TNB Tech Minute: OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Teens

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This podcast is sponsored by Comcast Business.

**Amit Verma** (0:03)
So CIO's role has evolved, and they're moving from being a technologist to being the bridge between AI capabilities and human adoption.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:13)
That's Amit Verma, CTO at Comcast Business. He believes that continuous intelligence and operating posture linking people, applications, data and machines is essential for AI at scale. Later, learn why it requires strong executive leadership.

**Julie Chang** (0:31)
Here's your morning TNB Tech Minute for Tuesday, August 18th. I'm Julie Chang for The Wall Street Journal. OpenAI is launching Chat GPT for teens today. The company intends for it to help students think through problems rather than just spitting out answers. The platform will automatically place teens in the new under 18 experience. OpenAI is using an age prediction model that relies on some 2000 signals, including chat content and times of day. Chat GPT for teens will include automatic safety settings to discourage emotional dependence and prompt users to take a break every 90 minutes. News Corp, owner of The Wall Street Journal, has a content licensing partnership with OpenAI.
Baidu's financial performance continued to drop in the second quarter, as the Chinese Internet Titan works to remake itself into an AI company. The company reported a 68% drop in second quarter net profit to about $344 million.
Revenue dipped 4.2% from a year earlier. Baidu, once considered China's answer to Google, has been pouring money into AI, autonomous driving and chip design, even as its bread-and-butter advertising business has continued to shrink.
And hiring for AI-related roles is continuing to surge. And younger workers are the ones nabbing the jobs. That's according to LinkedIn's head of economics for the Americas. He told the journal that while hiring overall is down compared to last year, this area of the labor market is quite robust. Plus, the younger generation is benefiting. LinkedIn data shows that Gen Z accounted for more than two-thirds of AI engineer hires as well as forward-deployed engineer hires last year. Meanwhile, millenials made up 60% of head of AI hires. However, disparities remain. 90% of AI hires hold a bachelor's degree while 20% of AI leadership hires have a doctorate, and women still remain an underrepresented group, only making up about a quarter of AI hires in 2025
That's your TNB Tech Minute. Join us again this afternoon for more.

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Amit Verma from Comcast Business explained the key role of CIOs in building systems of continuous intelligence across the organization, which is essential for AI at scale, but responsibility is shared across the C-suite.

**Amit Verma** (2:58)
The CEO and the board owns the business risk and the resilience. It involves your CFO organization for support on the investment.

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The Chief Human Resources Officer steers and shapes AI-driven workforce transformation. The Chief Information Security Officer ensures data safety and compliance. And it goes on. Cross-functional teamwork helps make way for real transformation.

**Amit Verma** (3:21)
Without that partnership and collaboration, the firm says, you are going to develop solutions that just automate a part of the process and not the end-to-end process. So it limits or reduces the impact of the automation.

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