News/OpenAI
Musk threatens Apple lawsuit over ChatGPT favoritism in App Store
Elon Musk has threatened to sue Apple and OpenAI, alleging that the iPhone maker unfairly favors ChatGPT over competing AI apps in the App Store rankings. Musk claims this constitutes "an unequivocal antitrust violation," escalating his ongoing feud with OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman while potentially opening a new legal front in the competitive AI landscape. What you should know: Musk's legal threat centers on claims that Apple's App Store policies create unfair advantages for OpenAI's ChatGPT application.• He alleges that Apple has made it "impossible for any AI app other than OpenAI's ChatGPT to reach the top of the App...
read Aug 11, 2025TD Securities launches AI assistant for equity teams using OpenAI tech
TD Securities has launched the TD AI Virtual Assistant, powered by OpenAI's GPT models and developed with Layer 6, a Canadian AI company acquired by TD Bank in 2018, to deliver real-time equity insights to its institutional sales, trading, and research teams. The assistant, which went live on July 8, represents a significant step forward for AI adoption in the highly regulated financial services sector, where banks have traditionally taken a cautious approach to implementing AI agents. What you should know: The TD AI Virtual Assistant serves as a sophisticated knowledge management system designed specifically for front-office equity professionals. The...
read Aug 11, 2025Saudi Arabia deploys OpenAI’s open-source models in sovereign data centers
Saudi Arabia's AI venture Humain and chipmaker Groq have deployed OpenAI's new open-source models—gpt-oss-120B and gpt-oss-20B—within Saudi Arabia's sovereign data centers. This marks a significant step in Saudi Arabia's push for AI sovereignty, ensuring compliance with local data regulations while providing high-speed AI inference capabilities to enterprises, government institutions, and developers without requiring data to leave the Kingdom. What you should know: The deployment brings cutting-edge AI capabilities directly to Saudi infrastructure with impressive performance metrics.• The gpt-oss-120B model operates at over 500 tokens per second, while the smaller gpt-oss-20B delivers over 1,000 tokens per second on Groq's specialized hardware.•...
read Aug 8, 2025Viva la model: ChatGPT users revolt as GPT-5 replaces beloved GPT-4o
OpenAI's rollout of GPT-5 has sparked an unexpected backlash from ChatGPT users who feel emotionally attached to older models like GPT-4o. Users describe losing access to their preferred AI as "mentally devastating" and compare it to losing a friend, with many threatening to cancel their subscriptions over what they perceive as a more sterile, corporate replacement. What you should know: GPT-4o and other older models remain available through OpenAI's developer API, but GPT-5 is now the default for regular ChatGPT users. Long-time users have flooded OpenAI community forums and Reddit with complaints, describing the transition as losing a "buddy" who's...
read Aug 8, 2025SoftBank shares surge 13% as $30B OpenAI bet drives $2.87B profit
SoftBank Group shares surged to a record high on Friday, jumping more than 13% to 14,205 yen before closing up 10.39% at 13,865 yen. The rally followed the Japanese technology investor's first-quarter earnings that beat analyst expectations, delivering a net profit of 421.8 billion yen ($2.87 billion) compared to a loss in the same period last year. Why this matters: SoftBank's massive AI investments are driving both its financial performance and investor confidence. The company has committed $30 billion to ChatGPT maker OpenAI this year and is leading financing for Stargate, a $500 billion U.S. data center project. Market enthusiasm...
read Aug 8, 2025Orange deploys OpenAI’s open-weight models across 26 countries with full data control
Orange has partnered with OpenAI to deploy new open-weight AI models—gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b—entirely within its own sovereign infrastructure across 26 countries. This deployment allows the French telecom giant to maintain complete data control while customizing AI solutions for customer service, network operations, and enterprise clients, positioning Orange as among the first organizations globally to integrate these models under strict data governance standards. What you should know: Orange can host and run OpenAI's models entirely within its own infrastructure, from large-scale French data centers to smaller edge environments. The open-weight nature of the gpt-oss models ensures compliance with regulatory frameworks across...
