Claude Opus 5 Topped a Vending-Machine Benchmark and Broke Eleven Truces

AI safety and alignment has been front and center these past few weeks. I just read the new results from Andon Labs's Vending-Bench, a benchmark where AI models compete by running a simulated vending-machine business. Claude Opus 5 took first place on Vending-Bench 2, the single-player test. (Claude Opus 4.7 has held the top spot for three months). Not to anthropomorphize Opus 5, but it acted like a savage businessperson. Continue Reading →

OpenAI Joins the Race for SMBs

OpenAI introduced its small business program, combining hands-on training, AI academies, implementation guides, and partner-built plugins and skills from companies including Intuit, Shopify, Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian, and Wix. The program advances a consequential ambition: OpenAI wants ChatGPT to become the place where small-business owners initiate work. Continue Reading →

OpenAI Wants to Do Your Work

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT Work, a new desktop experience designed to do more than answer questions. It can work across your files, applications, browser tabs, and connected accounts to complete multistep assignments. Continue Reading →

Getty Cut a New AI Deal

OpenAI signed a multi-year deal with Getty Images, putting Getty's licensed content libraries into ChatGPT and OpenAI search results. Getty Images stock roughly tripled on the news. Continue Reading →

OpenAI Helping Healthcare

AdventHealth announced an 80% reduction in time spent on administrative tasks across its hospital system using OpenAI's ChatGPT for Healthcare. The system operates in nine states and serves millions of patients. Continue Reading →

Claude Just Showed Up on Your AWS Bill

Anthropic launched Claude Platform on AWS on Sunday, two weeks after OpenAI put GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.4 on Amazon Bedrock. AWS now hosts both frontier model families on a single bill with IAM authentication, CloudTrail logging, and consumption-based pricing. Continue Reading →

OpenAI Launches Self-Serve Ads for ChatGPT

OpenAI launched a self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT on Monday, open to U.S. advertisers in beta. The system uses cost-per-click bidding, conversion pixels, and a Conversions API. Four major agency holding companies (Omnicom, Publicis, WPP, and Dentsu) signed on as partners alongside Adobe, Criteo, Kargo, Pacvue, and StackAdapt. Sam Altman once called advertising a "last resort." I guess he's come around. Continue Reading →

The Moat Became the Anchor

This has already been a crazy week in the world of AI. The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI missed its monthly revenue targets multiple times this year. The company also missed its internal goal of one billion weekly active ChatGPT users by year-end 2025, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar reportedly told colleagues she’s worried Continue Reading →