OpenAI has introduced major ChatGPT upgrades, enhancing model performance for subscribers while expanding access to unlimited text chat for free users. OpenAI is deploying a refined GPT-5.6 Sol tailored for daily ChatGPT interactions. The updated AI model generates concise, context-aware answers while minimizing formatting clutter. Internal testing across legal, medical, and financial prompts revealed a…
Apple has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint alleges that former Apple employees stole trade secrets to help develop OpenAI’s AI hardware products, according to a statement Apple provided to 9to5Mac. The lawsuit was filed on Friday. The primary defendants are Chang Liu…
Five months after returning to OpenAI, Barret Zoph – the company’s head of enterprise AI sales – has departed, The Verge has learned. Zoph returned to OpenAI in mid-January after a stint as co-founder and CTO of Thinking Machines Lab, the competing AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Shortly after Zoph returned…
For the first time, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has lost its majority hold on the artificial intelligence assistant market. According to a Sensor Tower report, while ChatGPT remains the top-ranked AI assistant product, it now holds a plurality rather than a majority of the user base. At the beginning of the year, ChatGPT controlled over 50% of…
OpenAI has filed preliminary IPO paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, joining Anthropic and Elon Musk’s SpaceX in a wave of artificial intelligence companies preparing to go public. The company announced the confidential S-1 filing on Monday. Anthropic submitted its own confidential filing on June 1, and SpaceX recently launched an IPO roadshow…
A California jury has unanimously dismissed Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, and Microsoft. The jury determined that Musk waited too long to bring the claims, resulting in the expiration of the statute of limitations on both the breach of charitable trust and unjust enrichment claims against OpenAI. As a result, Microsoft’s remaining…
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization’s code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher…
I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone’s minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk’s children, was… what’s the best way to…
Okay, I am not a lawyer so I only understood about half of what just happened. But I am fairly sure, given the context, that Elon Musk’s lawyers may have just fucked up big. Jared “James Brickhouse” Birchall, Musk’s finance guy and all-around fixer, took the stand after Musk today. Most of his testimony was…
Just a simple country CEO who was being tricked by that sophisticated lawyer | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images About five hours into Elon Musk’s testimony, I typed the following sentence into my notes: “I have never been more sympathetic to Sam Altman in my life.” Musk’s direct testimony was an improvement…
