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Anthropic announced that Claude will remain ad-free, contrasting with OpenAI's recent decision to introduce ads to ChatGPT. The company argues that ads would be incompatible with Claude's goal of being a helpful assistant for deep work and would conflict with its core principles around user privacy and avoiding inappropriate ad placement in sensitive contexts.
OpenAI has launched a standalone macOS app for Codex, its AI coding agent, now featuring multi-agent capabilities that allow different AI models to collaborate on complex tasks. The app includes a Skills section for bundling tools and workflows, plus an Automations feature for scheduling repetitive development tasks like issue triage and bug checking.
OpenAI and Snowflake announced a $200M partnership to integrate frontier AI capabilities into Snowflake's data platform, enabling enterprise customers to build AI agents and derive insights directly from their data. The collaboration aims to bring advanced intelligence capabilities to enterprise data infrastructure.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang denied reports of unhappiness with OpenAI and reaffirmed the company's commitment to a major investment in the ChatGPT maker, clarifying that while it won't be the previously announced $100 billion, it will still be 'probably the largest investment we've ever made.' Huang expressed confidence in OpenAI's work and its significance as one of the most consequential AI companies.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang confirmed the company will make a significant investment in OpenAI's latest funding round, though he clarified it won't reach the $100 billion scale of their previously announced data center partnership. The announcement comes after reports that the two companies were reconsidering their earlier nonbinding agreement, though Huang emphasized his confidence in OpenAI's work and vision.
Software developers report that AI coding tools like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex have evolved from autocomplete to capable agents that can build entire applications, with some users experiencing 10x speed improvements on complex tasks. While acknowledging hype in the industry, professional developers largely agree the technology works and is fundamentally changing software development, with some believing traditional syntax programming may become obsolete for many coding tasks.
Similar to Anthropic's computer use tool and OpenAI's Atlas, the new AI features reflect the shift from the regular search format to one infused with AI agents.
OpenAI has developed an internal AI data agent that leverages GPT-5 and Codex to analyze large datasets and generate insights efficiently. The system combines advanced language models with memory capabilities to enable reasoning over massive data volumes and deliver results in minutes rather than hours or days.
OpenAI announced the retirement of multiple large language model versions including GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and o4-mini from ChatGPT and its API as of February 13, 2026. The announcement continues OpenAI's model deprecation cycle, pushing users toward newer model versions.
Google's new Personal Intelligence feature and similar moves by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to enable AI chatbots to remember user data from emails, photos, search history, and other sources raises significant privacy concerns. The article examines how AI agents that consolidate personal information across conversations and contexts into single repositories risk unprecedented privacy breaches and data leakage, and calls for structured memory systems with context-aware access controls and usage restrictions to mitigate these risks.
OpenAI has launched the EU Economic Blueprint 2.0, introducing new data, partnerships, and initiatives designed to accelerate AI adoption and economic growth across Europe. The blueprint represents OpenAI's continued expansion strategy in the EU market with focus on skills development and regional AI integration.
OpenAI announced Prism, a new AI-powered app for scientific research built on the acquired Crixet platform, which uses GPT-5.2 Thinking to assist with LaTeX editing, literature discovery, bibliography generation, and course planning. The tool aims to streamline tedious scientific workflows while maintaining researcher control and accountability, with availability starting on personal ChatGPT accounts.
The article examines ongoing debate about whether AI infrastructure spending represents a sustainable boom or speculative bubble, with particular scrutiny on data center investments and OpenAI's ability to deliver on ambitious expectations. This addresses fundamental questions about the viability and trajectory of AI market development.
The American Arbitration Association has developed an AI Arbitrator powered by OpenAI's models to help resolve document-based disputes more quickly and affordably, with human oversight at each stage. The article explores both the potential benefits of AI in the legal system—such as reducing costs and case backlogs—and significant concerns around AI hallucinations, bias, and the need to maintain human decision-makers in judicial processes.
PVH Corp., parent company of Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, is adopting ChatGPT Enterprise to bring AI into fashion design, supply chain, and consumer engagement.
TRUSTBANK partnered with Recursive to develop Choice AI, an AI-powered feature using OpenAI models that provides personalized conversational recommendations for Japan's Furusato Nozei hometown tax donation program. The system uses a multi-agent architecture with routing models and RAG technology to help users navigate a catalog of 760,000 thank-you gifts by understanding user preferences and intent.
OpenAI engineer Michael Bolin published a detailed technical breakdown of how the company's Codex CLI coding agent works, explaining the "agentic loop" that orchestrates interactions between users, AI models, and software tools. The post covers the agent's prompt construction, tool invocation, and iterative refinement process, while also addressing engineering challenges like prompt growth inefficiency and performance issues that arise in practical deployment.
