OpenAI just landed its first major music video project with artist Washed Out's new single "The Hardest Part." Director Paul Trillo spent six weeks cherry-picking 55 clips from roughly 700 Sora-generated prompts to pull off sweeping visuals on a budget, though audience reactions have been sharply mixed.
Microsoft initially poured $1 billion into OpenAI in 2019 largely because it was worried about falling behind Google's machine learning scale, according to unsealed internal emails. CTO Kevin Scott warned Satya Nadella and Bill Gates that Microsoft took six months just to replicate Google's BERT model due to lagging infrastructure, prompting Nadella to push for the deal.
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.
Sam Altman’s OpenAI is reportedly in talks to partner with Worldcoin, his other high-profile venture focused on crypto and iris-scanning digital identity. Under the potential deal, OpenAI would provide AI solutions and services to Worldcoin, though the close ties between Altman’s two ventures are almost certain to draw fresh regulatory scrutiny.
Shengshu Technology and Tsinghua University just unveiled Vidu, a text-to-video AI capable of generating 16-second clips at 1080p resolution in one click. Built on their U-ViT architecture, it supports multi-camera transitions and simulates real-world lighting. While it doesn't quite match Sora's photorealism yet, its temporal consistency marks a serious step forward for Chinese video models.
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.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security just formed a 22-member AI Safety and Security Board, tapping tech leaders like Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, and Sundar Pichai. The panel is tasked with shielding critical infrastructure like power grids and airports from AI-driven threats. Why it matters: As risks range from automated cyberattacks to bioweapons, Washington is asking the builders of AI to help safeguard the nation against it.
A Maryland high school athletic director was just arrested after allegedly using AI to fabricate a racist audio recording of his principal. The deepfaked clip went viral and got the principal suspended, before forensic analysts traced the audio back to AI tools used on the school network. Why it matters: It’s a chilling look at how accessible voice-cloning tech is already being weaponized for personal vendettas.
Moderna just rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise across its thousands of employees, with staff building 750 custom GPTs in just two months. Use cases range from Dose ID—which analyzes clinical trial data to optimize vaccine dosages—to legal review bots. Why it matters: Moderna is betting that generative AI can allow a few thousand people to operate like a 100,000-person pharma giant, aiming to launch 15 new treatments in five years.
OpenAI just rolled out enterprise-grade controls for its API customers, introducing a Batch API that cuts prices by 50% for non-urgent tasks completed within 24 hours. The Assistants API also received a massive boost, expanding its file search limit by 500x up to 10,000 files alongside native streaming and project-level workspace controls.
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.
TED just partnered with artist Paul Trillo and OpenAI to envision what the conference might look like in 40 years, completely generated using the unreleased text-to-video model Sora. The concept video highlights how experimental creators are pushing the boundaries of AI video ahead of a public rollout.
Stanford’s HAI just released its seventh annual AI Index report, revealing that AI has surpassed or matched human baselines across almost all traditional benchmarks. In competition math alone, model accuracy jumped from 6.9% to 84.3% in two years, leaving researchers scrambling to design harder tests. Why it matters: Systems are mastering existing exams so fast that we now need new tests simply to see where humans still hold an edge.
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.
Logitech just launched the Logi AI Prompt Builder inside its Logi Options+ app, alongside a new $49.99 Signature AI Edition mouse with a dedicated AI trigger. The tool automatically captures highlighted text and lets you run preset or custom prompts in seconds. It basically turns daily LLM queries into a single hardware click.
Adobe just previewed new generative AI tools coming to Premiere Pro later this year, letting editors add or remove objects from shots and extend short clips with AI-generated frames. It also teased integrations with third-party models like OpenAI's Sora and Pika to automatically generate B-roll directly in the timeline. Why it matters: professional editors might soon get text-to-video superpowers baked right into their standard workflow.
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.
Adobe is paying creators an average of $2.62 to $7.25 per minute for short clips of everyday human actions and emotions to train its upcoming text-to-video generator. The data-buying push is aimed directly at countering OpenAI’s Sora, doubling down on Adobe’s pitch of commercially clean, copyright-safe training data.
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.
