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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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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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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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.
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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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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It works on the basis of your previous chats, feedback and even connected apps, if you let it.
Users can also instruct it directly about what they are interested in and want in the next update.
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That result would have given it first place if it were human, as the best college teams only solved eleven.
Google also participated with a custom Gemini 2.5 Deep Think and earned Gold status, solving 10 of the problems and finishing second, Google claims.
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Teen use of chatbots and their potential harm is rapidly becoming a hot-button political issue, complete with a Congressional hearing and an FTC probe.
OpenAI is therefore reiterating their new policies on teen use and parental controls, and says they will be rolling out automatic age verification for under-18 users that should default to the teen version when in doubt.
Continue reading “Sam Altman on teen use: «Some of our principles are in conflict»”
The highest use category for ChatGPT is «non-work-related» messages, according to the study of anonymized ChatGPT usage, having grown from 53% in June 2024 to 73% of all questions posed as of July 2025.
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Confidently wrong answers by large language models have been plaguing both users and labs since AIs inception, but a new study from OpenAI seeks to find a solution.
LLMs are trained on finding the next word in huge datasets, they say, focusing solely on finding the correct word in a sequence rather than looking for accuracy.
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This includes alerting parents of teens in distress, routing queries to a more powerful reasoning model when appropriate, and giving parents more control over their kid’s usage.
The company has assembled a council of experts in «youth development, mental health, and human-computer interaction,» which will shape how AI will «support people’s well-being,» they say in a blog post.
Better memory will enable GPT-6 to get to know us better, remember more details around us, and lead to much better personalization.
— People want product features that require us to be able to understand them, he tells MSNBC.
Will remember more about you
The next GPT should therefore remember more of who you are and what you care about, and allow you to create chatbots that «mirror personal tastes,» CNBC writes.
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The new plan offers greater access to GPT models, and expands on the free tier for just a little more cash.
Continue reading “OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go in India, a shortened paid tier for ~$5/month”