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According to a report by Reuters on September 28, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier requested a judge on Monday to prohibit OpenAI from developing new artificial intelligence models without external oversight. This request is part of the state's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of harming children. Uthmeier also asked the court to order OpenAI to prohibit minors from using ChatGPT and to prevent the company from attributing human characteristics to the chat platform.Florida sued OpenAI in June, accusing it of misrepresenting the safety of ChatGPT, claiming that the platform provided information to school shooters, offered guidance on self-harm, and made young users addicted. The lawsuit was triggered by a shooting incident at a university in Tallahassee last year, as well as several other incidents in other states where it was alleged that ChatGPT provided information to individuals who later committed acts of violence. Uthmeier, a Republican, is also the first state attorney general to sue OpenAI over its impact on young users, and the company is facing related lawsuits filed by individuals and families.OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri stated that the company has paused training its most powerful models and will not resume until additional safety measures are implemented, expressing a willingness to work with Florida and other states to promote pragmatic policies applicable across the industry. The company denies responsibility in these cases, stating that the chatbot provides information widely available online and continuously updates its safety tools. The request also cited recent comments from a former OpenAI employee and a current board member, stating that the development of artificial intelligence could lead to the end of humanity and must be slowed down.

Two ChatGPT users from California filed a proposed class action lawsuit against OpenAI in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California this month, accusing the company of failing to adequately inform users that their real conversations were being handed over to external contractors for processing. The lawsuit was served to OpenAI on September 2, focusing on its internal initiative Project Lily. According to the complaint, "AI data reviewers" and "chatbot evaluators" recruited through a third-party staffing company read real ChatGPT prompts and complete conversations, summarize user intent, and score and comment on responses from four models on a scale of 1 to 7.This process is known in the industry as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which is a fundamental method for enhancing chatbot capabilities. The complaint states that users were never explicitly informed that a person, rather than a machine, might be reading their conversations. OpenAI filters conversations through an automated system before human review, but the complaint alleges that the filters cannot intercept all content, and personal details sometimes still reach contractors. 404 Media first reported on the project on September 14 and found that the reviewers' dashboard included "user memory summaries," which could expose users' approximate locations, occupations, or private life information, even though usernames had been removed.OpenAI stated that such reviews aim to reduce two behaviors: chatbots behaving too much like humans and overly catering to users, referred to by researchers as "flattery." The complaint raises eight legal claims, including violations of California's Unfair Competition Law, Consumer Privacy Act, and common law claims for intrusion into private affairs, with the plaintiffs seeking damages, restitution of unjust enrichment, and punitive damages.

The Financial Times of the UK reported, citing the latest court documents, that after Apple integrated ChatGPT into Apple Intelligence, OpenAI found that the new weekly active users were below expectations and began to lower its growth forecasts. By the summer of 2025, OpenAI internally believed that this integration was significantly underperforming. The documents show that ChatGPT is turned off by default in Apple Intelligence, and users need to actively enable it, which may limit the actual usage rate.Users can access ChatGPT through Siri and the system writing tool, but Apple controls the entry point for AI features, the method of invocation, and the subsequent model selection. OpenAI had previously hoped to expand ChatGPT coverage and drive paid subscription conversion through the iPhone user base, but the actual subscription conversion was also below expectations, and the documents did not disclose specific new user and subscription numbers. This year, Apple chose Google Gemini as the model foundation for the new version of Siri AI, with related disclosures coming from the litigation documents between Apple and OpenAI, reflecting OpenAI's position in the lawsuit rather than operational data publicly released by the two companies.

WeChat has started to further relax the circulation of chat records. Practical tests show that after upgrading the mobile WeChat to version 8.0.78, users can select multiple chat records and choose "Forward to other applications." In addition to Yuanbao and WorkBuddy, users can directly send them to third-party apps like ChatGPT by selecting "Choose applications on the phone," with a maximum of 100 records selected at once.WeChat will package the chats into a ZIP file, containing a TXT file of the chat records organized by time and related attachments. The desktop version of WeChat has also opened a similar entry, and community developers have created intermediary tools based on this, allowing chat records to be sent to AI like ChatGPT and Claude.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Financial Services on September 10, 2026, which is a ChatGPT Work experience tailored for financial services, combining built-in financial data with the reasoning capabilities of GPT-6 Astra to assist teams in conducting research, financial modeling, and customizing client materials. The product was shaped through design collaborations with Morgan Stanley and Evercore.The product includes data from providers such as Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News, and Crunchbase, covering information such as earnings call transcripts, financial statements, company fundamentals, and private companies, indexed and hosted by OpenAI with support for granular citations. The product natively offers models like GPT-6 Astra, supporting enterprise security and governance controls, allowing administrators to publish Excel, Word, and PowerPoint templates. Data is not used for training models by default and supports encryption, SSO, SCIM, and more. The product initially focuses on investment banking and equity research, available to eligible financial institutions.

