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Might as well jump, as the poet David Lee Roth once said. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge Elon Musk cofounded OpenAI, and then flounced off in a huff when he wasn't anointed CEO, leaving Sam Altman as the last power-hungry man standing. Now, Musk is back with a lawsuit, and a trial is scheduled to start in Oakland, California, on April 27th. Theoretically, it's a legal case about whether OpenAI defrauded Musk. But that's not really what we're all doing here. This is about mess. Over the past couple of years, Musk's legal theories for punishing OpenAI have run the gamut from breach of contr...

Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a preview of its hotly anticipated next-generation AI model V4 on Friday, saying that the open-source model can compete with leading closed-source systems from US rivals including Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI. DeepSeek says V4 marks a major improvement over prior models, especially in coding, a capability that has become central to AI agents and helped drive the success of tools like ChatGPT Codex and Claude Code. The release is also a milestone for China's chip industry, with DeepSeek explicitly highlighting compatibility with domestic Huawei technology....

Latent Space newsletter item referencing GPT 5.5 and OpenAI Codex Superapp with minimal detail; unclear if announcement or speculation.

Claude users can access more apps with Anthropic's AI now thanks to new connectors for everything from hiking to grocery shopping. Anthropic already supported connecting numerous work-related apps to Claude, like Microsoft apps, but this expansion focuses on personal apps like Audible, Spotify, Uber, AllTrails, TripAdvisor, Instacart, TurboTax, and others. Some of these apps, such as Spotify, already have similar connectors in OpenAI's ChatGPT. Once an app is connected, Claude will suggest relevant connected apps directly in your conversations, like using AllTrails for hike recommendations. A...

Reddit user speculates OpenAI reached AGI and will outpace Anthropic; compares Codex and Claude Code features.

llm-openai-via-codex 0.1a0 library allows LLM CLI to use Codex credentials for OpenAI API calls.

https://preview.redd.it/yvcpzespmzwg1.png?width=2472&format=png&auto=webp&s=2d27a2bda79156cf686bff5e14cc75319f98b43a Twice as expensive as the previous same tier model is pretty wild.More expensive than Opus 4.7 as well. [https://openai.com/api/pricing/](https://openai.com/api/pricing/)

OpenAI says its latest model offers increased capabilities across a broad variety of categories.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 model codenamed 'Spud' per Axios reporting.

OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 "excels" at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing research online, making spreadsheets and documents, and doing that work across different tools. "Instead of carefully managing every step, you can give GPT-5.5 a messy, multi-part task and trust it to plan, use tools, check its work, navigate through ambiguity, and keep going," ...

Plants from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Microsoft could emit more than 129M tons annually.

Reddit anecdote claims Chinese workers at OpenAI contractor training AI models that may displace them; unverified sourcing and secondhand reporting.

Reddit user praise for OpenAI's Image 2.0 capability; no substantive technical details or announcement provided.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5, advancing capability in coding, research, and data analysis with improved speed and performance.

User reports Claude Opus 4.7 (April 17 launch) shows degraded code editing behavior, prompting return to OpenAI Codex subscription.

OpenAI Codex configuration guide covering personalization, detail levels, and permissions settings.

Overview of OpenAI Codex as task automation platform enabling tool integration and document/dashboard generation.

[https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-trillion-dollar-valuation-on-secondary-markets-2026](https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-trillion-dollar-valuation-on-secondary-markets-2026)

OpenAI codex repo models.json updated removing 'latest frontier model' designation from version 5.4, suggesting imminent new model release.

Rumor of forthcoming OpenAI product launch without concrete details or timeline.

OpenAI is giving users of its Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teachers plans access to cloud-based "workspace" agents available in ChatGPT that can perform business tasks. In its blog post, OpenAI gives examples of agents like one that finds product feedback on the web and sends a report in Slack and a sales agent that can draft follow-up emails in Gmail. These new agents follow increasing interest in agents across the AI landscape, especially after OpenClaw - the AI agent formerly known as Clawdbot and Moltbot that touts itself as the "AI that actually does things" - went viral. OpenClaw foun...

OpenAI offers free ChatGPT access to verified U.S. clinicians for care, documentation, and research use.

Infosys said the integration will be used to help its clients modernize software development, automate workflows and deploy AI systems, initially focusing software engineering, legacy modernization, and DevOps.

At one point people thought of you as better than OpenAI and Google. We know AI companies are losing money. \- Just say, "We don't release Mythos because it'd be too expensive." \- Just say "We're going to increase the prices of Pro and Max because we're running out of money" ... all this under-the-radar marketing firm BS just means that you've decided to hemorrhage social capital as well as financial capital. Why would you want to do this?

OpenAI releases workspace agents for ChatGPT to automate workflows and integrate enterprise tools with cloud-based execution.

OpenAI optimizes agentic workflows via WebSockets and connection-scoped caching in Responses API, reducing latency and API overhead.

OpenAI launches GPT-Image-2; Cursor secures $10B contract with xAI and $60B acquisition option.

OpenAI releases open-weight model for detecting and redacting PII in text with state-of-the-art accuracy.

With an IPO looming for Elon Musk's SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an odd arrangement to either acquire the automated programming platform Cursor for $60 billion or pay a fee of $10 billion. Buying this startup that's focused on AI coding could help xAI's tools compete with market leader Anthropic, as well as the other competitors. A report by The Information this week said Sergey Brin has directed Google's "strike team" to help its agentic AI tools catch up, while Sam Altman reportedly declared a "code red" at OpenAI last year before shutting down Sora to f...