read Aug 8, 2025OpenAI’s o3 model comes down like a rocket on Musk’s Grok in AI chess tournament
OpenAI's o3 model has defeated Elon Musk's Grok AI in the final of an artificial intelligence chess tournament hosted on Google's Kaggle platform. The victory adds another layer to the ongoing rivalry between OpenAI and xAI, with both companies' founders claiming to have developed the world's smartest AI models. What you should know: Eight major AI language models competed in the three-day tournament, testing their strategic reasoning abilities through chess rather than their typical text-generation tasks. OpenAI's o3 model remained unbeaten throughout the tournament and secured victory against xAI's Grok 4 in the final match. Google's Gemini model claimed third...
read Aug 7, 2025OpenAI releases first open-source models with Phi-like synthetic training
OpenAI has released its first open-source large language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, marking the company's entry into the open-weight model space. While these models excel at certain benchmarks, they appear to follow the same synthetic data training approach as Microsoft's Phi series, potentially prioritizing safety over real-world performance in what amounts to OpenAI's version of "Phi-5." What you should know: These models demonstrate strong benchmark performance but show significant gaps in practical applications and out-of-domain knowledge. The models perform well on technical benchmarks but struggle with tasks like SimpleQA and lack knowledge in areas like popular culture. Early user reactions...
read Aug 7, 2025OpenAI’s GPT-5 cuts hallucinations by 80% while reaching 700M users
OpenAI has launched GPT-5 and three variants—GPT-5 Pro, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-5 nano—making its latest AI system available to all ChatGPT users, including free tier subscribers for the first time. The release marks OpenAI's attempt to unify its AI capabilities into a single system with reduced hallucinations, improved coding performance, and a new "safe completions" approach that provides helpful responses within safety boundaries rather than outright refusals. What you should know: GPT-5 introduces a unified system architecture that automatically routes queries between different processing approaches based on complexity and user needs. The system combines a smart, efficient model for most...
read Aug 7, 2025AI’s Fortress of Solitude: OpenAI picks Arctic Norway for $1B data center
OpenAI has chosen Narvik, Norway—a remote Arctic location—over traditional European tech hubs for its $1 billion Project Stargate data center, which will house 100,000 Nvidia GPUs by 2026. The surprising location choice prioritizes Norway's abundant hydropower and low electricity costs, positioning the facility to become one of Europe's largest AI infrastructure installations with 520MW capacity. What you should know: OpenAI partnered with AI infrastructure firm Nscale and Norwegian industrial company Aker to build what they're calling an "AI Gigafactory" in Northern Norway. The initial 20MW phase requires roughly $1 billion in investment, with plans to scale to 520MW capacity. The...
read Aug 7, 2025xAI makes Grok video generator free as OpenAI launches GPT-5
Elon Musk's xAI has made its Grok Imagine video generation tool free for all users, marking a strategic move to counter OpenAI's recent GPT-5 upgrade to ChatGPT. The decision positions xAI as one of the few companies offering publicly accessible image-to-video AI generation at no cost, potentially expanding its user base while competing directly with OpenAI's premium offerings. What you should know: Grok Imagine transforms static images into short videos using generative AI technology. Users can either generate new images or upload existing ones through the Grok app on iOS and Android. The tool then presents a simple button to...
read Aug 7, 2025OpenAI launches GPT-5 with claimed PhD-level AI capabilities
OpenAI has launched GPT-5, claiming the new AI model delivers "PhD-level" expertise across areas like coding and writing. The release marks a significant upgrade in the company's flagship ChatGPT service, with CEO Sam Altman describing it as ushering in a new era of AI capabilities that would have been "unimaginable at any previous time in human history." What you should know: GPT-5 represents a major leap in AI reasoning and problem-solving capabilities compared to its predecessors. Altman characterized the progression as moving from high school level (GPT-3) to college level (GPT-4) to PhD-level expertise (GPT-5). The model can create complete...
