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Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool designed specifically for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex. If you're the kind of person who collects research on a topic, then feeds it through their AI of choice to create audio summaries and personal podcasts, this lets you save them right alongside the latest episode of The Vergecast and Welcome to Night Vale on Spotify. To set it up, you need to download and install the Save to Spotify CLI from GitHub. Then you just prompt your AI agent as normal, but tack on "and save to Spotify," and it should show up right in your podcast...

Musk was “prepared to do the for-profit, provided he would get control.”

Parloa uses OpenAI models to build voice-driven customer service agents with simulation and real-time deployment capabilities for enterprises.

I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone's minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk's children, was… what's the best way to characterize this? A Musk advisor? She denies she was a "chief of staff" but says she worked for Musk's "entire AI portfolio: Tesla, Neuralink, and OpenAI" starting in 2017. The two met through OpenAI, and they had what she referred to as a "one off" before becoming "friends and colleagues." The "one off...

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.

Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial on Wednesday, Murati said Altman falsely stated that OpenAI's legal department determined a new AI model did not need to go through the company's deployment safety board. "As you understand it, was Mr. Altman telling the truth when he made that statement to you?" Murati was asked in the deposition. "No," Murati said. Murat said that during her tenure at OpenAI, Altman made her work more dif...

Qwen 3.6 27B achieves 2.5x inference speedup via MTP speculative decoding in llama.cpp; 262k context on 48GB with fixed chat templates.

Uber integrated OpenAI models into AI assistants and voice features to optimize driver earnings and rider booking across its marketplace.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026, a cohort of 26 student innovators using ChatGPT for research and real-world projects.

OpenAI B2B Signals research examines how enterprises scale AI adoption and agentic workflows to build competitive advantage.

Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.

Alex Lupsasca (OpenAI) details how GPT-5.x generated novel theoretical physics and quantum gravity results.

OpenAI begins rollout of GPT-5.5 Instant model variant in ChatGPT, positioning faster inference tier.

The new GPT-5.5 Instant model will replace GPT-3.5 Instant as the default model for ChatGPT

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant improvements in factuality across the board." The company claims that, based on "internal evaluations," GPT-5.5 Instant produced "52.5% fewer hallucinated claims" than its Instant model for GPT-5.3 "on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance." GPT-5.5 Instant also "reduced inaccurate claims by 37.3% on especially challenging conversations users had flagged for factual erro...

OpenAI's first hardware product might be a phone instead of a mysterious Jony Ive gadget. As reported by MacRumors, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared details about the rumored phone, claiming OpenAI is "fast-tracking" it and aiming to start mass production in early 2027. According to Kuo, the phone will run on a "customized version of the [MediaTek] Dimensity 9600," which is expected to launch this fall and follow up the Dimensity 9500 currently powering phones like the Vivo X300 Pro and the Oppo Find X9 Pro. The custom chip's "headline spec" will be its image signal processor (ISP), w...

Reddit post claims Musk's fear of DeepMind CEO Hassabis motivated OpenAI founding; cites trial testimony about 2015 meeting.

OpenAI reportedly planning smartphone launch for next year; unconfirmed hardware product outside core AI model development.

OpenAI developing persistent user context feature ('lore') for ChatGPT to maintain conversation history and preferences.

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform "pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities." CAISI, which started evaluating models from OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024, says it has performed 40 reviews so far. Both companies "have renegotiated their existing partnerships with the center to bett...

OpenAI expected to ship ~30M AI agent phones in early 2025, per industry analyst forecast.

About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we've heard from some of the most powerful people in tech - including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk's fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. But one of the most prominent characters is hovering around the margins: Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis is the architect of Google's in-house AI lab. He founded DeepMind as an independent startup in 2010 and sold it to Google four years later, reportedly for between $400-650 million. Since then, he's been at the helm of many of Google's largest AI research breakthroughs, like Alph...

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant system card detailing model capabilities, limitations, and safety properties.

OpenAI releases MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection), an OCP networking protocol for resilience and performance in large-scale AI training clusters.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's default model with improved accuracy, reduced hallucinations, and personalization controls.

Y Combinator owns approximately 0.6% of OpenAI, valued at ~$5B at current $852B valuation.

OpenAI launches self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT with CPC bidding and privacy-preserving measurement.

