ChatGPT News & Analysis

The U.S.’s policy goals may not be coherent, while China’s own chip efforts and distributed AI training grow more capable.

AI labs are increasingly relying on crowdsourced benchmarking platforms such as Chatbot Arena to probe the strengths and weaknesses of their latest models. But some experts say that there are serious problems with this approach from an ethical and acad…

As Sam Altman turns 40, we trace his path from college dropout to the face of A.I.

It’s more environmentally friendly (and cost-efficient) to skip the niceties.

ChatGPT search, OpenAI’s feature within ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to access and incorporate up-to-date information from the web into its responses, is growing at a fast clip in Europe. A report filed by one of OpenAI’s EU corporate di…

Young people are preparing for a recession with tricks like dumpster diving, fast-food rewards, and “no-buy lists.”

When David Mesfin was producing his documentary on Black surfing culture, Wade in the Water, back in 2023, he had a problem. Like millions of other people since ChatGPT and other GenAI tools emerged in late 2022, Mesfin was experimenting and using the…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says users sending “please” and “thank you” messages to ChatGPT is costing the company tens of millions of dollars.“Tens of millions of dollars well spent — you never know,” Al…

A discrepancy between first- and third-party benchmark results for OpenAI’s o3 AI model is raising questions about the company’s transparency and model testing practices. When OpenAI unveiled o3 in December, the company claimed the model co…

“I wonder how much money OpenAI has lost in electricity costs from people saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ to their models.” It was a seemingly random question posed by a user on X (formerly Twitter), but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman jumped in to reply that ty…

Here’s what could be next for Microsoft.

A hallucinating customer support bot—and a viral backlash—shows how fast things can go wrong in the age of AI automation.

OpenAI’s recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate, or make things up — in fact, they hallucinate more than several of OpenAI’s older models. Hallucinations h…

Some ChatGPT users have noticed a strange phenomenon recently: Occasionally, the chatbot refers to them by name as it reasons through problems. That wasn’t the default behavior previously, and several users claim ChatGPT is mentioning their names…

The real value of AI isn’t in what you ask — it’s in how you shape the conversation. Mastering prompt interactions means better content, sharper thinking and fewer generic outputs.

OpenAI is upgrading ChatGPT’s “memory” again. In a changelog and support pages on OpenAI’s website Thursday, the company quietly announced “Memory with Search,” a feature that lets ChatGPT draw on memories — details …

Hello! Next Thursday, April 24, I’ll be moderating two fireside chats—with Runway cofounder Alejandro Matamala Ortiz and F-35 pilot Justin “Hasard” Lee—at Artist and the Machine’s AI & Creativity Summit in Brooklyn. The event promises to be an inv…

When news broke that OpenAI was in talks to acquire AI coding company Windsurf for $3 billion, one of the first questions on the mind of anyone following the space was likely: “Why not buy Cursor creator Anysphere instead?” After all, OpenAI Start…

OpenAI was reportedly in talks to buy Anysphere, the company that produces the Cursor AI coding assistant, before entering into talks with rival company WindSurf.According to CNBC, OpenAI approached Anysphere in 2024 and again in 2025,…

In a bid to more aggressively compete with rival AI companies like Google, OpenAI is launching Flex processing, an API option that provides lower AI model usage prices in exchange for slower response times and “occasional resource unavailability….

With scrutiny mounting and a $40 billion funding round on the line, OpenAI’s new nonprofit commission may be less about charity—and more about optics.

Stargate, a $500 billion project headed up by OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank to build AI data centers and other AI infrastructure in the U.S., is considering investments in the U.K. and elsewhere overseas, according to a Financial Times report. While St…

There’s a somewhat concerning new trend going viral: People are using ChatGPT to figure out the location shown in pictures. This week, OpenAI released its newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, both of which can uniquely “reason” through u…

What’s in your office starter pack? La Colombe cold brew and a New Yorker subscription? Bose headphones and Brooks Brothers?

Thanks to the latest ChatGPT trend making the rounds, you can now find out. By uploading a few photos and using a specific …

OpenAI chair Bret Taylor says AI will shake up jobs — and workers who rely on old tools may be left behind.

Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. Wednesday night, xAI announced a “memory” feature for Grok that enables the bot to remember details fro…

OpenAI has named labor leader Dolores Huerta and three others to a temporary advisory board that will help guide the artificial intelligence company’s philanthropy as it attempts to shift itself into a for-profit business.

Huerta, who turned …

OpenAI says that it deployed a new system to monitor its latest AI reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, for prompts related to biological and chemical threats. The system aims to prevent the models from offering advice that could instruct someone on carry…

Sam Altman’s OpenAI now requires a government ID for developer access to its advanced models, aiming to prevent output from being distilled by rivals.

Windsurf, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant, is in talks to be acquired by OpenAI for about $3 billion, Bloomberg reported. If the deal happens, it would put OpenAI in direct competition with a number of other AI coding assistant providers, in…

OpenAI’s updated AI safety framework drops key pre-release testing requirements—including for persuasive or manipulative capabilities—sparking concern among experts.

OpenAI launches groundbreaking o3 and o4-mini AI models that can manipulate and reason with images, representing a major advance in visual problem-solving and tool-using artificial intelligence.

An organization OpenAI frequently partners with to probe the capabilities of its AI models and evaluate them for safety, Metr, suggests that it wasn’t given much time to test one of the company’s highly capable new releases, o3. In a blog p…

New o3 and o4-mini models can autonomously use web browser and coding tools, the company says.

In a bid to inject AI into more of the programming process, OpenAI is launching Codex CLI, a coding “agent” designed to run locally from terminal software. Announced on Wednesday alongside OpenAI’s newest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, Co…

OpenAI announced on Wednesday the launch of o3 and o4-mini, new AI reasoning models designed to pause and work through questions before responding. The company calls o3 its most advanced reasoning model ever, outperforming the company’s previous …

A pseudonymous developer has created what they’re calling a “free speech eval,” SpeechMap, for the AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and X’s Grok. The goal is to compare how different models treat sensitive…

OpenAI says it could adjust its AI safety policy if a rival ships a high-risk model without safeguards. Critics say it’s backing off key commitments.

OpenAI is seeking data center talent as it reduces reliance on Microsoft and ramps up its own infrastructure ambitions.

Amid the rush to take part in a recent trend, some artists, concerned about the use of ChatGPT, are hand-drawing their own versions.

If OpenAI is going to join the trillion-dollar club, it needs more user attention and human data. A social network could provide both. And tweak Elon.

In an update to its Preparedness Framework, the internal framework OpenAI uses to decide whether AI models are safe and what safeguards, if any, are needed during development and release, OpenAI said that it may “adjust” its requirements if…

Large language model developer OpenAI is reportedly working on a new social media network, putting the company on a collision course with Elon Musk’s X and Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta Platforms.Citing anonymous sources, The Verg…

Could it be any clearer that Sam Altman intends for OpenAI to be a sprawling consumer tech company, not just an AI lab? His public comments certainly suggest as much. Today, The Verge reported that OpenAI has been working on an internal prototype of a…

OpenAI’s upcoming AI software engineer can build an app on its own, taking over responsibilities from humans.

Context.ai, a startup building evaluations and analytics for AI models, announced Tuesday that its co-founders will join OpenAI. Context.ai plans to wind down its products following the acqui-hire, per a message on the company’s website. When re…