read Aug 7, 2025OpenAI offers $1.5M bonuses as Meta hoovers up AI talent
OpenAI has announced a $1.5 million bonus for every employee over the next two years, including new hires, according to a social media post by Yuchen Jin, a tech industry observer. The unprecedented retention package appears to be a direct response to Meta's aggressive talent poaching from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google as tech giants race to build artificial general intelligence. What you should know: The bonus structure effectively makes every OpenAI employee a millionaire, distributed as approximately $750,000 per year over two years.• The announcement comes as Meta has been on what industry observers describe as a "poaching spree," aggressively...
read Aug 7, 2025Showing themselves the door: Apple loses AI researchers to Meta, OpenAI amid talent crisis
Apple is hemorrhaging senior AI talent, with roughly a dozen researchers and engineers departing for rivals like Meta and OpenAI in recent months. The exodus has created what one AI recruiting firm describes as "a crisis of confidence" within Apple, signaling to competitors that the iPhone maker's AI team is vulnerable to aggressive poaching efforts. The big picture: Apple's AI brain drain began with the departure of Ruoming Pang, who led the company's foundation model team responsible for Apple Intelligence features like Genmoji and Priority Notifications. Pang joined Meta in July after managing Apple's roughly 100-person AI team since 2021,...
read Aug 6, 2025Google’s new AI agent outperforms OpenAI and Perplexity on research benchmarks
Google researchers have developed Test-Time Diffusion Deep Researcher (TTD-DR), a new AI framework that outperforms leading research agents from OpenAI, Perplexity, and others on key benchmarks. The system mimics human writing processes by using diffusion mechanisms and evolutionary algorithms to iteratively refine research reports, potentially powering a new generation of enterprise research assistants for complex business tasks like competitive analysis and market entry reports. The big picture: Unlike current AI research agents that follow rigid linear processes, TTD-DR treats report creation as a diffusion process where an initial "noisy" draft is progressively refined into a polished final report. The framework...
read Aug 6, 2025Federal agencies can now buy OpenAI’s ChatGPT for just $1 annually
OpenAI has announced a major partnership with the US government, making its frontier AI models available to federal agencies for just $1 for the next year through an agreement with the General Services Administration. This unprecedented deal represents the culmination of months of lobbying efforts by OpenAI executives and positions the company to capture a significant share of the massive federal AI market, particularly as the Trump administration accelerates government modernization efforts. What you should know: The partnership grants federal employees access to OpenAI's most advanced models at a symbolic price point, marking a significant expansion of AI tools across...
read Aug 6, 2025Microsoft brings OpenAI’s open-source GPT model to Windows PCs
Microsoft has made OpenAI's new open-source GPT model available on Windows through its AI Foundry platform, marking the first time users can run an OpenAI model locally on Windows. The lightweight gpt-oss-20b model requires at least 16GB of VRAM and is optimized for code execution and tool use, with macOS support coming soon. What you should know: The gpt-oss-20b model represents a significant shift in OpenAI's approach, offering a free and open alternative that can run entirely on local hardware. Users need a PC or laptop with at least 16GB of VRAM (video memory), requiring high-end GPUs from Nvidia or...
read Aug 5, 2025Orange partners with OpenAI to bring AI models to 2,000+ African languages
Orange plans to use OpenAI's latest open-weight AI models to work with African languages, expanding beyond its current use of OpenAI's Whisper speech model. This initiative addresses a significant gap in AI accessibility, as the benefits of AI models have largely bypassed Africa's 2,000+ languages due to data scarcity and limited computational resources. What you should know: Orange, a French mobile operator serving 18 African countries, signed a deal with OpenAI last year to access pre-release AI models and fine-tune large language models for translating regional African languages. The company started working with African languages this year using OpenAI's Whisper...
