OpenAI

Friday, 15 August 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

The Big Read. Is AI hitting a wall?

OpenAI’s underwhelming new GPT-5 model suggests progress is slowing — and competition in the space is changing

Thursday, 14 August 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

opinion content. Business Insight. AI is having some relationship issues

Companies such as OpenAI are running what amounts to a giant social experiment

Aljazeera 🇶🇦

Women with AI ‘boyfriends’ mourn lost love after ‘cold’ ChatGPT upgrade

OpenAI’s release of GPT-5 prompts backlash in online communities for people with AI companions.

Wednesday, 13 August 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

OpenAI eyes brain implant startup to take on Elon Musk’s Neuralink

Le Monde 🇫🇷

The rocky debut of OpenAI's new language model, seen as less effective and less 'friendly'

The rocky debut of OpenAI's new language model, seen as less effective and less 'friendly'

Tuesday, 12 August 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Elon Musk Threatens to Sue Apple Over Claims It Favors OpenAI

The Guardian 🇬🇧

Elon Musk threatens Apple with lawsuit over OpenAI, sparking online feud with Sam Altman

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Sam Altman challenges Elon Musk with plans for Neuralink rival

OpenAI in talks to invest in brain implant start-up that would compete with Musk’s company

BBC News 🇬🇧

Musk threatens Apple and calls OpenAI boss a liar as feud deepens

Relations between the two tech bosses have soured amid a slew of lawsuits and social media digs.

The Irish Times 🇮🇪

Is OpenAI really worth $500bn?

Monday, 11 August 2025

NPR 🇺🇸

Boston Public Library aims to increase access to a vast historic archive using AI

The library is launching a project in collaboration with Harvard Law School and OpenAI this summer to digitize the materials and make them more fully searchable.

Sunday, 10 August 2025

The Economist 🇬🇧

OpenAI’s latest step towards advanced artificial intelligence

The Times of India 🇮🇳

OpenAI bans ChatGPT from answering breakup questions; Sam Altman calls the new update 'annoying'

Saturday, 9 August 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Can OpenAI’s GPT-5 model live up to sky-high expectations?

Release of eagerly awaited system upgrade has been met with a mixed response, with some users calling the gains ‘modest’

Friday, 8 August 2025

The Economist 🇬🇧

OpenAI’s latest step towards advanced artificial intelligence 

Its new model is an update, not a revolution. But it keeps AI on a trajectory with profound implications

BBC News 🇬🇧

OpenAI beats Elon Musk's Grok in AI chess tournament

The tournament saw models from Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek compete against each other to be crowned the top AI chess player.

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT-5 and its hyped ‘PhD level’ intelligence struggled with basic spelling and geography

Thursday, 7 August 2025

Le Monde 🇫🇷

ChatGPT: OpenAI launches GPT-5, the latest version of its language processing tool

ChatGPT: OpenAI launches GPT-5, the latest version of its language processing tool

The Independent 🇬🇧

OpenAI launches GPT-5, its first flagship update to ChatGPT model in years

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI unveils long-awaited GPT-5 model

Chief Sam Altman hailed next-generation system as ‘major upgrade’

The New York Times 🇺🇸

OpenAI Aims to Stay Ahead of Rivals With New GPT-5 Technology

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI says latest ChatGPT upgrade is big step forward but still can’t do humans’ jobs

BBC News 🇬🇧

OpenAI claims GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to 'PhD level'

GPT-5's release comes as tech firms continue to compete in an effort to claim the world's most advanced AI.

Wednesday, 6 August 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Why Mira Murati, ex-CTO of OpenAI, doesn’t chase hype—and what we can learn from that

Financial Times 🇬🇧

How to reason with OpenAI’s spiralling valuation

Whether using traditional methods or a more creative approach, investors are backing Sam Altman’s company

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI in talks on share sale that would price it at more than Musk’s SpaceX

Tuesday, 5 August 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI takes on Meta and DeepSeek with free and customisable AI models

The New York Times 🇺🇸

OpenAI to Give Away Some of the Technology That Powers ChatGPT

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI releases open models to compete with China’s DeepSeek

Launch of free and more transparent AI systems marks departure from group’s subscription-based closed approach

