harm

Harm is the negative consequences or damage resulting from actions, products, or events. In a business context, it often refers to the legal, financial, or reputational damage a company faces due to its products or practices.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news as a key issue in lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies over alleged negative effects of their drugs and business practices.

Latest on harm

• STAT+: Pharma’s free lunches for doctors boost inappropriate prescribing, analysis finds
• STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about a setback for Argenx, Lilly suits over copycat versions of an obesity drug, and more
• STAT+: Pharmalittle: We’re reading about PhRMA suing Trump, biotech frustration over tariffs, and more
• T20 ties have softened on-field rivalries, says Harmer
• Paytm's Vijay Shekhar Sharma wants India to build its own AI models, ready to fund the builders
• 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded for ‘mirror image’ molecule research, with impact on pharmacology
• The tools designed to protect children online are now scanning billions of posts, amplifying harm at a scale no human team could ever match.
• The lawsuit alleges that OpenAI's technology caused harm to children in the United States.
• When an AI system causes harm, we still lack a framework to assign accountability between the developer, the deployer, and the AI itself.
• questioning who would be accountable if an autonomous company causes harm.
• The very automation designed to scale trust is now amplifying harm, exposing millions of transactions to novel, AI-driven scams that traditional fraud controls can't detect.
• when an algorithm initiates a $50,000 transaction on behalf of a customer, and that transaction fails or causes harm

Connections

6 entities linked to harm across the news graph.