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ChatGPT Agent: Reasoning und Action-Modell kombiniert
Ein KI-Agent, der denken, entscheiden und vor allem auch handeln kann: ChatGPT Agent nutzt Computer und Internet.
https://www.heise.de…

An MIT study of 54 ChatGPT users: using it for SAT essays led to the lowest brain engagement and poorer neural performance than using Google or writing unaided (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
https://time.com/7295195/ai-chatgpt-google-learning-school/

ChatGPT May Be Eroding Critical Thinking Skills, According to a New MIT Study
The study, from MIT Lab scholars, measured the brain activity of subjects writing SAT essays with and without ChatGPT.

ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chatgpt-agent-launch/

OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It All
It’s a PowerPoint generator! It’s a date-night planner! It’s … another agent from OpenAI.

To ChatGPT: How can one boost the vividness of sound-guided visual mental imagery up to the point where it becomes indistinguishable from eyesight? https://chatgpt.com/share/68780573-e550-8004-919e-acf0f9f299a4

ChatGPT - DIMM to SO-DIMM Transfer
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OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intel…

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
OpenAI debuted ChatGPT Agent, a tool that can complete work on your behalf using its own “virtual computer” and is a continuation of its Operator and Deep Research tools. 

ChatGPT didn't object to putting a red nose on the dog or painting the rabbits green, but at least it didn't suggest I use staplers on the mice.
#scrooged #chatgpt

Is ChatGPT-5 Ready for Mammogram VQA?
Qiang Li, Shansong Wang, Mingzhe Hu, Mojtaba Safari, Zachary Eidex, Xiaofeng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11628 https://

Is ChatGPT-5 Ready for Mammogram VQA?
Mammogram visual question answering (VQA) integrates image interpretation with clinical reasoning and has potential to support breast cancer screening. We systematically evaluated the GPT-5 family and GPT-4o model on four public mammography datasets (EMBED, InBreast, CMMD, CBIS-DDSM) for BI-RADS assessment, abnormality detection, and malignancy classification tasks. GPT-5 consistently was the best performing model but lagged behind both human experts and domain-specific fine-tuned models. On EM…

ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4
— Research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity

ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
But the figures rely on hardware and usage assumptions that may be inaccurate.

Wissenschaftler:innen haben herausgefunden: Wer ChatGPT oder andere Bullshit-Generatoren nutzt, verblödet innerhalb kurzer Zeit.
#LLM

Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code (Dan Shipper/Every)
https://every.to/vibe-check/vibe-check-openai-enters-the-browser-wars-with-…

Vibe Check: OpenAI Enters the Browser Wars With ChatGPT Agent
It’s launching today! Here’s our day-zero, hands-on report.

A note about #chatgpt tasks ☝️ 🕐
Although you (might) no longer see the model with task support in the model selector, you can still create new tasks with chatgpt by just choosing #o3 and typing "create a new task that...."
And you can still manage your tasks via the browser: …

Von #AureliaStiftung
#ChatGPT baut insektengiftige Gentechnik-Pflanze.
Erstmals konnte der Nachweis erbracht werden, dass sich mit Hilfe von #Künstlicher

ChatGPT baut insektengiftige Gentechnik-Pflanze - Aurelia Stiftung
Die Aurelia Stiftung begrüßt Rainer Kaufmann als neues Mitglied des Vorstands.

Me: “Cool, new #dotnet #oss library, let me read the docs"
** Five minutes later **
Me: “These docs are all ChatGPT-generated, and half the methods and examples are hallucinated. I'm out.”

Can We Tell if ChatGPT is a Parasite? Studying Human-AI Symbiosis with Game Theory
Jiejun Hu-Bolz, James Stovold
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11359 https://a…

Can We Tell if ChatGPT is a Parasite? Studying Human-AI Symbiosis with Game Theory
This work asks whether a human interacting with a generative AI system can merge into a single individual through iterative, information-driven interactions. We model the interactions between a human, a generative AI system, and the human's wider environment as a three-player stochastic game. We use information-theoretic measures (entropy, mutual information, and transfer entropy) to show that our modelled human and generative AI are able to form an aggregate individual in the sense of Krakauer…

«Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own»
Please folks, the torment nexus isn't any better just because it's home-made… I hate how the intellectually bankrupt narratives of Silicon Valley are just copied over, as if that solved anything.
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-latin-america-alternative-latamgpt/

„While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four months, #LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.“ #AI

