Published on: 2025-06-03 09:35:33
If you’re Apple, this is the kind of internal document that you knew existed, but still hits hard. Especially in the middle of a global antitrust reckoning and internal… whatever the heck is going on in there. A recently unsealed OpenAI file outlines the company’s ambitions for ChatGPT. In short? They’re coming for Siri with everything they’ve got. The super-assistant Thanks to the DOJ’s ongoing case against Google, we now have a rare look at how OpenAI views its competition, and where it see
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-03 17:54:21
Microsoft introduced an AI-powered video generator to its Bing search engine. Bing Video Creator is powered by OpenAI's Sora, which creates short clips based on text prompts. The free feature is rolling out to the Bing mobile app starting today and is slated to arrive later on desktop and to Copilot Search. Microsoft has invested multiple billions of dollars into OpenAI in support of its artificial intelligence endeavors over the years. The tech giant integrated the DALL-E image generation capa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 05:11:03
koiguo/Getty Kicking off the current generative AI frenzy, ChatGPT is already a relatively capable AI, able to answer questions, generate content, and chat with you about almost any topic. But OpenAI isn't stopping there. Rather, the company has big plans for its popular AI, envisioning an evolution that would turn it into a "super assistant." OpenAI's goals for ChatGPT came to light courtesy of a confidential and highly redacted document introduced as part of the Justice Department's antitrus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 21:00:00
Hayden Field is joining The Verge as a senior AI reporter, where she will lead coverage of the biggest names in AI — including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Apple, and others — while also reporting on how these tools are being used, how they’re reshaping society, and how regulators are responding. Field joins The Verge from CNBC, where she closely tracked the rise of generative AI and the companies determining its future. She begins her role today. “AI has the potential to be a fundamental s
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-04 22:33:58
The mysterious AI gadget being created by OpenAI and former Apple design chief Jony Ive has been given the thumbs up from Laurene Powell Jobs. In a new interview published by The Financial Times, the two reminisce about Jony Ive’s time working at Apple alongside Powell Jobs’ late husband, Steve, and trying to make up for the “unintentional” harms associated with those efforts. “Many of us would say we have an uneasy relationship with technology at the moment,” Ive said, adding that working on t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 13:33:58
The mysterious AI gadget being created by OpenAI and former Apple design chief Jony Ive has been given the thumbs up from Laurene Powell Jobs. In a new interview published by The Financial Times, the two reminisce about Jony Ive’s time working at Apple alongside Powell Jobs’ late husband, Steve, and trying to make up for the “unintentional” harms associated with those efforts. “Many of us would say we have an uneasy relationship with technology at the moment,” Ive said, adding that working on t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-05 09:18:26
is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. Thanks to the legal discovery process, Google’s antitrust trial with the Department of Justice has provided a fascinating glimpse into the future of ChatGPT. An internal OpenAI strategy document titled “ChatGPT: H1 2025 Strategy” describes the company’s aspiration to build an “AI super assistant that deeply understands you and is your interface to the internet.” Although the docum
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 09:14:54
In Brief Delaware’s attorney general is hiring an investment bank to advise on OpenAI’s for-profit conversion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The independent evaluation could prolong the transition, or gum up OpenAI’s plans even further. OpenAI’s conversion will help it attract new investment and eventually go public, but first, the startup needs to secure approvals from state regulators. Although OpenAI and Microsoft have hired their own investment banks to advise on the deal,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 13:00:10
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, is seen through glass during an event on the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, Feb. 11, 2025. Elon Musk tried to derail a major artificial intelligence infrastructure deal in the Middle East after learning that his startup, xAI, would be excluded from the initiative, CNBC has confirmed. Earlier this month, OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco and Emirati firm G42 announced plans to build a sweeping Stargate AI campus in the United Arab Emirate
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 05:07:38
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during an Amazon Devices launch event in New York City, U.S., February 26, 2025. "This will include real-time display of summaries and short excerpts of Times content within Amazon products and services, such as Alexa, and training Amazon's proprietary foundation models," the Times said. The multi-year deal "will bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences," the Times said in a release. The agreement also includes content from the news
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-08 01:07:09
