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Report: OpenAI has considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder, and a pin and signed a deal with Luxshare to assemble at least one of its devices (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/09/19/openai-and-jony-…

OpenAI and Ive poach Apple designers, target suppliers for hardware push - 9to5Mac
A new report details OpenAI and Jony Ive's plans and efforts for its AI-powered hardware push. Here are the details.

Tests show OpenAI's Sora can closely mimic Netflix shows, movies, TikTok videos, and Twitch streams, suggesting it was trained on versions of such content (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/openai-training-da…

OpenAI’s video generator Sora can mimic Netflix, TikTok and Twitch
Tests by The Washington Post show OpenAI’s video generator Sora can mimic Netflix shows, TikTok clips and movies, suggesting it used versions of the originals.

»Softwareentwicklung – Wie ist die Arbeit bei OpenAI?
Kaum E-Mails, viel Code und ein umstrittener Ruf: Ein ehemaliger OpenAI-Forscher berichtet von seiner Zeit im Unternehmen.«
Und ergibt dies nun gute Qualität so wie sichere Software von KI?
🤖 https://www.

Softwareentwicklung: Wie ist die Arbeit bei OpenAI? - Golem.de
Kaum E-Mails, viel Code und ein umstrittener Ruf: Ein ehemaliger OpenAI-Forscher berichtet von seiner Zeit im Unternehmen.

KI-Update kompakt: OpenAI Codex, YouTube, EU-Alternativen zu Palantir, U-Boote
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting from Apple's design, manufacturing, and supply chain teams, as it targets late 2026 or early 2027 for its first devices (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-raids-apple-hardware-ta…

OpenAI Raids Apple for Hardware Talent, Manufacturing Partners
As OpenAI’s plans to make devices infused with its artificial intelligence get closer to reality, the company is increasingly plucking talent from Silicon Valley’s most successful device maker: Apple. In recent months, the startup behind ChatGPT has been raiding the ranks of Apple’s design, ...

"In theory, AI model makers could eliminate hallucinations by using a dataset that contains no errors."
I think someone has fundamentally misunderstood the technology. Developing a model using a 100% correct training dataset does not mean that the resulting AI will be able to correctly answer questions that were not in the training data.
Over-fitting is a thing.

OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance
: Even a wrong answer is right some of the time

OpenAI fixes zero-click ShadowLeak vulnerability affecting ChatGPT Deep Research agent https://therecord.media/openai-fixes-zero-click-shadowleak-vulnerability

"OpenAI patched a ChatGPT security flaw that could have allowed hackers to extract Gmail data from its users, according to researchers at cyber firm Radware."
https://www.

»GPT-5-Codex — Neue OpenAI-KI übernimmt komplexe Coding-Tasks:
#OpenAI hat das neue #KI-Modell #GPT5Codex vorgestellt. Dieses wurde speziell dafür entwickelt, eigenständig längere

GPT-5-Codex: Neue OpenAI-KI übernimmt komplexe Coding-Tasks
OpenAI hat das neue KI-Modell GPT-5-Codex vorgestellt. Dieses wurde speziell dafür entwickelt, eigenständig längere Softwareprojekte zu bewältigen und dabei mehrere Stunden am Stück zu arbeiten - ganz ohne menschliche Hilfe.

OpenAI says its reasoning system solved all 12 problems at the 2025 ICPC World Finals, with GPT-5 solving 11 and an experimental model solving the last (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-outperforms…

OpenAI outperforms humans and Google at the world's top collegiate programming contest
An OpenAI system has solved every problem at the world’s most prestigious collegiate programming championship, outperforming not only human competitors but also Google's Deepmind model.

WIRED: OpenAI ramps up robotics work in race toward #AGI https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ramps-up-robotics-work-in-race-toward-agi/ hiring roboticists who work specifica…

OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.