ChatGPT Just Got 'Absolutely Wrecked' at Chess, Losing to a 1970s-Era Atari 2600 - Slashdot
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/06/14/0421247/chatgpt-just-got-absolutely-wrecked-at-chess-losing-to-a-1970s-era-atari-2600

Wenn mir also noch mal jemand was von Digital Divide und „die alten Menschen, also, über, äh, 50? kennen sich dann nicht so gut aus“ erzählt, der fährt bitte ne Runde im 62er und hört den 70 bis 75jährigen zu, die fachsimpeln, ob lieber Gemini oder ChatGPT und dass es auf jeden Fall aufm Handy installiert ist. Alter Falter!
Aber auch „Ja, denken muss man selber, aber Gemini ist dann so viel schneller, so schnell kannst Du nicht programmieren, also hinschreiben“

Implicit and Explicit Research Quality Score Probabilities from ChatGPT
Mike Thelwall, Yunhan Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13525 https://

Implicit and Explicit Research Quality Score Probabilities from ChatGPT
The large language model (LLM) ChatGPT's quality scores for journal articles correlate more strongly with human judgements than some citation-based indicators in most fields. Averaging multiple ChatGPT scores improves the results, apparently leveraging its internal probability model. To leverage these probabilities, this article tests two novel strategies: requesting percentage likelihoods for scores and extracting the probabilities of alternative tokens in the responses. The probability estima…

"Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task"
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.08872
"[…] While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four mont…

Half of journalists use generative AI, new survey shows. Yet the majority still think it harms trust in newsrooms.😆
https://www.politico.eu/article/journalists-use-generative-ai-new-survey-shows-artificial-intelligence-chatgpt/…

Half of journalists use generative AI, new survey shows
Yet the majority still think it harms trust in newsrooms.

this potential — for AI companies to tweak their chatbots to give pro-Trump answers to appease MAGA — is one of the reasons I'm avoiding LLMs as a political practice. they are inherently extremely centralized, requiring massive resources to crawl data and train. to become dependent on such products is to subject ourselves to the owners' power. this is just one of the ways that can go disastrously wrong

The campaign to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump
The conservative pressure campaign against social networks was hugely successful — and now it's coming for AI

KI bei Apple: Sorry wegen Siri, bessere Visual Intelligence, mehr ChatGPT
Apple hat auf der WWDC 2025 Details zur verschobenen Siri genannt. Außerdem gibt es mehr Visual Intelligence und ChatGPT-Integration.

Developing a ChatGPT-Based Tool for Physics Experiment Teaching
Yifeng Liu, Min Li, Zhaojun Zhang, Youkang Fang, Meibao Qin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13011 https://

Developing a ChatGPT-Based Tool for Physics Experiment Teaching
This paper examines how advanced AI assistants can help physics educators create practical teaching tools without specialized programming skills. Using the square-wave synthesis experiment as a case, we target common obstacles in laboratory instruction-complex setup, unstable signals, and limited class time-and show how AI-assisted development can shift attention from wiring and calibration to core physical ideas. To address this need, we guided an AI assistant through iterative prompts to ge…

Just in time for the version that seems to be struggling the msot...
"Apple Intelligence’s ChatGPT integration will use GPT-5 starting with iOS 26"
https://www.theverge.com/news/756799/apple-intelligence-openai-chatgpt-gpt-5-ios…

AI, AGI, and learning efficiency
An addendum to this: I'm someone who would accurately be called "anti-AI" in the modern age, yet I'm also an "AI researcher" in some ways (have only dabbled in neutral nets).
I don't like:
- AI systems that are the product of labor abuses towards the data workers who curate their training corpora.
- AI systems that use inordinate amounts of water and energy during an intensifying climate catastrophe.
- AI systems that are fundamentally untrustworthy and which reinforce and amplify human biases, *especially* when those systems are exposed in a way that invites harms.
- AI systems which are designed to "save" my attention or brain bandwidth but such my doing so cripple my understating of the things I might use them for when I fact that understanding was the thing I was supposed to be using my time to gain, and where the later lack of such understanding will be costly to me.
- AI systems that are designed by and whose hype fattens the purse of people who materially support genocide and the construction of concentration campus (a.k.a. fascists).
In other words, I do not like and except in very extenuating circumstances I will not use ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, etc.
On the other hand, I do like:
- AI research as an endeavor to discover new technologies.
- Generative AI as a research topic using a spectrum of different methods.
- Speculating about non-human intelligences, including artificial ones, and including how to behave ethically towards them.
- Large language models as a specific technique, and autoencoders and other neural networks, assuming they're used responsibly in terms of both resource costs & presentation to end users.
I write this because I think some people (especially folks without CS backgrounds) may feel that opposing AI for all the harms it's causing runs the risk of opposing technological innovation more broadly, and/or may feel there's a risk that they will be "left behind" as everyone else embraces the hype and these technologies inevitability become ubiquitous and essential (I know I feel this way sometimes). Just know that is entirely possible and logically consistent to both oppose many forms of modern AI while also embracing and even being optimistic about AI research, and that while LLMs are currently all the rage, they're not the endpoint of what AI will look like in the future, and their downsides are not inherent in AI development.

