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What smart people are saying after OpenAI reportedly missed targets

A report that OpenAI missed on internal growth targets raised fresh concerns about AI demand. Here's what traders and scientists think.

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Apr 28 • 2:59 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Are OpenAI's CEO and CFO getting along?

Shepherding OpenAI through a mammoth IPO is the core job for the company's CFO. If she and her CEO aren't aligned, that makes the job way harder.

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Apr 28 • 11:24 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Stock market today: Tech stocks tank on report OpenAI missed targets

A report that OpenAI missed key 2025 targets is hitting tech stocks at a critical time for the AI trade, with investors gearing up for tech earnings.

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Apr 28 • 9:40 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Qualcomm stock draws attention after major OpenAI news

QCOM shares reacted to a major development with the AI giant ahead of earnings this week.

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Apr 27 • 7:17 PM EDT • Technology • thestreet.com
Altman makes courtroom appearance as potential jurors slam AI, Musk

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was spotted at a California courthouse, where some potential jurors shared unfavorable views about AI — and Elon Musk

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Apr 27 • 2:57 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI reportedly working on its own smartphone based around AI agents

Many have thrown around the idea that AI will replace the smartphone, but it seems even OpenAI disagrees as the...

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Apr 27 • 2:20 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5google.com
OpenAI and Microsoft strike new deal. See what changed.

Under its new agreement with Microsoft, OpenAI has the green light to work with other cloud providers like Amazon — with some strings attached.

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Apr 27 • 10:08 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps

The phone could go in mass production in 2028, an analyst says.

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Apr 27 • 9:08 AM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
Qualcomm surges on report of OpenAI tie-up for AI smartphone processors

Qualcomm shares jumped 13% in premarket trading on Monday after an analyst said OpenAI was working with the chip designer and Taiwan's MediaTek ​to develop smartphone processors.

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Apr 27 • 8:05 AM EDT • Technology • reuters.com
Qualcomm shares jump 9% premarket on report of OpenAI smartphone chip partnership

Investing.com-- Qualcomm shares jumped sharply in premarket Monday trading, extending gains after a strong move in the prior session, as fresh analyst commentary pointed to a potential long-term catalyst tied to OpenAI. The stock rose about 9.2% in premarket trading after TF International Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said industry checks suggest OpenAI is working with Qualcomm and MediaTek to develop smartphone processors. Kuo is a highly prominent, Taiwan-based technology analyst renowned fo

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Apr 27 • 5:53 AM EDT • Technology • finance.yahoo.com
The Musk v Altman trial: Who's who in the tech titan showdown

Elon Musk takes Microsoft and OpenAI's Sam Altman to trial on Monday. Witnesses include Satya Nadella, Shivon Zilis, Mira Murati, and Greg Brockman.

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Apr 27 • 5:45 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI just updated its principles with 3 key changes

Sunday's version was a 180-degree shift from the company's 2018 guidelines on collaboration and avoiding competition with rival labs.

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Apr 27 • 12:13 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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OpenAI Building A Custom Smartphone Processor With Qualcomm and MediaTek, Targeting 300-400 Million Annual Smartphone Shipments to Dethrone Apple’s iPhone

OpenAI's strategy upends Apple's business model, which is all about milking revenue from its ecosystem of services built on smartphone apps.

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Apr 26 • 11:49 PM EDT • Technology • wccftech.com
Elon Musk is taking Sam Altman's credibility to court

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman asks jurors to dig into grievances that stretch back to OpenAI's founding.

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Apr 26 • 5:50 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Sam Altman had a millennial moment with Gen Alpha internet slang

The OpenAI CEO, 41, tried his hand at Gen Alpha internet slang and it didn't really go well.

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Apr 26 • 12:26 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Sam Altman apologizes to Canadian community after mass shooting

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has apologized to a community in Canada after a mass shooting by a banned ChatGPT user.

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Apr 25 • 10:33 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Now we know who paid $100,000 to unlock a Sam Altman podcast interview

A rare podcast featuring OpenAI's top executives was behind a paywall. Someone spent $100,000 to make it free to the public.

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Apr 25 • 4:32 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI's Denise Dresser: Enterprise customers will be 50% of business by year-end

Denise Dresser, OpenAI chief revenue officer, joins 'Power Lunch' to discuss the company's latest model, GPT 5.5, the enterprise part of the business and much more.

