A vigil after a mass shooter killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, in February

A vigil after a mass shooter killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, in February

 Paige Taylor White

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has apologized to a Canadian town devastated by a February mass shooting, saying he was "deeply sorry" the company did not notify police about the killer's troubling ChatGPT account.

OpenAI had banned an account linked to Jesse Van Rootselaar in June 2025, eight months before the 18-year-old transgender woman killed eight people at her home and a school in the tiny British Columbia mining town of Tumbler Ridge.

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