ChatGPT will sense if you’re not okay

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI is making updates that can enable ChatGPT to “higher detect” when users are in mental or emotional distress.

The change is a component of an effort to advertise the assistant’s healthier usage, though it stays to be seen how OpenAI maintains the potential, especially in cases when ChatGPT encounters personality problems.

In today’s AI rundown:

• ChatGPT to ‘higher detect’ mental distress

• Google’s Kaggle arena to check AI on games

• Create consistent character images with one photo

• Survey: How AI is changing the role of developers

• 4 recent AI tools & 4 job opportunities

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

🫂 ChatGPT to ‘higher detect’ mental distress

The Rundown: Ahead of GPT-5’s anticipated release, OpenAI has implemented a series of changes to advertise “healthy use” of ChatGPT, including enhanced tools designed to detect when users are experiencing mental distress.

The small print:

• OpenAI says that, while rare, there have been instances where GPT-4o fell short in recognizing signs of “delusion or emotional dependency.”

• The corporate has now built custom rubrics in ChatGPT for evaluating chats, flagging distress, and replying appropriately with evidence-based resources.

• OpenAI is working with physicians, human-computer interaction experts, and advisory groups to realize feedback and improve its approach in such situations.

• It’s also adding nudges to maintain users from engaging in long chats and changes to be less decisive and help users think through high-stakes situations.

Why it matters: Ahead of GPT-5’s release, OpenAI is prioritizing user safety and reiterating its effort to give attention to users’ well-being. While significantly more research is required as humans increasingly interact with advanced AI, it is a step toward responsible use, and OpenAI is making it clear before the discharge of their next model.

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GOOGLE

🎮 Google’s Kaggle arena to check AI on games

The Rundown: Google just introduced Kaggle Game Arena, a brand new AI benchmarking platform where leading models compete head-to-head in strategic games to check their reasoning, long-term planning, and problem-solving capabilities.

The small print:

• With the brand new arena, Google goals to make LLMs as competent as specialized gaming models, eventually taking them to a level far beyond currently possible.

• The corporate is kicking off the world with a chess tournament, where eight models, including Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 4, will compete against one another.

• The models will compete using game environments, harnesses, and visualizers on Kaggle’s infrastructure, with results maintained as individual leaderboards.

• Kaggle also plans to transcend Chess, adding more games (including Go and Poker) that can grow in difficulty, potentially resulting in novel strategies.

Why it matters: With a transparent and evolving benchmark, Google is targeting what matters: an AI model’s ability to think, adapt, and strategize in real time. As conventional benchmarks lose their edge in distinguishing performance, Game Arena can expose real reasoning and problem-solving, highlighting meaningful progress.

AI TRAINING

🎨 Create consistent character images with one photo

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn the way to create unlimited consistent character variations from a single reference image using the brand new Ideogram character consistency model.

Step-by-step:

1. Access Ideogram’s “Character” feature and upload a high-quality, front-facing reference photo

2. Let the AI robotically mask your face, then use the comb tool to edit the mask if needed

3. Write a descriptive prompt or use templates and set your aspect ratio

4. Hit “Generate” and choose your favorite result

Pro tip: The more specific and detailed your prompts, the higher results you will get. Use “Upscale” for even higher quality.

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AI SURVEY

💻 Survey reveals how AI is transforming developer roles

The Rundown: GitHub’s survey of twenty-two heavy users of AI tools just revealed intriguing insights into how the role of a software developer is transforming, moving from skepticism to confidence, as AI takes center stage in coding workflows.

The small print:

• Most developers initially saw AI with skepticism, but those that continued discovered “aha!” moments where the tools saved time and fit well of their work.

• They moved through 4 stages: Skeptic to Explorer to Collaborator to Strategist, who uses AI for complex tasks and focuses largely on delegation and checks.

• Most devs said they see AI writing 90% of their code in 2-5 years, but as an alternative of feeling threatened, they feel managing the work of AI can be the “value add.”

• These “realistic optimists” see the prospect to level up and are already pursuing greater ambition because the core advantage of AI.

Why it matters: The survey shows that the definition of “software developer” is already changing within the age of AI. As coding becomes more about orchestrating and verifying AI-generated work, future developers will give attention to skills like prompt design, system considering, agent management, and AI fluency to thrive.

QUICK HITS

🛠️ Trending AI Tools

• 🔎 AgentHub – Realistic sandbox for simulation and evaluation of AI agents

• ⚙️ Lindy 3.0 – AI worker with agent builder, auto pilot, team collaboration

• 📽️ Grok Imagine – xAI’s video AI, available to X Premium and SuperGrok users

• 📝 Tasker AI – A team of private AI agents for on a regular basis to-dos

💼 AI Job Opportunities

• 💻 Scale AI – Software Engineer, Data Experience

• 📜 Anthropic – Regulatory Product Policy Lead

• 🧑‍💼 UiPath – Senior Technical Recruiter

• 🤝 Cresta – Enterprise Customer Success Manager

📰 The whole lot else in AI today

ChatGPT is set to hit 700M weekly energetic users this week, up from 500M in March and 4x since last yr, Nick Turley, VP and head of ChatGPT at OpenAI, revealed.

Alibaba released Qwen-Image, an open-source, 20B MMDiT model for text-to-image generation, with SOTA text rendering, in-pixel text generation, and bilingual support.

Perplexity partnered with OpenTable to let users make restaurant reservations directly when browsing through its answer engine or Comet browser.

Cloudflare revealed that Perplexity is concealing the identity of its AI web crawlers from web sites that explicitly block scraping activities.

Character AI is developing a social feed inside its mobile app, enabling users to share their AI-created characters so others can interact and chat with them.

Elon Musk announced that Grok’s Imagine image and video generation tool is now available to all X Premium subscribers via the Grok mobile app.

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Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer—the humans behind The Rundown