ChatGPT's Mental Health Crisis + Adobe's AI Layers

"The non-profit just became the most well-funded charity since Rockefeller discovered tax writeoffs."

Hello Builders 👋

OpenAI just pulled off the corporate restructuring equivalent of turning water into wine, their non-profit arm is now sitting on equity that would make most venture funds weep.

Meanwhile, bunch of tool updates from Adobe, and someone made an AI Spongebob that's simultaneously impressive and deeply cursed.

Let's dive in.

OpenAI just dropped a stat that's both impressive and deeply concerning: over a million people per week are talking to ChatGPT about suicide. Every single week.

Here's the thing—this reveals something we've all been dancing around: AI chatbots have accidentally become the world's most accessible mental health resource. No insurance forms, no waiting rooms, no judgment. Just you and a text box at 3am.

The Hacker News thread is predictably split between "this is dangerous" and "this might be saving lives." Both sides have a point. We're in uncharted territory where our AI tools are doing emotional labor at scale that they were never really designed for.

v0 launches referral program - Invite a friend to subscribe, you both get $20 in credits. Classic growth hack, but hey, free money.

Adobe Firefly Image 5 adds layers and custom models - Finally bringing layers to AI image gen. Custom model training means you can stop fighting the base model.

Photoshop and Premiere Pro get faster AI editing - Adobe Max dropped a bunch of updates. The new tools can edit more of your work instantly.

Adobe's AI audio tools generate soundtracks and voice-overs - Because apparently we needed AI to make elevator music for our reels.

Adobe Express gets an AI assistant for design edits - Canva's been doing this, so Adobe's playing catch-up.

Adobe's Project Moonlight is an AI social media manager - An AI agent that acts as your creative director for social campaigns. Because nothing says "authentic brand voice" like letting an AI run your Instagram.

Spam call detector running locally with Gemma 3 - Fine-tuned Google's 1B model on real transcripts. No cloud, no privacy nightmares. Finally, someone built the spam filter we actually need.

7 Free Remote MCPs You Must Use As A Developer - Skip the local setup hell. Connect via URL and API key to remote MCP servers that actually work without spending your weekend debugging.

Built a "Home Tutor Finder" app without coding - Parents post, teachers apply, everyone chats. One prompt, full app. No-code is eating the world and honestly it's getting hard to argue against it.

ClaudeKit's "Video to App" demo - Show it a video of an app and it builds it. Wild demo, curious how well it actually works beyond the happy path.

Consistency Characters V0.3 for ComfyUI - Generate consistent character appearances without LoRA training. Just reference image plus text prompts. Huge for anyone making comics or storyboards with AI.

AI can code, but it can't build software - HN thread with 143 comments debating the difference between writing code and actually shipping products.

OpenAI flags emotional attachment to ChatGPT as safety risk - People are forming "deep bonds" with ChatGPT and OpenAI is now actively discouraging it.

Does video coding really make you stupid? - Builder argues AI coding forces better upfront thinking: describe task clearly in 30 mins instead of fumbling through it all day.

Automation works with humans in the loop - The key insight: automation shines when humans stay involved, not when you set it and forget it.

OpenAI completes recapitalization - The non-profit now controls $130B in equity, making it one of the best-resourced philanthropies ever. That's... one way to do charity work.

Adobe Max 2025 announces new creative tools - Adobe's annual design conference showcases updates to Creative Cloud apps and Firefly AI models.

PayPal integrates with ChatGPT for shopping - Users can complete purchases directly in ChatGPT starting 2026. Because what we really needed was another way to impulse buy.

OpenAI gives India free ChatGPT Go for a year - Limited-time promotional offer targets the Indian market. Smart play for a massive user base that actually builds stuff with these tools.

Grokipedia launches with copied Wikipedia pages - Elon's Wikipedia alternative is live and surprisingly similar to the original.

AI-Generated SpongeBob - LTX's new text-to-video model nails character voices and personalities from just "SpongeBob and Patrick discuss AI sentience."

AI Music Videos Are Getting Wild - This music video from u/ohjoan proves we're past that inflection point for video generation.

DeepMind's RL Algorithm Discovery - New Nature paper shows AI discovering better reinforcement learning algorithms autonomously.

AI Agent Development Tools - Essential tools for building AI agents

The $25 Banana: What I Learned Building Multi-Agent Systems - Lessons from multi-agent system development

While Everyone's building AI Agents, we are building revenue workflows - Revenue-focused AI workflow approach

One more thing... I've been watching this pattern emerge: the teams shipping the fastest right now aren't the ones with the biggest budgets or fanciest tools. They're the ones who've gotten ruthlessly good at saying "no" to almost everything. Wild how subtraction keeps beating addition.

So what are you cutting out to move faster? I'm genuinely curious what features, meetings, or "best practices" you've killed recently that actually made things better. Hit reply and tell me what you stopped doing that paradoxically helped you ship more.

Keep shipping,

P.S. Someone told me they read these newsletters while pretending to be on important Zoom calls. I'm choosing to take that as a compliment. If that's you, at least turn your camera off.