Apple is reportedly teaming up with OpenAI to integrate the startup's chatbot technology into iOS 18, with a formal announcement planned for WWDC on June 10. While Apple plans to use homegrown models for on-device and cloud tasks to upgrade Siri, it lacks a true ChatGPT equivalent. Borrowing OpenAI's engine gives Apple an immediate answer to user demand while it races to catch up.
OpenAI just stealthily upgraded ChatGPT's web search with the GPT-4o rollout. The free tier now explicitly tells you when it searches the web, lists the exact sites it crawled, and surfaces direct citations instead of hallucinating links.
OpenAI just detailed the five-month casting process behind ChatGPT's voices while pausing the controversial Sky voice after comparisons to Scarlett Johansson. CEO Sam Altman insisted the voice belongs to a different actress and was never meant to mimic Johansson, despite reaching out to her twice. Why it matters: As voice AI gets eerily realistic, celebrity soundalikes are rapidly turning into a major legal and PR battlefield.
OpenAI just made data analysis much smoother by letting ChatGPT pull files directly from Google Drive and OneDrive, killing the tedious download-then-upload routine. Powered by GPT-4o, the update rolls out to paid subscribers over the next few weeks alongside interactive, customizable charts.
OpenAI just rolled out its ChatGPT desktop app for macOS, bringing a system-wide floating prompt right to your fingertips. Tapping Option + Space bar pulls up a text bar over any active window, making it dead simple to look up terms, draft copy, or switch to GPT-4o without opening a browser. It is currently available to Plus subscribers on computers running macOS 14 with Apple Silicon chips, with Windows support coming later this year.
Anthropic just hired Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as its very first Chief Product Officer. Krieger will oversee product engineering, management, and design, tasked with taking Claude beyond the enterprise and deeper into the consumer market. With OpenAI and Google rolling out slicker interfaces by the day, Anthropic is bringing in a veteran builder to sharpen its product chops.
OpenAI co-founder and chief scientist Ilya Sutskever just officially resigned, marking the end of a dramatic saga that began with last November's boardroom shakeup. Research director Jakub Pachocki is stepping into the chief scientist role, while superalignment co-lead Jan Leike is also leaving. Sutskever teased that he is shifting focus to an undisclosed project that is personally meaningful.
OpenAI just opened its custom GPT Store to all free ChatGPT users, unlocking access to millions of tailored bots previously kept behind a paywall. The move massively widens the audience for GPT creators, though you'll still need a paid subscription if you want to build and publish your own.
OpenAI just launched GPT-4o, an end-to-end multimodal flagship model that reasons across text, audio, and vision in real time. It cuts speech latency down to human-like speeds, slashes API costs by 50%, and is rolling out to all free ChatGPT users.
OpenAI just inked a content licensing deal with Dotdash Meredith, the media giant behind People and InStyle. ChatGPT will now cite its articles and train on its content library, while the publisher will tap OpenAI's models to upgrade its cookieless ad-targeting tool, D/Cipher. It is OpenAI's latest push to lock down licensed data amid ongoing copyright lawsuits.
OpenAI just revealed it is developing Media Manager, a tool that will let creators identify their copyrighted works and choose whether to opt in or out of AI training. The system aims to cover text, images, audio, and video, with a planned launch by 2025. Why it matters: As copyright scrutiny intensifies, OpenAI is trying to establish an industry standard for data consent before regulators force one.
OpenAI and Stack Overflow just announced an API partnership to bridge technical knowledge with frontier LLMs. OpenAI will tap OverflowAPI to improve model performance and surface verified answers with attribution directly inside ChatGPT. In return, Stack Overflow will use OpenAI models to power its OverflowAI features, with the first integrations arriving in the first half of 2024.
OpenAI just sparked speculation about a direct challenge to Google after registering the search.chatgpt.com domain. Reports indicate an official announcement could arrive as early as May 9. Rather than relying on clunky Bing add-ons, the new tool aims to deeply integrate real-time web retrieval directly into ChatGPT to rethink the traditional search experience.
OpenAI just rolled out its "Memory" feature to all ChatGPT Plus subscribers outside of Europe and Korea. The chatbot can now remember key details, preferences, and context across different conversations. You'll get notified when a memory updates, and you can easily view, delete, or turn off memories in settings whenever you want.
OpenAI just struck a licensing partnership with the Financial Times to bring FT's journalism into ChatGPT. Users will see attributed summaries, quotes, and links to FT reporting in relevant answers. The FT has also deployed ChatGPT Enterprise to all staff, signaling that major publishers are opting to partner rather than fight.
Apple has reopened talks with OpenAI to power new generative AI features on iPhones later this year. The discussions focus on integrating a ChatGPT-like bot into iOS 18 alongside Apple's own models. Apple is still in active talks with Google over Gemini licensing as well, with no final decision made.
OpenAI just joined forces with competitors including Google, Meta, and Microsoft to adopt new "Safety by Design" principles aimed at protecting children. Led by child protection group Thorn, the alliance pledged to scrub child abuse material across training, deployment, and ongoing platform maintenance, alongside releasing annual progress updates.
Nothing just refreshed its earbud lineup with the Nothing Ear and Ear (a), adding built-in ChatGPT access triggered by a pinch of the stem. Instead of inventing dedicated AI gadgets from scratch, Nothing skipped a step by baking conversational AI into everyday earbuds—provided you also carry a Nothing phone.
OpenAI just launched its first Asian office in Tokyo and rolled out an early-access GPT-4 model specifically optimized for the Japanese language. The custom build runs up to 3x faster with significantly lower token costs for translation and summarization, alongside plans for a wider API rollout in the coming months.
US Representative Adam Schiff just introduced the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act, a bill that would force companies to reveal copyrighted material used in their models. AI makers would have to file a record of protected works with the Register of Copyrights at least 30 days before releasing new tools, or face financial penalties. It wouldn't ban using copyrighted data, but it aims to crack open the secretive black box behind systems like ChatGPT.
