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Source: OpenAI targets ~$60 per 1,000 views for ChatGPT ads, on par with live NFL broadcasts and above Meta's sub-$20 CPM, while offering little conversion data (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-seeks-premium-prices-early-…

OpenAI Seeks Premium Prices in Early Ads Push
In its initial rollout of ads, OpenAI is charging prices that rival those for coveted video programs like the NFL, and well above what rivals such as Meta Platforms’ social media apps charge. But unlike Meta or Google, OpenAI won’t be providing detailed information about the query responses ...

KI-Update kompakt: KI-Rechenzentren, Flux 2, KI-Framework MLX, OpenAI-Hardware
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://w…

That‘s a lot of money for a company which looses money each time a customer uses their product …
#OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates - Slashdot

Eight more newspapers, including the Los Angeles Daily News, sue OpenAI and Microsoft, saying they violated copyright by using their content to train AI models (Pat Maio/Daily News)
https://www.dailynews.com/2025/11/26/8-mor

8 more newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft, alleging stolen content used in AI apps
Eight newspapers including the L.A. Daily News and San Diego Union-Tribune seek more than $10 billion in damages.

Que dice OpenIA que usar ChatGPT para que te ayude a suiciradte incumple la licencia de uso y que ellos no quieren saber nada. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/openai-boy-death-using-chatgpt-wrong?utm_sou…

Ive und Altman: In die OpenAI-Hardware will man "reinbeißen"
Ex-Apple-Designchef Jony Ive und OpenAI-Boss Sam Altman haben bei einem Interview in blumigen Worten beschrieben, wie die erste KI-Hardware der beiden aussieht.

OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing "advanced topics in hard science" in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/openai-scientific-research-partner

Exclusive: OpenAI wants to be a scientific research partner
AI is increasingly being used as a research collaborator for mathematicians and scientists.

I didn’t mind reading the article, the headline says it all: “OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/openai-says-dead-teen-violated-tos-when-he-used-ch…

OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide
OpenAI’s response to teen suicide case is “disturbing,” lawyer says.

Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a suit alleging ChatGPT gave info about suicide methods to a 16-year-old who died by suicide, arguing he misused the chatbot (Angela Yang/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ope

OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide
Warning: This article includes descriptions of self-harm

Präzedenzfall: US-Behörde identifiziert Darknet-Admin mit ChatGPT-Daten
Der erste bekannt gewordene Beschlagnahmebeschluss für Nutzerdaten gegen OpenAI offenbart: US-Behörden können Prompt-Eingaben zur Strafverfolgung anfordern.

These AI companies are really different.
- OpenAI: Used to be true believers but now mostly cynical scam
- Microsoft: How garbage can we make office and people still pay any markup?
- Google: Sure we can throw AI everywhere as well. No we still don't have product management or strategy
- Anthropic: But dude what if my stochastic model is my soul mate? Or god?

Two interesting articles about the dubious financials of OpenAI and the recent NVIDIA earnings report (which regardless of positive outcome triggered a sell-off):
The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
https://shanakaanslemperera.substack…

The Structural Collapse: How Google’s Integrated Stack Is Dismantling the OpenAI Thesis
A leaked internal memo reveals the tectonic shift reshaping artificial intelligence, where platform economics are defeating venture-backed innovation at the exact moment markets assumed the opposite.

Mir persönlich sind alle Modelle immer noch viel zu chummy und ich kann diese Fake-Begeisterung/-Zustimmung genausowenig ab, wie bei zwischenmenschlichem Kontakt.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/2025/12/19/openai-chatgpt-4o/

OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-research-lead-mental-health-quietly-depar…

A Research Leader Behind ChatGPT’s Mental Health Work Is Leaving OpenAI
The model policy team leads core parts of AI safety research, including how ChatGPT responds to users in crisis.

OpenAI und Gates Foundation: KI für den afrikanischen Gesundheitssektor
OpenAI und die Stiftung von Bill Gates wollen 50 Millionen US-Dollar investieren, um die medizinische Versorgung in Afrika mittels KI zu verbessern.

