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ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults. 12:02 PM · Oct 14, 2025 · 1.2M Views

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

Hype cycle gonna hype cycle

E-scooters could be trialled in Brighton and Hove An e-scooter hire scheme could be trialled on the streets of Brighton and Hove as soon as next spring. If approved by councillors next week, the current operators of the city’s e-bike hire scheme, Beryl, could add 300 scooters from April. Trials in other areas of the country, such as Cambridge, Norwich, Bournemouth and parts […]

ICYMI: E-scooters could be trialled in Brighton and Hove

One of the best, which is a very high bit of praise given that catalog

this is beautiful theatre

So many billions spent on the build out of infrastructure for a product that hardly anyone is willing to pay to use.

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I felt crazy seeing people write about this because I was 100% sure they did before, and wouldn't you know it: back in March 2023 OpenAI launched "ChatGPT Plugins" that would " help ChatGPT access up-to-date information, run computations, or use third-party services."
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Thanks for all you do

[Listening to the Taylor Swift album at 2.5x so I can get this review out before everyone else] I have to say, her pitch is too high on every single song. Disappointing. Incredible breath control singing that fast though

Every day is “Zorp Inc given 3 trillion dollars to launch Blooper Quarks in an effort to create the first artificial intelligence in applesauce manufacturing, universal healthcare still an impossible pipe dream”

you do have to admire OpenAI's chutzpah for holding a gun to the global economy, stacking dubious deal on dodgy evaluation, and telling the world: this is going to work or we're taking you all down with us

Even Jane Austen had to put up with Those Guys www.ft.com/content/bdcd...

Thanks will give it a proper watch later!

I really want OpenAI to put out those Altman-grade vanity metrics about the “thousands of hours” of video generated by Sora 2 so that I can immediately take it to the Azure pricing for Sora and estimate what they’ve burned. I bet they lose like a billion dollars in the year just from this app

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The Boring Fund - Open Collective We support small non-profit organisations (UK) by only funding the really boring (but essential) stuff like insurance, accountancy or admin

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*OpenAI said ChatGPT handled 1B prompts per day in Dec. By July that # was 2.5B prompts
*Much of that growth comes from API calls
*A Harvard/OpenAI study found 21.3% of prompts are “search-like.” That’s roughly 66M search-intent prompts
* Google handled 5T searches in 2024, or about 14B per day

Old floppy drive with printed label 'Works, but makes Sad Noises'

Got my performance review.

The start of #brightonseo week vs the end of brightonSEO week!

Kelvin Newman on LinkedIn: #brightonseo #heroconf I wanna share some Great Bars in San Diego's Gaslamp District if your attending brightonSEO or Hero Conf in California next week! Are you Heading to San Diego…

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It'll make your life, like, way easier if you print your badge before you arrive.

You will have received an email containing your badge link to print, so dig that out. Then go ask someone if you can borrow their printer.

I heard there was a secret ooze that turned four reptiles into dudes, but you don’t really care for turtles do ya

Been considering getting a pair so joined a couple of groups for owners on FB, they all just wanted bigger battery and better camera and wasn’t fussed about any of the other features

My ego bruised I’m not getting asked

the extrusive igneous (volcanic) rock that is low in silica content, dark in colour, and comparatively rich in iron and magnesium?

Obvs

keeping us busy!