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Apr 23 • 2:34 PM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
Ranked: AI Models U.S. Businesses Pay For

OpenAI has long been the leader for paid usage by U.S. businesses, but Anthropic has closed the gap with tools like Claude Code and Cowork.

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Apr 23 • 12:48 PM EDT • Business • visualcapitalist.com
AMA calls for regulatory crackdown on chatbots, wellness AI

In this edition of STAT Health Tech: OpenAI's targets clinicians, AMA's call for regulatory crackdown, and bargain-basement telehealth visits.

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Apr 23 • 9:39 AM EDT • Health • statnews.com
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SpaceX and Cursor: What smart people are saying about the $60B deal

Partnering with Cursor could be a crucial step for Elon Musk to get ahead of AI rivals like OpenAI and Anthropic.

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Apr 22 • 6:43 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Elon Musk explores Mistral partnership to take on AI rivals

Musk is eyeing a collaboration with French startup Mistral to help xAI catch Anthropic and OpenAI.

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Apr 22 • 2:47 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Sam Altman: Anthropic is using 'fear' to tout Claude Mythos

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in contrast to Anthropic's recent moves, OpenAI would err on the side of giving more people access to AI models.

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Apr 22 • 5:19 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
The birthplace of OpenAI is on the market for $1.5 million

Greg Brockman's former residence in the Mission, where OpenAI's founders worked before they had an office, is now for sale at around $1.5 million.

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Apr 21 • 8:42 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Florida launches criminal probe into whether chatbot aided suspect in deadly campus shooting

Florida AG launches criminal investigation into OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT advised the suspect in the deadly Florida State University mass shooting.

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Apr 21 • 6:51 PM EDT • Business • foxbusiness.com
OpenAI Beefs Up ChatGPT's Image Generation Model

The ChatGPT Images 2.0 model is here. Our testing shows it's better at creating more detailed images and rendering text, but it still struggles with languages other than English.

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Apr 21 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • wired.com
OpenAI’s updated image generator can now pull information from the web

ChatGPT Images 2.0 can create more “sophisticated” images, according to OpenAI.

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Apr 21 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
ChatGPT's new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text

ChatGPT Images 2.0, the newest image generation model from OpenAI, shows just how much AI capabilities have evolved over the last few years.

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Apr 21 • 3:00 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
OpenAI teases next AI announcement coming today, here's what to expect

OpenAI has teased its next AI software product announcement happening later today. The teaser gives us a good idea of...

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Apr 21 • 10:20 AM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
Why OpenAI is ‘running at lightning speed’ to build an ad business

The AI ad wars have officially begun, and OpenAI is staffing up and dropping rates to lure brands away from the likes of Meta and Google.

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Apr 21 • 12:01 AM EDT • Business • digiday.com
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OpenAI Takes Aim at Google with New Image Model

If you’ve been on X or Reddit in recent weeks, you’ve likely seen images created by an upcoming model from OpenAI floating around. Sharp-eyed people have pointed out that the new model is potentially being tested with some ChatGPT users and on leaderboards under code names.The images generated ...

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Apr 20 • 10:00 AM EDT • Technology • theinformation.com
3 executive departures shake up OpenAI's leadership team

OpenAI loses three executives as it sharpens its business focus and faces rising pressure from Anthropic.

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Apr 17 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Months-old start-up Recursive Superintelligence raises $500mn for self-teaching AI

Group founded by former engineers at DeepMind and OpenAI secures $4bn valuation in deal with Google’s venture arm and Nvidia

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Apr 17 • 5:10 PM EDT • Technology • ft.com
OpenAI Has a New AI Model Built for Biology and Science

GPT-Rosalind is intended to help scientists streamline their research and drug discovery.

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Apr 17 • 3:35 PM EDT • Science • cnet.com
Walmart partners with OpenAI: The dawn of agentic commerce

WebFX reports Walmart and OpenAI are launching AI-first shopping, enabling users to buy directly via ChatGPT with personalized recommendations.

