The policy wasn’t new, nor a change, but a consolidation of several different ones, and led to some confusion, it would seem.
OpenAI’s head of health, Karan Singhal, denies any changes entirely, saying ChatGPT will «continue to be a great resource for health information:»
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The new seven-year agreement doesn’t put a gigawatt number on the compute OpenAI is buying, but it costs roughly $40B to build out a 1 GW data center.
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Ads not going away
— I don’t see them [ads] going away. The way people are using Google Search isn’t really changing, what is happening is that it’s expanding [with AI services], he opines.
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OpenAI has updated ChatGPT’s usage policies of October 29, banning a vast swath of content where it was arguably the most useful — as in interpreting medical imagery and helping with medical diagnosis, and offering legal or financial advice.
The idea is to stop ChatGPT (and any other OpenAI model) from giving advice that could be interpreted as professional, fiduciary, or legally binding guidance, as required by the EU AI Act and American FDA guidance.
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Sora 2 expands, is now available without invite codes
Following the massive success of the Sora 2 video generator, OpenAI is opening up the service for those without invite codes in the USA, Canada, Japan and Korea «for a limited time.» Simultaneously, they are announcing reusable characters that can feature in more than one video and an easier way to stitch videos together. If that wasn’t enough, OpenAI is adding more video generations for power users hitting the 30-per-day generation limits and letting them pay for more gens. They are also musing about letting rightsholders get compensation for the reuse of their characters, as a means of getting paid for your work on the platform. They do warn that 30 gens needs too many GPUs and will be throttled at some stage.
More at: MacRumors and a Twitter announcement, list of available countries.
OpenAI reveals security research agent in beta
The new agent, Aardvark, will look through code repositories at scale almost like a human would, and find errors and exploits before the bad guys do. It will continually analyze your source code and find vulnerabilities. The agent has already been used to find «numerous» vulnerabilities in open source software, and OpenAI will provide pro bono scanning to «select, non-commercial» OSS systems. Aardvark is not being widely released, existing instead as a private beta inside OpenAI’s offices, kind of like Google’s CodeMender.
More at OpenAI’s announcement and ZDNet.
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The coming AI wars will be fought with data centers and gigawatts, and nobody wants to lose out.
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The new governance makes it possible for them to reach for a market debut at some time in the future, and unlocks the investment of some $30 billion from SoftBank, which was contingent on the regulatory change.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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— 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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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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