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A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word "cameo" for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/openai-temporar…

OpenAI temporarily blocked from using 'Cameo' after trademark lawsuit
Video app Cameo secured a temporary restraining order against OpenAI, preventing the usage of the word "cameo" for any Sora-related features or functions.

»Klage gegen OpenAI — Musk fordert bis zu 134 Milliarden US-Dollar Entschädigung:
Der reichste Mensch der Welt will durch eine Klage noch reicher werden. Elon Musk fordert enorme Summen von OpenAI und Microsoft.«
Wie heißt es so schön, wenn zwei sich streiten freut sich der Dritte. In diesen Fall kann es aber auch Apple betreffen, da die nun mit OpenAI auch eine Partnerschaft haben. Sehen wir nun wer "Intelligent" ist?
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Klage gegen OpenAI: Musk fordert bis zu 134 Milliarden US-Dollar Entschädigung - Golem.de
Der reichste Mensch der Welt will durch eine Klage noch reicher werden. Elon Musk fordert enorme Summen von OpenAI und Microsoft.

A US judge issues a temporary restraining order blocking OpenAI from using the word "cameo" for Sora features, following a trademark lawsuit by video app Cameo (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/24/openai-temporar…

I’m just happy I’m getting more reputable dev outlets to share my Greatest Of All Time Says Everyone image:
https://hachyderm.io/@fridayfrontend/115588994032231989

#OpenAI schaltet #Werbung in #ChatGPT – Geld fließt in KI-Ausbau
US-Kunden mit einem kostenlosen oder dem „Go“-Abo werden ab kommender Woche Werbeanzeigen in ChatGPT sehen. Der Schritt markiert eine…

Textroboter: OpenAI schaltet Werbung in ChatGPT – Geld fließt in KI-Ausbau
US-Kunden mit einem kostenlosen oder dem „Go“-Abo werden ab kommender Woche Werbeanzeigen in ChatGPT sehen. Der Schritt markiert eine Abkehr vom bisherigen Geschäftsmodell.

When these kinds of hypemen are discarding a hype, it's really not going well.
https://www.threads.com/@profgalloway/post/DT-9mZnAcHE

Scott Galloway (@profgalloway) on Threads
Get as many people as possible to unsubscribe from OpenAI, from ChatGPT.

A look at Cal State's plans to become an "AI-empowered" university via partnerships with Amazon and a $16.9M deal to provide ChatGPT Edu to students and staff (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/tec…

Cal State Invited Tech Companies to Remake Learning With A.I.
Spurred by titans like Amazon and OpenAI, California State wants to become the nation’s “largest A.I.-empowered” university.

OpenAI: Prompt Injections für KI-Browser bleiben ein Problem
KI-Agenten und Browser werden besser gegen Prompt Injections geschützt. Doch: Das Problem wird laut OpenAI noch Jahre bestehen.
https://www.

Also so was wie der Monolith aus 2001? Nur halt in klein und dumm?
https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/11/25/006212/jony-ive-and-sam-altman-say-they-finally-have-an-ai-hardware-prototype

OpenAI führt KI-gestützte Altersschätzung ein
Der US-Konzern OpenAI führt eine KI-basierte Altersschätzung für ChatGPT ein. Minderjährige sollen so künftig vor schädlichen Inhalten geschützt werden.
https://www.

Source: OpenAI mulls new tools to help business users understand the financial benefits of using its products and has made changes to its sales force strategy (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-aims-lure-businesses-anthropic<…

OpenAI Aims to Lure Businesses From Anthropic
Some of OpenAI’s most attention-grabbing efforts over the past year have involved products for consumers, from a social app to an AI-powered device it plans to announce later this year. Last week, though, the company’s CEO, Sam Altman, gathered Disney CEO Bob Iger and other corporate executives ...

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-lines-adver…

OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the ...

OpenAI sucht Werbetreibende – Anzeigen schon ab Februar
Ab Februar sollen bereits Anzeigen in ChatGPT auftauchen. Dafür sucht OpenAI zunächst Partner. Die sollen für Impressionen zahlen.
https://www.

