🤖 OpenAI separates teens in ChatGPT

Users aged 13-17 will get a separate version with stricter filters for harmful topics.

The bot cannot simulate emotions or provide ready-made homework answers.

Age will be estimated from more than 2,000 behavioral signals, including login time, so documents are not needed. The change follows lawsuits after children received harmful content.

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🤖 OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Agent Costs

GPT-5.6 Luna scored 84.04% on BrowseComp, nearly matching GPT-5.5 at 84.36%. Its run cost $1.33 instead of $33.27, making the gap hard to ignore.

For agent work, OpenAI recommends Luna and Terra for data extraction and document search. GPT-5.6 Sol on low reasoning also beat GPT-5.5 on high reasoning in one agent test.

The bigger gain comes from the agent setup. GPT-5.6 can preserve reasoning between steps and compact long histories. On ARC-AGI-3, that lifted Sol from 13.3% to 38.3% while using about 6 times fewer output tokens. The model itself was unchanged.

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🔎LandSpace Lands Zhuque-3 Booster

On its second flight, Zhuque-3 sent Hongqing Technology’s Honghu 03 satellite to orbit, then returned its first stage to landing legs on land. The first attempt ended in “anomalous combustion” near the pad.

It was China’s first recovery of an orbital rocket booster to landing legs, and the first landing by a private Chinese company. The 66-metre rocket runs on oxygen and methane, with a reusable booster and disposable upper stage.

China had recorded only 1 earlier landing, by CASC’s Long March 10B, which lowered its stage into a ship-deck net. Falcon 9 first landed in 2015.

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📹 Flock’s Cameras Feed an Investigative AI

Flock’s cameras cover 6,000 US communities. Its internal tool, first called Nightshift and now OS Investigate, pulls data from the network to log drivers’ movements.

Wired reports that police can search a mapped area using only a person’s physical description, time, location, and behavior. Results can be linked to police files, 911 call logs, and commercial databases, producing a name, home address, relatives, or friends.

A chatbot accepts plain-text requests, including searches for cars seen most often in an area over the last 14 days. Flock says the product is being tested with selected law-enforcement partners and that its current capabilities may change.

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☠️ Voyah EV Completes a Tunnel Loop

In a test tunnel in Wuhan, the Passion S entered a turn at 130 km/h, holding about 16° of steering angle. The resulting centripetal force pushed the electric crossover onto the wall, over the ceiling, then back down.

The electric crossover used its speed and the tunnel’s radius to stay pressed against the concrete.

The margin was tiny. A speed drop would reduce the normal force between the tires and concrete, so engineers had to calculate a narrow operating window for the heavy EV.

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🤖 One Generation From Always-On ChatGPT

Sam Altman says OpenAI is about one model generation away from ChatGPT running in the background throughout your digital life. It would watch the screen, attend meetings, and record calls.

You could connect it to email, documents, Slack, and messages. The system would build a full picture of your work and suggest solutions in real time, while leaving the final choice to you.

Most people now use AI in isolated sessions. The model Altman described would never switch off or lose context, giving one company a continuous record of your screen, conversations, and work.

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🤖 ChatGPT Can Now Send iMessages

The new Messages plugin can find conversations, catch up on missed chats, draft replies, and send them through ChatGPT.

It can check the calendar, suggest free dinner slots, find birthdays in messages, add them to the calendar, and flag chats that look like spam.

The plugin is available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop. Install it through Plugins, then Public.

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🌐 Chinese AI Models Close the Gap

A Bloomberg chart compares Chinese models in orange with US models in blue, using a weighted average across 9 benchmarks. Frontier models are connected by a line.

Over the past couple of years, the capability gap has narrowed sharply. Claims that Chinese models lag by 6-9 months look outdated, especially since GLM-5.3 is not included. Prices are not even part of the chart.

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🤖 OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Prices

API access and model credits are now over 20% cheaper. The new rates will last for the next three months.

The API gets the new rates first.

ChatGPT Work and Codex will follow, while paid subscriptions remain unchanged and standard user limits stay the same.

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