Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’
Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff  that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney’s, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he’d roll into the company’s offices and offer […]

OpenAI patches ChatGPT desktop after user backlash over its recent redesign

OpenAI fixed its confusing ChatGPT redesign, restoring conversation history, syncing chats across devices, and simplifying mode switching for users everywhere.

Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI
Apple’s plot to crush OpenAI

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The […]

What is the Codex Micro? OpenAI’s first hardware gadget explained
What is the Codex Micro? OpenAI’s first hardware gadget explained

Confused about what the point of the Codex Micro is? Here’s everything you need to know, including how it’s been received by the target audience of coders.

An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech
An Oversight Board study says top AI models are stifling political speech

Ask a leading AI model to criticise a government with strong free-speech protections, and it usually will. Ask it to criticise a repressive one, and it is far more likely to refuse. That is the finding of a new study from the Oversight Board. The board…

AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now
AI’s fiercest rivals just agreed on one thing: regulate frontier AI now

The people building the most powerful AI rarely agree on much. This week, three of them agreed on one big thing. The frontier needs regulating, and soon. Over five weeks, the chiefs of Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic each published a memo on how …

Google’s next Gemini upgrade might not arrive as soon as expected

Google has reportedly delayed Gemini 3.5 Pro after the AI model failed to meet internal coding goals, raising concerns about its pace in the AI race.

New open-weight AI from China is toppling the best of OpenAI and Claude Fable

Moonshot’s 2.8-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 comes close to Fable 5 and GPT 5.6 Sol in several benchmarks, while remaining open weight.

SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded
SoftBank lines up a new $60bn bond to keep its OpenAI bet funded

Sixty billion dollars is a lot of bond, even by SoftBank Group’s standards. The Japanese conglomerate is reportedly preparing to raise up to that much in fresh debt, according to Bloomberg, a target that would eclipse anything Masayoshi Son’s firm has …