ChatGPT reports millions of troubling mental health conversations

OpenAI reports high numbers of mental health issues and says they are mitigating the issue with an update.
Once you look at actual numbers, the number of mental health issues with ChatGPT is astonishingly high. (Picture: generated)
OpenAI says remedies are being taken against three categories of troubling interactions with ChatGPT, and readies expert psychologist responses to them.

The categories are «psychosis, mania or other severe mental health symptoms,» which consists of around 0.07% of conversations — or 550,000 people in actual numbers.

Second is «self-harm and suicide,» ticking in at 0.15% of ChatGPT users — or 1.2 million in actual numbers.

And the third is «emotional reliance on AI,» accounting for 0.15% of users in a given week, also 1.2 million in real numbers.

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OpenAI said to be working on a music generation tool

OpenAI is said to be making an AI music generator, but results seem far off.
Music generation is on a tear these days, with people hardly noticing any difference from the hand made stuff. (Picture: Adobe)
The Information (paywalled) is reporting that OpenAI is well underway to create a music generator.

It could be used to generate music from a text or audio prompt — or make a guitar background to a vocal track, or add music to videos.

Recruiting at The Juilliard School
Apparently, the AI lab has partnered with students from The Juilliard School of music to annotate scores that could be used to train the generator.

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Weekend roundup: Resurrected Clippy, ChatGPT Business and AI Oreo ads

Microsoft wants to put up a nice face for you to talk to with Copilot.

Clippy much? Microsoft launches visualization of Copilot
If you ever use voice mode in Copilot, which Microsoft hopes to expand, you might see a new, expressive animation on your screen. That would be the newly announced «Mico.» Unlike the much maligned Clippy, Mico will use facial expressions that change as you talk. It’s only available in the US, and will work with an upcoming memory feature for Copilot to better respond to requests.
More at: Microsoft’s launch, The Verge and Ars Technica.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT Business
ChatGPT will now combine all the context of your businesses’ connected apps, like Slack, Sharepoint, Github and Google Drive. This makes it possible to ask pretty detailed questions about your business and have comprehensive answers delivered in one place — without the need to go searching through lots of different repositories. The feature is available tor Business, Enterprise and Education customers starting last Thursday.
More at: OpenAI’s launch page, The Verge and The Register.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas, it’s long awaited AI browser

The ChatGPT browser is finally here after about a year of development.
Comparing flight tickets on Expedia with Atlas takes a long time, but is well worth the effort: (Picture: screenshot)
ChatGPT has found a new home in OpenAIs new browser — and it comes with a powerful agent to perform tasks for you, as well.

The idea of the OpenAI browser has been in the works for quite a while and with its release today, it puts ChatGPT firmly on the web.

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Sundar Pichai: Gemini 3.0 is going to be released «this year»

With just two months left of the year, it's safe to the release of Gemini 3.0 is imminent.
Google has made «extraordinary progress» and are getting ready to debut Gemini 3.0 soon. (Picture: screenshot)
After many a rumor and speculation as to when Google would reply to OpenAI’s GPT-5 — we now have proof right from head of Google himself.

In a sitdown/interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce 2025 conference, that goes long on the future of AI, cloud and innovations, he let this qoute rip:

— We kickstarted Gemini, we brought Google brain and Google deep mind together, and we’ve been rapidly iterating since then, he tells Benioff, then adds some forward looking comments:

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Weekend roundup: Copilot everywhere, Veo 3.1 and Altman on morality

Microsoft wants to reimagine the whole PC experience to something you simply speak to.
Microsoft wants Copilot to listen for your prompt and interact with your screen, coming soon to Windows 11. (Picture: Microsoft)
Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC
The next revolution for Microsoft is putting the Copilot bot front and center in its operating system. Any Windows 11 PC will now be listening for the «Hey Copilot» prompt and you won’t be needing a Copilot Plus PC to engage with it. This will be across apps and settings and Windows 11 should simply «understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that.» The spooky part? They want Copilot to read your screen to interact with you.
More at: The Verge, Engadget and The Windows Blog.

Anthropic introduces «Skills»
The new feature across all of their apps is basically a memorized workflow, or folders of actions that Claude can use to remember how to do things. That means you can store a collection of prompts or actions within the app and have it used at a later stage, which can come in handy for tasks used often. It works across apps, so you can store instructions from Excel plotting to brand guidelines. And it’s scriptable, too, so you can save complete routines.
Read more: Anthropic’s launch page, writeup at The Verge.

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Anthropic launches Haiku 4.5; twice the speed at a third of the cost

Haiku 4.5 offers what would be state of the art performance six months ago, for a fraction of the price.
Haiku 4.5 will be the new face of Anthropic’s free plans, and offers similar performance to Sonnet 4. (Picture: Anthropic)
The latest Haiku model compares in performance with Sonnet 4 — which was state of the art half a year ago.

— What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was a state-of-the-art model, writes Anthropic. — Today, Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance, but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.

