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Musk v. OpenAI Legal Battle Pushed to 2026

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Chris McKay• April 4, 2025 • 2 min read

Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit entity will go to trial in March 2026, potentially complicating the AI company's $40 billion fundraising efforts which require the conversion to be completed by year-end.

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OpenAI Reshuffles Roadmap: Two New Models to Precede "Much Better" GPT-5

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Chris McKay• April 4, 2025 • 1 min read

OpenAI has reversed its earlier decision to cancel o3, now planning to release both o3 and o4-mini within weeks while delaying GPT-5 by several months to make substantial improvements.

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OpenAI Forms Expert Commission to Shape Its Nonprofit Future Amid For-Profit Transition

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Chris McKay• April 2, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI is convening a panel of experts to advise its philanthropic strategy amid its shift toward a for-profit model.

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OpenAI Secures Record $40 Billion in Funding, Reaching $300 Billion Valuation

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Chris McKay• March 31, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI closed a $40 billion funding round at a $300 billion post-money valuation, led by SoftBank and backed by prominent investors, to expand its AI research and infrastructure.

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OpenAI’s GPT-4o Can Now Generate Images—and It’s Really Good at It

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Chris McKay• March 25, 2025 • 3 min read

OpenAI has launched native image generation in GPT-4o, bringing photorealistic, prompt-following visuals directly into ChatGPT and Sora for all users.

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OpenAI Unveils New Audio Models to Make AI Agents Sound More Human Than Ever

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Chris McKay• March 20, 2025 • 3 min read

OpenAI today launched advanced speech-to-text and text-to-speech models that promise more accurate transcriptions and customizable, expressive voice outputs—all integrated with a revamped Agents SDK for easy conversion of text agents to voice agents.

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OpenAI’s Post-Training Head Liam Fedus Departs to Launch AI-Powered Materials Science Startup

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Chris McKay• March 17, 2025 • 2 min read

Liam Fedus, OpenAI’s VP of research for post-training, is leaving the company to start an AI-driven materials science startup, with OpenAI planning to invest in and partner with the new venture.

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OpenAI Pushes for ‘Freedom to Innovate’ in U.S. AI Action Plan

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Chris McKay• March 13, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI has submitted a detailed set of proposals to the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy, advocating for policies that ensure AI innovation remains unfettered while reinforcing America’s global leadership in AI.

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OpenAI Launches Responses API and Agents SDK for AI Agents

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Chris McKay• March 11, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI has introduced the Responses API and Agents SDK, streamlining AI agent development with built-in tools for web search, file retrieval, and computer use.

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OpenAI Bets Big on CoreWeave in a Five-Year, $11.9B Cloud Deal

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Chris McKay• March 10, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI has signed a five-year, $11.9 billion deal with CoreWeave to secure AI infrastructure, marking a major shift in its compute strategy and adding complexity to its partnership with Microsoft.

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GPT-4.5 Arrives for ChatGPT Plus Subscribers—Here’s What to Expect

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Chris McKay• March 5, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI has started rolling out GPT-4.5, its latest and largest AI model, to ChatGPT Plus subscribers, promising improved conversational performance but with notable limitations in reasoning capabilities.

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UK Competition Watchdog Clears Microsoft-OpenAI Partnership

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Chris McKay• March 5, 2025 • 1 min read

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has ruled that Microsoft’s partnership with OpenAI does not qualify as a merger under UK law and will not be subject to further investigation.

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ChatGPT's Deep Research Now Available to Plus, Team, and Enterprise Users

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Chris McKay• February 25, 2025 • 1 min read

OpenAI has expanded access to its Deep Research agent, a web-browsing AI tool for multi-step research, to all paying ChatGPT users, with improved file analysis and embedded citations.

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AI in Higher Ed: 7 Major Takeaways from OpenAI’s ChatGPT Student Usage Report

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Chris McKay• February 20, 2025 • 3 min read

More than one-third of college-aged students in the US use ChatGPT, with a significant portion relying on it for learning. OpenAI’s new report reveals how this impacts workforce readiness, economic competitiveness, and the role of AI in higher education.

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OpenAI’s Growth Shows No Signs of Slowing, Now Serving 400 Million Users

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Chris McKay• February 20, 2025 • 1 min read

OpenAI’s ChatGPT has surpassed 400 million weekly active users, growing 33% in just three months, while its enterprise user base has doubled to 2 million, solidifying its position as both a consumer and enterprise AI powerhouse.

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OpenAI's New Benchmark Tests AI Models Against Real-World Software Engineering Tasks

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Chris McKay• February 18, 2025 • 2 min read

OpenAI has launched SWE-Lancer, a benchmark evaluating AI models on over 1,400 real-world software engineering tasks sourced from Upwork, collectively worth $1 million in payouts.

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Elon Musk Says He’ll Drop $97.4 Billion OpenAI Bid—If It Remains Nonprofit

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Chris McKay• February 13, 2025 • 1 min read

Despite Musk’s offer, OpenAI appears intent on moving forward with its restructuring, setting the stage for continued legal and strategic battles between the two sides.

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GPT-5 Is the Omnimodel We’ve Been Waiting For—Here’s Why

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Chris McKay• February 12, 2025 • 2 min read

Instead of requiring users to choose between different models for different tasks, OpenAI aims to create a system where AI “just works”—handling both fast and complex reasoning tasks as needed.

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7 Key Takeaways from OpenAI’s New Model Spec Update

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Chris McKay• February 12, 2025 • 3 min read

It's refreshing to see OpenAI treating users/developers as partners who can handle difficult conversations, rather than risks that need to be managed.

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OpenAI Updates Model Spec to Better Balance User Freedom with Safety Guardrails

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Chris McKay• February 12, 2025 • 4 min read

The update explicitly embraces intellectual freedom within defined safety boundaries, allowing discussion of controversial topics while maintaining restrictions against concrete harm.

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Elon Musk Bids $97.4B for OpenAI

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Chris McKay• February 10, 2025 • 2 min read

Altman dismissed the bid outright, taking a jab at Musk on X, formerly Twitter, saying, “no thank you but we will buy twitter for $9.74 billion if you want.”

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Google, OpenAI, Roblox, and Discord Form Child Safety Group to Combat Online Child Exploitation in the AI Era

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Chris McKay• February 10, 2025 • 2 min read

The initiative seeks to create a more accessible and transparent safety infrastructure in response to growing concerns over AI’s role in online harm.

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OpenAI's Super Bowl Debut Frames AI as Next Chapter in Human Innovation

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Chris McKay• February 10, 2025 • 5 min read

The ad used a pointillism-inspired animation to depict human progress, from fire and the wheel to AI.

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OpenAI Announces a Munich Office

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Chris McKay• February 7, 2025 • 1 min read

The Munich office, set to open in the coming months, will initially focus on building teams across go-to-market, global affairs, and communications roles.

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OpenAI Introduces European Data Residency for Enterprises and Developers

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Chris McKay• February 5, 2025 • 2 min read

This will help organizations meet European data sovereignty requirements while using OpenAI’s AI models and services.