massacre in 1996, a tragedy that reshaped the nation.
Fifteen people were killed when, according to local police, father and son Sajid and Naveed Akram allegedly opened fire on more than 1,000 people attending a Jewish festival in the Archer Park area of the popular beach at 6.47pm local time on Sunday. Sajid Akram, 50, was shot by police and died at the scene, but 24-year-old Naveed, who awoke from a coma on Tuesday, was charged with 59 offences, including 15 counts of murder and committing a terrorist attack, New South Wales (NSW) Police confirmed.