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Sam Altman says GPT-5 will be more friendly, allow age-verified erotica

After a while with strict restrictions, Altman says they have cracked the mental health problem and will allow for a more friendly ChatGPT.
ChatGPT is getting a new version that will act more like friend, if you want it to. (Picture: generated)
Almost instantly after GPT-5 was introduced and GPT-4o got deprecated, Altman had a rebellion on his hands — and quickly reneged.

Around the same time, OpenAI found themselves involved in court cases from people who were led down rabbit holes leading to death — and «ChatGPT psychosis» became a worry.

ChatGPT turned «Pretty restrictive»
Since then, GPT-5 and 4o got extremely restrictive to counter this trend and «being careful with mental health issues,» as Sam Altman puts it on x.com.

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Broadcom to supply OpenAI with 10 GW’s worth of custom chip capacity

With the deals annouced in just a couple of weeks, OpenAI will, along with Stargate, add a huge level of compute. It will all be online in late 2026.
OpenAI is adding an astonishing level of compute infrastructure over the coming years, and show no sign of stopping. (Picture: generated)
After first announcing their collaboration on an OpenAI designed chip in early September, Broadcom now says it’s ready to deliver.

Starting up in late 2026, just like the AMD and Nvidia deals — OpenAI will have added 26 gigawatts of capacity from these agreements alone, and one can wonder how capable the future of GPT will be.

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GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro scores Gold at International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics

GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro would make excellent research assistants, but are not yet suited for autonomous discoveries, the study finds.
One of the questions on the exams is calculating the distance of quasars. (Picture: screenshot)
Scientists and judges from the International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA) have given five top AI models a run through the exams from 2022 to 2025 — and top scores were awarded for the models from OpenAI and Google.

The IOAA is a top rated exam for global high school students and is held annually with some 300 participants from 64 countries, and consists of questions to demonstrate deep conceptual understanding, multimodal analysis and multi-step derivations.

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Weekend roundup: ChatGPT Go expands, Gemini Enterprise, reckognition for Genie and a familiar face

Sora 2 reaches a million downloads in five days -- faster than even ChatGPT did it.
Sora 2 has become one of the hottest app on the App Store, shattering previous records. (Picture: OpenAI)

Sora hits 1 million downloads in five days
In what may be the fastest rush to the milestone, OpenAI’s Sora chief, Bill Peebles, just tweeted that they matched it faster than even ChatGPT. This is despite being limited by invites and only being available in North America, he points out. On the other hand, the copyright «slop» shows no signs of abating. California’s Creative Artists Agency, one of the largest around, are now warning of «significant risk» from the app, and saying creators deserve to be paid for their intellectual property.
More at: CNBC, TechCrunch and Engadget.

OpenAI delivers ChatGPT Go in slew of countries
After launching in India in August, and later expanding to Indonesia, the cost-effective new ChatGPT tier now becomes available in 18, mostly Asian, countries. The subscription offers slightly more access and should give 10x more messages, image generations than the Free tier and cost around $4.5 in local currencies.
More at: Nick Turley’s launch tweet, TechCrunch.

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Altman says more, «aggressive» deals to come off heels of AMD agreement

OpenAI is going to aggressively pursue data center deals in the "coming months."
Thinking two years in the future, Altman sees a massive demand for more number crunching. (Picture: screenshot).
OpenAI recently signed deals with both AMD and Nvidia that were almost polar opposites, but their appetite for data center capacity shows no sign of abating.

Their CEO has previously said that they aim for adding 1 gigawatt per week in the future, adding about a Hoover dam every fourteen days — and says many more deals are yet to come.

In the A16z podcast by Andreessen Horowitz today, Altman says «You should expect much more from us in the coming months», as reported by TechCrunch.

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Google launches Computer Use model, CodeMender and AI Mode expansion

It's been a busy 24 hours for Google's AI works.
Google’s CodeMender wont be released just yet, but is being offered to «critical open source software.» (Picture: Google)
It’s been a busy 24-hour stretch for Google, launching two new models and an expansion of AI mode into Europe.

The CodeMender model is based on Google’s own research into finding zero-day vulnerabilities in computer programs, where they found lots of exploits, and stipulated that humans would struggle to keep up with AI scanners once implemented widely.

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OpenAI debuts apps in ChatGPT and a bevy of developer tools on Dev Day

ChatGPT now has helpful apps in the app -- tuning in directly with their external backends.
Very useful mass market apps, but not a lot of them to start off. (Picture: OpenAI)
Noting that ChatGPT now has 800 million weekly active users, CEO Sam Altman declared you can now make playlists from Spotify, find hotels and go house hunting directly from the app.

The new app framework also supports helpful apps from Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Expedia, Figma and Zillow to begin with.

More apps are slated for «later this year.»

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OpenAI’s 2025 Dev Day with Altman livestream incoming

Speculation is rife as to what Altman might announce at the livestream.
Will it be a browser, a new image model, or the highly anticipated AI device? It’s too soon to tell. (Picture: generated)
The October 6. stream will be an excellent moment to announce product news for the OpenAI CEO, but only a few items remain on their to-do-list.

Nothing has been announced but a cryptic tweet promising «new ships,» which could mean anything from new models to new modalities:

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