The next great thing is always around the corner, and hype is already building for GPT-6. (Picture: generated)For Sam Altman, expanding the memory functions of the next GPT model will be key, he tells CNBC.
Better memory will enable GPT-6 to get to know us better, remember more details around us, and lead to much better personalization.
— People want product features that require us to be able to understand them, he tells MSNBC.
Will remember more about you
The next GPT should therefore remember more of who you are and what you care about, and allow you to create chatbots that «mirror personal tastes,» CNBC writes.
ChatGPT Go could expand to other markets based on feedback on the service.There are one billion internet users in India, but it is very price sensitive — and the second biggest market for ChatGPT.
The new plan offers greater access to GPT models, and expands on the free tier for just a little more cash.
GPT-5 should be more verbose and nice in its replies going forward, without being sycophantic. (Picture: generated)The latest ChaGPT is already more verbose and friendly for some, with the full rollout expected to last a day or so.
So far, the new GPT-5 has handled football banter like champ, managed complex geopolitics and has given advice on food recipes without calling me a Michelin-worthy chef, while delivering compelling, well sourced analysis quickly, in more than one-sentence responses.
Altman and OpenAI have discovered how important personality is for chatbots. (Picture: generated)In an update on the GPT-5 rollout today, CEO Sam Altman launched a bevy of new features. Like a longer context window for GPT-5-thinking, and changes to the model picker.
The launch of GPT-5 has been a little bumpy, at best. The first reaction was from users missing GPT-4o, which was quickly returned — but what about the other «legacy models?»
Almost all models returned
They are all coming back, and as per now the model picker lists GPTs 4.1, o3 and o4-mini for paid users. The only one missing from before the GPT-5 launch is GPT-4.5, which Altman says «costs a lot of GPUs.»
X.ai feels left out in the App Store, and claims it is because of Apple’s special relationship with OpenAI. (Picture: X.ai)After noticing the Grok app was the 5th choice on the App Store’s top list and ChatGPT was number one, Musk reckons they must be playing their lists to OpenAI’s benefit.
He now threatens an antitrust lawsuit, claiming that ChatGPT is on «literally every list where you [they] have editorial control,» like their «Must-Have Apps» section.
Only «a small percentage» get delusional from ChatGPT use, Altman says. (Picture: Adobe)As more and more publications are digging into people getting delusional from AI use, being led down rabbit holes or thinking they are superhuman, the CEO of OpenAI addressed the topic today.
In a lengthy x.com post, Altman considers the issues as «edge cases,» but welcomed both attachment and using ChatGPT as a kind of «life coach.»
Recently, OpenAI announced a wellness update to reduce sycophancy and push back against delusions, and the hope is that this can reduce some of the risks:
After an uproar on Reddit, ChatGPT 4o is back by popular demand. (Picture: Generated)UPDATED with how-to: GPT-5 might well function as a PHD-level assistant, but it is less chatty and not as filled with self-affirming responses as 4o, as CEO Sam Altman discovered in his Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything).
He also said on X.com that «We for sure underestimated how much some of the things that people like in GPT-4o matter to them, even if GPT-5 performs better in most ways.»
Anthropic’s Opus 4.1 is very close to the state of the art, and many users are claiming it’s way better than 4.0. (Picture: Anthropic)Anthropic announces Claude Opus 4.1
In an incremental update that got lost in this week’s headlines, Opus has been «improved across most capabilities» relative to the 4.0 version. It now scores 74.5% on SWE-bench Verified, almost as good as GPT-5. Windsurf says the performance gains are similar to going from Sonnet 3.7 to 4. It’s available now and costs the same as Opus 4.0. Users are also noting a significant improvement.
Google says people are still clicking
After a Pew Research report said users are less likely to click on from AI Overviews in Google, the entire publisher scene erupted and saw doom and gloom on the horizon. They were already seeing fewer clicks from Google in their logs. Now, Google is trying to counter with a happy blog post claiming average click quality has actually increased, and that they are in fact sending more «quality clicks» to publishers than before. Not stats, studies or other underpinning for that, though.
