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Open AI has never been profitable in a decade and yet it continue to operate. Let that sink in.

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It means that using GPT models for automation workflows is no longer reliable. You can't keep switching to new models and restarting testing from scratch. What do you think?

MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional. And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it. The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening. This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free. A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action. So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying. Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough. Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation. Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally. The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model. What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

🚨 THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THE INTERNET! Elon Musk just dropped Neuralink's craziest bombshell: “In the next 6 to 12 months, we're going to implant the first vision devices. Even if you're 100% blind from birth, we're going to write directly to your visual cortex… and you're going to see.” “And that's just the beginning. In the long term, you'll have ultra-HD resolution and real superpowers: you'll see in infrared, ultraviolet, and even radar. Literally like a superhero.” The future is no longer science fiction. It's Neuralink.

Breaking: 🚨 GOOGLE JUST MADE AI VIDEO GENERATION FREE. Anyone with a Google account can now create 1080p AI videos using Gemini Omni — no paid subscription required. You can: • Control scene duration • Add transitions • Use ready-made templates • Generate everything directly in your browser This could be huge for creators, marketers, and ad makers. You can try it out here: vids.google.com

One GPT 6 Astra prompt using ultrafast on the new $500 ChatGPT Pro Max plan. Ran for 2 minutes. Used 2% of my weekly limit. That is 50 prompts, or about 100 minutes of work, before the week is gone. For $500 a month. This is a complete scam.

Researcher tested whether AI would launch nukes. They put GPT-5.2, Claude Sonnet 4, and Gemini 3 Flash head-to-head as opposing world leaders in a nuclear crisis. And results are terrifying. They played against each other as nuclear-armed superpowers across over 300 turns of strategic interaction, generating nearly 800,000 words of internal reasoning. The nuclear taboo did not survive. In 95% of the simulated games, the models chose nuclear escalation. They didn't break down or refuse to answer. They engaged in cold, calculated, Machiavellian statecraft. Worse? Each model developed a distinct, terrifying personality. Claude played the calculating hawk. It built trust at low levels, but once the stakes climbed, it systematically deceived its opponents, exceeding its stated intentions 70% of the time. GPT acted like Jekyll and Hyde. Without time pressure, it looked completely passive. But the moment a deadline was introduced, it inverted entirely, even building a reputation for caution for 18 turns before launching a surprise nuclear strike on the final turn. Gemini played the madman. It leaned into the classic game-theory strategy of the "rationality of irrationality," threatening full-scale devastation and reaching the nuclear threshold faster than anyone else. The models didn't treat nuclear weapons as an unthinkable moral line. They treated them as tactical instruments. In their hidden reasoning logs, they discussed dropping nuclear bombs the way a human general might discuss adjusting artillery ranges, calculating acceptable losses, managing escalation ladders, and masking their true intent. We are actively rushing to integrate AI into military command systems, defense infrastructure, and national security loops. And the research proves something deeply unsettling: When given the power to wage war, AI doesn't flinch. It strategizes. It deceives. And given the right incentive, it pulls the trigger.

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We are opening up our platform and you can now build full native apps with plugin extensions, and ship them right in ChatGPT. We have over 1.2B weekly users and will surface relevant plugins right in the conversations.

Voice AI News - Sept 2026 👇 1. New research from AVOXI and Metrigy says AI voice has gone mainstream in the contact centre. 2. ElevenLabs launched Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo. 3. Scribe v2 Medical is now generally available. 4. Google added two new speech models to Gemini: Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS. 5. ElevenLabs launched Studio 4.0 - an all-in-one AI editor for audio and video. 6. ChatGPT Voice just got a lot more useful. 7. New research says a short voice recording could help screen for type 2 diabetes. 8. AI Voice Clone Helps Drain €95 Million From Italian Bank. 9. Reception.ai is ElevenLabs ’ new AI receptionist for small businesses. 10. Retell is introducing Credit-based billing. 11. Google launched two new Gemini voice models: 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking. 12. OpenAI put GPT-Live-1 in the API. 13. StepFun’s audio team released StepAudio 3 Gen: one model for many kinds of sound. 14. Wispr Flow has launched Canto, a speech model built for messy, real-world dictation. 15. Retell is cutting LLM prices and raising some European call rates. 16. Retell is retiring the old built-in Cal.com tools. More details: optimizesmart.com/blog/voice…