#SteadyCommunityContent
Wieso geben #Sprachmodelle oft selbstbewusst falsche Antworten?
Wenn Raten besser bewertet wird als Ehrlichkeit, droht Vertrauensverlust. Wie lässt sich das ändern, und warum ist „Ich weiß es nicht“ bisher ein Problem für KI-Modelle? Eine neue…

Lassen sich Halluzinationen bei Sprachmodellen vermeiden?
Warum halluzinieren große Sprachmodelle? Eine neue Studie von OpenAI liefert überraschende Erklärungen und Lösungsvorschläge.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go, a new India-only plan priced at Rs. 399, or ~$4.57, per month, its most affordable yet, to expand in its second-largest market (Kashish Tandon/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/openai-rolls-ou…

If you've been paying attention, this is a *very* strong signal that OpenAI is hitting the limits of improved capability with more compute/data and they're (predictably) all out of other ideas. The quiet "exponential model capabilities" lie here is what Altmann promised but is now starting not to be able to deliver, even in cherry-picked demo terms.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/sam-altman-says-agi-is-a-pointless-term-experts-agree.html
The "agentic" turn was never going to pan out, because it exposes the unreliability of LLMs too directly, and it turns out that no amount of yelling at your text vending machine to "Be smarter! Think harder!" will actually get you anything more than vended text.
I'm *praying* that we get into this crash sooner rather than later, since the faster it comes, the less painful it will be.
My recent reading in actual research papers corroborates this, for example, asking LLMs to play games exposes their utter lack of anything that can be termed "reasoning":
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08501v1

GPT-5 zu unfreundlich: OpenAI setzt wieder auf 4o als Standardmodell
Nach einer Woche GPT-5 reagiert OpenAI auf Kritik: Zahlende Nutzer erhalten 4o als Standard zurück. Das Routing von GPT-5 geht jetzt auch im Handbetrieb.

Thyme: Think Beyond Images
Yi-Fan Zhang, Xingyu Lu, Shukang Yin, Chaoyou Fu, Wei Chen, Xiao Hu, Bin Wen, Kaiyu Jiang, Changyi Liu, Tianke Zhang, Haonan Fan, Kaibing Chen, Jiankang Chen, Haojie Ding, Kaiyu Tang, Zhang Zhang, Liang Wang, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao, Guorui Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11630

Thyme: Think Beyond Images
Following OpenAI's introduction of the ``thinking with images'' concept, recent efforts have explored stimulating the use of visual information in the reasoning process to enhance model performance in perception and reasoning tasks. However, to the best of our knowledge, no open-source work currently offers a feature set as rich as proprietary models (O3), which can perform diverse image manipulations and simultaneously enhance logical reasoning capabilities through code. In this paper, we make…

Open Weight language models are released by OpenAI.
Interesting what the experiences will be on local configurations , 16GB (V)RAM is a lot but attainable for a lot of people.
#openai

GitHub - openai/gpt-oss: gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are two open-weight language models by OpenAI
gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are two open-weight language models by OpenAI - openai/gpt-oss

Report: at an xAI meeting, Elon Musk and his executives said the Grok chatbot has 64M monthly users; OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had 700M weekly users (Theo Wayt/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/elon-musks-xai-says-gr…

Elon Musk’s xAI Says Grok Has 64 Million Monthly Users
Elon Musk’s xAI told staff this week that its Grok chatbot has 64 million monthly users, the New York Times reported on Thursday. By contrast, OpenAI said in August that ChatGPT had hit 700 million weekly users, while Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in July that its Gemini app had 450 million monthly users. xAI also has a much smaller enterprise business than OpenAI or Google. Musk pushed

📊 Supports multiple training
examples: 2048 game, Tic Tac Toe, Codenames, and email search 🛠️ Easy integration with existing Python applications via OpenAI-compatible client
github: https://github.com/OpenPipe/ART
Watch a talk about it:

Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind
https://futurism.com/openai-open-letter-experts-humankind?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/technology

Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind
In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry are calling on OpenAI to prove that it has not betrayed humanity.

Reinforcement Learning with Rubric Anchors
Zenan Huang, Yihong Zhuang, Guoshan Lu, Zeyu Qin, Haokai Xu, Tianyu Zhao, Ru Peng, Jiaqi Hu, Zhanming Shen, Xiaomeng Hu, Xijun Gu, Peiyi Tu, Jiaxin Liu, Wenyu Chen, Yuzhuo Fu, Zhiting Fan, Yanmei Gu, Yuanyuan Wang, Zhengkai Yang, Jianguo Li, Junbo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12790

Reinforcement Learning with Rubric Anchors
Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for enhancing Large Language Models (LLMs), exemplified by the success of OpenAI's o-series. In RLVR, rewards are derived from verifiable signals-such as passing unit tests in code generation or matching correct answers in mathematical reasoning. While effective, this requirement largely confines RLVR to domains with automatically checkable outcomes. To overcome this, we extend the RLVR paradigm to open-end…

Wait I thought it’s the future of humanity and close to AGI https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/759965/sam-altman-openai-ai-bubble-interview

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/openai-perplexity-b…

OpenAI, Perplexity browsers present direct challenge to Google Chrome's dominance
OpenAI is preparing to launch a new AI-powered web browser that could significantly shake up the digital landscape dominated by Alphabet's Google Chrome.