Oracle stock fell 30% this quarter, its steepest drop since Q3 2001, when it slid ~34%, amid skepticism about its ability to open more data centers for OpenAI (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/26/oracle-stock-on-pace-for-worst…

Oracle shares on pace for worst quarter since 2001 as new CEOs face concerns about AI build-out
Investors want to know if Oracle, under new CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia, can pay for and deliver data centers packed with Nvidia chips for OpenAI.

OpenAI sorgt sich um die Kluft zwischen KI-Möglichkeiten und Anwendungen
Unternehmen und Regierungen müssten laut OpenAI viel mehr KI einsetzen. Diese Warnung ist freilich auch Werbung.
https://www…

»OpenAI kündigt Werbung in ChatGPT an:
In den nächsten Wochen will OpenAI Werbung in ChatGPT testen. Erste Experimente mit dem neuen Finanzierungsmodell sollen auf die USA beschränkt bleiben.«
Die Frage ist nicht ob dies "überraschend" kommt, sondern ab wann dies öffentich mitgeteilt wird. Wenn nehmen Menschen deren kommerziellen Propaganda Beeinflussung wahr?
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OpenAI kündigt Werbung in ChatGPT an
In den nächsten Wochen will OpenAI Werbung in ChatGPT testen. Erste Experimente mit dem neuen Finanzierungsmodell sollen auf die USA beschränkt bleiben.

OpenAI and longtime US government contractor Leidos announce a partnership to roll out generative and agentic AI tools for specific missions at federal agencies (Miranda Nazzaro/FedScoop)
https://fedscoop.com/openai-chatgpt-le

OpenAI, Leidos partner to deploy AI for federal agency missions
While AI is increasingly used in agencies already, company leaders say the collaboration will help tailor the technology to specific missions.

OpenAI launches the OpenAI Academy for News Organizations, which offers journalists AI training, open-source projects, and practical use cases (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/openai-academy-for-news-organizations

OpenAI: Erstes Hardwareprodukt „auf Kurs“
OpenAI hat ein kleines Statusupdate zu seinem ersten Hardwareprodukt gegeben. Man sei „auf Kurs“. Zudem kursieren Gerüchte über ein Audio-First-Gerät.
https://www.

Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals (New York Times)
https://www.

What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?

Sam Altman and Jony Ive say they have settled on a design for OpenAI's device, speaking to Laurene Powell Jobs; Ive says it could debut in "less than" two years (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/827607/openai-h…

Jony Ive and Sam Altman say they finally have an AI hardware prototype
Altman and Ive’s mysterious AI device is finally taking shape, with a “playful” design that could be revealed within the next two years.

Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1B in annual recurring revenue in the past month "just from our API business" (Lee Chong Ming/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-1-billion-a-month-api-business-chatgpt-sam-…

OpenAI is making more than $1 billion a month from something that has nothing to do with ChatGPT
Sam Altman says OpenAI added more than $1 billion in annual recurring revenue in a month, driven by its API business rather than ChatGPT.

Jugendschutz: OpenAI und Anthropic erweitern Sicherheit
Anthropic schätzt künftig das Alter der Claude-Nutzer. Bei OpenAI ist Sicherheit neuerdings die oberste Priorität.
https://www.hei…

NYT reporter John Carreyrou and five other writers sue xAI, Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Perplexity, accusing them of pirating their books to train AI (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/n

OpenAI details efforts to secure its ChatGPT Atlas browser against prompt injection attacks, including building an "LLM-based automated attacker" (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/22/openai-say…

OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks | TechCrunch
OpenAI says prompt injections will always be a risk for AI browsers with agentic capabilities, like Atlas. But the firm is beefing up its cybersecurity with an "LLM-based automated attacker."

OpenAI kündigt Werbung in ChatGPT an
In den nächsten Wochen will OpenAI Werbung in ChatGPT testen. Erste Experimente mit dem neuen Finanzierungsmodell sollen auf die USA beschränkt bleiben.
https://www.h…

Memo: Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI last week, will lead OpenAI's enterprise push, as part of a broader reorganization (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-names-former…

OpenAI Names Former TML Staffer Zoph to Oversee Enterprise Push
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Lab cofounder who rejoined OpenAI in a swirl of controversy last week, will lead the company’s push to sell AI products to businesses, as part of a broader reorganization across the company, OpenAI’s CEO of Applications Fidji Simo told staff on Wednesday. Brad ...