When the bromance sours, we all end up in court. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way - he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination - and he had some serious high school debate club energy. There was a lot of "I wouldn't characterize it that way," "I wouldn't say it that way," and "That sounds like something I wrote. Can I see it in context?" When Musk's attorney,...

AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. It's relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.

OpenAI and PwC partner to deploy AI agents for enterprise finance automation, forecasting, and CFO workflow modernization.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman stated the company is exploring an IPO during testimony at Elon Musk litigation.

Open-source research agent built on Claude Code outperforms OpenAI and NVIDIA systems in deep research benchmarking.

Reddit post recounts Sam Altman interview on talent retention at OpenAI during Meta's AI hiring competition.

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

Musk texted OpenAI's president and co-founder saying that he and CEO Sam Altman "will be the most hated men in America."

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have partnered with asset managers to more aggressively market their enterprise AI products.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Two of the most powerful people in AI—Sam Altman and Elon Musk—began their face-off in court in Oakland, California, last week. Musk is suing OpenAI, alleging that the millions he spent to…

Elon Musk made inflammatory public comments toward OpenAI leadership over corporate governance disputes.

OpenAI accuses Musk of trying to "coerce" a settlement days before trial started.

After \~3 weeks of experimentation in OpenAI's Parameter Golf competition, I wrote up why SSMs are structurally disadvantaged relative to transformers in a time- and size-constrained regime (10 min training, 16MB artifact, 25M parameters) on 8xH100s: [https://mradassaad.github.io/posts/why-ssms-struggle-in-parameter-golf/](https://mradassaad.github.io/posts/why-ssms-struggle-in-parameter-golf/) Main findings: 1. SSM in\_proj weights compress up to 3.26x worse than attention QKV under LZMA, directly taxing the compressed parameter budget 2. Architectural wins validated at SP4096 flipped sign...

OpenAI rebuilt WebRTC stack for real-time voice AI with low-latency conversational turn-taking at global scale.

Reddit thread: former startup CTO seeks ideas for spending $10k in expiring OpenAI API credits before year-end.

Musk testifies in OpenAI lawsuit, alleges company abandoned non-profit mission; courtroom sketch circulates on social media.

Anthropic's valuation surpasses OpenAI ($1T vs ~$900B) on secondary markets; enterprise momentum outpaces OpenAI's consumer-led narrative.

Reddit user observes that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex have separate usage limits, unlike Claude which shares limits across variants.

Build American AI, a nonprofit backed by OpenAI and a16z executives, funds influencer campaign promoting U.S. AI while framing Chinese AI as threat.

Reddit discussion questioning lack of realistic voice models despite AI progress; notes OpenAI's unreleased model and Sesame AI limitations.

In the first week of the landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI, Musk took the stand in a crisp black suit and tie and argued that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman had deceived him into bankrolling the company. Along the way, he warned that AI could destroy us all and sat…

OpenAI removed AGI trigger clause from Microsoft deal, replacing it with 2032 date limit; enables multi-cloud licensing but signals shift away from founding governance principle.

Reddit speculation on status of rumored OpenAI-Jony Ive hardware/product collaboration; no new information.

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings, according to an announcement on Friday. At the same time, the Defense Department has left out Anthropic - which it previously used for classified information - after declaring it a supply-chain risk. This builds upon deals with OpenAI and xAI, which have already reached agreements with the Pentagon for the "lawful" use of their AI systems. A report from The Information suggests Google has struck a similar a...

Elon Musk spent the better part of three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it’s already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, and there are plenty more witnesses to come. Musk’s argument against OpenAI? By converting the company to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the “nonprofit for the […]

Elon Musk is the one who wanted this trial. He has spent months claiming OpenAI "stole a nonprofit," and saying he was the actual driving force behind one of the most important companies currently in tech. All indications are that he won't win his case against the company, but he's fighting it anyway. So you'd think he'd have done better when it was his time to take the stand. Verge subscribers, don't forget you get exclusive access to ad-free Vergecast wherever you get your podcasts. Head here. Not a subscriber? You can sign up here. Instead, Musk spent much of the week arguing with lawyers ...

Elon Musk confirms xAI used distillation from OpenAI models to train Grok, raising questions about training data sourcing practices.

OpenAI Codex CLI 0.128.0 introduces /goal feature enabling autonomous looping until objective completion or token exhaustion.

