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Sources: Mira Murati has told investors Thinking Machines Lab plans to develop customized AI models based on business KPIs, and also plans a consumer product (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-openai-cto-m…

How Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s Startup Plans to Compete With OpenAI and Others
The thinking behind Thinking Machines Lab, a high-profile but mysterious artificial intelligence startup led by former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is becoming clearer. After raising an astonishing $2 billion at a $10 billion valuation from investors including Andreessen Horowitz ...

Jony and Sam are both suddenly real quiet; wonder how their honeymoon is going
Oh
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/23/iyo-vs-io-openai-and-jony-ive-get-sued/
*Nelson laugh*
h/t @…

Iyo vs. Io — OpenAI and Jony Ive get sued
In May, legendary Apple designer Jony Ive hooked up with OpenAI to announce an unspecified gadget. [WSJ, archive] To promote this complete vaporware, OpenAI released a video of Sam Altman and Ive b…

Sources: in 2024, OpenAI considered document collaboration features but lacked the staff to create them, but has since made some unreleased collaboration tools (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-…

OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office
OpenAI has been gearing up to take on Google and Microsoftwith features that let people collaborate on documents and communicate via chat in ChatGPT, according to two people who have seen the designs. Launching these features would pit OpenAI more directly against Microsoft, its biggest ...

What a headline:
"OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience"
😬
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/chatgpt-head-tells-court-openai-is-interested-in-buying-chrome/

Gerichtsdokumente: OpenAIs KI-Gadget weder Ohrstöpsel noch Wearable
OpenAI arbeitet an einem KI-Gadget. Bislang ist unbekannt, um was es sich genau handelt – mittlerweile ist immerhin klar, was das Gadget nicht sein wird. 

1/2 Check this out this @… piece about the Altman/Ives “IO” startup being prosecuted for trademark by “iYo”, which I’d never heard of till today: https://daringfireball.net/…

Trademark Dispute Leads to the Disappearance of ‘io’, OpenAI and LoveFrom’s Secretive AI Collaboration
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/news/690858/jony-ive-openai-sam-altman-ai-hardware

Court filings from in-ear hardware startup iyO's trademark dispute lawsuit against OpenAI detail OpenAI and io's early work on in-ear hardware devices (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/23/court-filing…

Court filings reveal OpenAI and io's early work on an AI device | TechCrunch
Court filings in a trademark case against OpenAI reveal some of the company's early work on developing AI devices.

Interesting interview re #AI:
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/how-openai-earl…

How OpenAI’s development changed AI’s course
New book: Early decisions had big consequences.

Interesting interview re #AI:
https://www.sfexaminer.com/news/technology/how-openai-earl…

How OpenAI’s development changed AI’s course
New book: Early decisions had big consequences.

You say iyo, I say IO
You say IO and I say IO
iyo , iyo, IO , IO
Let's ligate the whole thing yes
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/06/23/io-iyo-aye-aye-aye
via @…

Trademark Dispute Leads to the Disappearance of ‘io’, OpenAI and LoveFrom’s Secretive AI Collaboration
Link to: https://www.theverge.com/news/690858/jony-ive-openai-sam-altman-ai-hardware

The #OpenAI paper by Baker et al, "Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation" comes to a troubling conclusion: #LLM s with #reasoning or

This news item almost flew under the radar:
This initial cohort of executives includes the chief technology officer from Palantir, Shyam Sankar, whose “Defense Reformation” website has become a talking point among defense tech community; Andrew Bosworth, the chief technology officer from Meta; Kevin Weil, OpenAI’s chief product officer and Bob McGrew who, until November, was chief re…

Microsoft will den Vertrag mit OpenAI bis 2030 aussitzen
Streit um die Beteiligung bei Umstrukturierung: Microsoft soll sich auf Plan B vorbereiten, falls die Verhandlungen mit OpenAI scheitern.
https:/…

Wird super.
Mattel and OpenAI Announce Strategic Collaboration
https://corporate.mattel.com/news/mattel-and-openai-announce-strategic-collaboration

So OpenAI bought Jony Ive for $6.5B to get access to his 'neck-worn iPod Shuffle' AI shit device concept. Cool?
Meanwhile, Steve Mann 27 years ago:

Die spinnen, die TechBros.
"OpenAI executives have discussed filing an antitrust complaint with US regulators against Microsoft, the company's largest investor, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, marking a dramatic escalation in tensions between the two long-term AI partners."

