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Welcome to OHMO AI. OpenAI now runs two ChatGPTs. The teen one shuts down talk of self-harm, refuses to play at having feelings, and switches off when a parent says so. Stripe finalised an agreement worth more than $7 billion for the startup that routes between AI models, and Reddit started letting a machine voice read its threads out loud.
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OpenAI launches a teen ChatGPT with content limits and parental controls
Stripe finalises a deal for OpenRouter worth more than $7 billion
Reddit tests AI narrated video and audio versions of posts
Higgsfield raises $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation
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OpenAI launches a teen ChatGPT with parents holding the controls
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OHMO AI: OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on Tuesday, a separate version for kids aged 13 to 17 that shuts down talk of suicide and self-harm along with anything romantic or sexual. Parents sit on top of it with controls of their own, and the whole thing is pitched at schoolwork rather than company.
The details:
It's barred from telling a teenager it has feelings for them, or hinting that there's anyone in there.
Parents can set quiet hours when their teen can't get into ChatGPT at all, and can receive safety notifications.
On schoolwork it's tuned to walk a student through the problem instead of returning a finished answer.
Why it matters: A chatbot that won't say it loves you and won't write your essay is a different product from the one adults get, and OpenAI has now admitted as much by building it separately. For parents, it comes with hours they can switch off and notifications that reach them when something goes wrong.
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STRIPE
Stripe closes a deal for OpenRouter worth more than $7 billion
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OHMO AI: Stripe has finalised an agreement to acquire OpenRouter, whose service lets companies flip between AI models depending on what each one costs and does. The price is north of $7 billion. Months ago the same startup was raising at a fraction of that.
The details:
The final price for the acquisition could still change.
OpenRouter raised money at a reported $1.3 billion valuation only months before this deal.
The size of it points at how badly businesses want the cheapest way to run AI, since switching models is where that cost gets decided.
Why it matters: Nobody outside of engineering teams will ever open OpenRouter, but a lot of the apps ordinary people use are about to run their AI requests through something Stripe owns. When the layer that picks which model answers you is worth billions, model choice stops being a technical detail and starts being a market with an owner.
Reddit tests AI narrated video and audio versions of posts
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OHMO AI: Reddit began testing something on Monday where a text post can be played instead of read, with AI narration turning selected posts and top comments into short videos and audio clips. It started on the web, with the iOS and Android apps following on Tuesday, and only on some English language posts. The original text stays exactly where it was.
The details:
Reddit calls it a limited experiment running on a sample of posts in a handful of communities.
Where a post has been converted, you choose whether to read it or play it, and the new formats link back to the thread they came from.
One early example took an eight year old r/boardgames post asking for road trip games for adults and turned it into a three minute video.
Why it matters: Reddit is where a lot of the internet's genuinely useful human advice ended up, written by people who were not performing for a camera. Handing that to a synthetic narrator in a vertical video changes who is doing the talking, even when the words underneath are untouched. Watch whether the played version starts outranking the written one.
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HIGGSFIELD
Higgsfield raises $400 million at a $5.4 billion valuation
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OHMO AI: AI video company Higgsfield said on Monday it had raised a $400 million Series B that values it at $5.4 billion, eight months after a round that valued it at $1.3 billion. The revenue line is the part worth staring at, because it moved further than the valuation did.
The details:
Annualised revenue reached $700 million this month, up from $20 million a year earlier.
The company counts 30 million users across 200 countries.
It says it now works with 390 of the Fortune 500.
Why it matters: A year ago AI video was a party trick people shared and forgot. Those revenue numbers say big companies have quietly moved it into the budget line where agencies and film crews used to sit. That is the shift worth tracking, not the valuation.
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