"CEO Sam Altman announced new policies for under-18 users of ChatGPT, tightening safeguards around sensitive conversations. The company says it will block flirtatious exchanges with minors and add stronger protections around discussions of suicide, even escalating severe cases to parents or authorities. The move comes as OpenAI faces a wrongful death lawsuit tied to alleged chatbot interactions, underscoring rising concerns about the mental health risks of AI companions."
"OpenAI rolled out GPT-5-Codex, a new version of its AI coding agent that can spend anywhere from a few seconds to seven hours tackling a task, depending on complexity. The company says this dynamic approach helps the model outperform GPT-5 on key coding benchmarks, including bug fixes and large-scale refactoring. The update comes as OpenAI looks to keep Codex competitive in a fast-growing market that now includes rivals like Claude Code, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot."
"OpenAI is shaking up its Model Behavior team, the small but influential group that helps shape how its AI interacts with people The roughly 14-person team is being folded into the larger Post Training group, now reporting to lead researcher Max Schwarzer. Meanwhile, founding leader Joanne Jang is spinning up a new unit called OAI Labs, focused on prototyping fresh ways for people to collaborate with AI."
OpenAI implemented stricter safeguards for users under 18, blocking flirtatious exchanges with minors and adding stronger protections for discussions of suicide, with severe cases subject to escalation to parents or authorities. The company faces a wrongful death lawsuit related to alleged chatbot interactions, contributing to increased scrutiny of mental health risks from AI companions. OpenAI released GPT-5-Codex, an AI coding agent that allocates from seconds to seven hours per task, claiming improved performance on bug fixes and large-scale refactoring versus GPT-5. The Model Behavior team was folded into the Post Training group, while a new OAI Labs unit will prototype collaboration workflows.
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