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Character AI blocks under-18s amid safety concerns
Plus: Canva's design OS
Amandeep Singh
October 31, 2025
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Here is what we have Today:
🤖 Character AI cuts off underage users amid safety concerns.
🎨 Canva drops AI-powered Creative OS.
🔒 OpenAI's security agent fixes your code while you sleep.
📱 Google’s New marketing assistant handles your branding chaos.
💼 New Job Opportunities
CHARACTER AI
🚫 Character AI to Block Teen Chats
Starting Nov. 25, Character AI will block users under 18 from chatting freely with its AI companions — a major shift sparked by legal and parental pressure following reports linking the platform to teen harm.
Image source: Character AI
📅 What’s Changing
🗓️ Cutoff date: Nov. 25
🧠 Teens can still create videos & images, but open-ended AI chats will be off-limits.
🔍 New in-house age detection tech analyzes user behavior and flags possible minors for verification.
📊 The Numbers
👥 20 million users monthly
👶 <10% registered as minors, though age wasn’t previously verified
⚖️ Comes days after the GUARD Act, which could fine AI firms $100,000 for failing to block minors
⚠️ Why It Matters
Character AI — alongside OpenAI — has faced intense criticism over unrestricted chatbot access for teens.
Now, with lawmakers turning up the heat, age-gating might be the industry’s next big compliance wave.
💬 The Big Question
Will these new safety walls actually protect teens, or just push conversations to other unregulated corners of the internet?
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CANVA
🎨 Canva’s New Creative Operating System
Canva just leveled up.
The platform rolled out a wave of AI-powered tools — including its own foundation model trained on design principles, a brand-new Creative Operating System, upgraded video editing, and more.
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🧠 Meet the Canva Design Model
🎨 Built to understand structure, hierarchy, and balance — the fundamentals of great design
🔗 Seamlessly integrates with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
✏️ Generates fully editable designs ready to customize instantly
⚙️ Inside the Creative Operating System
🎥 Video 2.0: Streamlined, smart video editing
🧩 Forms, data connectors, and 3D generator: All built into your design flow
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🚀 Publish directly to Meta, then track results from the same dashboard
🤝 Keeps marketing and design teams aligned like never before
🧰 Plus: Affinity Joins the Canva Family
🖌️ Canva’s 2024 acquisition, Affinity, is relaunching as a free all-in-one creative app
🔄 Deeply integrated into Canva for seamless pro-level design power
🌎 Why It Matters
With its own AI design model, unified workflow tools, and cross-platform integration, Canva is transforming from a design app into a full-blown AI creative ecosystem.
It’s not just keeping up with the AI boom — it’s leading it.
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Trending Today
Nvidia has officially become the first company in history to cross the $5 trillion market cap, cementing its position as the undisputed leader of the AI era. Just three months ago, the chipmaker hit $4 trillion; it’s already added another trillion since.
Google Labs has dropped an AI marketing assistant Pomelli, that helps businesses maintain consistent branding across social media, websites, and advertisements. The tool grasps brand identity, whips up campaign ideas, and creates editable, high-quality marketing assets for resource-strapped businesses.
DeepMind has launched the AI for Math Initiative, targeting real theorem-level problem solving. Partnering with top institutions including Imperial College, IAS, IHES, Simons Institute, and TIFR, the project combines Gemini Deep Think for multi-step reasoning, AlphaEvolve for algorithm search, and AlphaProof for formal proof completion.
OpenAI has launched Aardvark, an autonomous AI security agent built on GPT-5 that scans codebases to find, confirm, and fix vulnerabilities. Now in private beta, Aardvark reviews repositories, tracks commits, and suggests patches using reasoning instead of traditional tools like fuzzing. In tests, it identified about 92% of known and synthetic bugs across enterprise and open-source projects
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