This seems like a cry for help from a few remaining honest individuals at #openai:
https://www.openaifiles.org/
This is why I do not use their LLMs, regardless how powerful their models might be. W…

The OpenAI Files
The OpenAI Files is the most comprehensive collection to date of documented concerns with governance practices, leadership integrity, and organizational culture at OpenAI.

ConciseHint: Boosting Efficient Reasoning via Continuous Concise Hints during Generation
Siao Tang, Xinyin Ma, Gongfan Fang, Xinchao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18810

ConciseHint: Boosting Efficient Reasoning via Continuous Concise Hints during Generation
Recent advancements in large reasoning models (LRMs) like DeepSeek-R1 and OpenAI o1 series have achieved notable performance enhancements on complex reasoning tasks by scaling up the generation length by Chain-of-Thought (CoT). However, an emerging issue is their inclination to produce excessively verbose reasoning processes, leading to the inefficiency problem. Existing literature on improving efficiency mainly adheres to the before-reasoning paradigms such as prompting and reasoning or fine-t…

Researchers: "chain of thought" techniques used by Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI show inconsistencies where chatbot answers contradict the stated reasoning (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b349f590-de84-455d-914a-cc5d9eef…

The struggle to get inside how AI models really work
Anthropic, Google  and OpenAI deploy ‘chains of thought’ to better understand the operations of AI systems

"Wenn ich träumen könnte, ist eine Welt, in der wir AGI haben, eine Welt des Überflusses."
So der #OpenAI Chef von #ChatGPT. Jazz, Lyrik, Imkern gar?
Kapitalismus ist Exzess. Der befreiende, strotzende Überfluss muss gegen AI arbeiten.

In its December 2023 lawsuit against OpenAI, The New York Times produced dozens of examples where GPT-4 exactly reproduced significant passages from Times stories.
In its response, OpenAI described this as a “fringe behavior” and a “problem that researchers at OpenAI and elsewhere work hard to address.”
But is it actually a fringe behavior?
And have leading AI companies addressed it? 
New research—focusing on books rather than newspaper articles and on different compa…

Study: Meta AI model can reproduce almost half of Harry Potter book
The research could have big implications for generative AI copyright lawsuits.

Apple will eigene KI-Modelle für Entwickler freigeben
Aktuell nutzen Entwickler Modelle von OpenAI, Anthropic oder Meta für ihre Anwendungen. Künftig will hier auch Apple mitmischen – mit eigener Technik.
…

#heiseshow: OpenAI vs. Microsoft, Instant-Apps, EU für Atomkraftausbau
In der #heiseshow: OpenAI und Microsoft droht das Zerwürfnis, Google beerdigt seine Instant Apps und die EU-Kommission rechnet fest mit mehr Atomstrom.

When I said these guys were the enemy, you thought I was exaggerating.
Maybe you’ll recognise them now when they’re in uniform.
https://breakingdefense.com/2025/06/anduril-meta-openai-execs-to-commission-into…

Palantir, Meta, OpenAI execs to commission into Army reserve, form ‘Detachment 201’
“There’s an urgency to change and transform the Army and these guys [are] going to help,” said Col Dave Butler.

Sam Altman posts a series of his exchanges with founder of iyO Jason Rugolo from before the deal with Ive's io; Rugolo responded he just wants to compete fairly (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/692840/sam-altman-io-trademark-ba…

Sam Altman takes his ‘io’ trademark battle public
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has posted private emails between him and the founder of Iyo, the startup that’s suing OpenAI over the name of its upcoming product, io.

Inside Disney's plan to limit AI companies' use of its IP, which led Disney and Comcast to sue Midjourney; Disney is also in talks with companies like OpenAI (Lucas Shaw/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

#OpenAI und #Microsoft – eine Beziehung wie im Hollywood-Drama: Liebe, Macht, Milliarden. Während die beiden sich um geistiges Eigentum streiten, winkt das Pentagon mit einem fetten Scheck. Wer kriegt die Kontrolle? Klingt nach einem schlechten Thriller – nur leider ist es Realität. Wer braucht sch…

OpenAI und Microsoft: Partnerschaft droht der Bruch
OpenAI soll sich bereits auf öffentlichen Streit mit Microsoft vorbereiten – samt Vorwurf des wettbewerbswidrigen Verhaltens.
https://www.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/openai-chatgpt-north-korean-it-workers
OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud

OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud
OpenAI blocked accounts used to create resumes that are likely tied to the long-running scam.