UK AI Security Institute evaluates GPT-5.5 for cybersecurity vulnerability detection, finding parity with Claude Mythos but with wider availability.

Elon Musk spent three days testifying as the first witness in his trial against OpenAI.

OpenAI will begin rolling out it cybersecurity testing tool, GPT-5.5 Cyber only "to critical cyber defenders" at first.

OpenAI is launching additional opt-in protections for ChatGPT accounts. The new security initiative includes a new partnership with security key provider Yubico.

In a federal courtroom in California on Thursday, Elon Musk testified that his own AI startup, xAI, has used OpenAI's models to improve its own. The matter at question is model distillation, a common industry practice by which one larger AI model acts as a "teacher" of sorts to pass on knowledge to a smaller AI model, the "student." Although it's often used legitimately within companies using one of their own AI models to train another, it's also a practice that's sometimes used by smaller AI labs to try to get their models to mimic the performance of a larger competitor's model. Asked on the...

"Distillation" is a hot topic as frontier labs try to prevent smaller competitors from copying their models.

Court filing alleges xAI distilled OpenAI models; significant if verified but requires legal context confirmation.

Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI has always been complicated, so I expected the close partnership-turned-situationship to end in tears. After all, executive disagreements, rearranged contracts, and frustrations over AI infrastructure have all regularly been part of the partnership, creating plenty of tension along the way. But against all odds, Microsoft and OpenAI divorced this week in a way that looks strangely amicable. Microsoft announced the updates to its long-standing OpenAI deal on Monday, with the most important change allowing OpenAI to make its products and services available a...

System-prompt self-orchestration outperforms external agent frameworks (LangGraph, CrewAI, OpenAI SDK) on procedural tasks; 200 conversation comparison.

OpenAI is opening up about its goblin problem. After a report from Wired revealed instructions to OpenAI's coding model to "never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other animals or creatures," the AI startup published an explanation on its website, calling references to the creatures a "strange habit" its models developed as a result of their training. As outlined in the blog post, OpenAI began noticing metaphors referencing goblins and other creatures starting with its GPT-5.1 model - specifically when using the "Nerdy" personality option. OpenAI says the pro...

Reddit user reports receiving 6 months free ChatGPT Pro subscription; personal anecdote about developer productivity.

OpenAI is preparing to launch a new frontier cybersecurity model, GPT-5.5-Cyber. CEO Sam Altman said the model will not be available to the general public, but will be first rolled out to a select group of trusted "cyber defenders" in order for institutions to shore up their cyberdefenses. The limited rollout will take place "in the next few days," Altman said on X. "We will work with the entire ecosystem and the government to figure out trusted access for Cyber." It's not clear who will get access to the model first, though previous "trusted access" schemes involved vetted professionals and ...

It's been almost three years since Silicon Valley started aggressively pushing large language model-based chatbots like ChatGPT as the supposedly inevitable future of everything, and there's no group that has felt the pressure quite like Gen Z. Like with many tech trends before it, it's no surprise that young people are among the biggest adopters of AI chatbot tools. But contrary to the tales spun by tech companies like OpenAI and Google, polling data shows that Gen Z students and workers are a big part of the wider cultural backlash against AI. And even as they utilize these tools, vast swat...

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Reddit post title referencing OpenAI; insufficient context to assess technical or business significance.

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Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI alleges breach of contract over promised open AGI, claiming founders converted nonprofit into profit machine.

OpenAI rolls out phishing-resistant login and enhanced account recovery to reduce takeover risk.

Elon Musk took the stand for the second day for his attempt to legally dismantle OpenAI.

Microsoft gets to offer OpenAI's tech to its cloud customers and doesn't have to pay for it. "We fully plan to exploit it," Nadella said.

Unverified Reddit claim about GPT-5.5 hallucinating fantasy creatures; no official source or technical detail provided.

OpenAI post-mortem on unexpected goblin-themed outputs in GPT-5: causes and remediation steps.

Over the past several weeks, I've been working on HyperResearch, a Claude Code skill harness that converts CC into the most intelligent deep research framework out there. HyperResearch surpasses OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA's offerings in the agentic search space based on DeepResearch Bench. It's open-source, installable with a single command, and uses your CC subscription, so you don't have to pay for OpenAI or Gemini Pro. It uses a 16-step pipeline that creates a searchable, persistent knowledge store during each session that can be built upon in later searches. I designed it to align with ...