A Study on Thinking Patterns of Large Reasoning Models in Code Generation
Kevin Halim, Sin G. Teo, Ruitao Feng, Zhenpeng Chen, Yang Gu, Chong Wang, Yang Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13758

A Study on Thinking Patterns of Large Reasoning Models in Code Generation
Currently, many large language models (LLMs) are utilized for software engineering tasks such as code generation. The emergence of more advanced models known as large reasoning models (LRMs), such as OpenAI's o3, DeepSeek R1, and Qwen3. They have demonstrated the capability of performing multi-step reasoning. Despite the advancement in LRMs, little attention has been paid to systematically analyzing the reasoning patterns these models exhibit and how such patterns influence the generated code. …

Prompt Injection 2.0: Hybrid AI Threats
Jeremy McHugh, Kristina \v{S}ekrst, Jon Cefalu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13169 https://arxiv…

Prompt Injection 2.0: Hybrid AI Threats
Prompt injection attacks, where malicious input is designed to manipulate AI systems into ignoring their original instructions and following unauthorized commands instead, were first discovered by Preamble, Inc. in May 2022 and responsibly disclosed to OpenAI. Over the last three years, these attacks have continued to pose a critical security threat to LLM-integrated systems. The emergence of agentic AI systems, where LLMs autonomously perform multistep tasks through tools and coordination with…

Hands-on with ChatGPT Agent: combines OpenAI's Operator and deep research tools and is incredibly simple to use, but less customizable than Claude Code (Dan Shipper/Every)
https://every.to/vibe-check/vibe-check-openai-enters-the-browser-wars-with-…

Vibe Check: OpenAI Enters the Browser Wars With ChatGPT Agent
It’s launching today! Here’s our day-zero, hands-on report.

OpenAI and Sam Altman are reportedly working on a #Neuralink competitor https://futurism.com/openai-sam-altman-neuralink-competitor "The war between Sam Altman and Elon Musk is re…

OpenAI and Sam Altman Are Reportedly Working on a Neuralink Competitor
The feud between Sam Altman and onetime cofounder Elon Musk may soon escalate with OpenAI's reported investment in a Neuralink competitor.

Designing Psychometric Bias Measures for ChatBots: An Application to Racial Bias Measurement
Mouhacine Benosman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13324 https://ar…

Designing Psychometric Bias Measures for ChatBots: An Application to Racial Bias Measurement
Artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in the form of large language models (LLMs) or chatbots, has become increasingly integrated into our daily lives. In the past five years, several LLMs have been introduced, including ChatGPT by OpenAI, Claude by Anthropic, and Llama by Meta, among others. These models have the potential to be employed across a wide range of human-machine interaction applications, such as chatbots for information retrieval, assistance in corporate hiring decisions, coll…

Sam Altman spricht in einem Blogpost über ChatGPT für Jugendliche
Nach dem Suizid eines Jugendlichen will OpenAI junge ChatGPT-Nutzer besser schützen. Dazu muss der KI-Chatbot das Alter des Users schätzen.

[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad (Alexander Wei/@alexwei_)
https://x.com/alexwei_/status/1946477742855532918

Alexander Wei (@alexwei_) on X
1/N I’m excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world’s most prestigious math competition—the International Math Olympiad (IMO).

OpenAI übernimmt KI-Startup Windsurf, Chefs und Entwickler wechseln zu Google
Nachdem ihr bisheriger Arbeitgeber Windsurf von OpenAI übernommen wird, stoßen einige Beschäftigte nun zu Googles DeepMind-Team hinzu.

