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
Zork I, II, and III go open source
https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source
Microsoft Open Sources Zork I, II, and III Source Code https://www.thurrott.com/classic-technology/329907/microsoft-open-sources-zork-i-ii-and-iii-source-code
OpenAI says it will work with SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA, and others to crack down on Sora 2 deepfakes, following concerns from actor Bryan Cranston and SAG-AFTRA (Jaures Yip/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/open-ai-sora-bryan-cranston-sag-aftra.html
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OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, available initially for macOS (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/21/openai-atlas-new-ai-web-browser-release-date
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…
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-…
Reid Hoffman calls Anthropic "one of the good guys" after David Sacks accused the company of running a "regulatory capture strategy based on fear-mongering" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/20/openai-inv