OpenAI is pricing ChatGPT ads at approximately $60 per 1,000 views—three times higher than Meta's typical rates—but will initially provide only basic performance metrics rather than detailed conversion data to advertisers. The company is implementing this ad strategy while maintaining its promise to keep user conversations private and not sell user data to advertisers.
Microsoft announced the Maia 200, its successor AI chip built on TSMC's 3nm process, which the company claims delivers 3x the performance of Amazon's Trainium and outperforms Google's TPU seventh generation. The chip is beginning rollout to Microsoft's data centers today and will be used to host OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model and power Microsoft's AI services, with early access to the SDK being offered to academics and developers.
A Guardian investigation found that OpenAI's GPT-5.2 model cited Grokipedia (xAI's AI-powered encyclopedia) as a source for claims about controversial topics related to Iran and the Holocaust, raising questions about the model's credibility and source reliability. OpenAI stated that GPT-5.2 applies safety filters when searching publicly available sources, though Grokipedia itself has faced scrutiny for citing neo-Nazi forums and other problematic sources.
Google has launched Personal Intelligence for Gemini, enabling the AI chatbot to automatically reference past conversations and access user data from Gmail, Calendar, Photos, and search history without explicit prompts. The feature, now in beta for AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, represents a significant improvement over previous versions that required users to manually direct the AI to check specific services, though the reviewer notes Gemini still struggles with detailed accuracy in tasks like route planning despite excelling at high-level recommendations.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, a consumer-facing tool encouraging users to share sensitive medical records and health data, while claiming privacy protections despite not being bound by HIPAA obligations like medical providers. The article examines concerns about trusting AI companies with healthcare information and notes the confusion between ChatGPT Health (consumer product) and ChatGPT for Healthcare (enterprise product with stronger protections).
eBay has updated its User Agreement to explicitly ban third-party AI agents and LLM-driven bots from making purchases on its platform without permission, effective February 2026, reflecting the emerging trend of "agentic commerce" tools like OpenAI's Instant Checkout and Perplexity's Buy with Pro. The policy change allows eBay to take legal action against unauthorized automated shopping while leaving room for the company to develop its own AI shopping tools or partner with approved services.
Leaders of major AI labs—OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic—engaged in public criticism of each other at the World Economic Forum in Davos, with disagreements over monetization strategies, regulatory approaches, and corporate competition. The dispute highlights tensions between the three frontier AI companies as they compete for enterprise customers and influence over AI policy and safety narratives.
Senator Ed Markey is questioning OpenAI and other major AI companies about embedding advertisements into chatbots, citing concerns over consumer protection, privacy, and the safety of minors. OpenAI plans to test ads in free ChatGPT conversations starting soon, which Markey argues could exploit users' emotional connections to AI systems and misuse sensitive personal information for targeted advertising.
An inside look at how OpenAI scaled PostgreSQL to millions of queries per second using replicas, caching, rate limiting, and workload isolation.
Microsoft is widely adopting Anthropic's Claude Code across its engineering teams, including CoreAI and the Experiences + Devices division, even encouraging non-technical employees to use it for prototyping. This internal shift toward Claude Code represents a significant vote of confidence in Anthropic's AI tools, despite Microsoft's continued partnership with OpenAI and its own GitHub Copilot offering to customers.
Amazon has launched 'Health AI,' an AI-powered assistant for its One Medical telehealth platform that provides personalized health guidance, explains lab results, manages medications, and answers patient health questions based on medical records. The tool is designed to complement rather than replace healthcare providers, with Amazon implementing HIPAA-compliant privacy measures, joining competitors like Google and OpenAI in developing AI healthcare applications.
OpenAI announced commitments to minimize water usage and pay for energy infrastructure upgrades needed to power its Stargate data centers, addressing growing community opposition to AI projects. The company pledged to cover its own energy costs to avoid increasing local electricity prices and to implement innovations in cooling systems and AI design to reduce environmental impact.
OpenAI has implemented age prediction features in ChatGPT that use behavioral and account-level signals to identify underage users and restrict their access to sensitive content including graphic violence, sexual roleplay, and self-harm depictions. The safeguard is rolling out globally with additional protections for minors, following similar age-gating efforts from other major platforms and amid growing concerns about AI chatbots' potential harms to children.
Discover how Higgsfield gives creators cinematic, social-first video output from simple inputs using OpenAI GPT-4.1, GPT-5, and Sora 2.
Edu for Countries is a new OpenAI initiative helping governments use AI to modernize education systems and build future-ready workforces.
OpenAI announced its 2026 strategic focus will be on 'practical adoption' of AI, aiming to close the gap between AI capabilities and real-world usage across healthcare, science, and enterprise sectors. The company is making massive infrastructure investments and exploring new business models including licensing, IP agreements, and outcome-based pricing as it scales its platform and user base.
OpenAI and the Gates Foundation are launching Horizon 1000, a $50 million initiative to deploy AI tools in primary healthcare across 1,000 African clinics by 2028, starting in Rwanda. The program aims to address Africa's health workforce shortage of 5.6 million workers by using AI to help clinicians navigate guidelines, reduce administrative burden, and improve care quality in underserved regions.
