ChatGPT to go 18+

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI is finally breaking the shackles and venturing into the tempting, sometimes even dangerous, alley of erotica…

CEO Sam Altman says the assistant will soon “treat adult users like adults”. But within the race to make the experience more “enjoyable,” OpenAI could also be opening a Pandora’s box — where the road between intimacy and illusion blurs faster than it may well be policed.

In today’s AI rundown:

• OpenAI to permit erotica on ChatGPT

• Ant Group’s considering model bags IMO silver

• Automate market research in minutes

• AI slop nears human content on the net

• 4 recent AI tools, community workflows, and more

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OPENAI

🫣 OpenAI to permit erotica on ChatGPT

The Rundown: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just announced personality improvements planned for ChatGPT, including one that may allow the AI assistant to have mature, erotic conversations with eligible users — very like xAI’s Grok companions.

The small print:

• Altman said ChatGPT was made restrictive to guard at-risk users, but that hit enjoyment. Now, with age checks and safeguards, OpenAI will ease those limits.

• First, it should release a new edition of ChatGPT that behaves more like what people liked about 4o, after which by December, it should add support for erotica.

• This may allow verified adults to have mature conversations with the AI, giving them “an excellent deal of freedom” in how they interact with the assistant.

• Previously, the corporate had said it will let devs construct “mature” apps that run inside ChatGPT, with appropriate age-gating and controls, The Verge reported.

Why it matters: The AI companion market is large — and it looks like OpenAI isn’t about to let xAI’s Grok take the lead. While Altman says the mode won’t activate unless users explicitly ask for it, with 800M weekly users, the margin for error is incredibly small, and the risks of emotional dependency on AI companions are usually not studied.

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ANT GROUP

🧠 Ant Group’s considering model bags IMO silver

The Rundown: InclusionAI, Ant Group’s AGI initiative, unveiled Ring-1T, an open-source “considering model” that internally achieved silver-level on the International Mathematical Olympiad, sitting right behind Google and OAI’s gold-level models.

The small print:

• Built atop Inclusion’s MoE design, Ring-1T runs on 1T parameters (50B lively) with a 128K context window for ultra-long reasoning and multi-turn considering.

• On the IMO test, the model solved 4 problems in a single attempt to one in three, achieving silver-level and nearly matching Gemini 2.5 Pro on hardest query.

• It delivered near SOTA performance across multiple benchmarks, surpassing or closely matching flagship models from Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI.

• InclusionAI says Ring-1T is actively being trained and evolving, with goals to unlock deeper reasoning and improve alignment and efficiency.

Why it matters: With near–SOTA performance and almost GPT-5-level reasoning, Ring-1T further blurs the road between open and closed AI. It also marks one other major step in China’s bid to challenge the West within the AI race, leaving only a matter of time before the country produces a model able to taking the worldwide top spot.

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1. Install Python in your computer (Mac or Windows) to run the Computer Use agent — it’s a one-time setup that takes about five minutes

2. Clone the Computer Use repository from GitHub, activate the virtual environment, and install dependencies with easy terminal commands (pip install, playwright install)

3. Get your Gemini API key from AI Studio, link a billing account, and set it as an environment variable to attach the tool to Gemini’s AI model

4. Run your research task using python principal.py –query=”YOUR_TASK_INFO”, and Gemini will open Chrome, navigate sites, collect pricing and have data, and output a ready-to-save report.

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AI RESEARCH

🖋️ AI slop nears human content on the net

The Rundown: A Graphite study just found that AI-written articles briefly surpassed human-created ones on the net in late 2024, however the boom has since leveled off, with the net now split roughly evenly between human and AI authors.

The small print:

• Graphite analyzed 65,000 articles from Common Crawl, published between 2020 and 2025, using Surfer’s AI detector to find out authorship.

• The study found that the share of AI-written articles surged after ChatGPT’s launch, peaking well above human output in November 2024.

• Nevertheless, since then, the expansion has plateaued, with AI slop staying fairly stable and nearly at the identical level as human-written articles.

• The researchers attributed this stagnation to the widespread realization that AI-generated content doesn’t perform in addition to human content on search.

Why it matters: The nice AI content wave appears to be cresting. AI tools can churn out text at scale, but their struggle for visibility is popping much of it into background noise. The findings hint at a brand new balance (not measured on this study) where human, value-driven content maintains credibility, and AI settles as a collaborator.

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📰 Every little thing else in AI today

Salesforce and OpenAI partnered to integrate Agentforce 360 apps in ChatGPT, enabling direct CRM data and product sales through the assistant’s checkout feature.

Salesforce and Anthropic also expanded their partnership to make Claude the core model for Agentforce 360, develop sector-specific AI solutions, and integrate Claude in Slack.

Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let ChatGPT users explore and buy its products directly from chat, using the AI assistant’s Quick Checkout feature.

Alibaba’s Qwen team introduced more efficient, dense versions of Qwen3-VL 4B and 8B, outperforming models like Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite and GPT-5 Nano.

OpenAI released an updated web search model in Chat Completions, gpt-5-search-api, with 60% lower cost and domain filtering.

Google is launching a Gemini-powered “Help me schedule” feature that means meeting time slots based on a user’s Calendar and the context of the e-mail.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we showcase how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Nancy M. in Cape Charles, Virginia:

“ChatGPT has change into my behind-the-scenes creative partner in my art profession—it helps me brainstorm recent painting ideas, refine product descriptions for my paintings, craft lesson plans for my students, and even polish press releases and outreach emails so my work reaches the suitable audience.”

How do you utilize AI? Tell us here.

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