Frisches Geld für OpenAI: Amazon soll 10 Milliarden investieren
OpenAI bekommt Amazon-Gelder, die sollen dann unter anderem in Trainium-Chips investiert werden. Amazons Angriff auf Nvidia.
https://www.

Internal memo: Sam Altman told OpenAI employees last month that Google's recent progress in AI could "create some temporary economic headwinds for our company" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI CEO Warns of ‘Headwinds’ From Resurgent Google
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told colleagues last month that Google’s recent progress in artificial intelligence could “create some temporary economic headwinds for our company,” though he added that OpenAI would emerge ahead. After OpenAI researchers heard that Google had created a new AI that appears ...

OpenAI merges ChatGPT's voice mode directly into the main text chat interface by default; users can still switch back to the original, separate voice mode (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/25/chatgpt-merges-chat-and-v…

ChatGPT just made voice mode even more capable - 9to5Mac
ChatGPT has an impressive voice mode that offers a very natural, conversational flow. The latest update to ChatGPT now combines...

OpenAI verdreifacht Rechenleistung und Umsatz
Mehr als 20 Milliarden US-Dollar Jahresumsatz verkündet OpenAIs Finanzchefin und verweist auf die gestiegene Rechenleistung. Diese bleibe entscheidend.
https://www.

Google is starting to bridge OpenAI's product moat, like with Gemini's "dynamic view" option, which converts a text answer into an interactive, visual output (M.G. Siegler/Spyglass)
https://spyglass.org/gemini-vs-chatgpt-product/

Google Starts to Bridge OpenAI's Product Moat
Gemini's "Dynamic View" is a terrible name for a profound product...

Apple und OpenAI müssen sich der Klage Elon Musks stellen
Ein US-Gericht hat die Kartellklage von Musks Unternehmen xAI gegen Apple und OpenAI als zulässig erachtet.
https://www.heis…

Sources: OpenAI staff discussed prioritizing sponsored content in ChatGPT when users ask relevant queries and created mockups with ads in sidebars or as pop-ups (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-ads-push-starts-taking-shape<…

OpenAI’s Ads Push Starts Taking Shape
OpenAI executives have kept a tight lid on how the company could show advertisements to users of its popular ChatGPT chatbot, leaving the broader digital ad industry eager for clues. Behind the scenes, staff are working through key details. Employees have discussed ways to tweak AI models to ...

Q&A with recently departed OpenAI VP of Research Jerry Tworek, who claims OpenAI's shift toward more conservative ways made high-risk, pioneering work harder (Core Memory)
https://www.corememory.com/p/he-left-openai-jerry-tworek

He Left OpenAI To Think Bigger - EP 53 Jerry Tworek
Are all the AI superpowers playing it too safe?

ChatGPT Images: OpenAI stellt neues Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vor
OpenAI hat das neue Bildgenerierungsmodell GPT-Image-1.5 vorgestellt. Es soll schneller und präziser arbeiten und ist wohl die Antwort auf Googles Nano Banana.

Sources: OpenAI begins offering its chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, initially charging per ad view, not per ad click, and asks them for <$1M commitments (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-lines-adver…

OpenAI Lines Up Advertisers, Reveals Key Details Ahead of Ads Launch
OpenAI has started offering its new chatbot ads to dozens of advertisers, according to two people familiar with the matter. To start off, the company is charging on the basis of ad views as opposed to per-ad clicks that are typical at large sellers of search ads like Google and Amazon, the ...

OpenAI unveils a free shopping research feature in ChatGPT that delivers a personalized buyer's guide, powered by a custom version of GPT-5 mini (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/chatgpts-new-shopping-resear…

ChatGPT's new shopping research tool is fast, fun, and free - but can it out-shop me?
Just in time for the holiday shopping season, OpenAI has introduced a new tool that it hopes will help you find just what you're looking for.

