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OpenAI goes deeper into government with Leidos contractor partnership

Government use of OpenAI seems lagging. A new partnership might change that. (Picture: generated)
OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Government in August last year, but is clearly not happy with the adoption.

They are now partnering with the giant government contractor/consultancy Leidos, according to a release, to «integrate Open AI-powered generative and agentic AI into the core workflows of customers in strategic markets.»

This starts by deploying OpenAI’s technology internally for the company, and then by «harnessing the transformative power of AI to help improve how federal agencies operate.»

OpenAI says they want to move «beyond experimentation and into real-world deployment that improves efficiency, resilience and public service.»

Read more: Leidos press release, Gizmodo.

Court filings: Microsoft has 27% stake in OpenAI worth ~$135 billion

Microsoft has access to OpenAI’s tech until 2032. (Picture: generated)
Discovery papers and messages are surfacing from the Elon Musk vs. OpenAI trial, and GeekWire is busy compiling them.

From the papers, it seems Microsoft was ready with a whole new AI subsidiary to form after Sam Altman’s ouster as CEO in November 2023 — complete with a legal framework, ready to send to the Washington Secretary of State at a moments notice.

They had already budgeted for about $25 billion in costs to «absorb the OpenAI team.»

When Altman returned to OpenAI after a short while, he was already discussing possible board members with Microsoft.

The winner of the early story seems to be Microsoft, retaining leverage over «Major Decisions» up until the for profit reorganization of OpenAI.

Microsoft also retains the rights to OpenAI’s technology until 2032. Musk is suing for breach of contract/trust and is demanding $134 billion from OpenAI.

Read the full scoop at GeekWire.

It’s official: OpenAI rolls out age-gating globally

OpenAI will use AI to verify your age and serve a less harmful experience, but it does make mistakes. (Picture: generated)
Last month offered a sneak peek at OpenAI’s support page for «age prediction,» and now they are ready to go live.

Age prediction works by taking in several factors such as usage time, account age and the time the user is active.

It is developed «in dialogue» with experts from the American Psychological Association, ConnectSafely, and Global Physicians Network⁠.

After several wrongful death lawsuits involving teens, disturbing mental health conversations and stating that principles are in conflict, OpenAI was more or less forced into doing something on both teen use and parental controls.

Those deemed under 18 by the AI will be served a vanilla version of ChatGPT without beauty standards, violence or romantic role-play, to name a few examples.

If someone gets wrongfully lobbed into the teen experience, and it does make mistakes, they can upload a selfie for proper verification through Persona.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, writeups on Reuters, CNBC, Engadget.

OpenAI commits to power buildouts for Stargate centers

OpenAI is now addressing local concerns for their massive data center buildouts.
The company shares how it plans to deal with «Stargate Communities» across the USA, especially on water and power consumption — and commit to being «good neighbors.»

This means for instance that they will cooperate with power utility companies at each site to ensure they are «paying our own way on energy.»

That could entail building out the infrastructure for each site where needed, or simply strengthening the grid.

They also address water usage, and note that Stargate Abilene will use as much water annually as the community uses in a day, thanks to «innovations in the cooling water systems design.»

OpenAI is even committing to slowing down workloads on days with adverse conditions, to lighten the load on the grid.

There have been at least 25 data center cancellations in the USA due to opposition from local communities, Gizmodo reports.

They are typically worried about rising electricity and water costs, which OpenAI is now directly addressing.

Read more: OpenAI’s blog, Reuters, Bloomberg.

OpenAI’s latest numbers; 3x yearly financial/compute growth since 2023

Impressive tally; OpenAI shows unprecedented growth in their new numbers. (Picture: OpenAI)
OpenAI is scaling like never before, according to CFO Sarah Friar, who is out with some hard numbers.

Friar says revenue and compute grow in tandem with the advent of more powerful models — that they «scale with intelligence,» so to speak.

Looking at the numbers, compute has gone from 0.2 gigawatts in 2023 to 1.9 GW in 2025, growing about 3x every year since ChatGPT’s debut.

