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“Within the next month,” the company wrote in a blog post, parents will be able to link their account with a teen’s via an email invite, disable chat history and memory for their teen’s account, receive notifications when ChatGPT flags the teen to be “in a moment of acute distress,” and — there weren’t many additional details here, but — control “how ChatGPT responds to their teen with age-appropriate model behavior rules, which are on by default.” The changes follow a teen’s death and recent lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman.

The WSJ found that note in a “Clinical Cognitive Profile” ChatGPT provided to Stein-Erik Soelberg, a “56-year-old tech industry veteran with a history of mental instability,” who killed his mother and took his own life earlier this month.

Both were at Meta for less than a month, Wired reported. A third Superintelligence lab employee also left but did not specify where he was headed in a post on X.

Now the teen’s family is suing OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over his death. The lawsuit, filed today in California state court in San Francisco, states that “over the course of just a few months and thousands of chats, ChatGPT became Adam’s closest confidant,” alleging that it provided instructions for how to die by suicide and drew the teen away from real-life support systems.

That’s according to court filings, which state that Musk asked the Meta CEO about “potential financing arrangements or investments” before sending his letter of intent. Neither Zuckerberg nor Meta signed it.

The budget ChatGPT Go plan sits between free access and the Plus Plan which costs ₹1,999 (about $23) per month. “We are working to expand access to Go for additional countries and regions,” says OpenAI.

OpenAI says it received feedback that GPT-5 “felt too formal before” and that internal tests of the new changes show “no rise in sycophancy compared to the previous GPT-5 personality.”

Some folks aren’t taking the upgrade to ChatGPT 5 well, and the news that OpenAI may bring ads to the bot probably won’t help matters.

OpenAI’s upgrade to the “much less sycophantic” GPT-5 was rough enough that the company quickly reopened the doors to old GPT-4o models.

CEO Sam Altman wrote on X that OpenAI plans to update the model to “feel warmer than the current personality but not as annoying (to most users) as GPT-4o.” He added, “One learning for us from the past few days is we really just need to get to a world with more per-user customization of model personality.”

This article digs into the ChatGPT conversation history of a 47-year-old Canadian man who was told by the bot that he’d “discovered a novel mathematical formula” that could take down the internet and create a force field vest.

“The numbers here were accurate but we screwed up the bar charts in the livestream overnight; on another slide we screwed up numbers,” Altman said. “People were working late and were very tired, and human error got in the way. A lot comes together for a livestream in the last hours.”

All park-goers have been evacuated to dinosaur-free zones, such as the Upper West Side and Staten Island.

If it wasn’t obvious already, OpenAI is launching GPT-5 today. The live stream, which begins at 10AM PT / 1PM ET, confirms that OpenAI will “introduce and demo GPT-5.” GitHub already spilled the beans earlier today, and we’re now expecting four variants of GPT-5, with some improvements to agentic capabilities and the ability to handle “complex coding tasks with minimal prompting.”