OpenAI Launched a Teen-Safe ChatGPT Mode Before Any Law Required It. Here's What It Does.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens on August 19th — blocking self-harm, romantic, and sexual content, with age-prediction auto-routing for users 13-17. It's a preemptive safety product that mirrors the California ballot initiative OpenAI filed this month. We cover the product, the CoSnitch Copilot vulnerability patched August 18th that could exfiltrate Gmail with one click, and Google giving students in 140+ countries a free year of AI Plus.