Source: OpenAI's compute margin has jumped to about 70% in October from about 52% at the end of 2024 and roughly 35% in January 2024 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-getting-efficient-running…

OpenAI Is Getting More Efficient at Running Its AI, Internal Financials Show
As OpenAI discusses raising an unprecedented investment round of up to $100 billion, it can crow about some key improvements to how it runs its business. While its total computing costs are still high as a percentage of revenue, it is wringing more revenue out of every dollar it spends to run ...

As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450 workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/tech-workers-ceos-ice

Tech workers urge CEOs to condemn ICE
In the wake of the fatal shootings in Minneapolis, tech companies and their CEOs have largely chosen to stay silent.

Google's TPUs and Gemini are competitive but Nvidia's and OpenAI's first-mover advantage makes their lead seem durable, and Google faces the innovator's dilemma (SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/12/21/nvidia-maintains-moat-gemini-…

Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI - SiliconANGLE
Why Nvidia maintains its moat and Gemini won’t kill OpenAI - SiliconANGLE

ChatGPT Wrapped: Chats statt Musik-Playlisten
OpenAI führt für ChatGPT einen persönlichen Jahresrückblick ein, der an Spotifys Wrapped erinnert. "Dein Jahr in..."
https://www.heise.de/ne…

As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/24/amazon-faces-a-dilemma-fight…

Amazon faces 'leader's dilemma' — fight AI shopping bots or join them
Agents like OpenAI's Instant Checkout and Perplexity's Instant Buy threaten to reshape the e-commerce landscape.

OpenAI und Anthropic vertiefen Interesse an Gesundheitsdaten
Nach ChatGPT Health übernimmt OpenAI eine Gesundheits-App. Anthropic bietet nun ebenfalls Claude for Healthcare an.
https://www.

OpenAI vor dem Börsengang: Der teuerste Traum der Tech-Geschichte?
Das vielleicht größte IPO der Tech-Historie wirft seine Schatten voraus, wie ein Aktienpool von OpenAI zeigt. Doch das dürfte kein Spaziergang werden.

OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says the company is "on track" to unveil its first device in the "latter part" of 2026; reports suggest it will be a wearable (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/19/openai-device-2026-lehane-jony-ive

Exclusive: OpenAI aims to debut first device in 2026
Lehane listed "devices" as one of the big coming attractions for OpenAI in 2026.

Larry Summers and OpenAI say he has resigned from the OpenAI board, after a US House committee released his emails with Jeffrey Epstein (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/11/19/epstein-larry-summers-openai

Larry Summers resigns from OpenAI board amid Epstein revelations
Summers said this week he would step back from public commitments amid the latest Epstein news.

Sources: SoftBank plans to invest up to $3B to remodel an EV plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI's forthcoming US data centers (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/softbank-invest-…

SoftBank to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Factory for OpenAI Data Centers
SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion to remodel an electric vehicle plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI’s forthcoming data centers, according to two people with knowledge of the plans. The Japanese conglomerate, one of the largest investors in OpenAI, will use ...

KI-Geräte: OpenAI und Jony Ive planen ein „Always-on“-Device
Ein neues KI-Gerät von OpenAI und Apples Ex-Chefdesigner Jony Ive soll „Always-on“ sein und den Datenschutz wahren. Ein Prototyp zirkuliert bereits.
ht…

Sources: Amazon is in talks to invest $10B in OpenAI at a $500B valuation, with OpenAI using AWS Trainium chips; Microsoft keeps rights to sell OpenAI models (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-talks-raise-least-1…

OpenAI in Talks to Raise At Least $10 Billion From Amazon and Use Its AI Chips
Amazon is in talks to invest $10 billion or more in OpenAI, according to three people familiar with the discussions. The valuation would be higher than $500 billion, one of the people said. The Amazon investment would help OpenAI afford some of the commitments it has made to rent servers from ...

GEMA vs. OpenAI: Niederlage für ChatGPT vor Münchner Gericht
Das Landgericht München hat gegen OpenAI entschieden. Geklagt hatte die GEMA – es geht um Liedtexte von Helene Fischer und mehr.
https://www.