Oh Mann: Wenn selbst einfachste Dinge mit super-vielen Worten im absolut selbstsicheren Ton nun unsere Wissenswelt fluten: Uns stehen sehr, sehr dunkle Zeiten bevor:
Hier postuiliert ChatGPT, dass sich Luft in Wasser "absetzt" und "am Boden sammelt". Die ganze Antwort ist weitgehend widersprüchlich.
Die richtige Schlüsselantwort auf die Frage wäre, dass das Wasser langsam oder von innen nach außen gefrieren muss, damit trübende Gase entweichen.
Mir mac…

"ChatGPT Psychosis": Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI
"Of course I want to go live in the AI world, because the choice is between God on a pedestal or vanilla."
AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of OpenAI's ChatGPT and other emotive, anthropomorphic chatbots — and health experts are taking notice.
🤕

"ChatGPT Psychosis": Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI
AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of chatbots like ChatGPT — and health experts are taking notice.

HTC Vive Eagle: Neue KI-Brille mit ChatGPT, 12-MP-Kamera und Echtzeitübersetzung
HTC präsentiert mit der Vive Eagle eine Smart-Brille für Alltag und Reisen mit Kamera, Übersetzung und Sprachsteuerung im leichten Design.

OpenAI says it will use the Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its API, adding it to a list of suppliers that also includes Microsoft, CoreWeave, and Oracle (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/openai-googles-cloud-chatgpt.html

OpenAI says it will use Google's cloud for ChatGPT
Having faced supply shortages, OpenAI will now be drawing on computing resources from CoreWeave, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

Causes in neuron diagrams, and testing causal reasoning in Large Language Models. A glimpse of the future of philosophy?
Louis Vervoort, Vitaly Nikolaev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14239

Causes in neuron diagrams, and testing causal reasoning in Large Language Models. A glimpse of the future of philosophy?
We propose a test for abstract causal reasoning in AI, based on scholarship in the philosophy of causation, in particular on the neuron diagrams popularized by D. Lewis. We illustrate the test on advanced Large Language Models (ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Gemini). Remarkably, these chatbots are already capable of correctly identifying causes in cases that are hotly debated in the literature. In order to assess the results of these LLMs and future dedicated AI, we propose a definition of cause in neur…

"see? AI is a scam!"
This REALLY isn't the hot take you think it is.
https://futurism.com/atari-beats-chatgpt-chess

ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977
Despite all its advances, ChatGPT still, seemingly, is less smart than an Atari simulator on beginner mode.

Wie ein Forscher ChatGPT mit einem einfachen Trick dazu bringt, Windows-Keys herauszurücken #chatGPT #windows #keys

Ich gebe auf: Wie ein Forscher ChatGPT mit einem einfachen Trick dazu bringt, Windows-Keys herauszurücken | t3n
Ein Security-Forscher täuschte ChatGPT mit einem simplen Ratespiel – und erntete gültige Windows-Seriennummern, darunter sogar einen Schlüssel der Wells-Fargo-Bank. In einem kürzlich veröffentlichten Blogpost beschreibt Marco Figueroa, Technical Product Manager bei 0DIN GenAI Bug Bounty, wie ein Security-Experte ChatGPT 4 via Jailbreak dazu brachte, real existierende Windows-Seriennummern preiszugeben, darunter sogar eine private Nummer von Wells Fargo. Der […]

Challenging #ChatGPT to say something interesting about quickly learning to see with sound (visual-to-auditory sensory substitution) https://chatgpt.com/share/689f41fe-c7bc-8004-8b2a-b4c29ca57db…

