Show Notes
OpenAI is launching ChatGPT for Teens, which has new guardrails to steer conversations from sensitive topics like self-harm or sexual content. It’ll also include parental controls and features intended to support studying without the cognitive offloading that often happens.
Plus, the surge in construction of AI data centers has increased the value of basically any component that goes into them. Now, thieves are increasingly targeting cargo shipments of materials bound for data centers. And Amazon is expanding its drone deliveries. Paresh Dave at Wired joins Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino for these stories.
Everything we talked about:
“Introducing ChatGPT for Teens: Built for learning, backed by protections” from OpenAI
“OpenAI’s Second-Quarter Sales Show Tepid Growth Compared With Anthropic” from The Wall Street Journal
“States Seek $200 Billion From Meta Over Child Social Media Addiction Claims” from The New York Times
“‘The Worst I’ve Ever Seen’: Cargo Thefts Have Turned Violent in Pursuit of AI Hardware” from Wired
“Amazon Prime Air drone delivery is expanding to nearly 500 US cities and towns this year” from Amazon
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