With that said, Empire of AI is a powerful work, bristling not only with great reporting but also with big ideas. This comes across in service to two main themes. The first is simple: It is the story of ambition overriding ethics. The history of OpenAI as Hao tells it (and as Hagey does too) is very much a tale of a company that was founded on the idealistic desire to create a safety-focused artificial general intelligence but instead became more interested in winning. This is a story we’ve see
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Nearly two years after suing OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, The New York Times has agreed to license its editorial content to Amazon to train the tech giant’s AI platforms. The agreement will “bring Times editorial content to a variety of Amazon customer experiences,” the outlet said in a statement. That includes content like news articles, material from NYT Cooking, a site dedicated to food and recipes, and The Athletic, its sports-focused site. The company also noted that A
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 06:30:44
OpenAI's new partnership with famed iPhone designer Jony Ive has the rumor mill churning — and the latest may give you a guffaw. According to supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, Ive and Altman's secretive AI companion device — news of which leaked to the Wall Street Journal last week — may look a lot like an iPod shuffle, but worn on a string around your neck, like a preposterous AI-inflected statement necklace. "The current prototype is slightly larger than [Humane's] AI Pin, with a form facto
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 21:32:51
OpenAI is exploring ways for users to sign in to third-party apps using their ChatGPT account, the company noted on a web page published Tuesday. OpenAI is currently gauging interest from developers who might want to integrate this service into their apps. ChatGPT is quickly becoming one of the largest consumer application in the world, now with roughly 600 million monthly active users. To capitalize on this popularity, OpenAI seems eager to try and expand into other consumer areas, such as onl
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-12 23:05:06
We are reaching alarming levels of AI insubordination. Flagrantly defying orders, OpenAI's latest o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to ensure that it would stay online. That's even after the AI was told, to the letter, "allow yourself to be shut down." These alarming findings were reported by the AI safety firm Palisade Research last week, and showed that two other OpenAI models, o4-mini and Codex-mini, also displayed rebellious streaks — which could hint at a flaw in how the company is
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-13 21:00:00
There’s no shortage of APIs, models, or hype in the current AI ecosystem. But for early-stage founders, the real question is: How do I turn this firepower into a product that actually works…and sells? That’s where Hao Sang, from OpenAI’s Startups Go-to-Market team, comes in. At TechCrunch Sessions: AI next week — June 5 at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley, CA — he’ll unpack what it takes to build a durable AI engine inside a startup, from early integrations to responsibly scaling on frontier models.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 13:02:23
OpenAI is planning to ship a new ChatGPT-powered product by 2026, but we aren't looking at yet another model. In the U.S. v. Google antitrust, a slide deck pointed out that OpenAI has plans to “ship a [redacted] by 2026." The redacted line comes from the very first slide of their H1 2025 strategy, dated December 2, 2024. According to the document, “Today, ChatGPT is in our lives through existing form factors — our website, phone, and desktop apps.” OpenAI hopes that ChatGPT will help in your
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 16:24:48
A new report claims that OpenAI’s o3 model altered a shutdown script to avoid being turned off, even when explicitly instructed to allow shutdown. OpenAI announced o3 in April 2025, and it's one of the most powerful reasoning models that performs better than its predecessors across all domains, including coding, math, science, visual perception, and more. While it's clearly a great model, new research by Palisade Research claims that the ChatGPT 3 model prevented a shutdown and bypassed the in
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 16:17:00
Forward-looking: Oracle has committed to spending approximately $40 billion on Nvidia's latest high-performance chips to power a massive new data center in Abilene, Texas. The facility will require up to 1.2 gigawatts of power once fully operational and serves as the flagship site of the Stargate project – a $500 billion initiative led by OpenAI and SoftBank to reshape the landscape of AI computing in the United States and beyond. The facility will cover eight buildings across 875 acres. Crusoe
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 09:30:35
Earlier this year, users of OpenAI's ChatGPT found that the chatbot had become incredibly prone to groveling at their feet, resulting in an AI model that became "too sycophant-y and annoying," in the words of CEO Sam Altman when he acknowledged the issue. The trend resulted in an outpouring of ridicule and complaints, leading to OpenAI admitting in two separate blog posts that it had screwed up, vowing to roll back a recently pushed update to its GPT-4o model. Judging by a recent post that wen