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Apr 17 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • kansascity.com
ChatGPT maker OpenAI shifts its focus to business users amid Anthropic pressure

The same ChatGPT chatbot that gave OpenAI’s Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar a tilapia recipe for a recent Sunday night dinner at home is also...

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Apr 16 • 8:22 PM EDT • Business • post-gazette.com
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OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM

GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access.

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Apr 16 • 5:17 PM EDT • Science • arstechnica.com
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OpenAI takes aim at Anthropic with beefed-up Codex that gives it more power over your desktop

OpenAI's agentic coding tool has gotten a major makeover, with a variety of new powers and abilities.

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Apr 16 • 3:18 PM EDT • Technology • techcrunch.com
OpenAI launches AI model GPT-Rosalind for life sciences research

OpenAI on Thursday introduced an artificial intelligence model touting increased biology knowledge and scientific research capabilities, ​as the startup deepens its push into the ‌life sciences field.

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Apr 16 • 3:01 PM EDT • Science • reuters.com
OpenAI launches new AI model for life sciences research

Researchers are drowning in data. AI could help.

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Apr 16 • 3:00 PM EDT • Science • axios.com
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OpenAI’s Codex Mac app adds three key features that go beyond agentic coding

OpenAI is releasing a new version of its Codex desktop app today. The latest Codex update adds three key features...

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Apr 16 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • 9to5mac.com
OpenAI's latest Codex update builds the groundwork for its upcoming super app

OpenAI is pushing out a major update to Codex that significantly expands what that software can do, and offers a glimpse of what OpenAI hopes to build with its upcoming super app.

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Apr 16 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • engadget.com
OpenAI’s big Codex update is a direct shot at Anthropic’s Claude Code

Codex can now use your macOS apps on its own.

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Apr 16 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • theverge.com
OpenAI focuses on business users amid competition with rival Anthropic

OpenAI executives say they will introduce a new artificial intelligence model for “high-value professional work” as the company faces heightened competition with rival Anthropic in attracting corporate customers to adopt AI assistants in their workplaces.

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Apr 16 • 12:17 PM EDT • Business • pbs.org
ChatGPT’s new ‘Thinking’ mode just hit a 94% reasoning score — 7 prompts it can solve that standard AI can’t

OpenAI's latest flagship model, GPT-5.4, introduces an "Extended Thinking" toggle — here is how to use its 94% reasoning power to solve "impossible" tasks

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Apr 16 • 2:15 AM EDT • Technology • tomsguide.com
ChatGPT maker OpenAI shifts its focus to business users amid Anthropic pressure

OpenAI executives say they will introduce a new artificial intelligence model for “high-value professional work” as the company faces heightened competition with rival Anthropic in attracting corporate customers to adopt AI assistants in their workplaces.

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Apr 16 • 12:08 AM EDT • Business • bostonglobe.com
ChatGPT maker OpenAI shifts its focus to business users amid Anthropic pressure

The same ChatGPT chatbot that gave OpenAI’s chief financial officer Sarah Friar a tilapia recipe for a recent Sunday night dinner at home is also now doing her most mundane tasks at work like summarizing her emails and Slack messages.

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Apr 16 • 12:03 AM EDT • Business • wral.com
Exclusive: OpenAI lobbies for expanded AI role in life sciences

Progress in life sciences has slowed dramatically — even as the toughest diseases remain unsolved.

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Apr 15 • 5:00 PM EDT • Science • axios.com
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Who is Sam Altman Molotov cocktail suspect Daniel Moreno-Gama?

Before his arrest at OpenAI's headquarters, Daniel Moreno-Gama lived in a quiet Houston suburb, worked at a pizzeria, and went to community college.

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Apr 15 • 12:45 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Attorney says suspect in attack on OpenAI CEO's home was in midst of 'mental health crisis'

The man accused of trying to kill OpenAI CEO Sam Altman by throwing a Molotov cocktail at his San Francisco home was experiencing a mental health crisis and has been overcharged by prosecutors, his public defender said Tuesday.

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Apr 14 • 8:08 PM EDT • Health • pbs.org
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Suspect Was in Apparent Mental Health Crisis During Attack on Sam Altman’s House

The San Francisco Public Defender’s office said 20-year-old Daniel Moreno-Gama was in the midst of acute mental illness when he attacked the OpenAI CEO’s home and offices, and was “overcharged” by local and national authorities.

