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Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}. OpenAI is making updates that will enable ChatGPT to “better detect” when users are in mental or emotional distress.
The change is part of an effort to promote the assistant’s healthier usage, though it remains to be seen how OpenAI maintains the capability, especially in cases when ChatGPT encounters personality problems.
In today’s AI rundown:
ChatGPT to ‘better detect’ mental distress
Google’s Kaggle arena to test AI on games
Create consistent character images with one photo
Survey: How AI is changing the role of developers
4 new AI tools & 4 job opportunities
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OPENAI
🫂 ChatGPT to ‘better detect’ mental distress
Image source: OpenAI
The Rundown: Ahead of GPT-5's anticipated release, OpenAI has implemented a series of changes to promote "healthy use" of ChatGPT, including enhanced tools designed to detect when users are experiencing mental distress.
The details:
OpenAI says that, while rare, there have been instances where GPT-4o fell short in recognizing signs of “delusion or emotional dependency.”
The company 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 gain feedback and improve its approach in such situations.
It’s also adding nudges to keep 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 focus on users’ well-being. While significantly more research is needed as humans increasingly interact with advanced AI, it's a step toward responsible use, and OpenAI is making it clear before the release of their next model.
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🎮 Google’s Kaggle arena to test AI on games
Image source: Kaggle
The Rundown: Google just introduced Kaggle Game Arena, a new AI benchmarking platform where leading models compete head-to-head in strategic games to test their reasoning, long-term planning, and problem-solving capabilities.
The details:
With the new arena, Google aims to make LLMs as competent as specialized gaming models, eventually taking them to a level far beyond currently possible.
The company is kicking off the arena with a chess tournament, where eight models, including Gemini 2.5 Pro and Grok 4, will compete against each other.
The models will compete using game environments, harnesses, and visualizers on Kaggle’s infrastructure, with results maintained as individual leaderboards.
Kaggle also plans to go beyond Chess, adding more games (including Go and Poker) that will grow in difficulty, potentially leading to 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 genuine reasoning and problem-solving, highlighting meaningful progress.
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🎨 Create consistent character images with one photo
The Rundown: In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create unlimited consistent character variations from a single reference image using the new Ideogram character consistency model.
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Access Ideogram’s “Character” feature and upload a high-quality, front-facing reference photo
Let the AI automatically mask your face, then use the brush tool to edit the mask if needed
Write a descriptive prompt or use templates and set your aspect ratio
Hit "Generate" and select your favorite result
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AI SURVEY
💻 Survey reveals how AI is transforming developer roles
Image source: GPT-4o
The Rundown: GitHub’s survey of 22 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 details:
Most developers initially saw AI with skepticism, but those who persisted discovered “aha!” moments where the tools saved time and fit well in 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 instead of feeling threatened, they feel managing the work of AI will be the “value add.”
These “realistic optimists” see the chance to level up and are already pursuing greater ambition as the core benefit of AI.
Why it matters: The survey shows that the definition of “software developer” is already changing in the age of AI. As coding becomes more about orchestrating and verifying AI-generated work, future developers will focus on skills like prompt design, system thinking, agent management, and AI fluency to thrive.
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📰 Everything else in AI today
ChatGPT is set to hit 700M weekly active users this week, up from 500M in March and 4x since last year, 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 websites that explicitly block scraping activities.
Character AI is developing a social feed within 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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