»Klage gegen KI-Unternehmen – Klage, weil Trump nicht der beste US-Präsident ist:
Weil KI-Chatbots Trump nicht als den besten Präsidenten bewerten, droht ein Generalstaatsanwalt Google, Microsoft, OpenAI und Meta mit einer Klage.«
Ich empfinde dies witzig, weil dies u.a. die tragische Wahrheit offen zeigt, in dem der Donald sich stumpf als mächtig darstellen möchte.
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Klage gegen KI-Unternehmen: Klage, weil Trump nicht der beste US-Präsident ist - Golem.de
Weil KI-Chatbots Trump nicht als den besten Präsidenten bewerten, droht ein Generalstaatsanwalt Google, Microsoft, OpenAI und Meta mit einer Klage.

OpenAI and Apollo Research trained o3 and o4-mini versions to not engage in "scheming", or secretly pursuing undesirable goals, reducing "covert actions" ~30X (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/ai-models-kn

AI models know when they're being tested - and change their behavior, research shows
OpenAI and Apollo Research tried to stop models from lying - and discovered something else altogether.

Sources: Mark Zuckerberg has offered 10 OpenAI researchers packages of $300M over four years, and asked OpenAI's Mark Chen if he would consider joining Meta (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-recrui

Microsoft und OpenAI arbeiten an neuem Deal – immernoch
Microsoft und OpenAI haben sich geeinigt – auf eine unverbindliche Absichtserklärung. Die Umstimmigkeiten werden zur Farce.
https://www.

OpenAI debuts ChatGPT Agent, which can control an entire computer and perform multi-step tasks, powered by a new dedicated model, rolling out to paid users (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intel…

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you
OpenAI debuted ChatGPT Agent, a tool that can complete work on your behalf using its own “virtual computer” and is a continuation of its Operator and Deep Research tools. 

https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/openai-tightens-the-screws-on-security-to-keep-away-prying-eyes/
OpenAI tightens the screws on security to keep away prying eyes

OpenAI tightens the screws on security to keep away prying eyes | TechCrunch
OpenAI has reportedly overhauled its security operations to protect against corporate espionage. According to the Financial Times, the company accelerated

OpenAI says it will use the Google Cloud Platform for ChatGPT and its API, adding it to a list of suppliers that also includes Microsoft, CoreWeave, and Oracle (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/16/openai-googles-cloud-chatgpt.html

OpenAI says it will use Google's cloud for ChatGPT
Having faced supply shortages, OpenAI will now be drawing on computing resources from CoreWeave, Google, Microsoft and Oracle.

OpenAI hires former xAI CFO Mike Liberatore as business finance officer, reporting to CFO Sarah Friar, to oversee infrastructure spend; he left xAI in July (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/15/openai-hires-former-xai-cfo-a…

OpenAI hires former xAI CFO as Altman-Musk rivalry escalates
OpenAI has hired former xAI finance chief Mike Liberatore as business finance offer, responsible for managing the company's soaring compute spending.

KI-Update kompakt: Tech-Riesen auf Einkaufstour, OpenAI, Therapie-Chatbots, Kimi
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.…

Source: SoftBank's plans for a JV with OpenAI to bring AI to Japanese corporate customers are well behind schedule, with an update now expected in November (Yusuke Ogawa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

OpenAI und Oracle: 300-Milliarden-Deal für Project Stargate
OpenAI soll 300 Milliarden US-Dollar für die Nutzung von Rechenkapazitäten zahlen. Woher das Geld kommen wird? Bisher unklar.
https://www.

ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chatgpt-agent-launch/

OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It All
It’s a PowerPoint generator! It’s a date-night planner! It’s … another agent from OpenAI.

OpenAI says it is developing a "different ChatGPT experience" for teens and plans to use age-prediction tech to bar kids under 18 from the standard version (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/09/16/chatgpt-for-teens-openai-parents

OpenAI is building a ChatGPT for teens
The new version seeks to limit the potential for harm to minors.

Aus io wird io Products: OpenAI schließt Übernahme des Start-ups von Jony Ive ab
Weniger als zwei Monate nach der Ankündigung hat OpenAI die Übernahme einer Firma von Jony Ive abgeschlossen. Das lief aber nicht ganz reibungslos.

Source: OpenAI is preparing ChatGPT agents to let users create files compatible with PowerPoint and Excel, generate reports, and handle tasks involving websites (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Preps ChatGPT Agents in Challenge to Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
As OpenAI tries to turn ChatGPT into a core application for white-collar work, it’s developing agent features that could make its customers less dependent on productivity apps from Microsoft. In the latest example, OpenAI has developed features that let ChatGPT customers quickly create and edit ...