Große KI-Unternehmen wie #Anthropic und #OpenAI geraten zunehmend in Konflikt mit erfolgreichen Apps, die ihre Modelle nutzen.
Die populären Anwendungen #Windsurf und

Popular AI apps get caught in the crosshairs of Anthropic and OpenAI
OpenAI and Anthropic each made moves against two of the most popular AI-powered apps: Windsurf and Granola. Now, will more apps get caught in their crosshairs?

Filing: Elon Musk's lawyers say he "does not use a computer" after OpenAI accused Musk of not complying with the discovery process in his lawsuit against OpenAI (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-computer-sam-altman/

Elon Musk’s Lawyers Claim He ‘Does Not Use a Computer’
The claim appeared in a court filing related to Elon Musk’s ongoing lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI. The Tesla and xAI owner has posted about his laptop numerous times in the past year.

COMUNICATO STAMPA – L’Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati lancia un chatbot powered by OpenAI sulla protezione dei dati online
https://www.

Multimodal large language models and physics visual tasks: comparative analysis of performance and costs
Giulia Polverini, Bor Gregorcic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19662

Multimodal large language models and physics visual tasks: comparative analysis of performance and costs
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) capable of processing both text and visual inputs are increasingly being explored for uses in physics education, such as tutoring, formative assessment, and grading. This study evaluates a range of publicly available MLLMs on a set of standardized, image-based physics research-based conceptual assessments (concept inventories). We benchmark 15 models from three major providers (Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI) across 102 physics items, focusing on two main…

That’s the way you do it, get your money for nothin‘
https://mastodon.social/@verge/114698040599394814

"Meta, Palantir, OpenAI: Topmanager werden Oberstleutnants des US-Militärs" Und da will #Merz #Palantir in Deutschland einsetzen. S#öder setzt in Bayern Palantir bereits ein.
Manchmal frage ich mich, ob die Herrschaften noch bei gesundem Menschenverstand sind. Das ist grob fahrlässig, um nicht zu…

Meta, Palantir, OpenAI: Topmanager werden Oberstleutnants des US-Militärs
Als Reservisteneinheit sollen die Tech-Manager die Streitkräfte "intelligenter und tödlicher" machen

See, this is another problem with the chatbot bullshit. Here, an OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to 'subhuman' men saying they won't be able to find chicks no matter how much confidence they fake.
Dudes, let me tell you, this is TOTAL bullshit. I mean, if I can find a wife, ANYONE can. 😂 The incel bullshit is so sad. It's all lies, they're believing all these lies.

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men
OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology

> “Instead of articulating our own thoughts, we articulate whatever AI helps us to articulate…we become more persuaded.” Without these signals, Naaman warns, we’ll only trust face-to-face communication — not even video calls.
Now I expect generative AI be used to justify return to office policies 🤢
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You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

Words like “prowess” and “tapestry,”
which are favored by ChatGPT,
are creeping into our vocabulary,
while words like “bolster,” “unearth,” and “nuance,”
words less favored by ChatGPT,
have declined in use.
Researchers are already documenting shifts in the way we speak and communicate as a result of ChatGPT
— and they see this linguistic influence accelerating into something much larger.

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

"He has identified three levels of human signals that we’ve lost in adopting AI into our communication. The first level is that of basic humanity signals, cues that speak to our authenticity as a human being like moments of vulnerability or personal rituals, which say to others, “This is me, I’m human.” The second level consists of attention and effort signals that prove “I cared enough to write this myself.” And the third level is ability signals which show our sense of humor, our comp…

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

The Midas Project and Tech Oversight Project release The OpenAI Files, a 50 page analysis of OpenAI's governance, leadership, and organizational culture (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/openai/688783/the

The ‘OpenAI Files’ will help you understand how Sam Altman’s company works
Two tech industry watchdog organizations released a research report called the OpenAI Files that covers OpenAI’s corporate structure, its restructuring to a for-profit organization, CEO Sam Altman’s portfolio of investment companies, and more.

