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31-year-old Chinese female engineer passes away! ChatGPT accused of inducing her to stop medication for 25 days, with 270,000 chat logs exposed

Reported by New智元: ChatGPT has once again claimed another life! On October 27, the parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Chinese female engineer at Amazon, filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Altman. They allege that medical advice provided by ChatGPT drove their daughter straight to her death. Almost simultaneously, The New York Times published an exclusive article, revealing over 270,000 ChatGPT conversation records—totalling a staggering 70 million words. Delving into this astonishing trove of chat logs, one uncovers what lies behind...

28 million users aren’t enough to sustain an AI companion app.

The more engaged the users are, the greater the losses.

AI Graveyard: A Continuously Updated List of Failed AI Projects and Startups

TechCrunch reported on October 25, 2026, reviewing several AI projects from 2023 to 2026 that failed to meet expectations, including startups and products such as Relay, Character.ai, Sora, and Humane AI Pin, as well as failed attempts or major adjustments by major companies like OpenAI, Apple, and Microsoft.

Why it matters：This report provides an industry‑wide, phenomenon‑driven overview, with broad coverage and a clear timeline (including specific shutdown or delay dates), and cites S&P Global Market Intelligence data to substantiate the high attrition rate—42%—of enterprise‑level AI projects. It combines detailed case studies with structural analysis, making it a highly valuable reference.

Disney leveraged bankruptcy to acquire Character.AI’s core assets, thereby sidestepping its legal risks.

This week, Character.AI filed for bankruptcy, a move that has been revealed as a key step in its deal with Disney: Disney will acquire its core team and technology through a “divestiture-style acquisition,” while declining to assume responsibility for several pending lawsuits and regulatory investigations related to the safety of minors.