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OpenAI has quietly made a significant upgrade to ChatGPT's memory system, improving what the company calls its dreaming architecture. The changes are rolling out broadly, with free tier users getting meaningful access this time around — a notable shift from the pattern of holding better features back for paying subscribers.
From one AI story to another with much higher stakes: Wired has found code buried inside Meta's AI app pointing to an unreleased facial recognition feature. Meta had already been reported exploring face recognition for its Ray-Ban smart glasses, and this discovery suggests that work is further along than the company has publicly acknowledged. The privacy implications are considerable.
And on Capitol Hill, Republican Representative Bryan Steil says he'll expand the House's congressional stock trading ban bill to include prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi. Lawmakers have been scrutinizing these platforms after concerns that political insiders could use them to profit from non-public information — the same logic that originally drove the push to restrict stock trading. Whether the bill advances remains an open question, but the scope is clearly widening.
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