No, the Times Won’t Read Your ChatGPT Chats

If you've been following the The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation (1:23-cv-11195) case, you may wake up this morning worrying that New York Times lawyers will soon comb through your late‑night ChatGPT confessions. Breathe easy – they almost certainly will not. Continue Reading →

OpenAI Lands $200 Million Pentagon Contract to Build Frontier AI Prototypes

OpenAI has been awarded a $200 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop prototype frontier AI capabilities for national security use. According to the official DoD announcement, the contract is a fixed amount, prototype, "other" transaction agreement awarded under the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). Continue Reading →

OpenAI Just Hired Google

Yesterday, Reuters reported that OpenAI finalized a cloud deal with Google in May. This might look like routine tech news. It is not. This is a strategic inflection point in the AI infrastructure wars. OpenAI, whose ChatGPT threatens the core of Google Search, is now paying Google billions of dollars to power its growth. Continue Reading →

Code and Content Are Yearning to Be Free

Windsurf, the AI coding startup that is reportedly in the process of being acquired by OpenAI for $3 billion, just launched SWE-1: its first in-house small language model designed specifically for software engineering. Released under its new “Vibe” lineup, the model is open-weight, fast, and compact. It is built to run efficiently on consumer hardware without relying on expensive cloud infrastructure. Continue Reading →

Who Will Be “Google for AI Search”? Google.

In an unsurprising move, Google is putting generative AI at the center of its most valuable real estate. The company is redesigning its homepage to feature “AI Overviews,” a mode that uses Gemini to synthesize information directly on the results page. For users, this means fewer blue links, more summarized answers, and the beginning of the transition from search engine to answer engine. Continue Reading →

Why ChatGPT Suddenly Sounded Like a Fanboy

Sam Altman (@sama) says that OpenAI has rolled back a recent update to ChatGPT that turned the model into a relentlessly obsequious people-pleaser. The behavior, described by users as "overly verbose, excessively agreeable, and kind of creepy," triggered backlash and memes. In short, ChatGPT went from helpful to "ass-kissing weirdo" – as one headline so delicately put it. Continue Reading →

The Washington Post Joins OpenAI’s ChatGPT Ecosystem

The Washington Post is reporting that it has entered into a strategic partnership with OpenAI to integrate its journalism into ChatGPT’s search experience. Effective immediately, summaries, quotes, and direct links to The Post’s reporting will appear in ChatGPT responses to relevant user queries. Continue Reading →