The AI companion market is huge — and it looks like OpenAI isn’t about to let xAI’s Grok take the lead. While Altman says the mode won’t activate unless users explicitly ask for it, with 800M weekly users, the margin for error is incredibly small.
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OpenAI Enables Mature Apps in ChatGPT With Age-Gating Controls
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Previously, the company had said it would let devs build “mature” apps that run inside ChatGPT, with appropriate age-gating and controls, The Verge reported.
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AI Verification System Enables Mature Conversations for Adults
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This will allow verified adults to have mature conversations with the AI, giving them “a great deal of freedom” in how they interact with the assistant.
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ChatGPT New Version and Erotica Support Coming by December
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First, it will release a new version of ChatGPT that behaves more like what people liked about 4o, and then by December, it will add support for erotica.
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OpenAI Eases ChatGPT Restrictions with Age Checks and Safeguards
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Altman said ChatGPT was made restrictive to protect at-risk users, but that hit enjoyment. Now, with age checks and safeguards, OpenAI will ease those limits.
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OpenAI Plans Mature Conversation Features for ChatGPT Users
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced personality improvements planned for ChatGPT, including one that would allow the AI assistant to have mature, erotic conversations with eligible users, much like xAI’s Grok companions.
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OpenAI Enables Mature Erotic Conversations in ChatGPT
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OpenAI confirms that ChatGPT will allow “mature, erotic” conversations for adults. The Details:
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Elon Musk xAI expands Colossus 2 Memphis data center
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7. Elon Musk’s xAI expands Colossus 2 Elon Musk’s xAI is investing $18 billion to expand Colossus 2, a million-square-foot AI data center in Memphis set to run 550,000 Nvidia chips.
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Deloitte’s $440K AI Mishap: GPT-4o Fake Citations Refund
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6. Deloitte’s $440K AI mishap Deloitte will refund part of a $440K government report after admitting GPT-4o was used, and produced fake citations. Lawmakers called it a “human intelligence problem.”
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Samsung’s Tiny AI Model Outperforms DeepSeek and Gemini
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5. Samsung’s Tiny AI beats the giants Samsung unveiled the Tiny Recursion Model (TRM), a 7M-parameter AI that outperformed DeepSeek R1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro on reasoning tasks using a self-improvement loop.