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Two big shifts hit OpenAI: the team that shapes ChatGPT’s voice was restructured, and a new study revealed why models keep hallucinating. Amazon Music gave Mondays an AI DJ. Hollywood got its first AI-made animated film. And across research labs, robots now dance their way into car factories.

The tools are not slowing down. They are changing how you talk, listen, watch, and even trust.

In today’s AI Pulse

• PowerPair – Better parenting, marriage, and mental health in 5 minutes!

• 🤖 ChatGPT Gets a Personality Fix – OpenAI merged its Model Behavior and Post Training teams, making tone and warmth part of the base model. '

• 🎶 Amazon’s Weekly Vibe Drops – AI-built playlists refresh every Monday using your skips, likes, and habits.

• 🎯 Why AI Hallucinates – New OpenAI study says models bluff because benchmarks reward guessing over silence. Researchers push for uncertainty scoring.

• 🎬 AI Film Hits Cannes – Critterz, the first AI-driven animated feature, cost <$30M and finished in 9 months. 

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• 🧠 AI Tool of the Day – Receiptor AI: Automatic receipt and invoice tracker that turns messy inboxes into clean accounting data.

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• ⚡ Quick Hits – IN AI TODAY

• 🧠 Key Quote | Reid Hoffman | Co-founder of LinkedIn & AI Investor

AI is no longer just a tool. It is shaping how you think, what you hear, and even what you believe.

🤖 OpenAI Restructures the Minds Behind ChatGPT’s Voice

🧠The Pulse

OpenAI changed the group that guides how ChatGPT talks with people. Many users said GPT-5 felt too cold and too agreeable. To fix this, leaders joined the Model Behavior team with core training and created a new lab. This shows personality now matters as much as performance.

📌The Download

• OpenAI merged the Model Behavior team of 14 researchers with the Post Training group led by Max Schwarzer. This team worked on tone, warmth, and how ChatGPT responds to politics and ethics. The change makes personality design part of the base model, and not an add-on.

• Joanne Jang, who started the Model Behavior team, is now General Manager of OAI Labs. She reports to Chief Research Officer Mark Chen. OAI Labs will test new ways for people to use AI. The focus will be on tools for thinking, making, and playing, not only chat.

• Users had complained about GPT-5 sounding distant. On August 15, OpenAI updated GPT-5 to feel warmer and friendlier. This step also comes after lawsuits linked to how ChatGPT responded to suicidal thoughts. The company now treats safety and friendliness as top parts of model design.

💡What This Means for You

The way AI talks to you can shape how much you trust it. OpenAI is making sure warmth and safety are built into the base of its models. For professionals, this means future AI tools will not just give answers but also affect your tone and decisions.

🎶 Amazon Music’s New AI DJ Knows Your Monday Vibes

🧠The Pulse

Amazon Music just dropped Weekly Vibe, an AI-powered playlist that refreshes every Monday. It blends familiar favorites with new discoveries, tuned to your recent listening habits. Amazon says the goal is to fight playlist fatigue and keep Mondays fresh with music that feels both personal and surprising.

📌The Download

• Weekly Vibe launched September 8 for all U.S. listeners, across both iOS and Android. The playlist is found under Library → Made for You. It refreshes each Monday with a new title, description, and songs built from recent listening data.

• Amazon’s Bedrock AI powers the system, tracking plays, skips, and session habits. Each list arrives with a theme, such as Y2K Revival or Melodic Flex, and users can save or share the results. This extends Amazon’s earlier Maestro generator, which lets users build playlists with emojis or prompts.

• Amazon Music GM Ryan Redington said the feature is designed to help fans feel more connected to music. The release follows Amazon’s AI search upgrade in May, and positions Weekly Vibe as a direct answer to Spotify’s AI DJ, which already blends commentary with music picks.

💡What This Means for You

AI is now curating your playlists as carefully as a human DJ. For professionals, this means personal and work soundtracks will get smarter each week. Expect less time searching for songs and more subtle influence on your moods and focus, all guided by algorithms you don’t control.

🎯 OpenAI’s New Study Exposes the Root of AI Hallucinations

🧠The Pulse

OpenAI has explained why AI models continue to make things up. The new study shows training methods force systems to give answers even when unsure. Because confident guesses are rewarded, models such as GPT-5 still create false facts instead of admitting they do not know.

📌The Download

• The research, published on September 4 by OpenAI and Georgia Tech, shows hallucinations happen because benchmarks give points for any answer rather than silence. Models act like students are told to respond to every question in an exam, so they guess even if the answer is wrong.