Allianz gegen Umstrukturierung von OpenAI
Es formiert sich Widerstand. Philanthropen, Arbeitnehmerverbände und Staatsanwaltschaften wollen, dass OpenAI Non-Profit bleibt.
https://www.heise.de/news/Al…

An advisory board convened by OpenAI recommends that the company remain a nonprofit because AI is "too consequential" to be governed by a corporation alone (Thalia Beaty/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/openai-nonpr…

OpenAI Paper: Halluzinationen offenbar unumgänglich
Große Sprachmodelle und KI-Chatbots, die nicht halluzinieren? Das hält selbst OpenAI für unmöglich. Aber es gibt einen Ausweg.
https://www.

OpenAI debuts GPT‑5-Codex, a version of GPT‑5 optimized for agentic coding in Codex and says it spends its "thinking" time more dynamically than previous models (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/15/openai-upgrades-codex-wi…

OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new version of GPT-5 | TechCrunch
OpenAI's AI coding agent, Codex, can now spend anywhere from a few seconds to several hours on a task, thanks to a new, customized version of GPT-5.

OpenAI-Chef: Nutzer sollten sich nicht alles von KI diktieren lassen
Immer mehr Leute fragen ChatGPT in verschiedenen Lebenslagen um Rat. Was gut für die Entwicklerfirma OpenAI ist, macht ihrem Chef dennoch Sorgen.

A former OpenAI engineer details his experience working at the company, including its culture, engineering practices, rapid growth, and the launch of Codex (Calvin French-Owen)
https://calv.info/openai-reflections

Reflections on OpenAI

Sources: OpenAI is recruiting people to work on humanoid robots and is training AI algorithms that are better able to make sense of the physical world (Will Knight/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-ramps-up-robotics-work-in-race-toward-agi/

OpenAI Ramps Up Robotics Work in Race Toward AGI
The company behind ChatGPT is putting together a team capable of developing algorithms to control robots and appears to be hiring roboticists who work specifically on humanoids.

OpenAI und Broadcom planen eigene KI-Chips
Schon bis 2026 wollen OpenAI und Broadcom eigene KI-Chips entwickelt haben. Die sollen zuerst OpenAI zur Verfügung stehen.
https://www.heise.de/news/OpenAI…

OpenAI releases the first detailed public study on how people use ChatGPT: 73% of chats were non-work related, practical guidance was the top use case, and more (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/09/15/openai-…

Here’s what the data says people ask ChatGPT
OpenAI released the first detailed public study on who uses its chatbot and what they most often ask it to do.

OpenAI's failed Windsurf deal signals broader M&A challenges for OpenAI until it renegotiates its deal with Microsoft (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/openai-windsurf-google/

An OpenAI Acquisition Turns Into a Google 'Hackqusition'...
A rough few weeks may signal some real talent trouble for OpenAI – at the worst possible time

#heiseshow: DSL forever, offene OpenAI-Modelle, FRITZ!
In der #heiseshow: Digitalminister will Kupferleitungen nicht aufgeben, OpenAI veröffentlicht erste offene Modelle seit Jahren und AVM wird zu Fritz.

Sam Altman says OpenAI "totally screwed up some things" on the GPT-5 rollout, confirms plans to fund a brain-computer interface startup to rival Neuralink (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/command-line-news

I talked to Sam Altman about the GPT-5 launch fiasco
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed criticism of GPT-5’s rollout, the AI bubble, launching a social network and brain-computer interface, buying Google Chrome, and more.

Israel-based Irregular, which works with leading AI labs like OpenAI to mitigate cybersecurity risks, raised $80M led by Sequoia Capital and Redpoint Ventures (Globes)
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-israeli-ai-security-lab-irregular-raises-80m-1…

Israeli AI security lab Irregular raises $80m
The company works closely with leading AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic to mitigate cybersecurity risks posed by advanced AI models while protecting the models from cyber attacks.

KI-Update kompakt: OpenAI, Fahrassistenzsystem, Desinformation, Optimus Bot 2.5
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.…

OpenAI unveils Grove, a five-week mentorship program for nascent tech entrepreneurs, hosted in its San Francisco HQ, with ~15 participants in its first cohort (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/12/openai-announces-new-mentors…

OpenAI announces new mentorship program for budding tech founders
OpenAI introduced the "OpenAI Grove," a program for early tech entrepreneurs looking to build with artificial intelligence, and applications are already open.