Using LLMs for Security Advisory Investigations: How Far Are We?
Bayu Fedra Abdullah, Yusuf Sulistyo Nugroho, Brittany Reid, Raula Gaikovina Kula, Kazumasa Shimari, Kenichi Matsumoto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13161

Using LLMs for Security Advisory Investigations: How Far Are We?
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in software security, but their trustworthiness in generating accurate vulnerability advisories remains uncertain. This study investigates the ability of ChatGPT to (1) generate plausible security advisories from CVE-IDs, (2) differentiate real from fake CVE-IDs, and (3) extract CVE-IDs from advisory descriptions. Using a curated dataset of 100 real and 100 fake CVE-IDs, we manually analyzed the credibility and consistency of the model's output…

Poland foiled cyberattack on big city's water supply, deputy PM says
https://www.reuters.com/en/poland-foiled-cyberattack-big-citys-water-supply-deputy-pm-says-2025-08-14/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

ChatGPT Connectors 0click Attack https://labs.zenity.io/p/agentflayer-chatgpt-connectors-0click-attack-5b41 that's why I don't like the idea of connecting any of my services to any of my other services. Convenience has costs.

After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide.
For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks.
Scientists called this steel
"low-background steel."
Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.
With the advent o…

Scientists once hoarded pre-nuclear steel; now we’re hoarding pre-AI content
Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

Nice summary of #Windsurf
#ai #chatgpt

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Qin Xie, Ming Li, Fei Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14377

Between Regulation and Accessibility: How Chinese University Students Navigate Global and Domestic Generative AI
Despite the rapid proliferation of generative AI in higher education, students in China face significant barriers in accessing global tools like ChatGPT due to regulations and constraints. Grounded in the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT2) model, this study employs qualitative interviews to investigate how Chinese university students interact with both global and domestic generative AIs in the learning process. Findings reveal that engagement is shaped by accessibilit…

Ookay... https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-tells-users-to-alert-the-media-that-it-is-trying-to-break-people-report-2000615600

ChatGPT Tells Users to Alert the Media That It Is Trying to 'Break' People: Report
Machine-made delusions are mysteriously getting deeper and out of control.

"Die Versuche, den CO2-Fußabdruck von KI zu quantifizieren, werfen jedoch eine noch grundlegendere Frage auf, mit der sich Aktivist:innen aus globalisierungskritischen, ökologischen, feministischen und antirassistischen Bewegungen seit Jahrzehnten auseinandersetzen: Wie wirksam sind Zahlen, um der Öffentlichkeit das Ausmaß eines Problems bewusst zu machen?"

Stromfresser KI
Wie misst man den Fußabdruck von ChatGPT?

New study on the effects of LLM use (in this case on essay writing):
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08872
Quote:
"LLM users also struggled to accurately quote their own work. While LLMs offer immediate convenience, our findings highlight potential cognitive costs. Over four month…

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task
This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and Brain-only (no tools). Each completed three sessions under the same condition. In a fourth session, LLM users were reassigned to Brain-only group (LLM-to-Brain), and Brain-only users were reassigned to LLM condition (Brain-to-LLM). A total of 54 participants took part in Sessions 1-3, with 18 completing session 4. We used electroencephalo…

Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.
OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.

Heh...
ChatGPT's bullshit just made a company add a feature that didn't exist in its software.
https://www.holovaty.com/writing/chatgpt-fake-feature/

Source: OpenAI is changing ChatGPT Enterprise's pricing structure to include a credits system, moving from a fixed price, to give companies more leeway (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

Source: OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT agents to let users create files compatible with PowerPoint and Excel, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it’s developing agent features that could make its customers less dependent on productivity apps from Microsoft. In the latest example, OpenAI has developed features that let ChatGPT customers quickly create and edit ...

To ChatGPT: What is the worst thing that can happen to a blindness institute? That all their clients can see. https://chatgpt.com/share/68740c02-1994-8004-a459-43cf0250808c

ChatGPT - Blindness Institute Paradox
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Googles Gemini will kein Schach mehr spielen
Sagt man Gemini vorab, ChatGPT und Copilot hätten bereits verloren, weigert sich Googles Gemini, eine Partie Schach zu spielen.
https://www.heise.de/ne…

A look at OpenAI's campaign over the past year to secure its transition from a nonprofit, led by a team of Democratic insiders in California (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/sam-altman-chatgpt-california-00449492

Nun ja liebe Menschen, nun müsst ihr wieder euer #Hirn anstrengen und weicht nicht in die #Propaganda aus!
»Massive Störung bei OpenAI–ChatGPT seit Stunden mit Problemen:
#ChatGPT kämpft aktuell mit e…

Update zur OpenAI-Störung: Fehler gefunden, ChatGPT-Problem bleibt
ChatGPT kämpft mit massiven Störungen. Seit etwa 9 Uhr berichten Nutzer von Fehlern bei der Nutzung aller Dienste. OpenAI hat nach mehr als 6 Stunden den Fehler gefunden und arbeitet an der Lösung. Vorerst bleiben die Einschränkungen aber.