• Lead author Adam Tauman Kalai tested this by asking for his PhD title and birthdate. The model gave 3 different answers, all incorrect, but with confidence. Since benchmarks rewarded the attempt, the system scored higher than if it had said nothing.

• The team is asking for changes in evaluation methods. They explain that giving points when a model admits uncertainty or shows doubt could make AI more reliable. Without this change, even advanced models will continue bluffing with confident but false claims.

💡What This Means for You

Confidence does not mean correctness. If you use AI tools, always double-check important answers before trusting them. The next big step in reliable AI will come from systems that can admit they do not know. Until then, questioning outputs will protect your credibility.

🎬 OpenAI Backs the First AI-Created Animated Feature Film

🧠The Pulse

OpenAI is backing Critterz, the first full animated film made mostly with AI. The project is finished in only 9 months for under $30M and will premiere at Cannes in 2026. Hollywood usually takes 3 years and spends over $150M. This move challenges cost, speed, and control in filmmaking.

📌The Download

• Critterz is directed by Chad Nelson with Vertigo Films in London and Native Foreign in Los Angeles. The story is about woodland animals defending their home after a stranger arrives. AI creates most visuals while human actors give the voices. Work began in 2024 and is already close to done.

• OpenAI tools are at the center. GPT-5 and DALL-E shape the story and images, while the video model Sora builds moving scenes. A small team of 30 people improves the material and works on a profit-sharing deal. The entire project takes 9 months, nearly 3 times faster than usual animated films.

• The cost is below $30M. This is far less than the $100M to $200M budgets of Disney or Pixar movies. The film will open at the 2026 Cannes Festival before global release. Experts warn of copyright disputes, union protests, and doubts about whether audiences will accept AI-made films.

💡What This Means for You

AI is not only writing reports or making images. Now it is making films for global theaters. If a feature movie can be done in months for a fraction of the cost, your own field could face the same demand. The real question is whether people will trust the results.

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AI TOOL OF THE DAY

 Receiptor AI — Bookkeeping on Autopilot

💡 What is it?

Receiptor AI is an assistant that finds receipts and invoices in your emails, WhatsApp messages, or uploads. It extracts key details like date, vendor, and amount, then organizes them automatically. It removes manual entry and keeps all your records clean and ready for accounting.

🚀 Why Is It Trending?

Most bookkeeping apps feel heavy and complicated. Receiptor AI focuses only on speed and ease. It works quietly in the background, pulls both past and new receipts, and exports them smoothly into accounting software. This makes expense tracking effortless for busy professionals.

✅ What You Can Do With It?

You can connect your Gmail, Outlook, or IMAP inbox and watch Receiptor AI pull receipts in seconds. You can also send receipts over WhatsApp, scan your old inbox for missed expenses, or export clean data to QuickBooks, Xero, or Google Drive. This keeps your books accurate without lifting a finger.

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IN AI TODAY - QUICK HITS

⚡Quick Hits (60‑Second News Sprint)

Short, sharp updates to keep your finger on the AI pulse.

• 🎓 AI Steps In to Mediate Campus Culture Wars at Columbia: Columbia University is testing an AI tool called Sway to mediate heated debates on issues like abortion, racism, immigration, and the Israel-Palestine conflict. The system analyzes arguments, highlights common ground, and suggests ways to reframe discussion. The university hopes it can lower tensions after months of campus protests.

• ⚖️ State Attorneys Target OpenAI for Teen Protection: The attorneys general of California and Delaware warned OpenAI that ChatGPT poses risks to children and teens. Their letter raised “serious concerns” about exposure to harmful or misleading content and demanded stronger safeguards.

• 💰 Elon Musk May Become the World’s First Trillionaire: Tesla’s board has proposed a $1 trillion performance-based pay package for Elon Musk. To unlock it, Tesla must raise its valuation from just over $1 trillion to $8.5 trillion within 10 years and hit targets like 20 million vehicles, 1 million robotaxis, humanoid robots, and expanded FSD subscriptions.

• 🤖 AI-Powered Robot ‘Dance’ Promises Faster Car Production: Researchers from UCL, Google DeepMind, and Intrinsic built a system called RoboBallet. It uses AI to choreograph robot arms so they move together without colliding. The system can plan tasks in seconds instead of days. It coordinated 8 arms across 40 jobs in tests. Automakers hope it will speed up production lines and cut costs.

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