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Five days ago, I published "Five Hours with GPT-5," calling OpenAI's latest model "impressive." I was wrong. After living with GPT-5 for more than a week, my user experience tells a different story than the initial benchmarks. I'm not alone. Continue Reading →

ChatGPT head Nick Turley just admitted what every tech executive already knows: even 700 million weekly active users can't make the math work without ads. In an interview on Decoder, Turley said he's "humble enough not to rule it out categorically," though he hedged that OpenAI would need to be "very thoughtful and tasteful" about how ads could be integrated into ChatGPT. Continue Reading →

While I was in Las Vegas yesterday doing a keynote about AI at eBay's Open 25 conference, Geoffrey Hinton was across town at the Ai4 conference with a far more pessimistic view of the future. The Nobel Prize-winning "godfather of AI" didn't just repeat his warnings about superintelligent AI wiping out humanity (though he's still giving us 10-20% odds), he proposed something far stranger: we need to give AI maternal instincts. Continue Reading →

On July 17, 2025, U.S. District Judge William Alsup ruled that three authors (Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson) can represent all U.S. writers whose works Anthropic allegedly downloaded from pirate libraries LibGen and PiLiMi. According to Reuters, Alsup said Anthropic may have illegally downloaded as many as seven million books, exposing the Amazon‑ and Alphabet‑backed startup to over a trillion dollars in damages. Continue Reading →

Anthropic on Monday announced on-demand chat recall for Claude. Ask it to "find what we discussed about _____," and it will search your previous conversations and pull relevant context into a new thread. No persistent memory profile quietly building in the background. Just explicit search when you need it. Continue Reading →

On September 30, 2025, AOL will finally turn off dial-up internet service. The AOL Dialer and AOL Shield Browser will go dark the same day. For millions of Americans, that distinctive screech of a modem handshake was the sound of the future arriving. Now the last of the original on-ramps is closing, and the highway it led to is unrecognizable. Continue Reading →

I’ve spent about five hours with GPT-5. Not the press release. Not the benchmark charts. The actual model. Long enough to move past the “wow” phase and into the “what’s really new here?” phase. Here’s what I noticed. Continue Reading →

Word on the street: someone at GitHub hit “publish” instead of “save.” The result: a brief peek into OpenAI’s next release. Continue Reading →

The wait is over for OpenAI’s open‑weight models. For the first time since GPT‑2, OpenAI is giving developers access to the raw model weights. No API, no cloud dependency, no rate limits, and no vendor lock-in. You download them. You run them. You own the infrastructure. After five years of locking things behind an endpoint, OpenAI has released gpt‑oss‑120b and gpt‑oss‑20b under an Apache 2.0 license. Continue Reading →

ElevenLabs has launched Eleven Music, their new AI music generation service, and they say they've done it with a new strategy: don't get sued. While competitors Suno and Udio are in litigation with major labels for allegedly training on copyrighted material, ElevenLabs secured licensing deals with Merlin Network (a digital rights agency for independent labels) and Kobalt Music Group before launching. That's revolutionary thinking in AI circles. Continue Reading →