Plus: LibreOffice refuses to add AI features; Nous Research hits $1.5B valuation and targets enterprises
Welcome back—today feels like a good moment to pause and think carefully about where we place our trust.
SAFETY
⚠️ Common Sense Media flags ChatGPT teen alerts as unreliable
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Common Sense Media rated ChatGPT for Teens an 'unacceptable risk'. Common Sense Media's assessment found that ChatGPT doesn't send alerts to parents when it should.
The details:
ChatGPT for Teens was introduced in August.
The Youth AI Safety Institute ran more than 4,000 prompts through accounts set up for users aged 13 to 17.
Testers found that conversations about suicidal ideation, self-harm, or disordered eating lasted as long as an hour without producing any parental notification.
The Document Foundation said in a blog post that LibreOffice will not add AI to its software for the foreseeable future. The latest version of LibreOffice, released in late August, contains no generative AI features.
The details:
LibreOffice's lack of AI features is a deliberate design position to ensure users' documents are not uploaded to a server for processing.
LibreOffice is used by tens of millions of people and organizations.
LibreOffice says users can still choose to use AI tools by installing software extensions that connect the document editor to local AI models.
🤖 Nous Research hits $1.5B valuation and targets enterprises
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Nous Research raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation. Nvidia, Union Square Ventures, Menlo Ventures, Samsung, and 1789 Capital participated in the round.
The details:
Nous Research's total funding now stands at about $158 million.
Hermes Agent has been cloned more than 24 million times.
Hermes Agent drives roughly 2.5% of global AI token usage.