Cisco and OpenAI have developed Codex, an AI software agent designed to integrate into enterprise engineering workflows to accelerate software builds, automatically fix defects, and enable AI-native development practices. This collaboration demonstrates the application of AI agents in automating software engineering tasks and modernizing enterprise development processes.
Elon Musk is seeking between $79 billion and $134 billion in damages from OpenAI and Microsoft in an ongoing lawsuit, claiming he is entitled to a portion of OpenAI's $500 billion valuation based on his early seed funding and contributions during the company's nonprofit phase. The lawsuit, filed in March 2024, alleges that OpenAI abandoned its non-profit status and wrongfully generated billions in gains that Musk claims he helped enable.
ServiceNow has expanded its integration with OpenAI's frontier models to enable AI-driven enterprise workflows, including summarization, search, and voice capabilities across the ServiceNow Platform. This partnership aims to provide enterprises with more advanced AI features for automation and decision-making within their business processes.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar outlines the company's business strategy centered on scaling monetization with the value of AI intelligence delivery, describing how ChatGPT evolved from a research preview to essential infrastructure across consumer, enterprise, and platform segments. The company reports 3X year-over-year revenue growth reaching $20B+ ARR in 2025, directly correlated with 9.5X compute growth since 2023, demonstrating a flywheel model where investment in compute drives research breakthroughs, product adoption, and revenue to fund further innovation.
Scientists at Anthropic and OpenAI are developing new methods to interpret how large language models work internally, using techniques analogous to biological research such as mechanistic interpretability (similar to MRI scans of brains) and sparse autoencoders (resembling biological organoids). These tools aim to address the critical challenge of understanding AI systems as they become increasingly complex and are deployed in high-stakes applications, with researchers warning that future models could become too complex to interpret if designed by other AI systems.
Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.
OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Go, an $8-per-month subscription tier now available globally that provides greater access to its GPT-5.2 Instant model with 10x the messages, file uploads, and image generation capabilities compared to the free tier. The tier sits between the free version and the $20-per-month Plus subscription, and OpenAI plans to introduce ads in the US Go tier while keeping higher-priced subscriptions ad-free.
Apple announced it will use Google's Gemini AI as the foundation for its next-generation Siri, marking another partnership between the two tech giants rather than with OpenAI or Anthropic. The podcast also covers Meta's shift toward AI hardware with major VR studio layoffs, Gemini's enhanced contextual capabilities, and Tesla's Full Self Driving subscription model.
Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI over the company's alleged departure from its nonprofit mission is headed to jury trial in April 2026, with newly unsealed depositions revealing internal tensions about open-source AI competition and conflicts of interest among early investors. The case centers on whether OpenAI abandoned its original mission, with key testimony from Sam Altman, Ilya Sutskever, and other executives showing leadership disagreements over strategy and investor conflicts during the company's formative years.
Cerebras secured a $10B deal with OpenAI to provide its wafer-scale chips as an alternative to Nvidia's processors for training large language models. The partnership represents a significant validation of Cerebras's hardware approach and a potential shift in the AI infrastructure market away from Nvidia's dominance.
Apple partnered with Google to use Gemini models for AI features like Siri, OpenAI signed a $10B multi-year deal with Cerebras for dedicated low-latency AI compute through 2028, and Anthropic launched Claude for Healthcare and Cowork, a new agentic tool for non-technical users to automate multi-step tasks.
OpenAI has invested in Merge Labs, a startup developing brain-computer interface technology designed to integrate biological and artificial intelligence. The investment supports Merge Labs' mission to enhance human cognitive capabilities by bridging neural systems with AI systems.
OpenAI has launched a Request for Proposals (RFP) to identify and support U.S.-based manufacturing capacity for AI infrastructure, including data center components, consumer electronics, and robotics parts like gearboxes and motors. The initiative aims to strengthen domestic supply chains, create manufacturing jobs, and reduce timeline/resilience risks as AI infrastructure scales, with proposals due by June 2026.
A financial expert predicts OpenAI could run out of money within 18 months as the company burns through billions annually without a profitable business model, unlike competitors Google and Meta that have legacy revenue streams to fund AI development. The analysis suggests OpenAI faces a potential acquisition by a cash-rich tech giant or collapse, despite its household name status following ChatGPT's launch.
Some watchers are wondering why the "Stranger Things" finale didn't live up to expectations and are now blaming OpenAI's ChatGPT. The post Duffer Brothers Accused of Using ChatGPT for Final Season of...
OpenAI has partnered with Cerebras to add 750MW of high-speed AI compute capacity, aimed at reducing inference latency and improving ChatGPT's performance for real-time applications. This collaboration enhances OpenAI's computational infrastructure to support faster AI workload processing.