Financially, OpenAI now has $20 billion in revenue, following the same curve as the compute scale and growing about 3x per year from $2 billion in 2024.

All this is of course before ads arrive on the free tier, and before OpenAI sees any results from its global rollout of the go subscription on their revenue.

On the compute side, OpenAI is chasing infrastructure like there is no tomorrow, closing in on more than 30 GW before 2030 in what would be truly explosive growth — and we can only wonder as to how advanced frontier AI models will get by then.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, writeups on Reuters, .

OpenAI to start «public» advertising tests on ChatGPT

What ads will look like If you click it, you can query it for more information. (Picture: OpenAI)
The tests will happen «during the coming weeks» for ChatGPT Free and Go tiers — and will try to put relevant, clearly labeled ads beneath GPT responses, OpenAI announces.

OpenAI says they won’t share your data or conversation to advertisers, and will «maintain a high standard» where you can turn off personalization if you want to.

They won’t be shown to under-18s, they say, nor will they show on sensitive topics, such as physical health, mental health or politics.

The neat part of the coming ads is that you click on them and query them for further detail, which is a feature not found in traditional advertising.

The Financial times estimates that OpenAI can earn somewhere around the «low billions» from advertising.

Ads won’t be shown for paying tiers, such as Plus, Pro and Enterprise.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement. Writeups on Reuters, The Verge and Ars Technica.

ChatGPT Go expands globally, comes to the United States

A little more dollars for a little more usage. It’s a simple plan, yet effective. (Picture: generated).
ChatGPT Go was first launched as a cheap way to access more GPT queries in India in August, 2025, for around $5. Now, the subscription has become popular enough to expand globally to every market where OpenAI is active.

The idea is that for a just little more money, $8 in the USA, you can get ten times the queries, ten times the file use, and ten times the image generations compared to the free plan.

OpenAI says that since the introduction of the Go subscription tier, they have seen extensive everyday use in tasks such as writing, learning, image generations and problem-solving.

Along with the Free tier, ChatGPT Go will be showing ads once they are ready.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, OpenAI’s sub overview. Writeups on The Verge, MacRumors.

OpenAI to spend $10 billion on compute from AI chip startup Cerebras

Cerebras makes powerful inference chips, for when an AI needs to think a little deeper. (Picture: generated)
The deal will land OpenAI with an added power capacity of 750 megawatts — but it’s not just any kind of compute.

Cerebras makes wafer-scale inference chips (for generating the response an AI gives after a query), looping in networking and high-bandwidth memory on the same die.

This makes for much faster thinking on complex tasks, should enable real-time reasoning, and OpenAI could possibly route those kinds of queries to this kind of compute.

The deal is worth over $10 billion, Reuters writes, and the capacity should come online in multiple tranches to be fully delivered in 2028, OpenAI says.

Sam Altman is an early investor in the company, and OpenAI once considered buying it, TechCrunch reports.

Read more: OpenAI’s announcement, writeups on Reuters, CNBC and TechCrunch.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT for healthcare, clinicians and institutions

From scientific discoveries to sifting through millions of peer-reviewed studies, doctors armed with ChatGPT can lead to better outcomes, OpenAI says. (Picture: Adobe)
Just a couple of days ago, OpenAI announced health tools for consumers and patients — and now it’s coming for the doctors and hospitals, with a HIPAA compliant AI product.

ChatGPT for healthcare can instantly draw upon millions of peer-reviewed research studies, health guidance and clinical guidelines, and can help clinicians reason through cases with greater confidence, OpenAI says.

We also know from the earlier days of ChatGPT that it can have an uncanny ability to compare millions of medical images to support a diagnosis — by doctors, not patients.

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OpenAI to serve ads in internal version of ChatGPT ahead of public launch

What it could look like with sponsored posts in the sidebar of ChatGPT. (Picture: generated)
According to journalist Alex Heath on the Sources blog, CEO of Applications Fidji Simo has let OpenAI employees know that they plan to start showing ads in an internal version of ChatGPT, hinting that the work at OpenAI is getting ready for prime time.