Directions also include system instructions to act like "you have a vivid inner life."

AI-generated video has gone from novelty to creative tool almost overnight, and Runway has a front row seat to the shift. The New York-based company has raised close to $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation, and its models are going toe-to-toe with the most well-funded labs in the world, including Google and OpenAI. The technology goes way beyond […]

The Musk v. Altman trial is underway, and that means exhibits, or the evidence to be presented in court, are being revealed piece by piece. So far, email exchanges, photos, and corporate documents are circulating from the earliest days of OpenAI - and from before the AI lab even had a name. Some high-level takeaways: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gave OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely drafted OpenAI's mission and heavily influenced its early structure, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to want to lean heavily on Y Combinator for early support for OpenAI, OpenAI president Greg Brockman an...

OpenAI scales Stargate compute infrastructure to expand data center capacity for large-scale AI training and deployment.

Seven families of victims injured or killed in the Tumbler Ridge school shooting in Canada have filed lawsuits against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing the company and its leadership of negligence after they failed to alert police to the suspected shooter's ChatGPT activity. The families allege OpenAI stayed silent after its systems flagged activity by shooting suspect Jesse Van Rootselaar in order to protect the company's reputation and upcoming initial public offering (IPO). The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI "considered" flagging the 18-year-old's activity to police, which repo...

ChatGPT is struggling to keep up its once-explosive growth as users uninstall the app or opt for rival chatbots instead. According to data from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower, ChatGPT experienced a 132 percent increase in uninstalls year over year in April. Its uninstall rate was even higher last month, up 413 percent year-over-year, following OpenAI's deal with the Pentagon in February. While ChatGPT is still growing its user base, Sensor Tower says that growth is slowing down - ChatGPT increased its monthly active users by 168 percent in January, but only 78 percent in April. ChatGPT...

Oracular spectacular? | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge If you want to know whether the AI bubble is bursting, there's only one publicly traded company that will tell you: Oracle. That's right, the database company. Oracle has burned its boats and pivoted to AI, but not in any kind of usual way. It is not a foundation model builder like OpenAI or Anthropic, obviously. It's not quite a neocloud, though it has entered the same bare-metal business as CoreWeave. It is a software-as-a-service company that has made an audacious bet on a very specific future version of AI as Oracle's traditional bu...

Lawsuits: OpenAI didn't report ChatGPT user to cops to protect Altman, IPO.

Reddit speculation that OpenAI's "escape velocity" language is euphemism for recursive self-improvement capabilities.

Sebastien Bubeck discusses LLM capability in mathematical reasoning and autonomous research in OpenAI podcast episode.

OpenAI proposes five-part plan to democratize AI-powered cybersecurity defenses and protect critical infrastructure.

It's a story Musk has told before -- in interviews and to author Walter Isaacson for his bestselling biography of Musk -- but Tuesday was the first time he said it under oath.

Reddit discussion about OpenAI Codex's tendency to generate goblin-related code comments; appears to be humor/anecdote rather than substantive technical analysis.

Reddit discussion about OpenAI pretraining updates; lacks specifics and appears to be unverified community speculation.

Today the first witness was sworn in in Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk. I was surprised by how flat he seemed. This is not the first time I've seen Musk in court. During his defamation suit, he turned on the charm and the jury responded by finding him not guilty. Today he looked adrift and unprepared. The only times he showed real animation were when he was bragging about how much he'd done for OpenAI. The direct examination is a way of telling a story through questions; it's important to make the narrative clear. For a suit that accuses Sam Altman of straying from OpenAI's mission, Musk spent a w...

Simon Willison shares a leaked OpenAI Codex system prompt instruction restricting discussion of certain animals.

On the stand, Elon Musk is positioning himself as a savior. In the high-profile trial between him and his fellow OpenAI co-founder, now CEO, Sam Altman, Musk opened by going through his background. He went as far back as being raised in South Africa and arriving in Canada for college with "2,500 in Canadian travelers' checks and a bag of clothes and books," then spent an unusually long time talking about his past, from Zip2 to PayPal to the current, more familiar slate of companies he now runs. Why is Musk giving the jury so much of his origin story? Though he may be, depending on the day, th...

A day after OpenAI got Microsoft to agree to end exclusive rights, AWS announced a slate of OpenAI model offerings, including a new agent service.