Sam Altman announces mature ChatGPT conversations

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  • 🔥 OpenAI plans mature conversation modes for ChatGPT.

  • 💰 Buy products directly in ChatGPT conversations.

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  • 🥈 Ant Group's Ring-1T achieves silver on international math challenge.

  • 💼 New Job Opportunities

OpenAI

🧠 Sam Altman Turns Up Adult Mode for ChatGPT

OpenAI is lifting the filters — carefully.

Sam Altman just confirmed that ChatGPT will soon allow mature, erotic conversations for verified adults — a major shift from its famously restrictive approach.

Image source: Ideogram

🧩 Why the Change?
Altman says ChatGPT was “too safe” — designed to protect at-risk users, but it made the experience less fun and less human.

Now, OpenAI is relaxing those limits — with age checks and strict safeguards.

🚀 What’s Coming Next

  • 🧠 A new ChatGPT update, more natural and expressive (like GPT-4o).

  • 🗓️ By December, adult-mode conversations roll out.

  • 🔞 Only for verified 18+ users — full privacy controls included.

🧱 Behind the Scenes
Earlier, OpenAI hinted it would let developers build mature apps inside ChatGPT — with moderation and age gates.
(Source: The Verge)

💥 Why It Matters
The AI companion market is heating up — fast.
With xAI’s Grok already exploring emotional connection, OpenAI clearly doesn’t want to be left behind.

But with 800M weekly users, even a small mistake in filters could cause chaos.

Researchers also warn: AI emotional dependency is still uncharted territory.

💬 Altman’s Promise

“The mode won’t activate unless users explicitly ask for it.”

Still… this is OpenAI’s most daring update yet.

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Ant Group

🧠 Ant Group’s AI Thinks Like a Mathematician

China just landed a silver medal — but not in sports. In math. And the winner isn’t human.

Ant Group’s InclusionAI unveiled Ring-1T, an open-source “thinking model” that just earned a silver-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) — right behind Google and OpenAI’s gold-tier models.

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🔍 What’s Inside Ring-1T

  • 💡 Built on Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture

  • ⚙️ Packs 1 trillion parameters (50B active)

  • 🧩 Features a 128K context window — great for ultra-long reasoning and multi-turn thinking

🧮 The Results Are In

  • 🧠 Solved 4 problems in one try, 1 in three tries — silver-level IMO ranking

  • 🥈 Nearly matched Gemini 2.5 Pro on the toughest challenge

  • 🚀 Hit near–SOTA benchmarks across the board, rivaling models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI

🔄 What’s Next?

Ring-1T is still learning.
InclusionAI says it’s actively training to unlock deeper reasoning, better efficiency, and tighter alignment.

🌏 Why It Matters

With reasoning power approaching GPT-5, Ring-1T narrows the gap between open-source and closed AI — and signals China’s accelerating climb toward the global AI summit.

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  • Walmart has entered a strategic partnership with OpenAI to embed shopping directly inside ChatGPT, allowing users to browse, plan, and complete purchases through a conversational interface. This integration leverages ChatGPT’s Instant Checkout feature, enabling customers to receive personalized recommendations and make purchases without leaving the chat.

  • Nano Banana, the Gemini 2.5 Flash–based model behind 5B+ image edits, is now embedded across Search, Lens, NotebookLM and soon Photos. Lens on iOS and Android gets a new Create mode for real-time image generation and transformations.

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