Bleepingcomputer also quoted yesterday a report from The Information (paywalled) saying that mockups displaying sponsored information have begun to appear in a sidebar next to the to the main ChatGPT window internally.

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OpenAI launches ChatGPT Health, an encrypted service for health data

OpenAI wants access to your medical journal, but won’t be giving clinical advice — that’s for doctors to do. (Picture: OpenAI)
230 million users every month have health questions for ChatGPT, and now they are building a «Secure Enclave» for ChatGPT Health.

The service will most importantly have access to your medical journals, but also patches into some popular services, like Apple Health, Function, MyFitnessPal, Weight Watchers, Instacart and Peloton.

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OpenAI sees 40 million daily prompts about health care

Ever more people are asking ChatGPT medical questions, OpenAI finds. (Picture: Adobe)
Even after restricting some health care questions, health prompts are booming on ChatGPT, according to a new OpenAI survey.

5% of all questions globally are about health, one in four questions per week are the same — and that adds up in aggregate to a really big number.

It’s not just normal users curious about care that ask the chatbot, but health care professionals, too. Of these, 46% of nurses, 41% of pharmacy workers, and 48% of physicians say they use ChatGPT once per week or more.

The questions usually roll in outside of normal clinical hours, and happen especially in health care deserts, OpenAI says.

OpenAI has great ambitions for the field, and says in their report that the next boundary to cross is for robotic wet labs and physical AI.

They also tick off a long list of how OpenAI can aid in scientific discovery and drug development.

Read more: OpenAI’s report, writeups on Gizmodo and Axios.

Anthropic and OpenAI are doubling usage limits until New Year’s

The most popular AI coding platforms are joining in doubling limits this Christmas. (Picture: Adobe)
From Christmas Eve til New Years Eve, you can do a lot of extra coding with Claude and Codex.

Anthropic started the party with Claude, offering Pro and Max users twice the usual limits to close out the year:

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OpenAI drops yearly review on ChatGPT — but only for English countries

Flashy cards and bells and whistles, as ChatGPT walks you through your year. (Picture: OpenAI)
For many, this year has been one long engagement with AI chatbots, and ChatGPT is there to wrap it up with you.

TechCrunch has spotted a flashy, card- and graphics-based «Your Year with ChatGPT» getting rolled out this holiday season.

It’s supposed to be a «lightweight, privacy-forward, and user-controlled» little romp through the year.

The trick is that you need an English account for those, but at least it works from the free tiers all the way up to Pro — with a minimum of engagement, wile Enterprise and Edu accounts are left out.

Everyone else can turn on a slightly less flashy rehash of your GPT usage for the year by simply typing «Show me my year with ChatGPT» right in the chat window, and it will offer a nice little summary of your usage.

It’s not fancy or flashy, but it might turn out a smile or two as you remember some epic AI moments of the year gone by.

Read more at: TechCrunch and 9to5Mac.

OpenAI quietly rolls out age controls in ChatGPT

ChatGPT's "teen experience" is quietely rolling out.
The «teen experience» on ChatGPT is still quite useful, but lacks insensitive interactions. (Picture: generated)
In order to limit sensitive content for teens, such as graphic violence, harmful viral challenges, sexual or romantic role-play and impossible beauty standards, ChatGPT now assesses their users’ age.

The age-gating is done in the background magic of the AI, determining general topics the user talks about, or things like the times of day the user is on ChatGPT.

It will not require mass-identification of the user base, unless you want to complain about getting age-gated to the «teen experience.»

To do this, you can upload a selfie to ChatGPT in the Account Settings, by clicking on Age Verification and selecting Verify Age.

From here, ChatGPT can determine your age from a simple selfie, but if that is not enough, you might have to offer up a Government ID.

On OpenAI’s Age prediction page, it says «this feature is still rolling out, so you might not see it yet depending on where you live.»

More at: OpenAI’s Age prediction page