SoftBank buys Foxconn's Ohio EV plant; Foxconn will produce AI servers at the plant as part of Softbank's $500B Stargate project with OpenAI and Oracle (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

OpenAI veröffentlicht neue offene Modelle
Mit zwei Open-Weight-Reasoning-Modellen will OpenAI offenbar vor allem der Konkurrenz aus China die Stirn bieten. Eine Herausforderung war dabei die Sicherheit.
https://www.

Inside xAI's chaotic summer: Musk reorganized xAI on the fly, researchers left over concerns it abandoned science in favor of attention-grabbing products, more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/t…

Elon Musk Has Focused on xAI Since Leaving Washington
Mr. Musk spent the summer at his artificial intelligence start-up xAI, trying to match the runaway success of OpenAI. The result was chaos.

OpenAI liest bei ChatGPT im Zweifel mit – und hat einen Draht zu Behörden
Kommunikation mit ChatGPT, die darauf hindeutet, dass man andere verletzen könnte, landet bei Mitlesern und Strafverfolgern.

OpenAI projects that it will reduce the revenue share it pays to Microsoft from 20% this year to ~8% by 2030, potentially retaining over $50B more in revenue (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-gain-50-billi…

OpenAI to Gain $50 Billion From Cutting Revenue Share with Microsoft, Partners
As OpenAI irons out new terms of a partnership with Microsoft, it has told some shareholders that the percentage of revenue it will hand over to Microsoft will drop considerably in the coming years. As part of their original partnership agreement, Microsoft is entitled to 20% of the startup’s ...

Wie Robinhood mit unechten OpenAI- und SpaceX-Anteilen für Unruhe sorgt 
Robinhood bringt tokenisierte Anteile von SpaceX und OpenAI nach Europa – ohne Zustimmung der Firmen. Ist das Demokratisierung oder gefährliche Finanzalchemie?

OpenAI restores GPT-4o as default for all paid ChatGPT users, vows "plenty of notice" if 4o is deprecated, raises GPT-5 Thinking rate limits to 3K messages/week (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/a…

OpenAI brings GPT-4o back as a default for all paying ChatGPT users, Altman promises ‘plenty of notice’ if it leaves again
For now, the changes should help placate users who felt frustrated by the sudden shift to GPT-5 and deprecation of OpenAI's older LLMs.

Private Chats bei Google auffindbar: OpenAI nimmt Funktion zurück
Falsch verstandene Funktion macht private Chats öffentlich auffindbar – im Zweifel samt Namen. OpenAI greift nun ein.
https://www.

Q&A with OpenAI VP and Head of ChatGPT Nick Turley on ChatGPT's future, showing ads in chatbots, hallucinations, GPT-5 blowback, 4o, subscriptions, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

The head of ChatGPT on AI attachment, ads, and what’s next
The head of ChatGPT at OpenAI on AI attachment, ads, and whata’s next for chatbots.

Q&A with Bret Taylor, CEO of Sierra and chairman of OpenAI, on Sierra's AI customer support agents, AGI, Sam Altman's comments on the AI bubble, and more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-w

Sierra CEO Bret Taylor on why the AI bubble feels like the dotcom boom
OpenAI Chairman Bret Taylor on why AI means you won’t ever be stuck on hold again.

#heiseshow: GPT-5, ICE L, Solar-Förderung
In der #heiseshow: OpenAI veröffentlicht GPT-5, die Bahn jubelt über die ICE L-Zulassung und es gibt Aufregung um die neue Solarförderung.

OpenAI says its nonprofit parent will continue to have oversight over the company and will own an equity stake of more than $100B (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/openai-says-nonprofit-parent-to-own-stake-in-compa…

OpenAI says nonprofit parent will own equity stake in company of over $100 billion
OpenAI said that its nonprofit parent will continue to oversee the company and have a very large stake in its future.

Source: the clause rescinding Microsoft's access to OpenAI's most powerful tech if OpenAI develops AGI remains part of their new deal, but it has been modified (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/technology/openai-microsoft-deal.html

OpenAI Takes Big Steps Toward Its Long-Planned Reorganization
The start-up reached a tentative deal with Microsoft, its biggest investor, and said it would give a $100 billion stake to the nonprofit that manages it.

