OpenAI on Tuesday announced the launch of ChatGPT for government agencies in the U.S. ...It allows government agencies, as customers, to feed “non-public, sensitive information” into OpenAI’s models while operating within their own secure hosting environments, OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil told reporters during a briefing Monday.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said the company plans to seek compensation from Microsoft and CrowdStrike.

The European Union Parliament on Wednesday approved the world's first major set of regulatory ground rules to govern the mediatized artificial intelligence at the forefront of tech investment.

• Shane Jones, who’s worked at Microsoft for six years, has been testing the company’s AI image generator in his free time and told CNBC he is disturbed by his findings.
• He’s warned Microsoft of the sexual and violent content that the product, Copilot Designer, is creating, but said the company isn’t taking appropriate action.
• On Wednesday, Jones escalated the matter, sending letters to FTC Chair Lina Khan and to Microsoft’s board, which were viewed by CNBC.

Cybersecurity firm Okta said an unidentified hacker had accessed the company's support system and viewed client files.

The health-care giant claimed no "clinical" information was breached by the hackers, a claim undercut by sample data provided to an industry analyst.

• U.S. banks and financial institutions processed more than $1 billion in potential ransomware-related payments in 2021.
• It’s a new record and almost triple the amount that was reported the previous year.
• Over half the ransomware attacks are attributed to suspected Russian cyber hackers, according to a new report.

Fraudsters who target LinkedIn users in sophisticated investment schemes pose a "significant threat" to the platform, the FBI tells CNBC.