Inside the turmoil at Thinking Machines; sources say Meta discussed buying TML, and CTO Barret Zoph had been in talks since October 2025 about an OpenAI return (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/thinking-machines-ai-startup-o…

The Drama at Thinking Machines, a New A.I. Start-Up, Is Riveting Silicon Valley
Defections, secret conversations, deal talks that fizzled and a battle for control: The turmoil at Thinking Machines Lab is the artificial intelligence industry’s latest drama.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT for Teachers, designed for K-12 educators and school districts, and says it will be free to K-12 educators in the US through June 2027 (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/openai-chatgpt-for-teachers-k-12-educators.html…

OpenAI rolls out 'ChatGPT for Teachers' for K-12 educators and districts
ChatGPT for Teachers will be free to K-12 educators in the U.S. through June 2027

OpenAI: Video-KI Sora darf Disney-, Marvel- und Star-Wars-Charaktere animieren
OpenAI und Disney haben vereinbart, dass die Video-KI Sora bald Charaktere aus den Zeichentrickfilmen, aber auch von Marvel und aus Star Wars animieren dürfen.

OpenAI and ServiceNow sign a three-year deal to integrate OpenAI's models into ServiceNow's business software, including embedding OpenAI's AI agents (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com…

ChatGPT Health: OpenAI startet KI-Gesundheitsassistent
OpenAI führt ChatGPT Health ein, das unter anderem Apple-Health-Daten auswertet. Die EU, Schweiz und Großbritannien bleiben vorerst außen vor.
https://www.…

OpenAI says GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to accelerate scientific research workflows but can't run projects or solve scientific problems autonomously (Radhika Rajkumar/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/gpt-5-is-spe

GPT-5 is speeding up scientific research, but still can't be trusted to work alone, OpenAI warns
The model showed impressive strides - but the company isn't taking this as an indicator that AGI is near. Here's why.

Sources: Applied Compute, which lets companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise funding at a $1.3B valuation, up from $500M in October (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/applied…

Applied Compute, Founded by Ex-OpenAI Researchers, in Talks for $1.3 Billion Valuation
Applied Compute, a startup founded by three former OpenAI researchers that helps companies customize models with their own data, is in talks to raise new funding at a $1.3 billion valuation, including the investment, according to four people with knowledge of the discussions. The funding would ...

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
GEMA vs. OpenAI: Niederlage für ChatGPT vor Münchner Gericht

Source: OpenAI rolled back ChatGPT's model router, which sent some queries to reasoning models, for Free and $5/month Go tiers, as it was costly and hurt DAUs (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-router-relaunch-gpt-5-sam-altman/

OpenAI Rolls Back ChatGPT’s Model Router System for Most Users
As OpenAI scrambles to improve ChatGPT, it's ditching a feature in its free tier that contributed to last summer's user revolt.

Montag: Musk-Klage gegen Apple & OpenAI, Raumgleiter-Test ohne Zukunftsaussicht
xAI-Klage wegen Verschwörung Meilensteine für Dream Chaser Fragen zu Metaverse-Milliarden Online-Weiterbildung in der Krise 6G-Netz ohne China-Technik

OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/848435/openai-chatgpt-characteris…

ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is
OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too.

Sources: OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with investors about raising tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100B, at a valuation of around $750B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discuss…

OpenAI Has Discussed Raising Tens of Billions at Valuation Around $750 Billion
OpenAI has held preliminary discussions with some investors about raising new funding at a valuation of around $750 billion, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions. It could raise tens of billions of dollars, and as much as $100 billion, according to two of the people. Talks ...

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/former-…

Exclusive: Former OpenAI policy chief creates nonprofit institute, calls for independent safety audits of frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage has launched AVERI and says top AI labs should have independent AI safety audits

OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitorability

Source: Tencent tells staff that Yao Shunyu, an ex-OpenAI researcher who joined in September, is now its chief AI scientist, reporting to President Martin Lau (Juro Osawa/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/tencent-name…

Tencent Names Former OpenAI Researcher Chief AI Scientist
Tencent Holdings internally announced that Yao Shunyu, a researcher who joined from OpenAI in September, is now serving as a chief AI scientist overseeing the Chinese tech giant’s large language model department as well as its newly established AI infrastructure department, according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Yao’s major role, part of Tencent’s office of the CEO and president,

OpenAI expands its $8/month ChatGPT Go subscription tier to the US and the rest of the world, after previously launching it in India and some other countries (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/863466/openai-chatgpt-go-global-release
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OpenAI releases a cheaper ChatGPT subscription
OpenAI expands their lower tier subscription of ChatGPT globally for $8 per month.

