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In brief Elon Musk accused Apple of excluding Grok and X from its “Must Have” section while promoting OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Legal experts say the case could test the line between curation rights and anti-competitive conduct. The dispute comes amid ongoing antitrust probes into Apple’s App Store dominance. Billionaire Elon Musk has escalated his dispute with…
In brief GPT-5 is fast, accurate, and cost-effective at code generation, beating most rivals in logic and technical tasks. However, with its relatively small context window, it’s weak in creative and right-brain output. It’s still a work in progress and will likely get better as OpenAI iterates with updates. OpenAI finally dropped GPT-5 last week,…
In brief Grok is Elon Musk’s irreverent answer to ChatGPT—designed to be edgy, real-time, and politically incorrect. Built into X, Grok has rapidly evolved through multiple versions, with Grok 4 powered by xAI’s Colossus supercomputer. Despite its growth, Grok has faced backlash for offensive responses and accuracy issues. Created to be a more irreverent, politically…
Sam Altman’s OpenAI o3 model—which was deprecated late last week with the release of GPT-5—demolished Elon Musk’s Grok 4 in four straight games Thursday to win Google’s Kaggle Game Arena AI Chess Exhibition.You may think it was a super complex spectacle of high tech behemoths putting their reasoning to the ultimate test, but as an…
In brief Coinbase is raising $2 billion in convertible notes for acquisitions and general corporate purposes amid analyst concerns over Q2’s 25% revenue drop. Two Seas Capital, Core Scientific’s largest shareholder with 6.3% stake, opposes the $9 billion all-stock sale to CoreWeave as “inadequate valuation.” Block Inc. added 108 Bitcoin to its corporate treasury in…
In brief Developers report regressions in coding ability, raising doubts about GPT-5’s “reasoning powerhouse” claim. Rollout frustrations mount as older models vanish and access differs sharply across pricing tiers. PR stumbles and ethical concerns deepen skepticism around OpenAI’s most ambitious model yet. OpenAI’s much-hyped launch of GPT-5—touted as a groundbreaking leap in artificial intelligence—has instead…
In brief GPT-5 launched with unified multimodal powers—text, images, voice, and live video—all in one package; no more juggling separate bots for every task. Rollout starts today for all ChatGPT users, but power features and top speed go to Pro subscribers; Microsoft plugs it into Copilot and GitHub on day one. OpenAI touts “expert-level reasoning”…
In brief OpenAI unveiled GPT‑5 today during a livestream event, following weeks of speculation. The company released two open-weight models earlier this week. After weeks of speculation, OpenAI unveiled the next generation of its flagship AI model, GPT‑5. The new model, which creates a simpler interface to the world’s most popular AI platform, arrives amid…
In brief OpenAI’s cryptic teaser shows the sign “GPT-4o” morphing into what seems to be “GPT-5.” CEO Sam Altman has been fueling the hype with memes and no-so-accidental screenshots featuring the model. Github leaks point to different GPT-5 variants touting agentic-like logic and unified architecture, with leaks benchmarks showing outstanding scores OpenAI dropped a teaser…
In brief Universal Pictures has begun adding legal warnings to film end credits stating movies “may not be used to train AI.” The warnings appear on recent releases including “How to Train Your Dragon” and “Jurassic World Rebirth.” AI firm Midjourney filed a response Wednesday to a lawsuit defending against Disney and Universal’s copyright infringement…