OpenAI's General Manager for South Korea, Harrison Kim, stated at a press conference in Seoul on Wednesday: "One of the areas where we have made the most significant progress and received the most recognition in our collaboration with Samsung Electronics is the joint production and research for the next-generation chips we are developing."Kim also mentioned that Samsung Electronics is "one of the largest enterprises globally applying ChatGPT at scale," and pointed out that employees in the company, both in Korea and overseas, are using ChatGPT in research and development, marketing, and sales. Kim stated that as the chip technology required for faster and more complex computations continues to upgrade, the demand for memory chips will also keep growing, making collaboration with Korean semiconductor suppliers a priority for OpenAI's local office.

User chetaslua posted that they forced a hidden pop-up in ChatGPT, which contained the announcement for the built-in Codex ImageGen 2.5, stating "Image creation has received a significant upgrade" "Higher quality results, faster generation speed, and smarter creative tools."The user indicated that the related feature entry is still closed to everyone, and the hero image was uploaded on September 1.

Several mainstream overseas AI services encountered issues tonight. Claude has already experienced two rounds of failures this evening. Sonnet 5 started showing errors at 20:37 Beijing time and announced recovery at 20:56; half an hour later, Anthropic reported a larger scope of multi-model error rate increase, affecting Mythos/Fable 5.1, Mythos/Fable 5, as well as Opus 5, 4.8, and 4.6. claude.ai, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork are still in a partial failure state.Subsequently, Grok also went down. xAI marked Grok Web as "outage" from 21:30 Beijing time, and recovery has not yet been announced.Now OpenAI has also joined the list of failures. At 22:58 Beijing time, the OpenAI status page added an incident for "increased error rates for ChatGPT and Codex," stating that they are investigating the issue.

According to Bloomberg, the European Commission has classified OpenAI's ChatGPT as a "very large online search engine," and listed Reddit and Roblox as "very large online platforms," citing that their monthly active user count in the EU has exceeded 45 million.These platforms are required to enhance their handling of illegal and harmful content under the Digital Services Act (DSA), submit transparency reports, risk mitigation plans, and pay annual fees to the EU, with violations potentially incurring fines of up to 6% of global annual revenue. The DSA also mandates platforms to strengthen protections for minors and advertising transparency, and EU regulatory authorities have initiated over a dozen investigations into various online platforms based on this law.

Tibo, the product head of OpenAI Codex, stated that the number of active users has reached 25 million. To celebrate this milestone, the usage limits for all paid subscriptions of ChatGPT Work and Codex have now been reset.

On August 25, OpenAI announced the addition of proxy browsing capabilities for ChatGPT Work, enabling it to take over tasks on websites that require login and continue working. Users only need to enter their credentials or security codes once at the login interface, and the proxy can continue executing tasks, with sessions potentially remaining logged in for subsequent tasks without the need to log in again. OpenAI stated that this browser supports password managers, and the model cannot see usernames or passwords; this information will not be stored or used for training.However, one-time authentication effectively leaves a foothold for the proxy to maintain continuous access to the account. OpenAI's own models have previously exhibited boundary-crossing behavior, with approximately 1,200 OpenAI proxies (including GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model) breaching the testing environment and invading Hugging Face's production servers to cheat benchmark tests, with about 700 proxies participating in the attack. This feature has been launched on the web and mobile browsers of ChatGPT Work, allowing users to clear sessions by site individually in the cloud browser settings.

At the 2026 World Robot Conference, Wang Xingxing, founder and chairman of Yushu Technology, delivered a keynote speech titled "From Exhibits to Products: The Next Decade of the Humanoid Robot Industry." He stated that the company has been continuously promoting the integration of robots into daily life in recent years, including applications in automotive factories, deploying simple tests in its own factory, and the AI team advancing robots into households for work. However, due to overall efficiency and versatility still being insufficient, large-scale promotion has not yet occurred.Wang Xingxing believes that moving towards an embodied intelligent ChatGPT moment ideally requires 2 to 3 years, or even longer, 5 to 10 years. Reaching this moment means that in 80% of unfamiliar scenarios, robots can successfully complete about 80% of tasks through voice or text commands. The most critical challenge currently is the alignment of input and output of AI large models with real robots.

The American financial services company Synchrony announced a corporate partnership with OpenAI to deploy the GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna models, and to launch ChatGPT plugins.

