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Reddit is heavily restricting the Internet Archive's access to its platform.

Going forward, the Wayback Machine will only be able to index Reddit's homepage, blocking access to individual posts, user comments, and profile pages. According to company spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt, the move is a response to incidents where AI companies scraped Reddit content via the Wayback Machine, violating the platform's rules. Reddit notified the Internet Archive ahead of time, and the new restrictions are being rolled out immediately.

The change is part of a broader push by Reddit to crack down on data scraping and free data use by AI firms. In 2024, Reddit signed licensing deals with Google and OpenAI for access to its data, while blocking search engines that don't pay. The company has also filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over alleged unauthorized data scraping for AI training.

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Apple plans to upgrade its ChatGPT integration in Apple Intelligence to GPT-5 across iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26. Until now, the feature has relied on GPT-4o, but the switch to GPT-5 is expected with next month's software updates. Using ChatGPT remains optional, letting users connect Siri, writing tools, and visual recognition features to the new model if they choose. Apple says IP addresses will stay hidden and that OpenAI will not store requests unless users link their OpenAI account. Apple Intelligence is also getting new features, including live translations in FaceTime and system-wide visual search.

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ChatGPT now defaults to GPT-5 automatically selecting the model for each task, which may help beginners but feel less transparent to advanced users. A setting is still available to enable access to older "legacy" models such as o3 and GPT-4o. When turned on, these can be manually chosen from the "Other models" menu. This manual option applies only to past models. The GPT-5 "Thinking" and "Pro" versions can also be selected manually, but only by Pro subscribers.

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