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Product & chips · Sep 20, 2026

OpenAI published a youth-safety blueprint for Australia, disclosing in it that since August "ChatGPT for Teens" has been the default experience for Australian users aged 13 to 17.

Product moves · This month (announced September 18)

From the Sep 20, 2026 daily brief

The blueprint sets out six principles covering AI literacy, age-appropriate protections, privacy-preserving age verification, connections to real-world crisis support and parental controls, and argues that companies should be accountable for identifying and handling teen risk (OpenAI, 2026-09-18). ⚠️ This is a deliberate intervention in the Australian policy environment, not a product launch: apart from the "default experience" item there is not a single user count or usage rate anywhere in it, and no outcome readings. The one thing in this column you can use as a fact is that age-based routing went from an option to a default, and Australia is the first market. For anyone building consumer AI products, this is a line that will get used as a benchmark.

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