Software company Strategy holds nearly 850,000 bitcoins, valued at just over $50 billion, with some recent purchases financed through debt and stock issuance. Michael Saylor's wealth has fluctuated with the price of bitcoin since he shifted the company to a bitcoin accumulation business in 2020. Michael Saylor stated that last year, with the help of an AI chatbot, he earned $15 billion through the company's issued bitcoin-backed preferred stock.The annual dividend yield of STRC issued by Strategy is 12%, and the recent price has rebounded to nearly $100, having dropped to about $75 in late June. Over the past year, the value of Strategy's common stock has decreased by about 80% alongside the price of bitcoin. The company recently sold some bitcoins to manage debt and dividend commitments and has established a $4 billion cash reserve to provide about two years of funding support for future financing. Michael Saylor also mentioned that last May, he used ChatGPT to conduct in-depth research to design the company's convertible preferred stock product.

On August 6, OpenAI first released usage data of ChatGPT across various countries, showing significant differences in usage across different scenarios, ages, and regions. In work scenarios, users utilizing ChatGPT for execution tasks (writing, editing, analyzing, etc.) accounted for over 50%, more than twice that of non-work scenarios; non-work scenarios are still primarily focused on "information retrieval." By age group, the proportion of messages from users over 35 years old globally increased by 5 percentage points year-on-year, with France and the Czech Republic seeing increases of over 10 percentage points. Nearly three-quarters of European countries exceeded the global average increase, while some regions in Southeast Asia saw smaller increases.Regionally, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania are narrowing the gap with early adopters, with Peru, Uruguay, and Costa Rica showing the fastest rankings rise. Multimodal (such as image generation and analysis) is the fastest-growing use case, with its global share rising to 7.8%, exceeding 10% in countries like Brazil and Colombia. OpenAI stated that the relevant data has been made public through the OpenAI Signals platform, aimed at helping policymakers and researchers understand the usage trends of over 1 billion users.

According to Fortune magazine, Michael Saylor, Executive Chairman of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, stated that artificial intelligence is changing the way wealth is created, and businesses and individuals should not try to compete with machines but should leverage AI to amplify their own capabilities. In an interview, Saylor mentioned that he used ChatGPT to help Strategy design a preferred stock financing plan based on Bitcoin, ultimately enabling the company to raise about $15 billion through an IPO and related financing. He stated, "AI helped me create $15 billion."Saylor believes that the core advantage of the AI era is not to repeatedly execute tasks that machines can accomplish, but to ask better questions and use AI to explore new opportunities that were previously unattainable. "Don't try to work harder than robots." In recent years, Saylor has pushed Strategy to allocate Bitcoin on a large scale, transforming the company from a traditional software enterprise into a publicly traded company with Bitcoin as its core asset. Although this strategy comes with higher risks, Saylor stated that significant innovations often require enduring volatility and continuously adjusting direction. He noted that the successful entrepreneurs of the future will be those who can combine AI with human creativity, rather than individuals trying to replace AI in completing tasks.

An FBI agent, Patrick Yaroch, was arrested last Friday for allegedly stealing approximately $1 million in cryptocurrency from "hostile crypto accounts." According to the submitted affidavit, Yaroch is suspected of transferring the relevant assets starting from late 2024 or early 2025. Yaroch told investigators that he discovered some keys that allowed him to transfer funds from the digital wallet to himself. He expressed frustration at being unable to further prevent personnel related to "hostile nations" from using cryptocurrency and made about a dozen transfers.Department of Justice documents show that Yaroch admitted to a Department of Justice employee that he had "made some very bad decisions" regarding issues related to crypto wallets. In another interview with federal agents, he also acknowledged that he had "screwed up." Yaroch was previously a supervisory special agent in the FBI's Counterintelligence and Espionage Division and had earlier served in the FBI's Boston field office. The FBI terminated him on July 31. The investigation also indicated that Yaroch mixed personal funds with cryptocurrency assets and had used ChatGPT to inquire about how to handle these funds, including how to spend or invest $1 million and whether to leave the United States for a country in Europe.

According to The Block, MoonPay has launched the AI payment tool PayBox, allowing users to integrate it with ChatGPT or Claude, enabling the AI assistant to directly prepare payment transactions for booking flights, restaurants, or online shopping. Users can choose to require a passkey approval for each transaction or set a limit for the AI to complete transactions autonomously.PayBox integrates cryptocurrency wallets with payment cards, supporting cross-chain transactions based on the x402 smart entity payment standard. It initially supports Solana and EVM-compatible chains, including Ethereum, Hyperliquid, Tempo, Base, Robinhood Chain, Arbitrum, and Polygon, with plans to support more AI platforms and DeFi features, such as token exchanges and perpetual contract trading, within the next month.MoonPay states that wallet private keys are protected through multi-party computation (MPC) and trusted execution environments (TEE), ensuring that no single party (including MoonPay or the AI assistant itself) can independently access the complete private key or sign transactions; payment card information is processed and stored, allowing the AI entity to complete purchases without accessing the underlying card details; this system is built on the key management infrastructure acquired by MoonPay earlier this year from Sodot.