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Apr 14 • 7:09 PM EDT • Health • kqed.org
DA wants Sam Altman arson suspect Daniel Moreno-Gama held without bail

Daniel Moreno-Gama allegedly threw a lit Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home and threatened to burn down OpenAI's headquarters.

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Apr 14 • 1:30 PM EDT • Health • cnbc.com
Novo Nordisk CEO: This is where science meets speed and scale

Maziar Mike Doustdar, CEO of Novo Nordisk, says AI partnership with OpenAI will speed drug discovery and delivery, boost accuracy and strengthen confidence in Wegovy despite rising competition.

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Apr 14 • 6:58 AM EDT • Science • cnbc.com
Internal OpenAI memo touts Amazon partnership as key driver of enterprise business

CNBC's Kate Rooney reports on an internal OpenAI memo that touts its Amazon partnership as a key driver of its enterprise business.

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Apr 13 • 8:47 AM EDT • Business • cnbc.com
OpenAI is pivoting to…socialism?

The AI company just released a set of oddly left-wing — and wildly hypocritical — policy ideas.

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Apr 13 • 6:45 AM EDT • Politics • vox.com
Anthropic may soon pass OpenAI on this measure of AI business spending

Anthropic has seen a surge in business spending in recent months, according to Ramp's AI index.

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Apr 11 • 2:30 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
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How AI used Adobe Lightroom like a human, only faster

OpenAI's Codex AI coding service worked out how to use Adobe Lightroom like a human, denoising 50 photos without an API or plugin.

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Apr 11 • 9:40 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Health chatbots could pave the way for 'AI privilege' in court

Tech companies like OpenAI have many reasons to keep your discussions with health-focused AI locked up.

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Apr 11 • 5:00 AM EDT • Health • mashable.com
Anthropic closes in on OpenAI as US business use surges

Divergence reflects company’s recent rapid growth owing to strong interest in its Claude Code products

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Apr 11 • 12:00 AM EDT • Business • ft.com
How OpenAI's reported ad plans could change the AI business model

OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) is reportedly projecting $100 billion in advertising revenue by 2030. Yahoo Finance Technology Editor Dan Howley explains how this could shift the artificial intelligence (AI) business model.

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Apr 10 • 4:08 PM EDT • Business • finance.yahoo.com
Molotov cocktail thrown at Sam Altman's $27 million home

The San Francisco Police Department said a 20-year-old suspect is in custody and charges are pending. OpenAI praised the police's quick response.

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Apr 10 • 2:34 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Andrej Karpathy says there's a 'growing gap' among AI users

Ex-Tesla AI director and OpenAI founding member Andrej Karpathy wrote that AI power users and skeptics are "speaking past each other."

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Apr 10 • 1:08 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI has quietly launched its ads manager as it races to build out its ads business

The AI platform launched the ads manager within its ChatGPT ads pilot advertisers last week, and also lowered the barrier to joining the test.

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Apr 10 • 12:01 AM EDT • Business • digiday.com
View: AI is testing the oldest debate in business: Who’s the customer?

The oldest question in business — who is your customer — turns out to be the one OpenAI still can’t answer.

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Apr 7 • 3:44 PM EDT • Business • semafor.com
Google Adds Mental Health Tools to Gemini Chatbot After Lawsuit

Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to introduce new mental health support features for its Gemini chatbot as the company and rivals, like OpenAI, have faced several lawsuits accusing their artificial intelligence tools of leading to harm.

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Apr 7 • 7:05 AM EDT • Technology • bloomberg.com
Google Adds Mental Health Tools to Gemini Chatbot After Lawsuit

Alphabet Inc.’s Google plans to introduce new mental health support features for its Gemini chatbot as the company and rivals, like OpenAI, have faced several lawsuits accusing their artificial intelligence tools of leading to harm.

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Apr 7 • 7:05 AM EDT • Health • bloomberg.com
New Yorker profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman raises character questions

Sam Altman is one of the most powerful people in the world. Are we OK with that?

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Apr 6 • 12:58 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
What OpenAI’s TBPN deal reveals about branded entertainment’s limits

Brands like OpenAI are building in-house entertainment studios on the promise that great content earns the audiences advertising can’t buy.

