GPT-5.5 Boasts Coding Advancements, But Falls Short of Opus 4.7

OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns. Friends, family members, or caregivers designated as a "Trusted Contact" will be notified if OpenAI detects that a person may have discussed topics like self-harm or suicide with the chatbot. "Trusted Contact is designed around a simple, expert-validated premise: when someone may be in crisis, connecting with someone they know and trust can make a meaningful difference," OpenAI said in its announcement. "It offers another layer of support alongside the localized helplines already available … Read the full story at The Verge.

OpenAI's chatbot has some weird linguistic tics in Chinese that are driving users crazy.

Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic's Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox.

Anthropic says it’ll use all the AI compute capacity from SpaceX’s ‘Colossus 1’ data facility in Memphis.

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Meanwhile, the independent generative AI vendor expanded usage limits and reduced subscriber usage restrictions for big customers.

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Musk was “prepared to do the for-profit, provided he would get control.”