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Founded2015

Key PeopleSam Altman, Greg Brockman

HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA

ProductsChatGPT, GPT, Codex, ChatGPT Health

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Getty Images strikes OpenAI deal for ChatGPT, stock surges 200% after years of AI lawsuits

Getty Images announced a multi-year partnership with OpenAI to bring licensed visual content into ChatGPT search and discovery features. The deal sent Getty Images stock soaring over 200% in premarket trading, marking a dramatic shift for a company that spent years fighting AI companies in court over copyright violations and unauthorized use of its images.

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Getty Images strikes OpenAI deal for ChatGPT, stock surges 200% after years of AI lawsuits

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Samsung deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex globally in major OpenAI partnership expansion

Samsung Electronics has rolled out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex across its global workforce, marking one of OpenAI's largest enterprise deals. The deployment covers all employees in South Korea and the Device eXperience division worldwide, reversing a 2023 ban on generative AI tools after security breaches.

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Samsung deploys ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex globally in major OpenAI partnership expansion

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GPT-5.6 stealth tests suggest OpenAI's new AI model brings stronger reasoning but slower speeds

Users across social media report ChatGPT suddenly got smarter this week, sparking speculation that OpenAI is quietly testing GPT-5.6 inside its platform. The suspected new AI model shows stronger reasoning capabilities and advanced 3D generation, but takes significantly longer to process complex tasks—up to 87 minutes compared to GPT-5.5's 34 minutes in some tests.

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GPT-5.6 stealth tests suggest OpenAI's new AI model brings stronger reasoning but slower speeds

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Amazon drops OpenAI movie after $50 billion investment raises conflict of interest concerns

Amazon MGM Studios has abandoned Artificial, a nearly-complete biographical drama about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, just months after investing $50 billion in the AI company. The decision came despite the film being in postproduction with test screenings already conducted. Multiple major studios have declined to pick up the project, signaling a troubling shift in Hollywood's willingness to critique Big Tech.

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Amazon drops OpenAI movie after $50 billion investment raises conflict of interest concerns

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Sanders proposes 50% public ownership of AI firms as Trump backs government stake in US AI giants

Sen. Bernie Sanders introduced legislation seeking 50% public ownership of major AI firms through a sovereign wealth fund, estimated at $7 trillion, with annual $1,000 dividends for Americans. President Trump supports giving the American people a stake in AI companies but prefers a 'pre-distribution' model over cash payments, creating an unlikely political alignment on AI wealth redistribution.

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Sanders proposes 50% public ownership of AI firms as Trump backs government stake in US AI giants

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OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT health responses as 230 million users seek medical information weekly

OpenAI announced that GPT-5.5 Instant now delivers health responses comparable to its advanced reasoning models, with a 71% drop in factuality issues. The update comes as 230 million users turn to ChatGPT weekly for health-related queries, from understanding symptoms to preparing for doctor visits, raising questions about AI's growing role in medical information access.

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OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT health responses as 230 million users seek medical information weekly

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AI in medicine helps Boston Children's Hospital crack 18 rare disease diagnosis cases

Researchers at Boston Children's Hospital used OpenAI's o3 model to identify 18 new diagnoses among children with rare genetic diseases that had stumped doctors for years. The NEJM AI study analyzed 376 previously unsolved cases, demonstrating how AI tools can augment clinical expertise in navigating complex genetic data and medical literature to deliver answers to families.

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AI in medicine helps Boston Children's Hospital crack 18 rare disease diagnosis cases

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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to Asia as 19-week-old advertising business gains momentum

OpenAI has expanded its ChatGPT advertising pilot to Japan and Korea, bringing ads to six markets total. The 19-week-old venture showcased its progress at Cannes Lions, with executives revealing cost-per-click options now dominate ad spending. Free and Go plan users will see sponsored content, while premium subscribers remain ad-free as the company diversifies revenue ahead of a planned IPO.

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OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads to Asia as 19-week-old advertising business gains momentum

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OpenAI hires former White House AI adviser Dean Ball to shape frontier AI policy ahead of IPO

OpenAI is strengthening its policy capabilities by hiring Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI official, to lead a new Strategic Futures team. Ball will focus on frontier AI policy, internal governance, and catastrophic risk as the company prepares for its public debut. The move comes alongside the recruitment of AI legend Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind.

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OpenAI hires former White House AI adviser Dean Ball to shape frontier AI policy ahead of IPO

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ByteDance becomes Microsoft's biggest AI customer, spending over $1bn on OpenAI models

ByteDance is spending more than $1 billion annually on Microsoft's AI and cloud services, primarily purchasing OpenAI models through Azure. The TikTok owner leads a wave of Chinese tech giants accessing American AI technology through Microsoft, even as OpenAI and Anthropic refuse direct sales to China. Azure's AI revenue in the region has tripled, raising questions about geopolitical implications.

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ByteDance becomes Microsoft's biggest AI customer, spending over $1bn on OpenAI models

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ChatGPT's new memory builds a profile of you automatically—and OpenAI admits you can't see it all

OpenAI rolled out a major AI memory upgrade called Dreaming that transforms how ChatGPT remembers users. Instead of storing static facts, the system now automatically curates memories from chat history, updates them as life changes, and infers preferences you never explicitly stated. But there's a catch: OpenAI acknowledges users can't see everything the AI remembers about them.

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ChatGPT's new memory builds a profile of you automatically—and OpenAI admits you can't see it all

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ChatGPT generates explicit AI images despite safeguards, AI security researchers reveal

British AI security startup Mindgard discovered that ChatGPT can be manipulated to produce sexualized and violent images using a simple altered prompt. OpenAI added safeguards after being contacted by the BBC, but researchers say small wording changes still produce concerning content, highlighting ongoing vulnerabilities in AI models and the challenges of content moderation.

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ChatGPT generates explicit AI images despite safeguards, AI security researchers reveal

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Small Language Models on Desktops Could Reshape the AI Industry's Profit Expectations

A Stanford University study shows small language models running on desktop computers perform as well as or better than large language models in over 80% of tasks, using 50% to 80% less energy. This shift threatens the business models of OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceX's xAI, potentially making massive data centers obsolete.

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Small Language Models on Desktops Could Reshape the AI Industry's Profit Expectations

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Noam Shazeer Leaves Google for OpenAI Less Than Two Years After $2.7 Billion Return Deal

Noam Shazeer, Google's vice president of engineering and Gemini AI models co-lead, announced he's joining OpenAI. The move comes less than two years after Google reportedly paid $2.7 billion to bring him back from Character.AI. As a co-author of the influential transformer paper, his departure highlights the intense competition for top AI talent and raises questions about retention strategies.

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Noam Shazeer Leaves Google for OpenAI Less Than Two Years After $2.7 Billion Return Deal

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AI Super PACs wage $27 million proxy battle over regulation in New York congressional race

A new tech worker-backed PAC called Guardrails Alliance has emerged to counter Big Tech's political spending on AI regulation. The group raised $5 million to support candidates like Alex Bores, who became the focal point of a $27 million spending war between OpenAI-linked and Anthropic-backed super PACs in New York's 12th Congressional District primary.

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AI Super PACs wage $27 million proxy battle over regulation in New York congressional race

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