OpenAI just rolled out a beta tasks feature to ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers. Users can now ask ChatGPT to fire off push reminders or handle recurring requests like daily news roundups. While it can't run background searches or buy tickets yet, it's OpenAI's first real step toward independent AI agents.
OpenAI just appointed Adebayo Ogunlesi, founding partner of Global Infrastructure Partners and a senior managing director at BlackRock, to its board of directors. Ogunlesi brings decades of elite experience in transnational finance and mega-scale infrastructure. As AI labs race to secure data centers and power, his arrival signals OpenAI's aggressive push into physical infrastructure.
OpenAI just published an "economic blueprint" outlining how it wants the U.S. government to support and regulate AI. The document urges Washington to slash red tape for data centers and nuclear power, adopt voluntary federal safety standards over fragmented state bills, and protect developers' ability to train on publicly available copyrighted web data.
OpenAI and Google are now buying YouTubers' unpublished, raw video footage for $1 to $4 per minute to train video generators like Sora and Veo. Licensing middleman Troveo AI has already paid creators over $5 million for unused 4K and drone clips. Why it matters: The race for video training data is turning cutting-room-floor scraps into an unexpected cash windfall.
OpenAI is officially getting into physical hardware. Robotics hardware lead Caitlin Kalinowski just posted openings for the company’s first hardware-focused roles, recruiting senior sensing engineers, mechanical designers, and a TPM manager to set up a new training lab. OpenAI isn't content with just supplying the AI brains; it wants to build the bodies too.
Google DeepMind is building a new team dedicated to AI that simulates the physical world, led by former OpenAI Sora co-lead Tim Brooks. The group plans to build on Gemini, Veo, and Genie to advance visual reasoning, robotics planning, and real-time generation, viewing world models as essential on the path to AGI.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman just admitted that the company is currently losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan because heavy users are running it far more than anticipated. Altman confessed he personally chose the price thinking it would turn a profit, and OpenAI is now reportedly weighing subscription price hikes or usage-based billing.
OpenAI just shared personal reflections on the two years since launching ChatGPT, detailing the company's turbulent scaling and internal drama. The leadership noted they now know how to build AGI, predicting the first AI agents will "join the workforce" in 2025 before setting sights on superintelligence.
OpenAI just capped off its 12 Days of OpenAI event by revealing its next-generation reasoning model, o3, alongside o3 mini. The new models comfortably beat o1 on math, coding, and the ARC-AGI benchmark, featuring adjustable reasoning effort. General users will have to wait, though, as rollout begins in late January.
OpenAI just opened ChatGPT Search to all free users and rolled real-time web browsing into Advanced Voice Mode. The update speeds up response times, improves local business cards on mobile, and lets users set ChatGPT as their browser's default search engine. It is OpenAI's biggest move yet to take on traditional search engines head-on.
YouTube just launched a new opt-in system that gives creators control over which third-party AI companies can train on their videos. The feature defaults to blocking all third-party scraping, offering a whitelist of 18 firms like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Apple. The catch: Google itself will still train its own models on creator content.
OpenAI cofounder Ilya Sutskever just made a rare public appearance at NeurIPS, declaring that AI has officially achieved "peak data." Comparing human web data to finite fossil fuels, he warned traditional pre-training is nearing its end. Future breakthroughs, he argued, will rely on truly reasoning and agentic models rather than mass scraping.
OpenAI just launched Projects for ChatGPT, letting users group related chats, custom context, and files into dedicated workspaces. The update integrates directly with Canvas and web search for multi-step tasks, rolling out now to Plus, Pro, and Teams subscribers before reaching Enterprise users next year.
OpenAI just published a postmortem for Wednesday’s three-hour outage across ChatGPT, Sora, and its API. It turns out the culprit wasn’t a cyberattack, but an internal telemetry rollout that overloaded Kubernetes API servers and broke DNS resolution. The company is now revamping its deployment safeguards to prevent similar lockouts.
OpenAI just published historical emails and timelines hitting back at Elon Musk's repeated lawsuits. The records reveal Musk himself pushed to turn OpenAI into a for-profit entity back in 2017 and even incorporated a company, but walked away after being denied majority control and the CEO role.
OpenAI just rolled out a festive 'Santa Mode' across all ChatGPT platforms for the holiday season. Users can tap the snowflake icon next to the chat bar to talk with a jolly-sounding Santa Claus, and the conversations won't save to history or touch your memory. It is free for everyone, but only until the end of the month.
Apple just released iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2, bringing the next wave of Apple Intelligence. Users can now create Genmoji, generate artwork in Image Playground, and tap into ChatGPT directly through Siri and Writing Tools. It is live now for localized English, with other languages rolling out starting this April.
WaveForms, a new startup founded by a key contributor behind ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, just unveiled its ambitious mission to pass the "Speech Turing Test." Instead of relying on traditional speech-to-text conversion that strips away emotion and tone, the company is building models designed to capture subtle human nuances, starting with consumer apps.
OpenAI just graduated its Canvas workspace out of beta, making the collaborative interface available to all free and paid ChatGPT users. The update brings native Python code execution with live data visualizations, side-by-side diff editing, and integration with custom GPTs. It is rolling out on the web and Windows desktop apps right now.
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman just pushed back against claims that AGI is achievable on current hardware like Nvidia GB200s, estimating it will take two to five more chip generations—or five to ten years. He also distanced practical AGI from sci-fi superintelligence, arguing builders should focus on useful, accountable AI companions instead of chasing the singularity.
