OpenAI has had a pretty rocky rollout of its latest-greatest…or allegedly greatest, GPT-5. in fact, it has been rough enough that arstechnica.com reports that the user backlash has forced OpenAI to let users revert to GPT-4o. That AI model now appears in the model picker for all paid ChatGPT users by default (including ChatGPT Plus accounts), marking a swift reversal after thousands of users complained about losing access to their preferred models. The backlash wasn’t pretty at all, with a Reddit thread titled “GPT-5 is horrible” amassing over 2,000 comments in just days. OpenAI has now made some modifications to address the user outrage over GPT-5. Rate limits for GPT-5 Thinking mode increased from 200 to 3,000 messages per week, with additional capacity available through “GPT-5 Thinking mini” after reaching that limit. The company also added new routing options—”Auto,” “Fast,” and “Thinking”—giving users more control over which GPT-5 variant handles their queries.

Amazon has announced that it will offer same-day grocery delivery in some 2300 cities by the end of the year…that’s double what they are doing now. According to Bloomberg, users will be able to order perishables like produce, meat, seafood, dairy, and baked goods…in addition to frozen foods and household items. Same day delivery for grocery items is free for Amazon Prime subscribers on orders over $25 in most cities. For non-members, it runs $12.99 per order, no matter what the order size is. 

We recently reported on the Tea app, an app that lets women clue each other in on men they know or have dated, and tip them off to ‘red flags’ with those men. It turned out, the app was leaking the women’s information, including driver’s licenses. Well, as the old saying goes, ‘what’s good for the goose is good for the gander,’ only in this case it’s what’s bad! Techcrunch.com says the app for guys, TeaOnHer, also leaked like a sieve…with driver’s licenses found by TechCrunch within 10 minutes of being sent a link to the app in the App Store! The flaws that allowed this kind of leak have apparently been resolved now, but not before thousands of guys’ driver’s license info was exposed. Once again, I get to warn…no matter what an app might potentially do for you…DON’T upload your driver’s license or government ID to use it! With new laws in the United Kingdom, this has become a major issue, with authorities there enacting a law requiring sites to demand age verification…even Wikipedia! The Wiki is fighting it, and may even make itself unavailable in Britain over this issue if it loses in court. 

The US government has apparently put location tracking devices in targeted shipments of advanced AI chips considered at hight risk of illegal diversion to China. Benzinga.com reports that the trackers are hidden in server packaging from Dell and Super Micro Computer for units containing chips from NVIDIA and AMD. Some shipments of the restricted chips have resumed, after the chipmakers agreed to virtual extortion by the Trump administration of 15% of their profits on sales of the chips in China. Normally the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security oversees such operations, but this appears to also involved Homeland Security Investigations, and the FBI. Super Micro declined to comment on the issue, and Dell said it was ‘not aware’ of such trackers in its shipments. To me this has the vibe of Mad Magazine’s old ‘Spy vs. Spy’ cartoons. Will the Black Spy get the upper hand on the White Spy…or will the Lady in Gray bamboozle both of them?

I’m Clark Reid and you’re ‘Technified’ for now.