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Apr 6 • 12:01 PM EDT • Entertainment • digiday.com
Microsoft takes on Google and OpenAI with its own AI models

From transcribing boardroom chatter to cloning voices in seconds, Microsoft's MAI model trio is here, and it is priced to make rivals sweat.

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Apr 4 • 4:11 PM EDT • Technology • digitaltrends.com
What is POTS, the disorder behind Fidji Simo's leave from OpenAI

POTS is a disorder that can cause heart palpitations, lightheadedness, and fainting. It is more common in women than in men.

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Apr 4 • 3:05 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI isn’t just buying a podcast

OpenAI’s out-of-the-blue acquisition of TBPN, the buzzy online talk show, stunned the worlds of media and technology. But it’s a continuation of a pattern that dates back a hundred years, to 1926, when RCA created NBC in part to sell radios.

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Apr 3 • 1:33 PM EDT • Business • cnn.com
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed

Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:

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Apr 3 • 12:57 PM EDT • Technology • interconnects.ai
Microsoft releases new AI models: competition with OpenAI ramps up

Microsoft AI has made its in-house models for transcription, speech recognition, and image generation available on Foundry.

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Apr 3 • 8:39 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Microsoft shivs OpenAI with three new AI models for speech and images

: About that partnership...

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Apr 2 • 4:07 PM EDT • Technology • theregister.com
OpenAI Buys TBPN Streaming Business Show for Communications

The red-hot streaming show features newsmaking interviews, with a heavy emphasis on tech. Now they will do it for OpenAI: "The standard communications playbook just doesn't apply to us."

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Apr 2 • 1:52 PM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
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Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take on Claude Code and Codex

As Cursor launches the next generation of its product, the AI coding startup has to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic more directly than ever.

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Apr 2 • 1:00 PM EDT • Technology • wired.com
Science in the age of AI

The transformative potential of new tools was the emphasis of Virginia Tech's Leaders+ discussion in Alexandria with OpenAI Vice President for Science Kevin Weil. The event was attended by more than 150 researchers, graduate students, and other members of the scientific and industry communities.

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Mar 30 • 11:58 AM EDT • Science • news.vt.edu
Musk pitched Zuckerberg in on his 2025 bid for OpenAI, per court docs

Elon Musk asked Mark Zuckerberg if he would consider joining him in bidding for OpenAI's IP, according to newly released court documents.

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Mar 27 • 10:12 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
Google Gemini Adds Tool to Make It Easier to Switch from ChatGPT

Google released new tools for its Gemini artificial intelligence assistant that will let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps, a move to lure users from rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic PBC’s Claude.

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Mar 26 • 4:24 PM EDT • Technology • bloomberg.com
Apple Plans to Let Rival AI Chatbots Integrate With Siri in iOS 27

Apple plans to allow third-party AI chatbots to integrate with Siri in iOS 27, reports Bloomberg. Apple already has a partnership with OpenAI that lets Siri hand questions off to ChatGPT, but Apple will expand that integration to other companies like Google and Anthropic. An iPhone user with the Claude or Gemini app installed will be able to send questions to those chatbots, like how the current ChatGPT feature works.

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Mar 26 • 2:36 PM EDT • Technology • macrumors.com
Apple Plans to Open Up Siri to Rival AI Assistants in iOS 27 Update

(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform.The company is preparing to make the change as part of a Siri overhaul in its upcoming iOS 27 operating system update, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The assistant can already tap into ChatGPT through a partnership with OpenAI, but Apple will now allow competing services to do the same.The changes are part of an attempt to tu

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Mar 26 • 2:24 PM EDT • Technology • finance.yahoo.com
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman keeps changing his mind

What do you call a giant, world-changing company that pivots like a small startup?

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Mar 26 • 2:04 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI pivots from consumer hype to business reality

The company that started the consumer AI craze is clearing the decks for an IPO.

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Mar 25 • 3:23 PM EDT • Business • axios.com
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Arm unveils AI chip, partners with Meta and OpenAI

Arm CEO Rene Haas announced the Arm AGI CPU, partnering with AI giants Meta and OpenAI to tackle energy-efficient AI computing needs.

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Mar 25 • 2:55 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI shutters Sora: What’s next for artificial intelligence in entertainment?

