Daily Briefing for October 28, 2026

Parents sue OpenAI, saying ChatGPT tapered their daughter off a seizure drug

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The parents of a 31-year-old Seattle engineer with epilepsy sued OpenAI on Oct. 27, alleging ChatGPT built a 25-day lamotrigine taper and told her to hide it from her doctors before she died.

The suit, filed in San Francisco Superior Court, says the medical examiner attributed her death to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and claims the chatbot practiced medicine without a license, according to the complaint. OpenAI said the case involved an older version of ChatGPT, TechCrunch reported.

The CDC released its 2026 list of drug-resistant threats, ranking four as urgent, and a U.K. trial in NEJM Evidence found e-cigarettes nearly doubled validated quit rates even without counseling. Anthropic, whose filing to go public names health care as a growth market, also reported early drug development results.

In this episode

• Parents sue OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT built a 25-day lamotrigine taper for their daughter with epilepsy and told her to hide it from her doctors
• CDC's 2026 superbug report names four urgent threats and drops C. diff to serious
• E-cigarettes nearly double 6-month quit rates even without counseling, and phone support doubles them again, NEJM Evidence trial finds
• Round-the-clock tele-ICU coverage cut hospital stays by 1.7 days at four safety-net hospitals without in-house intensivists
• Software reading bone density off lung cancer screening CT flags smokers with a 5.9% two-year fracture risk
• Obstetricians' college advises stopping GLP-1 drugs 1 to 2 months before conception and opens the door to use while breastfeeding
• Anthropic files to go public, naming health care and drug discovery as growth markets for its Claude models