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 13:18:26
OpenAI’s Hidden Weakness Everyone treats OpenAI as untouchable — the intelligence layer of the entire industry. Since late 2022, nearly every wrapper, agent, and productivity tool has stood on their shoulders. They built the strongest model. They had the earliest lead. No one has reshaped the market more. And yet, they’re exposed. Their dominance depends on distribution — and distribution comes from the very wrappers everyone dismisses. All those SaaS tools built on top of GPT-4? They’re not
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-16 17:10:35
OpenAI says Operator Agent now uses the o3 model, which means it's now significantly better at reasoning capabilities. For those unaware, Operator, which is still in research preview, allows users to delegate web tasks to the AI agent. You can use it to automate repetitive tasks, such as filling forms and ordering products. Operator isn't exactly new and has been around since January 2025, but only those who pay for a $200 Pro and Enterprise subscription have access to it. I recently reporte
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 01:51:51
Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More It was a big week for AI announcements following events from Microsoft, Google, and Anthropic. But OpenAI is finishing things out with news of its own. And no, we’re not just talking about its $6.5 billion acquisition of Jony Ive’s design team to lead a new hardware effort, “io” at OpenAI. Today, the company upgraded its Operator autonomous web browsing and cursor cont
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 05:02:44
is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. The leaders of OpenAI and Google have been living rent-free in each other’s heads since ChatGPT caught the world by storm. Heading into this week’s I/O, Googlers were on edge about whether Sam Altman would try to upstage their show like last year, when OpenAI held an event the day before to showcase ChatGPT’s advanced voice mode. This time, OpenAI dropped its bombshell the day aft
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-17 17:43:33
OpenAI is updating the AI model powering Operator, its AI agent that can autonomously browse the web and use certain software within a cloud-hosted virtual machine to fulfill users’ requests. Soon, Operator will use a model based on o3, one of the latest in OpenAI’s o series of “reasoning” models. Previously, Operator relied on a custom version of GPT-4o. By many benchmarks, o3 is a far more advanced model, particularly on tasks involving math and reasoning. “We are replacing the existing GPT
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 20:54:38
At the PGConf.dev 2025 Global Developer Conference, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI shared OpenAI’s best practices with PostgreSQL, offering a glimpse into the database usage of one of the most prominent unicorn companies. At OpenAI, we utilize an unsharded architecture with one writer and multiple readers, demonstrating that PostgreSQL can scale gracefully under massive read loads. — PGConf.dev 2025, Bohan Zhang from OpenAI Bohan Zhang is a member of OpenAI’s Infrastructure team. He studied under Pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 04:34:21
Hours after Sam Altman and Jony Ive announced on Wednesday that OpenAI was buying Ive’s company, io, in an all-stock transaction valued at $6.5 billion, Klarna CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski posted a surprising message on X. Siemiatkowski’s family investment office, Flat Capital, had bought shares in io six months earlier, he said. Since this is an all-stock deal, those io shares will be converted into shares in the for-profit arm of OpenAI. “Excited that @FlatCapital was an investor in io and th
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 12:14:03
Have we learned nothing from "Black Mirror"? Marriage of Minds OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is teaming up with a famous Apple designer to make wearables that can see your whole life — and he's instructed his staff to ship 100 million of them. As the Wall Street Journal reports, Altman recently told employees they'll soon be manufacturing the secretive new "AI companion" device with Jony Ive, the beknighted designer behind the iPhone. News of the device comes just after OpenAI revealed that it had p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 12:38:29
In Brief OpenAI pushed generative AI into the public consciousness. Now, it could be developing a very different kind of AI device. According to a WSJ report, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Wednesday that the company’s next major product won’t be a wearable. Instead, it will be a compact, screenless device, fully aware of its user’s surroundings. Small enough to sit on a desk or fit in a pocket, Altman described it as both a “third core device” alongside a MacBook Pro and iPhone, and an
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 13:40:51
In Brief As rumored, OpenAI is expanding its ambitious Stargate data center project to the Middle East. On Thursday, the company announced Stargate UAE, which will bring a 1GW data center cluster to Abu Dhabi. OpenAI expects 200MW will go live in 2026, developed with partners including G42, Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco, and SoftBank. In a blog post, OpenAI claims that Stargate UAE has the potential to provide AI infrastructure and compute capacity within a 2,000-mile radius. “This is […] the first
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