ChatGPT Adult Mode Delayed Again as OpenAIs Code Red Reportedly Ends

The company CEO said OpenAI’s “code red” has reportedly ended, almost four months after it was announced that the ‘code is dead’. According to reports in December 2025, Sam Altman declared a code red and kept all non-ChatGPT projects on hold. The San Francisco-based artificial intelligence (AI) giant has released three new AI models and several new features for the popular chatbot since then. Meanwhile, the company has reportedly delayed its “Adult Mode” feature for ChatGPT once again because other higher-priority projects have also been under pressure.

OpenAI’s Code Red Reportedly Over

Alex Heath, a Substack post on the subject, said OpenAI has ended the company-wide code red that was in effect since December 2025. The former The Verge reporter, citing anonymous sources, said the curfew was lifted after the company released the GPT-5. 4 AI model earlier this week,’ 4.

In a podcast last month, Fidji Simo, CEO of Applications at OpenAI, said in ‘the new model is coming out with code red. The executive also noted that the code red had only affected ChatGPT and product research teams, not those who were working on long-term research projects.

The company’s focus on the growth of ChatGPT is now shifted to more products and services, as well as new initiatives with the code red ending. As a result, it is likely that the Sora app will be updated with new features in the coming days.

The connection between the two is not clear, but open AI has been reportedly delaying ChatGPT’s Adult Mode for another second time. An OpenAI spokesman told Heath that the feature was being suspended as the company is working on other higher-priority projects such as intelligence, personality improvements, personalisation and making the ChatGPT experience more proactive.

But we still believe in the principle of treating adults like adults, but getting the experience right will take more time,” spokesman was quoted as saying. The feature was first announced in October 2025 and, sadly, was postponed to December 20 25. This then was again re-delayed to the first quarter of the current year’s ongoing cycle, as it was Then. The company’s decision to launch the feature is not yet clear when it will be able to release .