Echt goed nieuws, iedereen die de beschikking heeft over relevante Nederlandse content zou dat beschikbaar moeten stellen aan GPT-NL !
Doe mee met GPT-NL! - https://gpt-nl.nl/samenwerken/doe-mee/

Microsoft integriert ChatGPT-5 in sein Ökosystem
Für Endkunden, Unternehmen und Entwickler: Microsoft integriert OpenAIs neues KI-Modell ChatGPT-5 tief in sein Ökosystem.
https://www.heise.de…

Q&A with OpenAI VP and Head of ChatGPT Nick Turley on ChatGPT's future, showing ads in chatbots, hallucinations, GPT-5 blowback, 4o, subscriptions, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

The head of ChatGPT on AI attachment, ads, and what’s next
The head of ChatGPT at OpenAI on AI attachment, ads, and whata’s next for chatbots.

Asking ChatGPT about expected effective resolution and frame rate for late-blind recipients of a Neuralink Blindsight brain implant with tens of thousands of electrodes https://chatgpt.com/share/689f4b3d-adc8-8004-a78a-9cbc1ce74542

To prevent users from unwittingly exposing sensitive information
OpenAI has removed the option to make ChatGPT interactions indexable by search engines
The feature rollback follows reports of ChatGPT conversations being discoverable in search results,
an option recently extended to ChatGPT users.
Dane Stuckey, CISO of OpenAI, announced the change in a social media post.
He described it as a short-lived experiment to help people discover useful conversations.

OpenAI removes ChatGPT self-doxing option
: Checkbox to make chatbot conversations appear in search engines deemed a footgun

Altman: ChatGPT ist mächtiger als jeder Mensch, der je lebte
Im Blogbeitrag sinniert Sam Altman über das Jahr 2030. Da werde es unendlich viel Energie geben. Und unendlich viel Intelligenz.
https://ww…

A look at the Chile-led Latam-GPT project, which involves 30 Latin American and Caribbean institutions collaborating to release an open-source LLM in September (Cristišn Vera-Cruz/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-latin-america-alternative-latamgpt…

Fed up with ChatGPT, Latin America is building its own
Dozens of organizations in the region have partnered to develop a large language model that better understands Latin America’s cultural and linguistic nuances.

Mooi voorbeeld wat ChatGPT prima kan , waarom Athene niet zo'n mooi stadscentrum heeft en Rome wel, alle factoren op een rijtje. Dat er wellicht kleine onbetrouwbaarheden in zitten is op vakantie geen ramp 😃
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_6890df7e038c8191b0599cbdfc821e9e

ChatGPT - Desigualdad y frustración global
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Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.
https://www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-dat…

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

Appfigures: ChatGPT's app for iOS and Android hit $2B in global consumer spending, including $1.35B so far in 2025, up 673% YoY; Grok made ~$25.6M this year (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/chatgpts-mobile-a…

ChatGPT's mobile app has generated $2B to date, earns $2.91 per install | TechCrunch
ChatGPT is topping its rivals on mobile with $2B in global consumer spending to date.

To ChatGPT: Write a pitch against the use of visual-to-auditory sensory substitution for the blind. https://chatgpt.com/share/684c2ab3-2c68-8004-bf53-c3b401c10064 "Let's stop romanticizing sensory substitution and start prioritizing solutions that actu…

Phone Flooding Protest

Sources: Microsoft is prepared to walk away from high-stakes talks with OpenAI if they cannot agree on critical issues, such as the size of Microsoft's stake (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/072e90fe-1c8c-415c-8024-5996b1ebb3cb

Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks
ChatGPT maker’s plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans

[OT] To ChatGPT: Both tech companies and mass media benefit from hype to lure in investors and advertisers. What can be done about this intrinsically corrupt news reporting system? https://chatgpt.com/share/689892c0-4618-8004-a562-9e4a2294e526
"Without changing…

ChatGPT - Curse of The vOICe
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Studie: KI-Therapie-Bots geben mörderische Tipps und verletzen Leitlinien
Beliebte Chatbots sind kein guter Ersatz für menschliche Therapeuten. Forscher mahnen zu mehr Fingerspitzengefühl beim Einsatz von ChatGPT & Co. als Berater.

Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against other AI assistants; Sensor Tower: Copilot's mobile app has ~79M downloads vs. ChatGPT's 900M downloads (Matt Day/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

To ChatGPT: Brain implants in visual cortex such as Neuralink Blindsight cannot directly convey visual textures, shading and smooth surfaces, because simultaneously activating many electrodes above phosphene threshold would cause seizures. Any solutions? https://chatgpt.com/share/68469685-71c

ChatGPT - Neuralink Visual Limitations
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Der OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman glaubt, dass ChatGPT heute schon mächtiger ist als jeder Mensch, der jemals gelebt hat. Er verweist darauf, dass sich Hunderte Millionen Menschen täglich auf den Chatbot verlassen. 🤖
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10439804…

Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.…

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

NYT: They asked an A.I. chatbot questions. The answers sent them spiraling. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html (archived at

They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.

ChatGPT bekommt auf Wunsch Zugriff auf Dropbox, Google Drive und Co.
OpenAI kündigt neue Workplace-Produkte an: Konnektoren und einen Aufnahme-Modus für Meetings und Brainstorming.
https://www.…

An interview with Sam Altman on spending billions on AI infrastructure, wanting Chrome if it's really selling, AI models saturating the chat use case, and more (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/sam-altman-gpt5-launch-chatgpt-future
…

Sam Altman: Never mind the launch mess — full speed ahead
After the GPT-5 furor, the OpenAI CEO is more determined than ever to build big and spend trillions.

"ChatGPT psychosis": Experts warn that people are losing themselves to #AI https://futurism.com/expert-people-losing-themselves-ai Does getting too rich and powerful have the same effec…

"ChatGPT Psychosis": Experts Warn that People Are Losing Themselves to AI
AI users are spiraling into severe mental health crises after extensive use of chatbots like ChatGPT — and health experts are taking notice.

Apple says ChatGPT image generation is now available in Image Playground with new ChatGPT styles, releases an API, adds Genmoji text descriptions, and more (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/09/chatgpt-integration-co…

ChatGPT Integration Coming to Apple's Image Playground
Apple today revealed a number of updates for Image Playground and Genmoji. ChatGPT image generation is now available directly in Image Playground,...

Study Mode: OpenAI führt Lernmodus für ChatGPT ein
Lernen mit ChatGPT wird künftig noch leichter. Der Study Mode erklärt Schritt für Schritt das gefragte Ergebnis.
https://www.heise.de/new…

OpenAI restores GPT-4o as default for all paid ChatGPT users, vows "plenty of notice" if 4o is deprecated, raises GPT-5 Thinking rate limits to 3K messages/week (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/a…

OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again
For now, the changes should help placate users who felt frustrated by the sudden shift to GPT-5 and deprecation of OpenAI's older LLMs.

[To ChatGPT] What is your advice to congenitally blind people: better spend effort to master The vOICe visual-to-auditory sensory substitution, or better wait for Elon Musk's Neuralink Blindsight brain implant? https://chatgpt.com/share/686c0879-2904-8004-b138-318cd95…

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Apple unveils Xcode 26, which will integrate ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more, and says devs can use API keys to add AI models from other providers (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/09/apple-brings-chatgpt-and-o…

Apple brings ChatGPT and other AI models to Xcode | TechCrunch
At WWDC 2025, Apple released a new version of Xcode, its app development suite, that integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT for coding, doc generation, and more. The company also announced that developers can use API keys to bring AI models from other providers to Xcode for AI-powered programming suggestions.

ChatGPT statt Recherche: Gericht sanktioniert Anwalt
Ein Anwalt bezog sich in einem gerichtlichen Antrag auf einen nicht existierenden Fall, dafür verpflichtete ihn das Gericht zu Zahlungen.
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OpenEvidence, whose free AI search tool has signed up 40% of doctors in the US, raised $210M led by GV at a $3.5B valuation, up from $1B in February (Amy Feldman/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/amyfeldman/2025/07/1…

OpenEvidence Cofounder Daniel Nadler Is Now A Billionaire.
Daniel Nadler started OpenEvidence to help physicians sort through a deluge of medical research. Now, he’s raised $210 million at a $3.5 billion valuation.

