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This week, OpenAI surprised the AI world with two new models for ChatGPT and found themselves in a precarious privacy predicament thanks to the New York Times.

We'll break down everything you need to know about OpenAI's busy week, give you a prompt that will save you time and money, and share with you a video that finally explains the chaos surrounding Apple's AI efforts.

Let's get right into it...

🪄 App of the Week: GPT 5.1

Use Case: Everything You Do with ChatGPT Just Got Better

Link: ChatGPT (Free, Not Sponsored!)​

Why you should care:
​OpenAI just released two new model updates for the GPT-5 series: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking. These new models promise to make ChatGPT more capable and user-friendly than ever before.

Here's a breakdown on what's special about these models:

• GPT-5.1 Instant is designed to be a warm, intelligent conversation partner, like a next-generation version of the GPT-4o model so many people grew fond of.
• GPT-5.1 Thinking improves on the GPT-5 Thinking model with better efficiency and more easily understandable responses.

GPT-5.1 Auto will continue to route queries to the model best suited for it, so if you don't want to choose your model, you don't have to. But for those who want finer control over their ChatGPT experience, you'll be able to choose between GPT-5.1 Instant and Thinking for each prompt.

The GPT-5.1 models are already rolling out, starting with paid users and then to free users and even logged-out users.

So go check ChatGPT and see if you have access to these new models today!

📰 News That Matters: The New York Times Wants Your Private ChatGPT Conversations

Link: Fighting the New York Times’ invasion of user privacy | OpenAI​

Why it matters:
​The New York Times and OpenAI have been feuding for years, but what began as relatively minor legal battles has now turned into a fight for the future of AI privacy.

On Wednesday of this week, OpenAI published a blog claiming that the New York Times is "demanding that [OpenAI] turn over 20 million of your private ChatGPT conversations" as part of an ongoing legal battle.

The New York Times wants access to these conversations to find examples of ChatGPT users attempting to avoid the New York Times' paywalls.

If the Times succeeds, OpenAI will be forced to hand over the data that ChatGPT users once thought private. And that data wouldn't just be seen by employees of the Times; it would also be shared with third parties like the Times' lawyers and consultants.

While there are always two sides to a story, this one seems to cast a pretty favorable light on OpenAI no matter how you look at it.

The Times' lawyers have shown a striking disregard for privacy throughout this legal dispute. Early on, they asked the courts to force OpenAI to remove the ability for users to delete private chats. Later in the proceedings, they demanded that OpenAI turn over 1.4 billion chats.

Though those requests were denied by the courts, the Times seems determined to acquire private ChatGPT conversations no matter how long it takes.

And this time, OpenAI offered potential solutions to the Times, like targeted searches over chat samples to look specifically for information from the Times, so that the Times would only get access to relevant conversations. The Times rejected that offer.

Ultimately, the courts will decide what happens in this case, and when they do, it will set a strong legal precedent around AI going forward.

If the Times gets what it wants, it means that every AI company will be vulnerable to legal attacks like this in the future, and the information you send to their AI is only ever as safe as the company is legally stable.

So until the dust settles with this case, be careful with what you decide to send to the various AI tools you're using. And consider exploring the growing world of "offline AI" or "local AI" as it presents the ultimate solution to this issue!

Pro Tip:
​If you want to learn more about offline AI, you can simply copy this entire News That Matters section and send it to ChatGPT along with this prompt: Help me explore the growing world of offline AI as mentioned at the end of this article! What's special about it compared to closed models like ChatGPT or Claude?

📝 Prompt of the Week: Your Personal AI Meal Planner

Prompt Formula:
​Here’s what’s in my fridge. What’s the easiest thing I can make for dinner tonight? (ATTACH IMAGE)

Quick Description:
​This is a fantastic beginner prompt to learn how to use ChatGPT's multimodal (more than just text) features. No meal plans? No problem, use this prompt!

How to Use:

1. Open the ChatGPT app. (This workflow works best when you use a mobile device with the ChatGPT iOS or Android app.)
2. Copy the above prompt.
3. Paste it into ChatGPT.
4. Take a picture of your fridge. (You may need to shift some items around and/or open some drawers to ensure everything is visible in one picture.)
5. Attach the picture to your ChatGPT prompt.
6. Send the prompt!

This is a great way to use ChatGPT to save time and money, reduce food waste, and practice using advanced AI techniques all at once!

📽️ Video of the Week: Why Apple Just Gave Up on AI

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Remember when Apple tried to sell you its latest iPhone by promising a new era of Apple Intelligence? Obviously, that didn't work out as planned.

But things have only gotten worse for Apple's AI efforts, and now it looks like they're officially throwing in the towel on internal AI development.

​Watch this video from YouTube channel ColdFusion for a full breakdown on the current state of Apple Intelligence, including this week's new reports of Apple potentially paying Google $1 billion to license the Gemini models to upgrade Siri.

That's all for this week!

Much Love,
Igor & The AI Advantage Team

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