I've Covered Robots for Years. This One Is Different
…Back in October 2018, about four years before launching ChatGPT, OpenAI created Dactyl, a robotic hand that later used AI to solve a Rubik’s Cube. The company took an off-the…
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Google Is Not Ruling Out Ads in Gemini
…In January, OpenAI announced it would start testing ads on ChatGPT’s free tier in the United States. Naturally, this raised questions as to when Google—which runs the largest online advertising…
OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Is Taking Medical Leave Amid an Executive Shake-Up
…executing with continuity and momentum.” Simo joined OpenAI in August 2025, where she took over many of the company’s consumer-facing products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and the social-video app Sora…
Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker’s Sam Altman Exposé on X as Trial Begins
…with X’s ad policies.” Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman, the company’s president Greg Brockman, and Microsoft accuses the ChatGPT-maker of straying from its founding nonprofit mission: to ensure…
Inside OpenAI’s Race to Catch Up to Claude Code
…What gives? “First to market is worth a lot,” Altman says finally. “We had that with ChatGPT.” But the time is right for OpenAI to lean into coding, he says. He thinks…
OpenAI Really Wants Codex to Shut Up About Goblins
…indeed one of the reasons.” Even Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, joined in with the memes, posting a screenshot of a prompt for ChatGPT. It read: “Start training GPT-6, you can…
OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters
…Several family members of children that died by suicide after allegedly developing unhealthy relationships with ChatGPT have sued OpenAI in the last year. The federal AI legislation Niedermeyer advocates for in her…
OpenAI Buys Some Positive News
…It’s hard to understand how a media startup fits into OpenAI’s core businesses selling ChatGPT, Codex, and a new super app the company is developing to consumers and enterprises. In…
Anthropic Opposes the Extreme AI Liability Bill That OpenAI Backed
The fight over the bill, SB 3444, is drawing new battle lines between Anthropic and OpenAI over how AI technologies should be regulated. While AI policy experts say that the legislation has…
Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’
…Musk’s attorneys allege Nadella pushed OpenAI to generate revenue, showing text messages from early 2023 in which Nadella told Altman “sooner is best” to offer paying subscriptions for ChatGPT and then…