—Our smartest, fastest, most useful model yet, with built-in thinking that puts expert-level intelligence in everyone’s hands, says OpenAI on their launch post.
All users, including the Free tiers should be getting new models directly after launch, while Enterprise and Edu users will have to wait a week.
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The rumors have hit a high pitch since Altman teased the model in a podcast two weeks ago, and various aliases for advanced models started showing up at some benchmarking sites.
It will also run longer than usual, as there is a lot to cover, says @sama:
Potentially all of government civilian employees are covered by the deal, reaching some 2—3 million in the current federal workforce. That would be a boon for OpenAI, but more in the sense of prestige than in usage, as ChatGPT currently has around 700 million weekly users.
The agreement could likely cement a full year of entrenched habits, history and preferred use if successful — basically locking in OpenAI as the preferred AI provider across federal agencies.
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It builds upon its own previous version, which could only support video in 10-20 seconds at 360p, and on Veo 3 — which makes photorealistic non-interactive videos.
The result is a model that can make 720p video at a smooth 24 fps, understands physics, remembers about a minute back of previous renders for consistency, and creates a 3D world that you can move around in «for a few minutes.»
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Sam Altman says «We believe far more good than bad will come from it,» choosing to release the models after a series of delays and worry about the weights.
After «billions of dollars of research» and extensive red-team testing, they were found no more dangerous than the o3-model and won’t move the needle on chemistry or biology.
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That number spans all of ChatGPT’s accounts, ranging from free to Pro and everything in between, and is rapidly accelerating, writes CNBC.
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The company grew its revenue by 78% year-over-year this quarter, and now has a plan to drive even more traffic to its services; AI.
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— Apple must do this. Apple will do this. This is sort of ours to grab, the Apple chief said.
He also said during the Q2 earnings call on Thursday that Apple would «invest significantly» in AI projects next quarter.
— We’ve rarely been first, he added, telling employees that — There was a PC before the Mac, there was a smartphone before the iPhone, there were many tablets before the iPad, there was an MP3 player before iPod.
Together, these statements might signal a new era for Apple — attacking the AI market with some sense of renewed urgency, and investing aggressively in the process.
Go read the full scoop from Bloomberg.
Gemini Pro 2.5 Deep Think features «parallel thinking,» letting it work through tens, if not hundreds, of different solutions to a problem simultainiously, test them, revise them or even combine them to return the best answer.
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ChatGPT was just two clicks away from spilling your secrets to Google, an investigation found yesterday. The «Make this chat discoverable» button on the share feature would register the whole chat on search engines. Plenty of people made that mistake, sharing «deeply personal details, including struggles with addiction, experiences of physical abuse, or serious mental health issues.» OpenAI removed the feature shortly after, saying it «introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.» They are now scrambling to remove «indexed content from the relevant search engines.»
Apple open to mergers and acquisitions in AI space
— We’re very open to M&A that accelerates our roadmap, Apple’s Tim Cook said on yesterday’s earnings call. — We are not stuck on a certain size company, although the ones that we have acquired thus far this year are small in nature. He also said Apple was going to «significantly» grow it’s AI investments, after the company reported a 10% increase in revenue — the largest jump since 2021. They are also «making good progress» on personalizing Siri, he said.
Zuckerberg throws shade on open source projects
Mark Zuckerberg of Meta recently posted a manifesto of sorts, mapping out what he sees as a benevolent «personal superintelligence» «for everyone.» In it, he quietly states that superintelligence will pose new safety concerns, and «We’ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source.» He repeated this in his later earnings call, saying «we kind of wrestle with whether it’s productive or helpful to share that.» See also his original post.
Developers are slightly souring on AI coding
A new survey from Stack Overflow shows a significant drop in developer trust in AI coding, with trust in its accuracy dropping from 40% in previous years to 29% in 2025. «Favorability» has also dropped from 72% to 60% on a yearly basis. 52% of developers say they use AI agents in their work, while 72% reject «vibe coding.» The survey was taken with 49,000 worldwide developers. Stack Overflow is no stranger to AI effects, having dropped sharply after the AI coding boom.
It will run mostly ChatGPT loads, but «surplus capacity» will be made available to local and North European developers, and government programs, which is in high demand.
ChatGPT use in Norway has quadrupled in the past year, OpenAI says in its statement on the project, and there are thousands of developers on the platform.
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While some Microsoft divisions are making AI use mandatory, and Amazon saying they will reduce headcount due to AI, Google seems to be struggling with uptake.
Only about 50% of users of an internal AI coding tool, Cider, uses the service weekly, writes CNBC.
The result might not be all that surprising, as AI is used the most to solve issues in translation, communication and writing — and is least used in areas such as construction and other manual labor.
Data is from 2024
From studying some 200,000 anonymized copilot sessions in the USA during 2024, Microsoft has been able to produce a list of the 40 most vulnerable jobs — and the 40 least affected ones.
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The general idea behind the mode is that it can ask Socratic questions to assess your knowledge levels and guide you step by step through problems — to help you learn instead of just giving you a quick fix.
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The idea of turning on Copilot Mode is to get it involved in your tabs and research, to distill info from web pages and do basic tasks.
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