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OpenAI shuts down pipeline of professional advice on ChatGPT [updated]

Reddit used to be democratizing tool for expert professional advice, but now it's all over. OpenAI lawyered up.
You can no longer use ChatGPT as your personal doctor, as it defies the EU AI Act and FDA guidance, according to OpenAI. (Picture: Adobe)
UPDATE: OpenAI says there are no changes, simply a consolidation of several usage policies that might have lead to confusion.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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OpenAI introduces Pulse, an AI agent that works when you sleep

OpenAI's new feature is an autonomous agent working on your behalf while you sleep.
Pulse will proactively research for you and reach out in the morning with the results. (Picture: OpenAI)
Calling it a «first step toward a new paradigm for interacting with AI,» Pulse will scan your topics of interest when you are offline and present you with a morning digest.

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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OpenAI tops ICPC coding contest for students, Google finished second

OpenAI solved 12 of 12 problems with vanilla GPT-5. Google had a custom model and solved 10.
OpenAI says they will now focus on scientific discovery. (Picture: OpenAI)
ChatGPT solved all 12 of 12 problems in the 2025 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) — an algorithmic programming contest for university students.

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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Sam Altman on teen use: «Some of our principles are in conflict»

OpenAI will start automatic age checks on its users, and direct teens to clean, "age-appropriate" version.
Happy and clean ChatGPT is coming for teens, and it will call the cops if you cross the line. (Picture: generated).
Trying to balance freedom with safety, OpenAI is going all in on an age-appropriate version of ChatGPT.

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.

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People are mostly using ChatGPT for personal stuff, OpenAI study finds

Most ChatGPT use is personal, and personal guidance is the top category.
People aren’t using ChatGPT for PhD-level stuff, OpenAI discovers. (Picture: Adobe)
Surprisingly few users are using the ChatGPT app for professional work, finds a new study by OpenAI.

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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OpenAI paper: Why hallucinations happen, and what can be done to fix them

Still confounding the AI industry is what to do with confidently wrong answers, aka hallucinations.
If we reward no answers instead of wild guesses, the industry might move away from hallucinations, OpenAI argues in a new paper. (Picture: generated).

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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OpenAI to route sensitive prompts to reasoning models, introduce parental controls

Messages of acute distress will be routed to reasoning models in the future.
ChatGPT should better detect mental health issues, and OpenAI has convened a panel of experts. (Picture: generated)
Following a teen’s suicide and another murder-suicide aided by ChatGPT in a single week, OpenAI is proactively announcing wellness updates coming in the next months.

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.

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ChatGPT-6 is already in the pipeline, with better personalization, memory

GPT-6 should be much more attuned to your personality, and you should be able to make it more attuned to your needs.
The next great thing is always around the corner, and hype is already building for GPT-6. (Picture: generated)
For Sam Altman, expanding the memory functions of the next GPT model will be key, he tells CNBC.

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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