Meta umwirbt OpenAI-Angestellte: 300 Millionen US-Dollar für vier Jahre geboten
Seit Wochen gibt es Berichte darüber, wie Meta versucht, zentrale Angestellte von OpenAI abzuwerben. Nun gibt es mehr Details zu den surrealen Angeboten.

Sources: OpenAI and Windsurf talks ended after Windsurf raised concerns over how its tech would fit into OpenAI's agreement to share tech with Microsoft (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-windsurf-break-a…

Google to Pay $2.4 Billion for Windsurf Staff, IP After Startup Ends OpenAI Talks
OpenAI’s discussions to buy Windsurf, the maker of a popular artificial intelligence coding assistant formerly known as Codeium, have ended. Instead, Google will hire Windsurf’s CEO, Varun Mohan, and some of the startup’s staff, both Google and Windsurf said. The monthslong talks between OpenAI ...

Sources: current and former OpenAI employees plan to sell ~$6B in stock to Thrive Capital, SoftBank, and others in a secondary sale that values OpenAI at ~$500B (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sam Altman announces another delay for OpenAI's open-weight model, for further safety testing; the model was slated to be released next week (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/11/openai-delays-the-release-of-its-open-m…

OpenAI delays the release of its open model, again | TechCrunch
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that the company is delaying the release of its highly anticipated open model for the second time.

Google hires Windsurf CEO Varun Mohan, co-founder Douglas Chen, and some of Windsurf's R&D employees to focus on agentic coding efforts at DeepMind (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and its CEO is going to Google
Key researchers from the AI coding startup are also heading to Google.

Sources: OpenAI researcher Jason Wei, who worked on o3 and deep research models, and his colleague Hyung Won Chung are joining Meta's new superintelligence lab (Kylie Robison/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jason-wei-open-ai-meta/

Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta
Jason Wei, who worked on OpenAI’s o3 and deep research models, will be joining Meta’s superintelligence lab. His colleague Hyung Won Chung is also joining Meta, a source tells WIRED.

Microsoft adds auto model selection to Visual Studio Code that primarily favors Claude Sonnet 4 over GPT-5 for paid GitHub Copilot users (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/778641/microsoft-visual-studio-code-anthropic-claude-4…

Microsoft favors Anthropic over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code
Microsoft is favoring Anthropic’s AI models over OpenAI for Visual Studio Code. It’s also recommending that Microsoft’s developers to use Claude 4.

US tech giants announce £31B in UK investments, coinciding with Trump's visit to the nation; OpenAI will bring Stargate to the UK with Nvidia and Nscale (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-16/micro…

A look at OpenAI's campaign over the past year to secure its transition from a nonprofit, led by a team of Democratic insiders in California (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/17/sam-altman-chatgpt-california-00449492

Sources on key Microsoft-OpenAI clause: OpenAI decides when AGI and "sufficient AGI", capable of $100B in profits, are reached, and Microsoft can't build AGI (Steven Levy/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-and-openais-agi-fight-…

Microsoft and OpenAI's AGI Fight Is Bigger Than a Contract
A key clause in Microsoft and OpenAI's deal embodies the raging divide between AGI true believers and those who think it's still a long ways off.

In a paper, AI researchers from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, and others recommend further research into chain-of-thought monitorability for AI safety (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/15/research-leaders-urge-tech-i…

Research leaders urge tech industry to monitor AI's 'thoughts' | TechCrunch
Research leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are urging tech companies and research groups to monitor AI's "thoughts."

OpenAI releases GPT-5 pro, a version with extended reasoning exclusive to ChatGPT Pro subscribers, saying it scored 88.4% without tools on the GPQA benchmark (Maximilian Schreiner/The Decoder)
https://the-decoder.com/openai-claims-

OpenAI launches GPT-5 as a unified system with adaptive reasoning for complex tasks
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-5, a new AI system that builds on the reasoning advances of the o1 and o3 models and unifies every previous model line into a single adaptive architecture.

OpenAI acquires product analytics company Statsig for $1.1B and shuffles executive roles, with Statsig CEO Vijaye Raji becoming OpenAI's CTO of Applications (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/openai/769325/openai-statsig-acquisition-execut…

OpenAI starts building out its app team
ChatGPT maker OepnAI has acquired the product analytics firm Statsig, and rearranged several executive’s titles.