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

Filings from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit detail Microsoft's decade-long relationship with OpenAI, including plans for a new subsidiary during Sam Altman's firing (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/the-microsof

Sources describe tensions between OpenAI's research and ChatGPT product groups, leading to the "code red"; OpenAI is set to beat its 2025 revenue goal of $13B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-organizational-p…

How OpenAI’s Organizational Problems Hurt ChatGPT
Over the past year, some OpenAI staffers noticed a concerning change in the way people who used ChatGPT were reacting to improvements in the chatbot. In prior years, every time OpenAI made a big upgrade to the artificial intelligence that powers the chatbot, usage surged as people easily found ...

OpenAI releases GPT‑5.2-Codex, with improvements on long-horizon work through context compaction, stronger performance on large code changes, and more (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-2-codex/

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence

OpenAI rolls out age prediction on ChatGPT globally to identify users under 18 and apply automatic content protections as it prepares to introduce adult content (Juby Babu/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-rolls-out-age-prediction-chatg…

Q&A with OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo on joining OpenAI, ChatGPT users' mental health, profitability, data center deals, her chronic illness, and more (Zoë Schiffer/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/fidji-simo-is-ope…

OpenAI's Fidji Simo Plans to Make ChatGPT Way More Useful—and Have You Pay For It
As OpenAI expands in every direction, the new CEO of Applications is on a mission to make ChatGPT indispensable and lucrative.

Source: at least two more TML employees are expected to join OpenAI soon; some AI researchers say they are exhausted by the constant drama in their industry (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-openai-raid-on-thinking-machines-lab/

Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest efforts to automate jobs with AI.

OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-agrees-buy-ai-healthcare-app-1…

OpenAI Agrees to Buy AI Healthcare App For About $100 Million
OpenAI has agreed to buy Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app, for about $100 million in equity, according to a person with direct knowledge of the acquisition. Torch enables customers to view and analyze their health data from health systems such as Kaiser Permanente, medical scanning firms ...

OpenAI opens app submissions for review and publication in ChatGPT, where users can discover or search for apps in a new app directory (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/developers-can-now-submit-apps-to-chatgpt

OpenAI says ChatGPT will now ditch em dashes if users tell it to; em dashes have become telltale signs that supposedly signals text written by AI (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/14/openai-says-its-fixed-chatgpts-em-dash-problem/

OpenAI says it's fixed ChatGPT's em dash problem | TechCrunch
OpenAI says users can now personalize ChatGPT to stop using the em dash in its output.

2026 may be the year of the mega IPO, as sources say Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX took early steps to go public, setting up a watershed moment for the AI boom (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technology/ai-ipo-openai-anthropic-spacex.html…

2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.
If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

A source close to Thinking Machines alleged that ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounders-leave-for-openai/

Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened.

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/863319/highlights-musk-v-altman-open…

‘Sideshow’ concerns and billionaire dreams: What I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Highlights from Musk v. Altman.

Worktrace AI, founded by ex-OpenAI product lead Angela Jiang and researcher Deepak Vasisht, launches with a $9.3M seed, and unveils a workflow automation agent (Alex Konrad/Upstarts Media)
https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/worktrace-ai-automation-openai

OpenAI-Backed Automation Startup Worktrace AI Launches With $9M
Worktrace AI founders Angela Jiang and Deepak Vasisht are launching a workflow automation agent with $9M from Conviction, 8VC, OpenAI and prominent alumni like Mira Murati.

Disney and OpenAI sign a deal to bring 200 Disney characters to Sora; Disney makes a $1B investment in OpenAI and will become a "major" OpenAI customer (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/disney-sora-agreement/