xAI: World Builder; Decreased AI Political Bias; OpenAI To Delete Your Chats

OpenAI Will Stop Saving Deleted Chat Logs (With Caveats)

OpenAI won approval to stop retaining deleted and temporary ChatGPT conversations - a partial privacy win. However, some “deleted” chats may still be held temporarily when copyright or safety systems are triggered (for example, to investigate abuse).

As Ars Technica wrote, "The preservation order came in a lawsuit filed by The New York Times and other news plaintiffs, who alleged that user attempts to skirt paywalls with ChatGPT would most likely set their chats as temporary or delete the logs."

Bottom line: it’s a step toward privacy, but not a blanket “right to be forgotten.”

Read more: There’s An AI For That

Neuralink Shows Thought-Control in the Real World

In a public demo, Neuralink enabled ALS patient Nick Wray to control a robotic arm purely by thought - grabbing a cup, opening a fridge and operating a microwave.

The FDA-approved CONVOY study uses an implant with ultra-fine threads that read neural signals and transmit commands wirelessly.

Assistive tech is definitely crossing into “human-extension” territory: the mind directing real-world devices, not just cursors on screens.

🧩 Jargon Buster: BCI (Brain-Computer Interface) - a system that translates brain activity into commands for computers or machines.

Read more: AI Secret

Talent Wars: Thinking Machines Co-Founder Heads Back To Meta

Andrew Tulloch, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati (after leaving OpenAI which came after leaving Meta), has left the startup and returned to Meta amid intense recruitment of top researchers.

Reports suggest eye-popping offers (it was previously reported that Tulloch was offered a pay package from Meta that could have been worth as much as $1.5 billion) as Meta consolidates AI efforts under its Superintelligence Lab and ramps infrastructure spending.

The move underscores how compute + talent concentration is shaping the race to the next-gen models.

Read more: The Rundown AI

xAI Builds “World Models” For an AI-Generated Game

xAI is hiring ex-Nvidia specialists to build world models that generate playable 3D game environments, with Elon Musk hinting at a game release before 2026.

The aim is not just prettier graphics but interactive logic - physics, objects, control - so a model can design and run dynamic worlds. This follows a broader trend (think Genie 3) toward systems that simulate environments rather than just render scenes.

🧩 Jargon Buster: Procedural generation - content created algorithmically rather than hand-built, often enabling endless variations.

Read more: The Rundown AI

OpenAI Claims GPT-5 Shows 30% Less Political Bias

In internal tests, OpenAI reports GPT-5 responses exhibit ~30% lower political bias versus prior models across 500 prompts. Bias spikes still occur with emotionally charged questions, and the company estimates <0.01% of real chats show political bias.

Progress is notable, but the hard cases - when people are emotionally primed -remain the riskiest.

🧩 Jargon Buster: Model bias - systematic tilt in outputs stemming from data, tuning, or instructions that favors one perspective over others.

Read more: The Rundown AI

Retail’s AI Gold Rush: From Try-Ons To Self-Optimizing Aisles

Retailers are racing to embed AI across the stack - Gap with Google Cloud, Revolve stylists, and The Body Shop supply optimizations - turning stores and sites into learning systems.

In parallel, Google is expanding an AI try-on for footwear, realistically rendering shoes without clunky AR. The “fitting room” is becoming a pixel layer that cuts returns and speeds decisions.

🧩 Jargon Buster: Retail media — ads placed across a retailer’s properties, powered by first-party data for targeting and measurement.

Read more: AI Secret

AI Hoaxes Spill Into 911 Calls

Teens are reportedly using AI image tools to generate fake photos of unknown people “inside the house,” scaring parents into calling 911 and triggering real police responses.

According to Gizmodo, "The pranksters have been recording the reactions from their parents and posting them online, and some videos on TikTok have racked up nearly one million likes and thousands of comments. The hashtag #homelessmanprank now has more than 1,200 videos linked to it on the platform, and there are a number of tutorials on how to generate the images needed for the prank, most of which recommend using Snapchat’s AI tools to create the image."

Beyond wasting emergency resources, this viral prank risks dangerous encounters if officers arrive expecting an intruder. It’s a reminder that generative media isn’t just entertainment - it can create high-stakes confusion in everyday life.

Read more: There’s An AI For That, Gizmodo

Tools & Launches

Wispr Flow - A voice-first writing workflow that turns speech into polished text fast (think email, docs or code) and keeps you in flow. Handy when you’d rather dictate than type and still want clean formatting.

TypingMind - A privacy-first chat workspace supporting multiple models via your own API keys. Good fit if you want one inbox for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini without data going through third-party servers.

Mocha - Describe an idea, get a working full-stack app. It handles frontend + backend, so you can ship a prototype in a day and iterate. Useful for founders testing product-market fit.

Kane AI - Records UI interactions and converts them into end-to-end test cases, then pipes debug context back into PRs. A pragmatic way to harden QA without hand-coding every test.

Hoody AI - Routes your chats to top models with encryption and no analytics, separating payment data to reduce fingerprinting. Good for teams with strict privacy posture.

Base44 - Turn natural-language specs into deployable apps with auth, storage, and hosting prewired. Treat it like a time-to-first-product accelerator.

Meku.dev - Developer-oriented builder that generates and deploys full-stack web apps from a prompt; pairs well with teams standardizing scaffolds.

Open SaaS 2.0 - An open-source starter kit for SaaS: auth, payments and an AI example out of the box—great for bootstrappers.

UNDOOMED - Hides short-form video feeds (Reels/TikTok) while preserving messages and posts - a lightweight focus tool for social platforms.

Getillustrations (Figma Plugin) - Pull thousands of ready-to-use illustrations into Figma; a practical design speedup for product teams and marketers.

Today’s Sources: AI Secret, The Rundown AI, There’s An AI For That