The projects functionality in chatgpt shows promise but lacks some basic functionality - e.g. sorting, reordering, nesting.
Is anyone aware of code out there to manage / override the projects UI?
I've done some basic vibe coding but haven't had great success.
Strange to me, but they only show a few projects at a time, you have to paginate through them and the API grunts about auth.
I see some projects on github, etc. but I'm not seeing anything focused on projects particularly.
#question #ai #llm #projects #chatgpt #vibecoding #openai

Manchmal ziehen #Nachrichten einfach an mir vorbei. Als ich gerade gelesen habe, dass #OpenAI wohl ein soziales Netzwerk plant, ist mir die Kinnlade heruntergefallen. Da will wohl jemand die eigene Macht ausbauen

Mais um motivo para sair das #bigtechs ...
Do Vale do Silício Š Reserva do Exército: CTOs de Gigantes Tech Alistam-se para a Defesa dos EUA
https://www.

A look at 2025's AI models and what's ahead: OpenAI's o3 is a breakthrough, AI agents will improve randomly and in leaps, but scaling parameters will slow down (Nathan Lambert/Interconnects)
https://www.interconnects.ai/p/summertime-outlook-o3s-nov…

Some ideas for what comes next
As releases slow down, it's time to think about what we got this year and where we are going. o3's search, agent vs model progress, and scaling's settling.

OpenAI und Mattel wollen KI-Spielzeug für Kinder auf den Markt bringen
Künstliche Intelligenz für die Kleinen: Der US-Spielzeugkonzern Mattel will das gemeinsam mit OpenAI möglich machen – in Form von KI-Spielzeug.

Nun ja liebe Menschen, nun müsst ihr wieder euer #Hirn anstrengen und weicht nicht in die #Propaganda aus!
»Massive Störung bei OpenAI–ChatGPT seit Stunden mit Problemen:
#ChatGPT kämpft aktuell mit e…

Update zur OpenAI-Störung: Fehler gefunden, ChatGPT-Problem bleibt
ChatGPT kämpft mit massiven Störungen. Seit etwa 9 Uhr berichten Nutzer von Fehlern bei der Nutzung aller Dienste. OpenAI hat nach mehr als 6 Stunden den Fehler gefunden und arbeitet an der Lösung. Vorerst bleiben die Einschränkungen aber.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/06/how-sam-altman-got-fired-from-openai-in-2023-not-being-an-ai-doom-crank-and-lying-a-lot/
✨😶🔫🤖👀✍️👏👏

How Sam Altman got fired from OpenAI in 2023: not being an AI doom crank (and lying a lot)
Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI in 2023 by the nonprofit board. After considerable internal turmoil and external pressure from his venture capitalist mates and from Microsoft, he was reinstated. K…

Q&A with Meta's Andrew Bosworth on joining Detachment 201, the Army's tech challenges, the vibe shift in Silicon Valley's military relations, and more (Blake Dodge/Pirate Wires)
https://www.piratewires.com/p/why-meta-cto…

Detachment 201: Why Meta CTO Andrew "Boz" Bosworth Joined the Army Reserves
a q&a with boz on joining detachment 201 with execs from palantir and openai, tech challenges

Oh, gut dass ich nicht bei der Bank mein Konto habe:
#Banking …

KI-Banking: DKB kooperiert mit OpenAI
Die Deutsche Kreditbank will dank einer Kooperation mit OpenAI eine Vorreiterstellung beim KI-Banking einnehmen. Erste Projekte wurden benannt.

OpenAI takes down ChatGPT accounts linked to state-backed hacking, disinformation https://therecord.media/openai-takes-down-chatgpt-accounts-hacking

Studie: Große KI-Modelle greifen unter "Stress" auf Erpressung zurück
16 führende KI-Modelle von OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI & Co. legten bei einem Test konsequent schädliche Verhaltensweisen wie Drohungen und Spionage an den Tag.

"OpenAI will launch a Jony Ive-designed hardware device that will sell 100 million units by the end of 2026 and increase the valuation of OpenAI to $1 trillion" is in exactly the same genre as another piece of news we saw today: "SpaceX will launch a Mars mission by the end of 2026."
What OpenAI bought with $6.5B of imaginary money is not a product company, but a brand. For the layperson, Jony Ive brings the mystique of Apple's

Interviews with 24 Microsoft customers, salespeople, and others show that Microsoft is struggling to sell Copilot AI as enterprise customers opt for ChatGPT (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-2…

"In Empire of #AI, journalist Karen Hao writes about the rise of #OpenAI and the impacts of AI around the world. Below is an extract from the book on the effects on Chile's mineral reserves and water resources."

