The coming AI wars will be fought with data centers and gigawatts, and nobody wants to lose out.
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OpenAI completes transition to a public benefit corporation
The new governance makes it possible for them to reach for a market debut at some time in the future, and unlocks the investment of some $30 billion from SoftBank, which was contingent on the regulatory change.
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ChatGPT reports millions of troubling mental health conversations
The categories are «psychosis, mania or other severe mental health symptoms,» which consists of around 0.07% of conversations — or 550,000 people in actual numbers.
Second is «self-harm and suicide,» ticking in at 0.15% of ChatGPT users — or 1.2 million in actual numbers.
And the third is «emotional reliance on AI,» accounting for 0.15% of users in a given week, also 1.2 million in real numbers.
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OpenAI said to be working on a music generation tool
It could be used to generate music from a text or audio prompt — or make a guitar background to a vocal track, or add music to videos.
Recruiting at The Juilliard School
Apparently, the AI lab has partnered with students from The Juilliard School of music to annotate scores that could be used to train the generator.
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Weekend roundup: Resurrected Clippy, ChatGPT Business and AI Oreo ads
Clippy much? Microsoft launches visualization of Copilot
If you ever use voice mode in Copilot, which Microsoft hopes to expand, you might see a new, expressive animation on your screen. That would be the newly announced «Mico.» Unlike the much maligned Clippy, Mico will use facial expressions that change as you talk. It’s only available in the US, and will work with an upcoming memory feature for Copilot to better respond to requests.
More at: Microsoft’s launch, The Verge and Ars Technica.
OpenAI announces ChatGPT Business
ChatGPT will now combine all the context of your businesses’ connected apps, like Slack, Sharepoint, Github and Google Drive. This makes it possible to ask pretty detailed questions about your business and have comprehensive answers delivered in one place — without the need to go searching through lots of different repositories. The feature is available tor Business, Enterprise and Education customers starting last Thursday.
More at: OpenAI’s launch page, The Verge and The Register.
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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Atlas, it’s long awaited AI browser
The idea of the OpenAI browser has been in the works for quite a while and with its release today, it puts ChatGPT firmly on the web.
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Sundar Pichai: Gemini 3.0 is going to be released «this year»
In a sitdown/interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce 2025 conference, that goes long on the future of AI, cloud and innovations, he let this qoute rip:
— We kickstarted Gemini, we brought Google brain and Google deep mind together, and we’ve been rapidly iterating since then, he tells Benioff, then adds some forward looking comments:
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Weekend roundup: Copilot everywhere, Veo 3.1 and Altman on morality
The next revolution for Microsoft is putting the Copilot bot front and center in its operating system. Any Windows 11 PC will now be listening for the «Hey Copilot» prompt and you won’t be needing a Copilot Plus PC to engage with it. This will be across apps and settings and Windows 11 should simply «understand you, and then be able to have magic happen from that.» The spooky part? They want Copilot to read your screen to interact with you.
More at: The Verge, Engadget and The Windows Blog.
Anthropic introduces «Skills»
The new feature across all of their apps is basically a memorized workflow, or folders of actions that Claude can use to remember how to do things. That means you can store a collection of prompts or actions within the app and have it used at a later stage, which can come in handy for tasks used often. It works across apps, so you can store instructions from Excel plotting to brand guidelines. And it’s scriptable, too, so you can save complete routines.
Read more: Anthropic’s launch page, writeup at The Verge.
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Anthropic launches Haiku 4.5; twice the speed at a third of the cost
— What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was a state-of-the-art model, writes Anthropic. — Today, Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance, but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.
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Sam Altman says GPT-5 will be more friendly, allow age-verified erotica
Around the same time, OpenAI found themselves involved in court cases from people who were led down rabbit holes leading to death — and «ChatGPT psychosis» became a worry.
ChatGPT turned «Pretty restrictive»
Since then, GPT-5 and 4o got extremely restrictive to counter this trend and «being careful with mental health issues,» as Sam Altman puts it on x.com.
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Broadcom to supply OpenAI with 10 GW’s worth of custom chip capacity
Starting up in late 2026, just like the AMD and Nvidia deals — OpenAI will have added 26 gigawatts of capacity from these agreements alone, and one can wonder how capable the future of GPT will be.
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GPT-5 and Gemini 2.5 Pro scores Gold at International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics
The IOAA is a top rated exam for global high school students and is held annually with some 300 participants from 64 countries, and consists of questions to demonstrate deep conceptual understanding, multimodal analysis and multi-step derivations.
Weekend roundup: ChatGPT Go expands, Gemini Enterprise, reckognition for Genie and a familiar face
Sora hits 1 million downloads in five days
In what may be the fastest rush to the milestone, OpenAI’s Sora chief, Bill Peebles, just tweeted that they matched it faster than even ChatGPT. This is despite being limited by invites and only being available in North America, he points out. On the other hand, the copyright «slop» shows no signs of abating. California’s Creative Artists Agency, one of the largest around, are now warning of «significant risk» from the app, and saying creators deserve to be paid for their intellectual property.
More at: CNBC, TechCrunch and Engadget.
OpenAI delivers ChatGPT Go in slew of countries
After launching in India in August, and later expanding to Indonesia, the cost-effective new ChatGPT tier now becomes available in 18, mostly Asian, countries. The subscription offers slightly more access and should give 10x more messages, image generations than the Free tier and cost around $4.5 in local currencies.
More at: Nick Turley’s launch tweet, TechCrunch.
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Altman says more, «aggressive» deals to come off heels of AMD agreement
Their CEO has previously said that they aim for adding 1 gigawatt per week in the future, adding about a Hoover dam every fourteen days — and says many more deals are yet to come.
In the A16z podcast by Andreessen Horowitz today, Altman says «You should expect much more from us in the coming months», as reported by TechCrunch.
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Google launches Computer Use model, CodeMender and AI Mode expansion
The CodeMender model is based on Google’s own research into finding zero-day vulnerabilities in computer programs, where they found lots of exploits, and stipulated that humans would struggle to keep up with AI scanners once implemented widely.
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