Kylie Robison

New AI prototypes built atop its latest model, Gemini 2.0.

The strange evolution of Friend.

“Pro” users will get a more powerful version of the new o1.

Follow along with OpenAI’s launches.

In an interview with the Financial Times, OpenAI’s new CFO Sarah Friar said that the startup was considering an ads model and it planned to be “thoughtful about when and where we implement” ads. In a statement following the interview, though, Friar added:

“Artists are not your unpaid R&D.”

What would a home office be without a cat?

The New York Times claims OpenAI erased evidence.

Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI exposes details of their contentious split.

OpenAI is gearing up to release its first autonomous agent.

ChatGPT now lives at chat.com.

A new wave of layoffs has hit X, primarily affecting its engineering department, according to two sources inside X and posts on the workplace forum Blind. The exact scale of the job cuts remains unknown. These cuts come just two months after staffers were required to submit a one-page summary telling leadership their contributions to the company (but it’s unclear if those one-pagers played a role).

It’ll roll out to everyone soon.

Meta’s Llama contends with the new Open Source Initiative definition of truly “open” AI.

OpenAI dissolves another safety team as a policy leader departs.

Dario Amodei’s “Machines of Loving Grace” blog follows the trend of AI leaders promising utopia just ahead of funding rounds.

AI companies are building AI agents as they rush to productize their expensive large language models.

Hearst, which owns a substantial portion of the media landscape, has just signed a deal with OpenAI to integrate Hearst content into its products (The Verge’s parent company Vox Media also partners with OpenAI). Hearst owns 24 daily newspapers and 52 weekly newspapers, 175 websites and more than 200 magazine editions worldwide, making this one of OpenAI’s biggest media partnerships.

Elon Musk threw an xAI recruiting party in OpenAI’s original San Francisco headquarters.

A historically huge funding round.