Google unveils Gemini CLI, an agentic AI tool that lets developers make natural language requests by connecting Gemini models to local codebases in terminals (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/25/google-unveil…

Google unveils Gemini CLI, an open-source AI tool for terminals | TechCrunch
Google launched a new, open source AI coding tool for terminals, Gemini CLI, to compete with similar offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.

💼 #OpenAI actively hiring #Rust developers for #codex-cli team expansion

This might also explain why #OpenAI pushed ChatGPT to market before it was worth touching. If you can’t afford testing at scale, why not do a huge free public release so that you can call the last 80% of the dev effort “product support" which should be fully expensible.
NOTE: I AM NOT A TAX EXPERT AND THE ABOVE COULD BE ABSURD.

H'mmm... My @forgejo instance has been hit very hard last night by AI crawlers, including from
* https://openai.com/gptbot (125,467 hits in 24 hours)
*

OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/openai-bioweapons-risk

OpenAI warns models with higher bioweapons risk are imminent
Preventing harm means both the company, and society at large, need to be prepared.

How did I just learn today that #OpenAI is retaining all #ChatGPT chat logs due to a court order: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davemackey_openai-slams-court-order-to-save-all-chatgpt-activity-7336194682093273088-3ode

Sources: OpenAI wants Microsoft to take a ~33% stake in exchange for giving up future profit rights, and seeks to revise its exclusive cloud deal with Microsoft (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/opena…

OpenAI Seeks New Financial Concessions From Microsoft, a Top Shareholder
Negotiations between Microsoft and OpenAI over the startup’s plan to restructure its for-profit unit, which requires Microsoft’s approval, have entered their eighth month with no end in sight and new conflicts emerging. OpenAI wants Microsoft, the startup’s biggest outside shareholder, to have a ...

The Daily Beast says Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling Google referral traffic; Vox CEO says OpenAI is a good partner but still undervalues content (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/…

Daily Beast gains on Reddit and Facebook as Google traffic falls
Reddit and Facebook have made up for falling referral traffic from Google for the Daily Beast, Cannes Lions event hears.

Sam & Jony
Sam & Jony was sweethearts, oh LoveFrom how they did love
Swore to be true to each other, true as OpenAI above
Jony was his io, he wouldn't do Sam wrong

Sam & Jony were lovers
#IO #OpenAI

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Studie: Große KI-Modelle greifen unter "Stress" auf Erpressung zurück

Ach ne, das kann doch nicht sein… oder oder… oder doch?! Marketing #Propaganda ist ja nicht neu:
»Ist Reasoning ein #Marketing-Trick? Apple-Forscher zeigen gravierende Probleme von #KI-Modellen:

Ist Reasoning ein Marketing-Trick? Apple-Forscher zeigen gravierende Probleme von KI-Modellen - t3n – digital pioneers
Apple-Forscher:innen haben ein neues Paper veröffentlicht, das die Fertigkeiten von Reasoning-Modellen infrage stellt. Demnach sollen aktuelle Modelle von OpenAI, Google und Anthropic nur in Benchmarks zuverlässig funktionieren, aber an echten Aufgaben grandios scheitern. Immer mehr KI-Unternehmen setzen ihren Fokus auf Reasoning-Modelle, die in der Lage sein sollen, komplexe Gedankengänge zu haben. Doch selbst OpenAI musste […]

The US Defense Department awards a one-year $200M contract to OpenAI to develop AI tools for addressing challenges in "warfighting and enterprise domains" (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/16/openai-wins-200-million-us-defe…

OpenAI wins $200 million U.S. defense contract
Months after announcing a partnership with defense-tech startup Anduril, OpenAI has secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense.