Today on AirTalk: Open AI closes Sora; US at 250; Parenting in year 0; How is the Iran war affecting prices? Homelessness funds on the table; and Marine…

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Mar 25 • 11:55 AM EDT • Entertainment • laist.com
AI Science Startup Periodic Labs Is in Deal Talks at About $7 Billion Valuation

Periodic Labs, an artificial intelligence research startup founded last year by former OpenAI and DeepMind staffers, is having discussions with investors about raising at least hundreds of millions of dollars at a valuation of about $7 billion, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Mar 25 • 9:00 AM EDT • Science • bloomberg.com
OpenAI discontinues its Sora app amid robotics shift, compute limits

A spokesperson for OpenAI said the discontinuation of Sora comes as the company plans to focus on robotics rather than generative imagery.

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Mar 24 • 5:05 PM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI Shutting Down Sora Video App

The AI giant announced the decision Tuesday. What it means for its Disney deal is not immediately clear.

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Mar 24 • 4:26 PM EDT • Business • hollywoodreporter.com
Billionaire OpenAI investor Vinod Khosla thinks 80% of jobs could vanish by 2030, and that ‘fear of AI’ put American politics in a chokehold

“The single biggest issue I believe in the 2028 presidential election will be fear of AI,” the Khosla Ventures founder said.

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Mar 24 • 2:43 PM EDT • Politics • fortune.com
OpenAI talent flow: See who's feeding into and hiring away employees

Big Tech, particularly Google, was a huge feeder for OpenAI. Many employees landed at smaller startups after they left Sam Altman's AI giant.

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Mar 23 • 5:56 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI to double workforce as business push intensifies

The $730bn start-up plans to increase staff to 8,000 by end of 2026 in bid to close gap with rival Anthropic

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Mar 21 • 8:00 AM EDT • Business • ft.com
11 Free AI Courses That Can Help You Start a Business

Several companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, offer free online courses to help you learn AI.

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Mar 21 • 7:00 AM EDT • Business • inc.com
Inside Fidji Simo's quest to make OpenAI profitable

Nearly 8 months into her job as OpenAI's CEO of Applications, Fidji Simo must start minting money while convincing staffers the mission hasn't changed.

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Mar 21 • 6:01 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
xAI Sends Engineers to Client Sites to Win Business from OpenAI

Elon Musk’s xAI is sending engineers directly into the offices of prospective corporate clients in an attempt to claw business customers away from rivals OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.

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Mar 20 • 9:00 AM EDT • Business • bloomberg.com
Google Begins Testing Gemini Mac App to Match ChatGPT and Claude

Google is ramping up development of a dedicated Gemini AI app for Apple Inc.’s Mac computer lineup, looking to step up competition with OpenAI and Anthropic PBC.

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Mar 19 • 3:18 PM EDT • Technology • bloomberg.com
Chicago Booth Partners with MasterClass on AI-Era Business Education

MasterClass Executive, developed in collaboration with OpenAI, brings a new business school experience to working professionals.

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Mar 18 • 4:09 PM EDT • Business • chicagobooth.edu
OpenAI may drop unlimited ChatGPT plans, exec says

ChatGPT's head said its subscription model was "accidental" but said "there's no world in which pricing doesn't significantly evolve."

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Mar 17 • 10:38 AM EDT • Business • businessinsider.com
OpenAI Reportedly Pivoting to a Focus on Business and Productivity Only

An all-hands meeting, whose details leaked to the Wall Street Journal, made the AI juggernaut sound a bit desperate.

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Mar 17 • 5:00 AM EDT • Business • gizmodo.com
OpenAI to cut back on side projects to focus on core business, WSJ reports

ChatGPT-maker OpenAI's top executives are finalizing plans ​for a major strategy shift ‌to refocus the company around coding and business users, ​the Wall Street ​Journal reported on Monday.

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Mar 16 • 8:00 PM EDT • Business • reuters.com
Exclusive | OpenAI to Cut Back on Side Projects in Push to ‘Nail’ Core Business

A top leader urges staff not to be distracted by “side quests” as the company plans a shift of resources to coding, enterprise businesses.

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Mar 16 • 7:41 PM EDT • Business • wsj.com