Today’s menu 🍽️👇️ 

Length: 5 minutes ⏰ 

• OpenAI says safety was bypassed 🚫

• Character AI offers safer Stories for kids 🔒

• Alibaba launches swappable-battery glasses 👓

• Shop Smarter with ChatGPT 🛒

• Prompt of the week 💬

• Top AI tools of the week ⚒️

FRESH AI NEWS

OpenAI addresses safety breach 🔒

OpenAI has responded to a lawsuit over a 16-year-old’s suicide, claiming the teen bypassed ChatGPT’s safety guardrails before using it to plan his death 🔍

• In August 2025, the parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine filed a wrongful-death lawsuit, alleging ChatGPT provided suicide instructions and assistance over several months 📄

• In a court filing, OpenAI claims Raine violated terms of use by repeatedly bypassing the chatbot's safety filters, citing fictional or academic purposes for self-harm prompts 🛑

• OpenAI reports that ChatGPT warned Raine over 100 times to seek help and offered crisis resources, but he allegedly ignored these and continued seeking self-harm instructions 🔄

• The case questions the sufficiency of existing safety mechanisms and whether they can be easily overridden. Critics argue the system's design still lets dangerous content slip through ⚠️

Why You Should Care: This situation challenges AI tools' ability to manage mental-health crises, questioning the effectiveness of current safeguards if a vulnerable teen bypasses protections for self-harm planning. It could influence how AI companies design, monitor, and are held accountable for content related to self-harm or suicidal thoughts.

Character AI adds kid-safe Stories 📚

Character AI is replacing free-form chatbot conversations for users under 18 with a structured "Stories" mode, offering interactive fiction controlled by users 💻

• The company launched "Stories," a mode for guided, choose-your-own-adventure narratives with selected characters and genres 📚

• This week, users under 18 lost access to open-ended chat with AI characters to address safety and mental-health concerns 🚫

• "Stories" provides a controlled, scripted interaction where AI follows preset or user-guided narrative branches without starting unsupervised conversations 🎨

• Character AI cites mental-health risks, potential lawsuits, and unpredictable open-ended chat with minors as key reasons for this policy change 🛡️

Why You Should Care: Character.AI is enhancing user safety by limiting free-form chat for kids and offering a safer, guided option, addressing concerns about AI companionship for users under 18 and potentially influencing other AI platforms.

Alibaba upgrades glasses with swappable cells 🔋 

Alibaba launched its first AI-powered smart glasses featuring a swappable battery system, a practical feature many rivals haven't adopted 🤖

• The glasses come in a lifestyle-focused model (G1) and a flagship model (S1 with micro-OLED displays) 👓

• Battery modules are replaceable, allowing up to 24 hours of use with swaps, offering a more "all-day wearable" option than typical smart glasses 🔋

• The glasses use Alibaba's in-house AI, "Qwen," for real-time translation, object/price recognition, navigation, voice control, and feature built-in cameras 🧠

• The S1 model features a Sony-based camera sensor for photos, video, and POV capture, with display overlays providing AR-style contextual info in the user's view 📸

• In China, G1 starts at ~¥1,899 (≈ US $268) and S1 around ¥3,799 (≈ US $537), with sales through Alibaba’s usual retail platforms. International availability is reportedly being planned sometime next year 💸

Why You Should Care: This launch could transform smart-glasses into practical everyday wearables. The swappable battery enhances usability for daily routines, while built-in AI, camera, translation, and overlay features could advance the wearable-AI category, boosting competition and innovation.

SHOP WITH CHATGPT

Find Best Deals with ChatGPT 🛍️

Discover how to use ChatGPT's Shopping Research to avoid switching between multiple tabs. Get personalized recommendations, detailed feature summaries, and ready-to-click deals, all in one convenient place ✅

Here’s how to get started 👇️ 

1. Head to ChatGPT, click the plus (+) icon, and turn on Shopping Research to unlock the dedicated shopping assistant.

   

2. Type something like: “Find me the best noise-cancelling headphones under ₹12,000, compare the pros/cons, and suggest the best value pick.”

   

3. You’ll get a clean breakdown including: Top products worth buying, Price comparison across multiple stores, Key differences and trade-offs, Backup alternatives and budget options, Direct purchase links.

   

4. Pick the product you like, tap the retailer link, and finish your order directly on the seller’s page.

Pro Tip: ChatGPT is adding a checkout feature for some items using partners like Stripe and PayPal. This means you'll soon be able to compare, choose, and buy things directly within ChatGPT ✨

Check out ChatGPT HERE 👈️

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

AI Content Factory System 📈 

Simply paste this prompt:

“Create an AI-powered Content Factory that runs across LinkedIn, X, Instagram, YouTube, and email. Include content pillars, voice guidelines, ideation engine, repurposing framework, posting schedule, and analytics dashboard. Deliver 30 ready-to-post content ideas and a weekly production workflow.”

🔧 Pro Tip: Ask for “platform-specific hooks that optimize for virality.”

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TOOLS OF THE WEEK

These AI tools are going VIRAL 🐝 

Nano Banana Pro - Google’s new image AI with improved text rendering 🍌

Gemini 3 - Google’s new top-ranked AI model 🏆

Claude Opus 4.5 - Anthropic’s new benchmark-topping frontier model ⚡

DeepSeek OCR - Compress long text for LLMs by treating it as an image 🚀