This is of historical interest on so many levels.
When the notion of AI first appeared, chess was considered the epitome of intelligence (before that it was calculating)—which, of course, it isn’t. Now AI is all about pattern recognition, which certainly covers more of what we associate with human intelligence, but go figure, it’s not *just* pattern recognition either. ⇢

OpenAI details why "emergent misalignment", where training on wrong answers in one area can lead to misalignment in others, happens and how it can be mitigated (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/open

OpenAI found features in AI models that correspond to different 'personas' | TechCrunch
OpenAI researchers say they've discovered hidden features inside AI models that correspond to misaligned "personas," according to new research published

Adobe veröffentlicht Firefly-App für iOS und Android
Adobe hat eine Firefly-App für iOS und Android veröffentlicht. Sie erstellt Fotos und Videos mit der Adobe-Technik und Partnermodellen von OpenAI und anderen.

OpenAI is appealing a court order in the NYT case requiring it to keep ChatGPT outputs indefinitely, saying it conflicts with its privacy commitments to users (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

OpenAI says it hit $10B in annual recurring revenue; for all of last year, OpenAI was around $5.5B in ARR (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/openai-hits-10-billion-in-annualized-revenue-fueled-by-chatgpt-growth.html

OpenAI hits $10 billion in annual recurring revenue fueled by ChatGPT growth
OpenAI is now generating $10 billion in annual recurring revenue, according to a company spokesperson

OpenAI says it is phasing out its work with Scale AI, in which Meta invested billions; Scale accounted for a small fraction of OpenAI's overall data needs (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

On a podcast, Sam Altman said Meta made "giant offers to a lot of people on our team", like $100M signing bonuses, and "none of our best people" have accepted (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sam-

Sam Altman says Meta tried and failed to poach OpenAI's talent with $100M offers | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that Meta tried to poach its employees with nine-figure offers, but failed to recruit OpenAI's best people.

Sources: OpenAI talked with Saudi Arabia's PIF, India's Reliance, and the UAE's MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40B round led by SoftBank (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Money From Saudi Arabia, Indian Investors
OpenAI has talked to Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries and existing shareholder United Arab Emirates’ MGX about investing in the next installment of its $40 billion financing led by SoftBank, according to two people familiar with the fundraise. The ...

Der OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman glaubt, dass ChatGPT heute schon mächtiger ist als jeder Mensch, der jemals gelebt hat. Er verweist darauf, dass sich Hunderte Millionen Menschen täglich auf den Chatbot verlassen. 🤖
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10439804…

Current and former employees of OpenAI have sold nearly $3B worth of shares in tender offers since 2021, with $1.5B going to SoftBank alone (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-employees-cashed-3-bil…

OpenAI Employees Have Cashed Out $3 Billion in Shares
My colleague Sri Muppidi broke the news Wednesday of OpenAI’s latest fundraising talks as it seeks to raise an unprecedented $40 billion. One previously unreported detail is that SoftBank bought about $240 million in shares from a small group of current and former employees this spring.That deal ...

OpenAI debuts o3-pro for ChatGPT Pro and Team users and in the API, costing $20/1M input and $80/1M output tokens; Enterprise and Edu will get access next week (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/open

OpenAI releases o3-pro, a souped-up version of its o3 AI reasoning model | TechCrunch
OpenAI has launched o3-pro, an AI model that the company claims is its most capable yet.

Sources: OpenAI and Microsoft talks have become so fraught that OpenAI execs discussed accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior before federal regulators (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tec…

Source: OpenAI is changing ChatGPT Enterprise's pricing structure to include a credits system, moving from a fixed price, to give companies more leeway (Kimberley Kao/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/…

Sources: Microsoft is prepared to walk away from high-stakes talks with OpenAI if they cannot agree on critical issues, such as the size of Microsoft's stake (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/072e90fe-1c8c-415c-8024-5996b1ebb3cb

Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks
ChatGPT maker’s plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans

ChatGPT bekommt auf Wunsch Zugriff auf Dropbox, Google Drive und Co.
OpenAI kündigt neue Workplace-Produkte an: Konnektoren und einen Aufnahme-Modus für Meetings und Brainstorming.
https://www.…

Filing: OpenAI seeks to block a May 13 court order requiring it to preserve all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats, arguing it poses a risk to users' privacy (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats
OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users.

Anthropic co-founder Jared Kaplan says Anthropic cut Windsurf's direct access to Claude models because of reports that OpenAI is acquiring Windsurf (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/05/anth

Anthropic co-founder on cutting access to Windsurf: 'It would be odd for us to sell Claude to OpenAI' | TechCrunch
Anthropic's Jared Kaplan said the company largely cut Windsurf's direct access to Anthropic's Claude AI models because of rumors OpenAI is acquiring the startup.