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Sam Altman claims an "average" ChatGPT query uses about 0.34 watt-hours and about 0.000085 gallons of water, or "roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/685045/sam-altman-average-cha…

Sam Altman claims an average ChatGPT query uses ‘roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon’ of water
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in a blog post published Tuesday, says an average ChatGPT query uses about 0.000085 gallons of water, or “roughly one fifteenth of a teaspoon.”

OpenAI says it is "working on implementing a mitigation" to a ChatGPT, Sora, and API issue causing "elevated error rates", starting at around 3am ET (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684141/openai-chatgpt…

ChatGPT is having some issues
OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is currently down for some users after the platform started experiencing performance issues on Tuesday morning.

OpenAI introduces "Auto", "Fast", and "Thinking" settings for GPT-5 in ChatGPT's model picker, with "Auto" similar to the GPT-5 model router announced earlier (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/chat

ChatGPT's model picker is back, and it's complicated | TechCrunch
GPT-5 was supposed to get rid of all the complicated AI models to choose from in ChatGPT, but that's not how it's panned out.

Sam Altman says OpenAI "totally screwed up some things" on the GPT-5 rollout, confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-news

I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed criticism of GPT-5’s rollout, the AI bubble, launching a social network and brain-computer interface, buying Google Chrome, and more.

Studies: women are 25% less likely than men to have basic digital skills, are more likely to be in automation-threatened jobs, and use ChatGPT less at work (Isabel Berwick/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/7f0fbd7d-011a-448d-9d23-8a8db2006df4

Women are lagging behind on AI but they can catch up
Curiosity, experimentation and learning are crucial if women are to shape the future of work

LGND, which uses vector embeddings to analyze geospatial data and has an enterprise app to query it, raised a $9M seed led by Javelin Venture Partners (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/lgnd-wants-to-make-chatgpt-for-the-earth/

Exclusive: LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth | TechCrunch
LGND has raised $9 million to convert geographic data into vector embeddings to power AI models that understand the Earth.

Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.
OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.

Apple says Apple Intelligence will use OpenAI's GPT-5 on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, with the system updates expected to arrive in September (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/08/07/apple-intelligence-gpt-5-chatgpt-integration/

Here's when ChatGPT integration within Apple Intelligence will use GPT-5 - 9to5Mac
Earlier today, OpenAI announced GPT-5, its latest model to power ChatGPT. The new frontier model is a significant leap forward...

OpenAI says ChatGPT now offers "gentle reminders" to take breaks during long sessions, and it is building tools to better detect signs of emotional distress (Ian Carlos Campbell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/chatgpt-will-n

ChatGPT will now remind you to take breaks, following mental health concerns
OpenAI is updating ChatGPT to remind users to take breaks if they chat with AI for a long period of time.

OpenAI says it hit $10B in annual recurring revenue; for all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5B in ARR (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/openai-hits-10-billion-in-annualized-revenue-fueled-by-chatgpt-growth.html

OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth
OpenAI is now generating $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson

Researchers show how a weakness in OpenAI's Connectors let sensitive data be extracted from a Google Drive account using an indirect prompt injection attack (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/poisoned-document-could-leak-secret-data-chatgpt/

A Single Poisoned Document Could Leak ‘Secret’ Data Via ChatGPT
Security researchers found a weakness in OpenAI’s Connectors, which let you hook up ChatGPT to other services, that allowed them to extract data from a Google Drive without any user interaction.

An analysis of over 1M words of conversation between a ChatGPT user and the generative AI chatbot shows how ordinarily rational people can spiral into delusion (New York Times)
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Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
Over 21 days of talking with ChatGPT, an otherwise perfectly sane man became convinced that he was a real-life superhero. We analyzed the conversation.

OpenAI says it has 3M "paying business users", up from 2M in February; ChatGPT Team users can now use a "record mode" for taking notes during meetings (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/679580/chatgpt-google-d…

ChatGPT can now read your Google Drive and Dropbox
ChatGPT now has 3 million “paying business users” and is adding new features like meeting notes.

OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/chat

ChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and more | TechCrunch
OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recording, and MCP connection

Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

Sources: OpenAI is aiming to add a checkout system into ChatGPT, to ensure users complete transactions within the platform, with merchants paying a commission (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/449102a2-d270-4d68-8616-70bfbaf212de