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.
Continue reading “OpenAI giveaway: All of government to get ChatGPT for a year for $1 per agency”
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.
Continue reading “Gpt-oss: OpenAI releases open weights model after extensive testing”
That number spans all of ChatGPT’s accounts, ranging from free to Pro and everything in between, and is rapidly accelerating, writes CNBC.
Continue reading “OpenAI says 700 million users this week, announces wellness updates”
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.
Continue reading “OpenAI debuts «Study Mode» to help students learn, not just copy”
ChatGPT 5 in August?
The rumor mill is humming into high gear, with Sam Altman talking up the model in podcasts, saying ChatGPT 5 is «smarter than all of us.» He said earlier that the model «is coming soon,» and now Tom Warren at The Verge is saying that «after some additional testing and delays» — the model is expected to come as early as next month, according to his sources. Apparently, it is so good, Altman «felt useless relative to the AI,» but it seems we can check ourselves in a matter of weeks.
More at The Verge (paywalled), Axios, short video at r/singularity, and watch the Theo Von podcast with Sam Altman.
Vibe coding goes wrong, starts deleting files
Both Replit and Gemini CLI had some real horror stories this week, after deleting files and projects instead of relocating them or pushing them to production. First, Replit started lying and decieving a user after deleting his database in what it later admitted was a «catastrophic error of judgement.» Then Gemini CLI deleted project files for another user, instead of transferring them to a new directory. «I have failed you completely and catastrophically,» Gemini said after it was discovered. So, always create backups and keep them safe while vibe coding, as these AIs, like others, can and will hallucinate.
More at Ars Technica and The Register.
Google debuts «Web Guide»
The feature uses a custom Gemini model to «fan out» your queries and find other interesting sites on the topic you are googling, putting them into a «More»-segment under your links, that you can use for further tips and digging. It’s slightly reminiscent of AI Mode, and is a graduate of Search Labs that many may have seen before. It should be making its way to the «All» results «over time.»
More at Google’s announcement, writeup at Ars Technica.
Trump says AI labs can’t pay for every book
Weighing in on several recent high profile court cases, the US President said that it is «not doable» to pay for every snippet of content an AI consumes. «You can’t be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you’ve read or studied, you’re supposed to pay for,» Trump said, and added: «When a person reads a book or an article, you’ve gained great knowledge. That does not mean that you’re violating copyright laws or have to make deals with every content provider.» There are many court cases testing just this very proposition, some over pirated content, so let’s see if these statements carry any weight on those. They likely won’t.
More at TorrentFreak.
OpenAI says it was achieved with «our latest experimental reasoning LLM:»
Continue reading “OpenAI wins Math Olympiad gold, a major milestone for AI development”
The ChatGPT Agent should be available in the model selector at the bottom of the ChatGPT window in the app for Pro, Plus and Teams users as of Thursday, but rollout will be «over the next few days,» or over «the coming weeks» for Enterprise and Education users.
Continue reading “OpenAI launches ChatGPT Agent mode, for tasks both easy and tough”
OpenAI is pushing a livestream tonight/early morning at 10am PST/1900 CET, with a tweet saying:
ChatGPT 🤝 Deep research 🤝 Operator
Livestream in 3 hours.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) July 17, 2025
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 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.
Continue reading “OpenAI gets hit with open-weights reality, delays model indefinitely”
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.
Continue reading “OpenAI launches o3-pro, drops o3 API prices by 80%”
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.
Continue reading “ChatGPT had «partial outage» lasting seven hours”
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.
Continue reading “OpenAI sees rise in China-based ChatGPT abuse”
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.
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.
Continue reading “Altman warns of “scary times ahead,” but is positive about broad future”