During the GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts whose scales were all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one "a mega chart screwup from us" (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/756444/openai-gpt-5-vibe-graphing-chart-crim…

OpenAI gets caught vibe graphing
During its big GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed off a few charts that seemed to have some big mistakes. CEO Sam Altman called one a “screwup.”

Internal Slack message: OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers from Tesla, xAI, and Meta, including David Lau, former VP of software engineering at Tesla (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-new-hires-scaling/

OpenAI Poaches 4 High-Ranking Engineers From Tesla, xAI, and Meta
The new hires are joining OpenAI’s scaling team, according to an internal Slack message sent by cofounder Greg Brockman.

Sources: Reddit is in early talks with Google to deepen integration of its content into Google's AI products, beyond its $60M data-sharing deal signed in 2024 (Bloomberg)

Sam Altman says OpenAI should prioritize growth and its investments in training and compute "for a long time", even if it delays its path to profitability (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/08/chatgpt-gpt-5-openai-altman-loss.html

OpenAI's Altman is still looking to spend after GPT-5 launch and is 'willing to run the loss'
The company just released GPT-5, its latest and most advanced large-scale AI model.

Mistral adds new features to its Le Chat chatbot, including a new "deep research" mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/17/mistrals-…

Mistral's Le Chat chatbot gets a productivity push with new ‘deep research' mode | TechCrunch
French AI lab Mistral introduced a range of new features to its Le Chat chatbot on Thursday that bring it closer to the capabilities of rivals like OpenAI and Google. The new update includes a new “deep research” mode, native multilingual reasoning, and advanced image editing. 

Filing: in its ChatGPT lawsuit, the NYT asked OpenAI to produce 120M user chats to analyze how often ChatGPT regurgitates its articles, after OpenAI offered 20M (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.
OpenAI asks judge to drastically limit NYT access to ChatGPT logs.

Sources: some AI researchers rejected Meta's offers to stay at jobs that align with their values; far fewer defected from Anthropic and DeepMind than OpenAI (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

Meta is trying to win the AI race with money — but not everyone can be bought
The AI industry is full of people motivated by a true belief in what they’re doing, but Meta is betting that at a certain price, anyone can be bought — it’s casting its net across Silicon Valley to do it. And what’s the best weapon OpenAI, its biggest target, has to fight it? That’s money, too.

Source: OpenAI awards bonuses to ~1,000 research and engineering employees, or ~30% of its staff, ranging from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars to 1,000 Researchers, Engineers
OpenAI is paying bonuses to around 1,000 employees on its technical research and engineering teams, or about a third of the company, ranging from the low hundreds of thousands to millions, as the company gears up to release its latest flagship GPT-5 model and faces an ever-rising battle for AI talent, according to a person with knowledge of the bonuses. The size of the bonuses will be

OpenAI says the tokenized OpenAI shares Robinhood has started offering are not equity: "We did not partner with Robinhood...and do not endorse it" (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/02/openai-robinhood-tokens.html

OpenAI says Robinhood's tokens aren't equity in the company
OpenAI said it was not involved in Robinhood’s launch of tokenized shares in Europe, warning users the assets were issued without its approval.

OpenAI highlights GPT-5 scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, 46.2% on HealthBench Hard (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-launches-gpt-5-n…

OpenAI launches GPT-5, nano, mini and Pro — not AGI, but capable of generating ‘software-on-demand’
With safer design, more robust reasoning, expanded developer tooling, and broad user access, GPT-5 reflects a maturing AI ecosystem.

OpenAI officially closes its ~$6.5B acquisition of Jony Ive's startup, which it refers to as io Products, after a trademark suit from hearing device startup Iyo (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-inte…

OpenAI closes deal with Jony Ive’s io.

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch an open-weight model as soon as next week on Hugging Face and other platforms, its first open-weight release since GPT-2 in 2019 (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft

OpenAI’s open language model is imminent
OpenAI is ready to launch its new open AI model. The release could come as soon as next week, according to sources familiar with OpenAI’s plans.

Sources: Tencent recruited prominent AI researcher Yao Shunyu from OpenAI; Chinese media says he got a CN¥100M, or ~$66M, pay package (Pei Li/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-12/tencent-hires-openai-…