GPT-5 made this game on the first try, and it works pretty nicely, too! (Picture: OpenAI)The latest ChatGPT model excels at coding, writing and health queries — and ends the alphabet soup of models.
—Our smartest, fastest, most useful model yet, with built-in thinking that puts expert-level intelligence in everyone’s hands, says OpenAI on their launch post.
All users, including the Free tiers should be getting new models directly after launch, while Enterprise and Edu users will have to wait a week.
No one believes Thursdays livestream will be anything but this. (Photo: generated)Closing out what insiders have been cooing about as their «Big Week,» the livestream announced for Thursday 10:00 PST/19:00 CET is as sure a bet as you can get — it will be the launch of GPT-5. The announcement is not subtle about it, and even calls it a “live5tream.”
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:
ChatGPT usage could shed some serious time by automating routine work. (Picture: Generated, Mark Hillary, CC BY 2.0)OpenAI has partnered with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to provide ChatGPT Enterprise basically for free.
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.
Two agentic, reasoning models will fit on high en consumer hardware — if you have the specs. (Picture: Adobe)The two models will run on a high-end laptop or a phone, and perform at the level of o4-mini.
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.
Numbers keep rising for ChatGPT, but the mental health updates might be more important. (Picture: Adobe)The milestone comes just four months after they announced 500 million in March, and is four times the volume they had last year.
That number spans all of ChatGPT’s accounts, ranging from free to Pro and everything in between, and is rapidly accelerating, writes CNBC.
OpenAI has since removed the checkbox that would share your chat with search engines.(Picture: Screenshot, OpenAI)If you clicked this box, your ChatGPT session would be on Google
ChatGPT was just two clicks away from spilling your secrets to Google, an investigation found yesterday. The «Make this chat discoverable» button on the share feature would register the whole chat on search engines. Plenty of people made that mistake, sharing «deeply personal details, including struggles with addiction, experiences of physical abuse, or serious mental health issues.» OpenAI removed the feature shortly after, saying it «introduced too many opportunities for folks to accidentally share things they didn’t intend to.» They are now scrambling to remove «indexed content from the relevant search engines.»
Apple open to mergers and acquisitions in AI space — We’re very open to M&A that accelerates our roadmap, Apple’s Tim Cook said on yesterday’s earnings call. — We are not stuck on a certain size company, although the ones that we have acquired thus far this year are small in nature. He also said Apple was going to «significantly» grow it’s AI investments, after the company reported a 10% increase in revenue — the largest jump since 2021. They are also «making good progress» on personalizing Siri, he said.
Zuckerberg throws shade on open source projects
Mark Zuckerberg of Meta recently posted a manifesto of sorts, mapping out what he sees as a benevolent «personal superintelligence» «for everyone.» In it, he quietly states that superintelligence will pose new safety concerns, and «We’ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source.» He repeated this in his later earnings call, saying «we kind of wrestle with whether it’s productive or helpful to share that.» See also his original post.
Developers are slightly souring on AI coding A new survey from Stack Overflow shows a significant drop in developer trust in AI coding, with trust in its accuracy dropping from 40% in previous years to 29% in 2025. «Favorability» has also dropped from 72% to 60% on a yearly basis. 52% of developers say they use AI agents in their work, while 72% reject «vibe coding.» The survey was taken with 49,000 worldwide developers. Stack Overflow is no stranger to AI effects, having dropped sharply after the AI coding boom.
For its first European data center, OpenAI chose Norway for its climate and cheap hydropower. (Picture: Adobe)The facility in Narvik, Northern Norway was selected for its cool climate and abundant clean energy, and will host 100,000 Nvidia chips with a total power consumption of 230 MW.
It will run mostly ChatGPT loads, but «surplus capacity» will be made available to local and North European developers, and government programs, which is in high demand.
ChatGPT use in Norway has quadrupled in the past year, OpenAI says in its statement on the project, and there are thousands of developers on the platform.
