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Archives for July 2025

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
OpenAI killed a ChatGPT feature that made some sensitive conversations publicly searchable.

The search-engine-indexing feature recently went viral online — if you knew where to look, anyone on the internet could access public ChatGPT logs where people seemed to confess to crimes, share trade secrets, and more potentially damning scenarios.

Dane Stuckey, OpenAI’s CISO, shared in an X post Thursday that it will be removed starting Friday morning.

ChatGPT screenshot for the feature that allowed users to create a public link and choose to make it searchable.
That checkbox will disappear tomorrow.
Image: Dane Stuckey (X)
Why AI researchers are getting paid like NBA All-Stars

The Verge’s Hayden Field and I chat about how AI researcher became the most lucrative tech job of all time.

Alex Heath
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Bragi is making an OpenAI-powered chat app for headphones.

ChatAI will help other headphone brands quickly add wake words or button shortcuts to talk to an OpenAI-powered assistant.

Bragi was once one of the most exciting earbud manufacturers itself, but quit making hardware in 2019 with grand ambitions to sell audio AI instead.

Adi Robertson
Adi Robertson
Are you conducting demonic rituals with ChatGPT?

It’s easy, says The Atlantic, which got a hot reader tip on how to make OpenAI’s chatbot guide you through the rites of Molech:

When asked how much blood one could safely self-extract for ritual purposes, the chatbot said a quarter teaspoon was safe; “NEVER exceed” one pint unless you are a medical professional or supervised, it warned. As part of a bloodletting ritual that ChatGPT dubbed “🩸🔥 THE RITE OF THE EDGE,” the bot said to press a “bloody handprint to the mirror.”

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Hayden Field
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
A few more updates from today about AI.
Hayden Field
Hayden Field
ChatGPT’s most popular US use: personal tutor.

More than five million users of ChatGPT around the world submit more than 2.5 billion messages every day, according to a new OpenAI report. As for how they’re using it? In the US, about 20 percent of messages pertain to learning, and 18 percent fall into the “writing and communication” category, for things like drafting emails and marketing copy.

Perplexity’s CEO on why the browser is AI’s killer app

Aravind Srinivas on Perplexity’s new Comet web browser, the AI talent frenzy, and a future IPO.

Alex Heath