November 5, 2025

Good morning Staker! Here’s what’s cookin’ today. OpenAI stops Chatgpt from giving you advice, Segrada Familia is now the world’s tallest church, and the story of an awkward moment for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 👀

Let’s get into it!

ChatGPT used to be known for answering literally any question, and that included ones of questionable legal integrity, or ones that could get both the user and its owner OpenAI into trouble.

For example, you could once query the chatbot on how to avoid taxes or ask it for financial or health advice. Now the company is ramping up restrictions on these types of questions to avoid potential legal trouble for itself and its users, and to avoid causing unnecessary panic.

The changes are intended to benefit both, of course. Users aren’t actually served by asking a chatbot for medical or financial advice. The changes include tightening mental health parameters, which will impact those who treat ChatGPT like a therapist.

OpenAI also aims to limit its legal exposure with these changes, given the proclivity of all chatbots at this stage in the AI race to bite off more than they can chew.

There’s no room for error when dealing with a person’s 401(k) or cancer treatments and stopping ChatGPT from engaging in these types of topics will invariably lead to fewer legal headaches for OpenAI down the line.

According to a recent 14-year-long study, walking an extra few thousand steps per day could delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by years.

“We’re encouraging older people who are at risk of Alzheimer’s to consider making small changes to their activity levels, to build sustained habits that protect or benefit their brain and cognitive health,” said Dr Wai-Ying Yau, the first author on the study at Mass General Brigham hospital in Boston.

Dr. Yau’s team found study participants who walked an extra 3,000 to 5,000 steps on average per day delayed Alzheimer’s by three years, and those who added 5,000 to 7,000 delayed it by up to seven years.

The study involved just 296 participants between 50 and 90 years old who had no signs of cognitive decline when the study began.

Still, those with no amyloid or tau protein build-up in their brains at the beginning of the study saw no significant cognitive impact with the addition of more steps. Those who had build-up and didn’t adjust their walking habits ended up experiencing cognitive decline at the expected rate.

Those who had more amyloid or tau build-up at the beginning of the study and added an extra few thousand steps daily saw their cognitive decline slowed for three to seven years.

Antoni Gaudi knew he wouldn’t live to see his architectural magnum opus completed, but likely no one thought it would take 143 years and counting for the Sagrada Familia to be finished.

While church officials expect remaining construction on the exterior and design on the interior to take yet another decade to finish, the structure did hit the milestone recently of becoming the world’s tallest church.

A large stone foundation was placed on the church’s central tower to serve as the base for the final piece, and in doing so, builders made the Sagrada Familia 534 feet tall, just edging out the Ulmer Münster, a gothic masterpiece of its own in Germany, which stands at 530 feet tall.

When the Sagrada’s central “Tower of Jesus Christ” is finished, it will reach 564 feet, solidifying its status, though church officials have yet to claim any bragging rights.

Construction for the church has been sped up over the last few decades as the structure has also become a top European tourist attraction. 4.9 million people paid to visit the Sagrada Familia last year, with most proceeds funding the remaining construction before Gaudi’s masterpiece is finally complete.

Tom Petty was known for running a tight ship on tour, with decades of experience and a crew that knew its role and how to get it done.

"When you're on a tour, it becomes very routine," Petty wrote in his 2005 book Conversations With Tom Petty. "Tours are very organized. Everything's done by the book."

The band found out, in the middle of 1995’s Dogs with Wings Tour, you can’t plan for every single contingency when one night in Louisville, Kentucky things definitely weren’t very routine.

During a performance of It’s Good to Be King, a large golden-winged dog was floated above the audience, and in a moment fit for Spinal Tap, the dog got stuck and just hovered above the crowd for the rest of the show.

While the dog just stayed there and nobody was hurt, the act was said to be retired following the show. However, legend has it the good boy did get an encore, hovering in the spotlight one more time after Louisville.

A Chicago Tribune review in March of 1995 noted, " It's Good to Be King brought the night's one true embarrassment: A statue of a flying dog was trolley-lined over the audience while a mirror ball spun for no apparent reason."

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