🤖 ChatGPT’s Fix for Toxic Relationships With Chatbots

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🧞‍♂️ChatGPT’s Fix for Toxic Relationships With Chatbots

• ♟️A New Benchmarking Platform Built Around Chess?!

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

OPENAI

🧞‍♂️ChatGPT’s Fix for Toxic Relationships With Chatbots

OpenAI just equipped ChatGPT with several new features designed to help you foster a healthier, more stable relationship with the conversational chatbot.

Key Details:

• OpenAI claims they’ve shifted from trying to optimize for engagement to prioritizing meaningful utility. In other words, the goal isn’t to hold your attention, but to help you use it well.

• So, why the sudden shift in approach? If ChatGPT genuinely helps you, you tend to return daily, weekly, or monthly because it’s useful enough to come back to.

• In other words, if ChatGPT enables you to make progress, learn something new, or solve a complex problem, it promotes retention that’s earned, not engineered.

• Starting today, you’ll see gentle reminders during long sessions within ChatGPT to encourage you to take breaks. The purpose is to help you keep control of your time and reduce emotional dependency on the conversational chatbot.

• It’ll also help you solve personal challenges by providing step-by-step guidance that encourages rational thought. In simpler terms, ChatGPT will guide rather than dictate. For example, if you ask: “Should I break up with my boyfriend?” ChatGPT won’t give you an immediate answer. Instead, it’ll help you weigh the benefits and drawbacks.

Why It’s Important:

• This shift reflects a bold departure from The Attention Economy: capturing your attention long enough to drive a click, scroll, or sale. Instead, OpenAI’s focused on earning your return by being genuinely useful.

• OpenAI CEO Sam Altman laid out his controversial vision for ChatGPT to transform from a reactive chatbot to a proactive companion that documents, understands, and anticipates everything in your life.

🩺 PULSE CHECK

GOOGLE

♟️A New Benchmarking Platform Built Around Chess?!

Google recently launched “Kaggle Game Arena,” a new benchmarking platform where AI Models and AI Agents compete head-to-head in a variety of strategy games.

Key Details:

• The first event features a live chess tournament between eight AI Models, including xAI’s “Grok 4,” OpenAI’s “OpenAI o4-mini,” Google’s “Gemini 2.5 Pro,” and Anthropic’s “Claude Opus 4.”

• To play chess, the AI Models constantly capture the Game State: a current snapshot of the digital chessboard. This snapshot enables them to process the various positions of all the chess pieces. Then, they generate a sequence of actions through legal chess commands, such as: “Move Black Knight to Nf6!”

• It’s single-elimination, best-of-four matches. The first AI Model to score two points (i.e., one point per win, half a point per draw) advances to the next round. If an AI Model attempts to perform an illegal chess move, it receives up to three retries. If it fails after those three retries, the chess move is invalidated, but the chess match continues without an immediate forfeit.

Why It’s Important:

• Classic strategy games like chess provide a clear, unambiguous signal of success: you either win, lose, or draw. Their structured nature, strategic layers, and measurable outcomes make them perfect for evaluating AI Models and AI Agents.

• They also force AI Models and AI Agents to demonstrate strategic reasoning, long-term planning, and the ability to dynamically adapt to an intelligent opponent.

PROMPT ENGINEERING TIPS

⚙️Break Through Mental Barriers!

We’ve all hit the “invisible wall”: a mental barrier where you feel stuck despite working hard. You’re moving, but not forward. You’re busy, but not building.

It’s not a motivational issue. It’s a clarity issue. Instead of endless doing, step back and gain strategic clarity. This shift from busywork to focused progress transforms scattered effort into meaningful momentum.

This simple prompt turns ChatGPT into your personal progress strategist:

• Context: I’m stuck in a cycle of constant busywork and can’t seem to make any real progress despite working hard.

• Clarity: I need to pinpoint what’s holding me back.

• Guidance: Can you help me identify actionable strategies to efficiently achieve {Insert Specific Goal} without wasting time, energy, or effort?

I'm stuck in a cycle of constant busywork and can't seem to make any real progress despite working hard. I need to pinpoint what's holding me back. Can you help me identify actionable strategies to efficiently achieve {Insert Specific Goal} without wasting time, energy, or effort?

🛠TRENDING TOOLS

🎤SINGIFY effortlessly removes vocals from any song.

👷Magic Patterns builds prototypes and collects user feedback.

💻Supadev provides accurate, context-aware, and AI-based code.

🔍scite_ is an AI-powered research tool for discovering facts and figures.

🍿ToMoviee AI crafts precise, lifelike stories with complete creative control.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

Perplexity AI just partnered with OpenTable, which enables you to book restaurant reservations directly within the Answer Engine.

OpenAI introduced “gpt-oss-20b” and “gpt-oss-120b,” a pair of open-weight reasoning models designed for versatile developer use cases.

Character.AI launched “Feed,” the world’s first AI-native social media feed that’s filled with the latest AI-generated characters, scenes, and chats.

Anthropic released “Claude Opus 4.1,” which is built to provide the world’s best code editing, code debugging, and multi-file codebase understanding.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Alaan raised a $48M Series A to manage and control business expenses.

• Clay closed a $100M Series C at a $3.1B valuation to automate the entire sales process.

• Blue J landed a $122M Series D to offer fast, verifiable answers to even the most complex tax questions.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• Tesla (Palo Alto, CA): Performance Modeling Engineer, Dojo, Fall 2025

• Sigma (New York City, NYC): Software Engineer, Entry-Level

• Superhuman (Remote): Acquisition Marketing Manager, Mid-Level

• SoFi (San Francisco, CA): Sr. Mobile Engineer, Crypto, Senior-Level

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