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Heads up: There’s an OpenAI livestream announcement coming

OpenAI is pushing a livestream tonight/early morning at 10am PST/1900 CET, with a tweet saying:

Some expect the company to launch Odyssey — a rumored blend of deep research, agentic capabilities, and access to your Drive files, and they seem on the money. If true, it could revolutionize coding and research workflows.

Others are fixated on the cursor in the teaser, which circles through five points — surely that must mean ChatGPT-5? Meanwhile, another camp is betting on the long-awaited OpenAI browser, complete with built-in agents.

Speculation is running hot. The only way to know for sure? Tune in later — or tune out and catch the fallout in the news.

Here’s the teaser posted last night, you can likely catch it on Youtube, and keep an eye on OpenAIs x.com account.

UPDATE: it was ChatGPT Agent. The news is here.

OpenAI gets hit with open-weights reality, delays model indefinitely

Is OpenAI getting cold feet on releasing and open model?
Open weights means people get to thinker under the hood of the model, a first for OpenAI. (Picture: generated).
CEO Sam Altman just tweeted another delay to their open-weight model, due to security concerns, saying «once weights are out, they can’t be pulled back.»

OpenAI had previously planned for June release, and then postponed it to «later this summer,» claiming great progress and that the team was «excited» about the new model.

Very good, or just recycled o-series?
It was supposed to be a «very good model,» but «our research team did something unexpected and quite amazing,» @sama said on June 11.

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OpenAI launches o3-pro, drops o3 API prices by 80%

O3-pro makes you wait a little longer, but it's worth it, OpenAI says
OpenAI’s new o3-pro model is slower, but better, they say
ChatGPT o3-pro is designed to think longer and «provide the most reliable responses.»

According to OpenAI’s release notes, it scores about 10% better than o3 in select benchmarks.

It is available for Pro and Team users, replacing the o1-pro model. It should be available to Enterprise and Edu users next week.

o3-pro also has access to tools, and can therefore search the web, analyze files, take visual inputs and use Python, OpenAI says.

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ChatGPT had «partial outage» lasting seven hours

OpenAIs outage seems to be compounding.
Service issues across the board, across the earth. (Picture: Screenshot)
Responses of «Hmm… something seems to have gone wrong» were permeating on ChatGPT’s services across the globe, but the issues have largely been resolved.

The outage was affecting everything from the web service, to iOS/Android/Windows and macOS apps, across GPTs, Deep Research, Operator, Codex, Sora and Image Generation.

Intensifying errors
Downdetector collected reports on the outage since 0900 CET/0300 EST, and it seemed to peak in the early hours today.

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OpenAI sees rise in China-based ChatGPT abuse

OpenAI reports on Cyber Threats using ChatGPT.
We should probably be more worried about what ChatGPT doesn’t catch. (Picture: howtostartablogonline.net, CC BY 2.0)
China and Iran are using ChatGPT for influence operations, while North Korea and Russia looks for jobs backdoors and malicious code.

Out of the ten campaigns identified in OpenAIs new report «Disrupting Malicious Uses of AI», four were from China.

Supercharging influence ops
Chinese groups have used ChatGPT for mostly adversarial influence operations, writes Reuters, generating social media posts on political tops including on a Taiwanese video game, accusations against a Pakistani activist and content related to the closure of USAID.

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OpenAI’s Codex now available to ChatGPT Plus users

ChatGPT Plus-tier gets access to Codex!
Wider availability for Codex likely means even more pressure on the coding market. (Picture: Chatgpt.com)
Caught this morning, there seems to be a new option in the sidebar at Chatgpt.com for the new Codex coding model — meaning it has expanded access.

Codex is the latest coding agent from OpenAI that runs on a modified o3-model.

Super-coding agent
It can generate several instances of code from your prompts, and even run them in a sandbox to select the best/most efficient version.

OpenAI says it can complete tasks autonomously that would otherwise take hours or days to finish, and they are using it themselves to offload repetitive tasks.

The Plus membership for ChatGPT is $20 a month, and Codex launched as a «research preview» in May for Pro users, who fork out $200 a month.

Update: It appears Codex now also has Internet acccess, which is off by default and comes with a stern warning.

See also: teknotum on the Codex launch, and the announcement thread on X.

Altman warns of “scary times ahead,” but is positive about broad future

Altman warns of "scary times ahead"
Big societal changes are coming our way, warns Sam Altman, but he thinks the benefits will outweigh the risks. (Picture: Screenshot)
The OpenAI CEO sat down with mindfulness expert and Buddhist monk Jack Kornfield and Soren Gordhamer for a wide-ranging conversation about AI consciousness, benefits, regulation and ethics yesterday, on a conference called Wisdom 2.0.

They discussed several interesting topics, but Altman said »There will be scary times ahead» as AI gets sharper, without mentioning the recent jobs panic specifically.

Brace for a lot of change
The notion, he said, is for OpenAI to release research previews — or incomplete models — early so that the world can think and prepare for the consequences.

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OpenAI debuts Codex, an AI coding agent, further disrupting the software industry

Codex can run your code multiple times until it finds the best version.
Codex can run your code multiple times until til finds the best version. (Picture: OpenAI)
In a world where 30% of Big Tech code is written by AI already, OpenAI says it wants to join the club for «virtual teammates,» and it’s getting ever closer with today’s launch.