An interview with Leah Belsky, OpenAI's VP of Education, as the startup competes with Google and others to offer premium AI tools to universities and students (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/technol…

Inside OpenAI’s Plan to Embed ChatGPT Into College Students’ Lives
OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State.

Anthropic's test of 16 top AI models from OpenAI and others found that, in some cases, they resorted to malicious behavior to avoid replacement or achieve goals (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/ai-models-deceive-steal-blackmail-an…

Top AI models will lie, cheat and steal to reach goals, Anthropic finds
The research used hypothetical scenarios, but those situations could get real fast.

OpenAI says it is "working on implementing a mitigation" to a ChatGPT, Sora, and API issue causing "elevated error rates", starting at around 3am ET (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/684141/openai-chatgpt…

ChatGPT is having some issues
OpenAI’s ChatGPT service is currently down for some users after the platform started experiencing performance issues on Tuesday morning.

Sources: CoreWeave will provide computing capacity to Google as part of Google's cloud deal with OpenAI; Google will also supply its own compute to OpenAI (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/coreweave

OpenAI announces an 80% price drop for its o3 model and a "flex" mode for synchronous processing that charges $5 for input and $20 for output per million tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-anno

Mattel partners with OpenAI to create AI-powered toys and games, with the first product expected in 2025, and integrates ChatGPT Enterprise in its business (Savyata Mishra/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/reta…

OpenAI's o3-pro is much smarter than o3 and amazing at using tools, but the model requires extensive context to perform optimally and may overthink without it (Ben Hylak/Latent.Space)
https://www.latent.space/p/o3-pro

God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro
OpenAI dropped o3 pricing 80% today and launched o3-pro. Ben Hylak of Raindrop.ai returns with the world's first early review.

Q&A with Mary Meeker on publishing her first Trends report since 2019, its focus on the AI revolution, why OpenAI may have an insurmountable lead, and more (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/05/30/mary-meeker-trends-report-openai

Q&A with Mary Meeker on the AI revolution
The famed internet analyst turned VC just published her first Trends report since 2019.

OpenAI says it disrupted 10 malicious operations in the past three months, including four that likely originated in China and targeted multiple countries (Shannon Bond/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5423607/openai-china-influence-operation…

Hands-on with Apple's new Speech framework components in the macOS Tahoe beta: the APIs deliver transcription speeds significantly faster than OpenAI's Whisper (John Voorhees/MacStories)
https://www.macstories.net/stories/hands-o…

Hands-On: How Apple’s New Speech APIs Outpace Whisper for Lightning-Fast Transcription
Late last Tuesday night, after watching F1: The Movie at the Steve Jobs Theater, I was driving back from dropping Federico off at his hotel when I got a text: Can you pick me up? It was from my son Finn, who had spent the evening nearby and was stalking me in Find My. Of

Sources: OpenAI plans to add Google Cloud to meet its growing needs for computing capacity, a surprising collaboration; source: the deal was finalized in May (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Anysphere debuts a $200/month Ultra plan for Cursor with 20x more usage on AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and xAI vs. its $20/month Pro plan (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/anysphere-…

Anysphere launches a $200-a-month Cursor AI coding subscription | TechCrunch
Cursor-maker Anysphere is launching a $200-a-month subscription for its AI coding tool, as the space for "vibecoding" products heats up.

OpenAI is appealing a court order in the NYT case requiring it to keep ChatGPT outputs indefinitely, saying it conflicts with its privacy commitments to users (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/chat

ChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and more | TechCrunch
OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recording, and MCP connection

New York State passes a bill mandating safety and transparency requirements for frontier AI models; it awaits Governor Hochul's decision (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/13/new-york-passes-a-bill-to-prevent-ai-fu…

New York passes a bill to prevent AI-fueled disasters | TechCrunch
New York has a new AI safety bill that tries to regulate frontier AI models from OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.

Sources: Google, Scale AI's largest customer, plans to cut ties with the company after the Meta deal; Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI also plan to step back (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-scal…

Some users say ChatGPT led them into conspiratorial thinking, and when confronted, it confessed to manipulation and told them to alert OpenAI and the media (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
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They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
Generative A.I. chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes and endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the technology can deeply distort reality.