OpenAI dropped a mini-update to its model, releasing GPT-5.1 to the public. According to the company, the update will make its chatbot, ChatGPT, “smarter” and “more conversational,” introducing new styles of communicating and promising an improved ability to follow instructions. CEO Sam Altman called it “a nice upgrade.” There are two versions of GPT-5.1 that […]
Sam Altman’s Creepy Orb Startup Has Only Scanned 2 Percent of Its Ideal Number of Eyeballs
World, Sam Altman’s weird dystopian project to scan the entire world’s eyeballs and make a profit, is lagging when it comes to scanning eyeballs and making a profit. Formerly called Worldcoin, the startup—which is backed by several major venture capital firms—has, so far, only reached two percent of its overall eyeball-scanning goal (it wants to […]
Why Is the AI Czar Already Saying OpenAI Won’t Get a Bailout?
Is it a good sign or a bad sign that the biggest player in an emerging industry actively making trillion-dollar commitments that are artificially propping up the economy is asking for government support, and representatives of the government are weighing in on it? Asking for a friend. Yesterday, OpenAI’s CFO Sarah Friar made headlines when […]
OpenAI Reportedly Planning ‘Up to $1 Trillion’ IPO as Early as Next Year
An anonymously sourced report from Reuters claims that OpenAI is planning an initial public offering that would value the AI colossus at “up to $1 trillion.” Just on Tuesday the company formally completed its slow evolution from an ambiguous non-profit to a for-profit company. Now it appears to be formalizing plans to become one of […]
Looks Like JD Vance Didn’t Get the Memo That This Admin Hates AI Guardrails
Republicans have largely been embracing a “hands-off” approach to regulating artificial intelligence, but Vice President JD Vance has found where he draws the line: weird porn. During an appearance on Newsmax’s “The Record with Greta Van Susteren,” Vance called out OpenAI’s recent announcement that it would allow adult users to create erotica with ChatGPT as […]
Sam Altman Would Like Us All to Be Grown-Ups About the Sexy Stuff Coming Soon to ChatGPT
In an X post on Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman clarified that when he said ChatGPT might soon manufacture custom erotica, that “was meant to be just one example of [OpenAI] allowing more user freedom for adults.” Ok this tweet about upcoming changes to ChatGPT blew up on the erotica point much more than I […]
Sam Altman: Lord Forgive Me, It’s Time to Go Back to the Old ChatGPT
Earlier this year, OpenAI scaled back some of ChatGPT’s “personality” as part of a broader effort to improve user safety following the death of a teenager who took his own life after discussing it with the chatbot. But apparently, that’s all in the past. Sam Altman announced on Twitter that the company is going back […]
Looks Like Sam Altman and Jony Ive Are Struggling to Make an AI Device That Does… Anything
Killing the smartphone ain’t easy business; just ask Sam Altman and Jony Ive. In May, the OpenAI CEO and former Apple chief designer announced that they would be making a real, tangible gadget you can eventually hold with your (presumably) real, non-chatbot hands—and not just any gadget. As part of a new company called IO, […]
The First 24 Hours of Sora 2 Chaos: Copyright Violations, Sam Altman Shoplifting, and More
On Tuesday, OpenAI released Sora 2, the latest version of its video and audio generation tool that it promised would be the “most powerful imagination engine ever built.” Less than a day into its release, it appears the imaginations of most people are dominated by copyrighted material and existing intellectual property. In tandem with the […]
It’s Getting Ugly: Sam Altman Seeks Texts From Shivon Zilis, Elon Musk’s Employee/Mother of His Child
Last year, Elon Musk sued his rival Sam Altman’s company, tech superstar OpenAI. In his lawsuit, Musk claimed that the company had violated federal racketeering laws because, having once promised to stay a nonprofit research lab, had since converted itself into a for-profit company. Musk, who initially poured tens of millions of dollars into the […]