ChatGPT for teens

September 16th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

• OpenAI is developing a teen-friendly version of ChatGPT that includes enhanced safety features such as stricter content filters prohibiting flirtatious or self-harm discussions, crisis response interventions, parental controls allowing account linking, and usage restrictions

• President Trump has filed a $15 billion defamation and libel lawsuit against The New York Times and four of its journalists, as well as publisher Penguin Random House…the lawsuit alleges that three articles and a book published by Times reporters before the 2024 election were intentionally false and designed to harm Trump’s business reputation and sabotage his candidacy

• A U.S. appeals court ruled that President Trump cannot fire Federal Reserve Governor, Lisa Cook, before the upcoming Fed interest rate meeting, the ruling preserves a lower court order blocking the firing…the Trump administration has since appealed the decision to the Supreme Court in a last-ditch effort to remove her

• The Senate has confirmed President Trump’s nominee, Stephen Miran, to the Federal Reserve Board by a narrow 48-47 vote, ensuring he can participate in this week’s interest rate meeting

• Geoff Duncan, the former Republican lieutenant governor of Georgia, announced that he is running for governor of Georgia as a Democrat

• Minnesota Governor, Tim Walz, has announced he will run for a third term in 2026

• FBI Director, Kash Patel, testified before the the Senate Judiciary Committee where he was grilled over his handling of the investigation into Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the management of Epstein-related files, and the dismissal of FBI agents…watch the hearing here 

• For the fourth time, President Trump has extended the deadline for ByteDance to divest TikTok’s U.S. business in order to avoid a ban, this extension follows a "framework deal" that was announced yesterday under which about 80% of TikTok’s U.S. business would be owned by an investor group including Oracle, Silver Lake, and Andreessen Horowitz, with U.S. users expected to transition to a newly controlled app…read more here

• The pharmaceutical company, Eli Lilly, announced a $5 billion investment to build a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant in Goochland County, Virginia…this facility will focus on producing active pharmaceutical ingredients and drug products for targeted cancer therapies and autoimmune diseases and will create over 650 jobs

• U.S. retail sales increased 0.6% in August, beating the expectations of a 0.2% gain and maintaining the same growth rate as July

• DOW down .27% / S&P down .13%

• Israel launched its ground offensive in Gaza City aiming to dismantle Hamas's military capabilities and regain control of the city…a United Nations commission also said today that Israel is committing a genocide against Palestinians in Gaza…read more here 

Plus: A Gallup poll showing Americans are placing less value on a college education

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