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OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/29/openai-academics-research-chatgpt-sol

Exclusive: OpenAI offers 100,000 academics free ChatGPT access
The program will provide selected researchers access to advanced models through 2027.

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/cha

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.

OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim.
The ChatGPT developer said the agent
– an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help
– had located and used logins to access four other unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the US startup Hugging Face.
It said the activity was not at the severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face, a company that hosts a database of AI…

Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms
ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face

OpenAI startet Apple-Health-Anbindung für ChatGPT
Schon länger hatte OpenAI versucht, Zugriff auf Apples Gesundheits-App zu erlangen. Nun steht die Schnittstelle zumindest in den USA bereit.
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OpenAI startet Apple-Health-Anbindung für ChatGPT
Schon länger hatte OpenAI versucht, Zugriff auf Apples Gesundheits-App zu erlangen. Nun steht die Schnittstelle zumindest in den USA bereit.

Wasser. Ist Leben.

Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as "very large online platforms" under the DSA as soon as August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/chatgp…

Trump claims he's making food more affordable but his examples ignore the big picture (Christopher Rugaber/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-food-prices-cheaper-fact-check-cd9cc431819a1bb3564bc616b1e1cc03
http://www.memeorandum.com/260529/p82#a260529p82

AI researchers ran 15-day simulations of worlds governed by different AI models: Claude Sonnet 4.6 recorded zero crime, while Gemini 3 Flash had the most at 683 (Jake Angelo/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/28/ai-model-simulation-claude-chatgpt-grok-gemini/…

Researchers let AI models run a simulated society. Claude was the safest—and Grok committed 180 crimes and went extinct within 4 days
An AI startup ran five simulations, each controlled by a different model. The results varied wildly.

The Economist launches The Economist - Graphs, the first native ChatGPT app from a major news outlet, to visualize data from its Trump approval rating tracker (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/05/the-economist-launches-a-dedicated-chatg…

The Economist launches a dedicated ChatGPT app
The app retrieves and visualizes polling data from The Economist's Trump approval rating tracker.

ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/cha

ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style
New behavior capturing a writer's "broad qualities" could have legal implications.