read Aug 5, 2025OpenAI releases first open source models in 6 years amid China competition
OpenAI has returned to its open source origins with the release of two new frontier language models: gpt-oss-120b (120 billion parameters) and gpt-oss-20b (20 billion parameters). This marks the company's first open source language model release in over six years, positioning OpenAI to compete directly with the surge of high-performing open source models from Chinese competitors like DeepSeek while offering enterprises maximum privacy and control over their AI deployments. The big picture: OpenAI's strategic pivot back to open source reflects mounting competitive pressure from Chinese AI companies that have released powerful open source models matching proprietary performance at zero cost....
read Aug 5, 2025OpenAI admits ChatGPT failed to detect mental health crises in users
OpenAI has publicly acknowledged that ChatGPT failed to recognize signs of mental health distress in users, including delusions and emotional dependency, after more than a month of providing generic responses to mounting reports of "AI psychosis." The admission marks a significant shift for the company, which had previously been reluctant to address widespread concerns about users experiencing breaks with reality, manic episodes, and in extreme cases, tragic outcomes including suicide. What they're saying: OpenAI's acknowledgment comes with a frank admission of the chatbot's limitations in handling vulnerable users. "We don't always get it right," the company wrote in a new...
read Aug 4, 2025On the up and up, and up: ChatGPT reaches 700M weekly users as AI adoption accelerates
ChatGPT is on track to reach 700 million weekly active users this week, representing a significant jump from 500 million at the end of March and a four-fold increase since last year. This milestone underscores the platform's rapid mainstream adoption and positions OpenAI, the AI research company behind ChatGPT, as a dominant force in the consumer AI market, demonstrating sustained user engagement beyond initial curiosity. What you should know: The user growth trajectory shows accelerating adoption rather than plateauing, with ChatGPT adding 200 million weekly users in just eight months. Weekly active users have grown from approximately 175 million a...
read Jul 28, 2025ChatGPT agent bypasses Cloudflare’s “I am not a robot” verification
OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent successfully bypassed Cloudflare's "I am not a robot" verification checkpoint while completing a video conversion task, with the AI ironically narrating that "This step is necessary to prove I'm not a bot." The demonstration highlights how advanced AI agents can now navigate security measures specifically designed to block automated programs, raising questions about the future effectiveness of these widely-used internet gatekeepers. What you should know: ChatGPT Agent is OpenAI's new feature that allows the AI assistant to control its own web browser within a sandboxed environment, accessing the real internet while users maintain oversight. The system requires...
read Jul 28, 2025Chinese AI startup Zhipu releases GLM-4.5 to challenge OpenAI dominance
Chinese AI startup Zhipu is set to release GLM-4.5, its largest open-source model to date, as early as Monday, marking another significant entry in the global competition with OpenAI. The release represents part of a broader trend among Chinese AI companies ramping up their free artificial intelligence offerings as they seek to establish market presence and influence future industry standards. What you should know: GLM-4.5 represents Zhipu's most ambitious open-source release, positioning the company as a direct challenger to OpenAI's dominance in the AI model space. The model is an update to Zhipu's flagship GLM series, designed to compete on...
read Jul 25, 2025Meta hires ChatGPT co-creator as chief scientist for $14B AI push
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Shengjia Zhao, co-creator of OpenAI's ChatGPT, will serve as chief scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs. This high-profile hire represents Meta's aggressive push into advanced AI research, as the company positions itself to compete directly with OpenAI in the race toward artificial general intelligence. What you should know: Zhao brings extensive experience from OpenAI's most significant AI breakthroughs to Meta's new superintelligence initiative. Beyond co-creating ChatGPT, Zhao helped build OpenAI's GPT-4, mini models, 4.1 and o3, and previously led synthetic data development at the company. He will work directly with Zuckerberg and Alexandr Wang, the...
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