The Center for Investigative Reporting just sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming the tech giants vacuumed up its stories to train AI models without permission or pay. It joins a mounting wave of publisher lawsuits like The New York Times, highlighting growing pushback against AI companies treating journalism as free training data.
OpenAI just introduced CriticGPT, a model based on GPT-4 designed to critique ChatGPT's code and help human trainers spot bugs. In experiments, trainers assisted by CriticGPT outperformed unassisted reviewers 60% of the time. The lab is now integrating these critic models into its RLHF pipeline to keep superhuman AI properly aligned.
OpenAI just struck a multi-year content partnership with TIME, bringing 101 years of historical archives and current reporting into ChatGPT. User responses drawing from the coverage will include direct citations and Time.com source links, while TIME taps OpenAI's models to build new reader-facing products.
OpenAI just pushed back the rollout of ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode alpha by a month. The team says it needs extra time to refine content refusal guardrails and ready server capacity, targeting a full rollout to Plus subscribers in the fall.
OpenAI just acquired Multi, an enterprise-focused remote video collaboration startup, in an acqui-hire deal. Most of Multi's five-person team will join OpenAI, and the standalone app will shut down on July 24. Coming right after its Rockset purchase, the deal signals OpenAI's growing ambitions to build native collaboration features into its enterprise stack.
Meta has reportedly discussed integrating its generative AI models into Apple Intelligence alongside OpenAI's ChatGPT. Apple has also held talks with Google, Anthropic, and Perplexity, potentially creating a hub where AI companies sell premium subscriptions directly to iPhone users. Negotiations are still ongoing and could fall through.
OpenAI just appointed retired General Paul Nakasone, the former director of the NSA and US Cyber Command, to its board's Safety and Security Committee. While OpenAI claims his cybersecurity expertise will protect its AI supercomputers from hackers, whistleblower Edward Snowden blasted the move as a calculated betrayal and warned the public never to trust the company.
Apple and OpenAI just sealed an AI partnership, but neither side is handing over any cash. Apple is essentially paying OpenAI with front-row exposure to hundreds of millions of users in exchange for ChatGPT access. While it is a pure bartering deal for now, Apple plans to bring in rivals like Google and could eventually shift toward a revenue-sharing model.
OpenAI is teaming up with Microsoft and Oracle to run Azure AI workloads on Oracle's cloud infrastructure. The deal shows OpenAI needs more capacity than Microsoft alone can provide to keep ChatGPT running smoothly. Frontier model pre-training stays on Microsoft supercomputers, but the partnership also puts Oracle in the awkward position of supplying both OpenAI and rival xAI.
SEO.ai broken down whether Google can spot ChatGPT-generated text and penalize it in search results. While tools can analyze probability patterns to catch AI text, Google hasn't officially penalized content just for being machine-made. Basically, the algorithm cares about whether content genuinely helps users, not whether a human typed it.
OpenAI just restarted its in-house robotics research group after pulling the plug three years ago. The company is now actively hiring engineers to train multimodal models for partner robots, confirming that after backing Figure AI, it wants a direct hand in shaping embodied intelligence.
OpenAI just launched ChatGPT Edu, a new offering built specifically for universities looking to responsibly deploy AI across campus. The package brings flagship-level reasoning, custom GPTs, and data analysis to students and researchers with enterprise security, while keeping university data completely private. Why it matters: It gives schools an affordable way to scale campus AI without privacy trade-offs.
OpenAI just launched OpenAI for Nonprofits, offering discounted rates of up to 75% on ChatGPT Business and Enterprise plans. The initiative aims to help resource-strapped organizations draft grant proposals, analyze data, and expand their social impact with dedicated workspace tools and strict privacy standards.
OpenAI just opened custom GPTs, data analytics, and vision features to all free ChatGPT users. Anyone can now explore and chat with community-made bots or analyze files from cloud storage, though building your own GPT still requires a paid tier. Once free users hit message caps on GPT-4o, conversations automatically drop back to GPT-3.5.
OpenAI just struck a content and product partnership with The Atlantic, bringing the magazine's reporting into ChatGPT with direct attribution and links. The publisher's product team gets early access to OpenAI tech and will experiment via a new "Atlantic Labs" microsite. Why it matters: OpenAI is steadily locking down premium journalism deals as AI search heats up.
OpenAI just signed another major media deal, this time partnering with Vox Media. The agreement brings content and archives from properties like The Verge, Eater, and New York Magazine directly into ChatGPT with attribution and links. Vox Media also plans to use OpenAI's tech internally to supercharge its commerce recommendation tools and ad-targeting platform.
Former OpenAI board member Helen Toner just revealed that the board had no prior knowledge of ChatGPT's November 2022 release and only found out through Twitter. She also claimed CEO Sam Altman concealed his ownership of the OpenAI startup fund and misled the board on safety procedures. Why it matters: It gives the clearest picture yet of the communications breakdown and lack of transparency that led to Altman's brief firing last fall.
A new Reuters Institute and Oxford University survey of 12,000 people across six countries reveals generative AI has yet to become a daily habit, with only 2% of UK respondents using tools like ChatGPT every day and 30% never having heard of them. Young adults aged 18 to 24 lead adoption, but broader public enthusiasm remains surprisingly muted.
Scarlett Johansson just called out OpenAI for releasing a ChatGPT voice that sounded eerily like her own, forcing the company to pause the controversial "Sky" option. Johansson revealed she explicitly rejected Sam Altman's pitch to voice the system months ago, hiring legal counsel after hearing the viral GPT-4o demo. OpenAI claims the voice belongs to another actress, but pausing the rollout shows Hollywood's pushback is landing.
OpenAI just saw its biggest mobile revenue spike yet following the GPT-4o rollout. App intelligence data reveals the ChatGPT app generated $4.2M in net revenue across iOS and Android in just five days, nearly doubling its daily average. Because mobile users had to subscribe to the $19.99 monthly Plus tier to test the new model, mobile users rushed to upgrade.
