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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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.
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Citing significant progress already done, Sam Altman says «I think it is the coolest piece of technology that the world will have ever seen,» according to The Washington Post.
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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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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
By popular request, GPT-4.1 will be available directly in ChatGPT starting today.
GPT-4.1 is a specialized model that excels at coding tasks & instruction following. Because it’s faster, it’s a great alternative to OpenAI o3 & o4-mini for everyday coding needs.
— OpenAI (@OpenAI) May 14, 2025
Read more: OpenAI’s model release notes, Ars Technica bemoans model confusion, Teknotum on the 4.1 launch.
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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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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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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.
Now OpenAI’s ChatGPT head of product, Nick Turley, said in open court that they «would be interested» in buying it, according to Reuters.
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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On Monday night, though, the AI company launched ChatGPT 4.1, 4.1-mini and 4.1-nano, which at first seem a bit underwhelming.
While you might be getting tired of ChatGPT’s word salad lineup, these latest models offer mostly cost efficiency and larger input levels for coding tasks. They won’t be available in the app — but are instead rolled out on the API.
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The feature is supposed to make ChatGPT more personal and relevant to users, and you wont have to manage the paltry «memories»-storage any more, writes TechCrunch.
Here’s the official announcement from OpenAI:
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The money raised by the ChatGPT maker values the company at $300 billion, and is the most money raised by a private tech company ever, as it was the last time they raised a mere $6.6 billion back in October 2024.
In fact, the funding is three times the previous high note in funding for tech companies.
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