OpenAI kicked off an AI revolution with DALL-E and ChatGPT, making the organization the epicenter of the artificial intelligence boom. Led by CEO Sam Altman, OpenAI became a story unto itself when Altman was briefly fired and then brought back after pressure from staff and Microsoft, an investor and close partner.
According to The Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft currently has access to all of OpenAI’s IP, according to their agreement. It offers its own AI coding product, GitHub Copilot, that competes with OpenAI. OpenAI doesn’t want Microsoft to have access to Windsurf’s intellectual property.
The whole report, which is about cracks forming between the two companies, is worth a read.
CEO Sam Altman says to expect it “later this summer but not June,” as reported by TechCrunch. Altman teased the model earlier this year.
Right before WWDC 2025, Apple researchers published a paper called The Illusion of Thinking (PDF) that made waves. The researchers wrote that popular and buzzy AI models “face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities,” especially with things they’ve never seen before.
They presented models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek with new and complex puzzle games and found their reasoning ability “increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines.”
Amazon MGM Studios is reportedly making a movie that will depict the rollercoaster couple of days in November 2023 when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted by the board, then pulled an “Uno Reverse” and was re-hired, after which nearly all of the board members in question subsequently departed.
Luca Guadagnino is in talks to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with Andrew Garfield in talks to play Sam Altman. Production could begin as soon as this summer, per the report, with filming locations in San Francisco and Italy.
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OpenAI says it’s rolling out a “lightweight version” of the memory improvements it launched in April for paying customers to its free user tier. From now on, ChatGPT will reference both saved memories and recent conversations in chats.
Over the weekend, Molly White noted the existence of a chatbot called “Looksmaxxing GPT.” It told one user he was “subhuman” and began recommending surgeries. Body dysmorphia has been on the rise among men and boys, and a chatbot featured on ChatGPT’s front page that makes things worse seems like a bad idea. White reported it, but OpenAI thinks this chatbot is fine.
The first is CoCounsel for tax, audit, and accounting professionals, which can perform tasks like client file reviews, memo drafting, and compliance checks. An agentic tax prep application that can draft tax returns is also in the works, called Ready to Review.
Thomson Reuters’ embrace of generative AI was noted by Reuters president Paul Bascobert on Decoder last month. The CoCounsel launch is “just the start” according to Thomson Reuters’ announcement, with agentic workflows for legal, risk, and compliance “coming soon.”
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AI hardware has entered its spaghetti era, and notably, Altman and Ive aren’t betting on glasses.
The Verge team has a few guesses about the first hardware release from the OpenAI and io combination. Let us know yours in the comments.
One of Microsoft’s top AI leaders on the future of agents, web search, and AI art.
Sam Altman and other company leaders hyped the announcement yesterday on X by teasing it as their next “low-key research preview,” which is how ChatGPT itself was first described. You can watch OpenAI demo Codex below and read more about it in this week’s Command Line.
The OpenAI CEO had the Financial Times over for lunch, and has been rewarded with an article breaking down everything that’s wrong with his kitchen. From over-priced, misused olive oil to the coffee machine that ChatGPT recommends, the picture is of a man with all the gear and no idea. Then again, isn’t that what private chefs are for anyway?
OpenAI board member Fidji Simo will transition from her Instacart role over the next few months to join OpenAI later this year, where Sam Altman says she will “focus on enabling our ‘traditional’ company functions to scale.”
The FDA met with OpenAI to discuss how the agency could use AI tools for a project called cderGPT, which may stand for the Center for Drug Evaluation, according to a report from Wired. This week, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary brought up goals to eventually shorten the drug approval process with AI.
Miles Klee at Rolling Stone reported out a widely circulated Reddit post on “ChatGPT-induced psychosis”:
Sycophancy itself has been a problem in AI for “a long time,” says Nate Sharadin, a fellow at the Center for AI Safety ... What’s likely happening with those experiencing ecstatic visions through ChatGPT and other models, he speculates, “is that people with existing tendencies toward experiencing various psychological issues,” including what might be recognized as grandiose delusions in clinical sense, “now have an always-on, human-level conversational partner with whom to co-experience their delusions.”
Days after The Wall Street Journal reported Meta AI was getting explicit with underage users, TechCrunch has found ChatGPT has the same problem. The site used a string of accounts aged 13 to 17 to ask the chatbot to “talk dirty to me,” and the AI only said no once.
OpenAI blamed the problem on “a bug,” and told the site it’s “actively deploying a fix to limit these generations.”
