TNB Tech Minute: Families of Mass Shooting Victims Sue OpenAI for Negligence
WSJ Tech News Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 29 April 2026
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I think the potential of Agenic is to rethink how work gets done overall. |
| 0:05.0 | It challenges all sorts of traditional orthodoxies around how organizations execute the work at hand. |
| 0:11.3 | That's Jason Gersatus, CEO of Deloitte U.S., talking about the transformational potential of A.Gentic AI. |
| 0:17.8 | Join him later to learn why agents are a game changer for businesses across industries. |
| 0:24.8 | Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Wednesday, April 29th. I'm Imani Moise for the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:31.2 | Families of seven mass shooting victims filed lawsuits against OpenAI this morning over its failure to flag |
| 0:36.5 | the chat GPT activity of the suspect |
| 0:38.7 | accused of opening fire in a Canadian mining town in February. The families alleged OpenAI acted |
| 0:44.3 | in negligence, violated product liability standards, and aided and abetted the shooting, which |
| 0:50.1 | killed eight people and injured more than 25 in Tumblr Ridge, British Columbia. |
| 0:58.2 | A spokeswoman for OpenAI said the company has strengthened its safeguards, |
| 1:01.0 | improved how chat GPT responds to signs of distress, |
| 1:04.1 | connects people with local support and mental health resources, |
| 1:08.2 | and strengthened how it assesses and escalates potential threats of violence, |
| 1:10.9 | including detection of repeat policy violators. |
| 1:14.2 | That isn't the only legal battle the company is facing this week. |
| 1:19.4 | Elon Musk took the stand yesterday in federal court against Open AI, a company he helped found. The billionaire testified that company leaders tried to, quote, steal a charity and |
| 1:24.5 | manipulated him into funding a non-profit venture only to later convert it to a for-profit |
| 1:29.0 | company. Must attorneys told the California jury that he provided tens of millions of dollars in early |
| 1:34.1 | funding to ensure AI was developed safely. Lawyers for OpenAI say that Must supported the structural |
| 1:39.8 | change and is only suing to harass a competitor. News Corp, the owner of the Wall Street Journal, |
| 1:45.6 | has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI. And the European Union said that meta platforms |
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