OpenAI’s Agents Research Lead, Josh Tobin tells TechCrunch that the company wants software agents to complete tasks autonomously that would otherwise take hours or days to finish, in anything from one to thirty minutes, and OpenAI is already using the model to offload repetitive tasks.

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Apple reportedly has ChatGPT-level AI for Siri in the works

Apple might improve with its own LLM chatbot, says reports.
Apple is still playing catch-up in the LLM market, but that may change soon, according to recent reports. (Picture: Apple)
In an article mainly about how Apple got AI and LLMs so wrong, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, a noted Apple-watcher, also notes a few things it’s getting right.

One of those is the significant progress it is having during testing of an AI chatbot version of Apple’s personal Siri assistant, developed by a team in Zurich.

MacRumors reports that Apple is testing a completely new architecture — not the current patchwork Siri that punts to ChatGPT — but a standalone LLM designed to eventually replace Siri outright.

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ChatGPT 4.1 now available in the app and web

OpenAIs coding model was launched in the API only on April 14th, and reduced costs compared to GPT 4.5.

It also comes with a large context window of 1 million «tokens.» These are compute units that roughly translates to 750,000 words — so this model can read and output very large files or codebases.

It should be available under the model selector menu by clicking on «More models.»

UPDATE: It seems that without announcement of fanfare, free users on ChatGPT.com now get 4.1-mini as the new default model, a step up from the previous 4o-mini.

Despite some reports, GPT-4.1 does not appear to be the default for paid users—ChatGPT Plus still opens with GPT-4o as standard

Read more: OpenAI’s model release notes, Ars Technica bemoans model confusion, Teknotum on the 4.1 launch.

Apple says considering AI search in Safari, but «not good enough yet»

Apple is considering revamping search in Safari to become more AI-focused.
Apple is considering revamping search in Safari to become more AI-focused. (Picture: Kārlis Dambrāns, CC BY 2.0)
In the Google antitrust remedies trial, Apple’s senior vice president of services, Eddy Cue, said they are «actively looking at» using AI search tools in Safari, writes Gizmodo.

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OpenAI scraps for-profit structure, but keeps door open for investments

OpenAIs new structure opens for more investors, but keeps ideological nonprofit in charge.
OpenAIs new structure opens for more investors, but keeps ideological nonprofit in charge. (Image: Justin Jay Wang + DALL·E, for OpenAI)
OpenAI is not changing to a for-profit company after all, they revealed last night. Instead, they are making minor adjustments to the corporate structure to welcome more investment.

This means changing the structure of it’s operational, for profit Limited Liability Company (LLC) to a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) that will be controlled by it’s non-profit entity intended to «ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity,» OpenAI writes in a blog post.

A Public Benefit Corporation is a profit-based company that legally commits to both profit and purpose — like «advancing AI for all» — and must consider that mission alongside shareholder value. It also has to publish a yearly «public benefit» report. It’s essentially a mission-specific corporate vehicle.

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ChatGPT debuts shopping and product reviews

Chatgpt’s new shopping panels will look familiar to those who use Google for shopping.
Chatgpt’s new shopping panels will look familiar to those who use Google for shopping. (Picture: OpenAI)
As the AI app crosses 1 billion searches per week, they are now making it easier to shop and look for reviews on the platform, in what could be the first steps towards monetization.

The new feature will produce «improved product results» and show product cards with images and prices, pulling product reviews from sites like professional publishers and forums like reddit, and often presenting reviews with star ratings, writes The Verge.

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OpenAI expects positive cash flow, $125 billion in sales by 2029

OpenAI predicts astronomical revenue by the end of the decade.
OpenAI predicts astronomical revenue by the end of the decade. (Picture: Conceptphoto.info, CC BY 2.0)
ChatGPT use is up to about «something like 10% of the world» said CEO Sam Altman, putting the numbers reached at roughly 800 million people, according to Pymnts.com, but that won’t be the main driver of income in coming years.

The company said in March that it anticipates revenue above $11.6 billion in 2025 – nearly tripling its 2024 numbers. It will then jump from $125B in 2029 to $174B in 2030.

Revenue will rise significantly once it can develop and charge for AI agents, and «free user monetization,» according to Slashdot.

What that «monetization» will entail is unclear so far, but Pymnts.com says they have considered things such as charging affiliate fees on links, giving it a cut of sales generated from the platform.

According to this post on r/singularity, they are not currently considering considering selling traditional advertising, but that references a December FT.com article and may well have changed.

Read more at paywalled The Information, a writeup on Pymnts.com, March 16. report on Reuters and discussion on r/singularity.

ChatGPT o3 and o4-mini are big steps toward AI agents

The models are inching ahead in benchmarks, but multimodality is where they truly shine.
The models are inching ahead in benchmarks, but multimodality is where they truly shine. (Picture: OpenAI)
OpenAI’s latest model drop hints at a future where agents can do most of our work — and is proving the point with image processing.

The new reasoning models are managing an ever so slight lead in many benchmarks and therefore earns the right to be called state of the art, but of particular note is that they improve on GPT o1 and o3-mini by almost 30% in the coding benchmark SWE-Bench Verified, OpenAI claims in their launch post.

— These are the smartest models we’ve released to date, representing a step change in ChatGPT’s capabilities for everyone from curious users to advanced researchers, says OpenAI.

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