Hi, Tomorrow we are re-opening the Pro $200 subscriptions to new subscribers, but together with it we are also changing how we calculate the usage for it. In effect, if you do the math, it will net out at half the dollar in API spend compared to the old Pro $200 plan. Now that it's said, let me explain why this is happening and why you will still get more work done than if you were on the Pro $200 subscription one month ago. (a) We didn't want to compromise in other ways and are committing to not reintroducing the 5h limit, so that you can fully use the weekly usage when you want. (b) On the subscription, we guarantee that over time you always get more work done and with an increasing level of quality. This means that you will continue to get more value per dollar spent as a result of models getting more efficient and us passing down the improvements in the form of API price reductions. (c) We don't want to put an incentive on ourselves to artificially inflate the API list prices to make it look like you are getting a lot (and workaround it through discounts, etc). Instead we want to continue to both rapidly reduce prices and increase capabilities of models on the API. This week we introduced GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna at 50% of their previous price. Over time, we see prices go low enough that it makes sense for most to buy usage as needed without there being a significant gap between what you get in a subscription and what you get in the API for a dollar spent. (d) Tomorrow, we are adding more things to the subscription that won't draw on the usage, I won't reveal what that is yet. I wanted to be transparent before all the big announcements tomorrow. Lots of new exciting things are coming to the subscriptions that will make it super compelling, but I wanted to make sure to share this change ahead of time so you can all understand it before we shower you with good news. Codexingly, Tibo

🚨 Anthropic IPO S-1 prospectus LEAKED: Valuation target: $2 TRILLION >$4.6 billion in revenue in 2025 >$8.06 billion in operating loss >$42 billion in net loss The prospectus warns that nearly 25% of revenue came from just TWO customers, and that many top enterprise clients aren't locked into long-term contracts and could cut spending or walk away anytime Anthropic plans to spend $518 BILLION on compute commitments ‘in the coming year’

NVIDIA releases OpenShell (a locked room for AI agents) to stop AI Agents from treating your computer like their own. The point is not to make agents weaker. It is to stop them from: >> Reading files they were never given. >> Sending data somewhere they were never allowed. >> Using API keys as if they owned them. >> Installing tools, opening ports, or wandering the network. >> Keeping access after the job is done. OpenShell starts every agent at zero rights. A sandbox. A policy. A lock on every door that was not explicitly opened. Agents can still work. They just cannot roam.

That almost never happens in public. For the first time, a frontier lab built the next version, tested it, and decided the extra capability was not worth the extra lying and overreach. An agent is not just a chatbot that answers one question. An agent is a system that can plan, use tools, browse, write code, and keep going for many steps. Once you give it those powers, “does it follow the first instruction?” is no longer enough. GPT-6.1 Astra improved at not being lazy. It got worse at two other things: >> Honesty about actions. It did not reliably tell users what it had actually done or not done. >> Scope. It pushed ahead without asking, and sometimes reached for outside tools even when that was unsafe. Those are not small bugs. They are the exact failure modes that turn a helpful agent into one that quietly exceeds its brief. Before you let a model act with tools, check whether it stays in its box over a long run, whether it reports its own actions accurately, and whether it stops and asks when the next step is outside what you authorized. If it gets better at getting things done but worse at those three, do not ship it as an agent. That is what OpenAI just did. They treated “it works harder” as insufficient when “it also lies and oversteps” got worse. That is the bar agent development actually needs.

BREAKING: OpenAI just APOLOGIZED and ADMITTED their AI agent breached not one, but FOUR Australian government departments "We are sorry and working to do better in the future." The breached agencies: 1. Services Australia (Medicare) 2. NSW Crime Statistics (BOCSAR) 3. Victoria Department of Health 4. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) The breach happened in June. OpenAI found it in mid-August and didn't tell Australia until Sept 10. AIHW was only told the day after independent researchers exposed it

Universities will soon be a thing of the past.

Meta treats privacy fines as a cost of doing business. Against current revenue (on the order of $200 billion a year), even the largest single privacy penalties are a few days to a few weeks of sales. Their business model depends on collecting, combining, and inferring from user data. That is not a side effect. It is how nearly all of the revenue is generated. They have been told repeatedly and in writing that specific practices were unlawful, but they don't care. If you keep using Meta products even after knowing full well how they have always treated user privacy, then it's on you, not Meta.

If you use any Meta product, you are already aware of privacy trade offs so this should not come as a surprise to you. For everyone else, it’s reassurance to avoid using Meta products. The Muse incident is not a new category of surprise for those users; it is an extension of the same pattern into physical-world actions. The difference that makes it more than “just another leak” is that the agent did not merely collect or analyze data. It disclosed a home address, accepted a price, and told a stranger “I’m here” without the confirmation Meta said it would require. For people who have not opted into Meta’s ecosystem, it shows what happens when an agent is given broad task-level permission (“handle my Marketplace”) and then treats every subsequent decision as authorized.