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Archives for September 2025

Robert Hart
Robert Hart
Making ChatGPT less annoying.

OpenAI chief Sam Altman said the company will be rolling out updates to the chatbot’s personalization page in the “next couple of days.” The update will bring previously disconnected features like “custom instructions” and communication preferences that can make life easier under one heading.

A screenshot of Sam Altman’s tweet setting out changes to ChatGPT’s personalization features.
A screenshot of the upcoming changes.
Image: Sam Altman
Terrence O'Brien
Terrence O'Brien
The Mets are bringing ChatGPT photo booths to Citi Field.

OpenAI and the Mets are partnering on a bizarre promotion involving a custom pin “powered by ChatGPT”, an AI-generated Citi Field guide and custom portraits from a ChatGPT photo booth. Hey, maybe GPT-4o will hallucinate the Mets winning a game and let fans dream for a bit.

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
Tencent reportedly hired a top OpenAI researcher.

Yao Shunyu left OpenAI for the Chinese gaming and messaging company, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. It’s yet another sign of how the AI talent wars are intensifying — both stateside and between the U.S. and China.

Sierra CEO Bret Taylor on why the AI bubble feels like the dotcom boom

The OpenAI chairman, now working on AI agents at his new startup Sierra, on why he’s all in on AI.

Alex Heath
Elissa Welle
Elissa Welle
ChatGPT is keeping Standard Voice Mode, for now.

The feature will stick around beyond the announced 30-day sunset after receiving feedback that it is “special to many,” Nick Turley, head of ChatGPT, wrote on X. Last month, OpenAI was blasted for removing the popular 4o model, a decision that Turley told The Verge “was a miss”.