Sunday, 3 August 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Who is Andrew Tulloch? Former OpenAI engineer and Mira Murati’s co-founder who rejected a $1.5 billion offer from Mark Zuckerberg

Friday, 1 August 2025

The Irish Times 🇮🇪

‘My jaw hit the floor’: OpenAI disables ChatGPT feature that made user prompts accessible on search engines

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI secures $8.3bn in latest huge fundraising

Dragoneer fund will invest $2.8bn in one of the largest start-up cheques ever written by a company

The Times of India 🇮🇳

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's biggest fear: ChatGPT-5 is coming in August and Altman is scared — know why

Wednesday, 30 July 2025

The Times 🇬🇧

Azure cloud-computing unit boosts Microsoft’s revenues

The company is a leader in making AI profitable thanks to its access to OpenAI’s technology, a tie-up that attracts businesses to its cloud service

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Who is Mira Murati? Former OpenAI CTO who rejected Mark Zuckerberg’s $1 billion offer to join Meta AI

Tuesday, 29 July 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Iconiq set to lead $5bn funding round for AI start-up Anthropic

Deal would almost triple valuation of OpenAI’s rival to $170bn

Friday, 25 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman admits he is ‘scared’ to use AI: ‘I don’t know who is…’

Financial Times 🇬🇧

AI start-up Anthropic seeks valuation of over $150bn from Mideast funds

Rival to ChatGPT maker OpenAI has so far shunned Gulf sovereign investors that ‘enrich dictators’

Thursday, 24 July 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

Ike Barinholtz cast as Elon Musk in OpenAI film from Luca Guadagnino

Tuesday, 22 July 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI CEO tells Federal Reserve confab that entire job categories will disappear due to AI

The Independent 🇬🇧

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns of AI being used for voice fraud

The Times of India 🇮🇳

​Explained: Why this mathematician thinks OpenAI isn’t acing the International Mathematical Olympiad — and might be ‘cheating’ to win gold

BBC News 🇬🇧

OpenAI and UK sign deal to use AI in public services

The US tech firm behind ChatGPT say it will work with the UK government to "deliver prosperity for all".

Monday, 21 July 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI and UK sign ‘strategic partnership’ in investment push

Co-operation pledge with Keir Starmer’s government could lead to AI-powered digital services

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Who is Varun Mohan? Indian-origin CEO of Windsurf faces backlash after quitting startup for Google, derailing $3B OpenAI deal

Thursday, 17 July 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI launches personal assistant capable of controlling files and web browsers

Wednesday, 16 July 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI to take cut of ChatGPT shopping sales in hunt for revenues

Artificial intelligence start-up has shown brands a prototype of its new checkout feature

The Times of India 🇮🇳

OpenAI’s ChatGPT down globally: Thousands report errors, here’s what the company said

Saturday, 12 July 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Google Hires A.I. Leaders From a Start-Up Courted by OpenAI

Google recruited the chief executive and a co-founder of Windsurf as the battle to dominate artificial intelligence escalates.

Thursday, 10 July 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

OpenAI is taking on Google Chrome with its own web browser - but will it make you dumber?

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Amazon weighs further investment in Anthropic to deepen AI alliance

The tech groups are increasingly tied to each other and act as a bulwark to Microsoft-OpenAI partnership

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

The Jerusalem Post 🇮🇱

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome

If adopted by the 400 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, OpenAI's browser could put pressure on a key component of rival Google's ad-money spigot.

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic partner with AFT to train thousands of teachers to use AI

Tuesday, 8 July 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

OpenAI and Microsoft Bankroll New A.I. Training for Teachers

The American Federation of Teachers said it would use the $23 million, including $500,000 from the A.I. start-up Anthropic, to create a national training center.

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI clamps down on security after foreign spying threats

Artificial intelligence group has added fingerprint scans and hired military experts to protect important data

Sunday, 6 July 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death – and OpenAI doesn’t know how to stop it

Friday, 4 July 2025

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Sam Altman claims several top OpenAI executives ‘said no to’ Mark Zuckerberg

Thursday, 3 July 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Tokens to Access Private Companies, or to Investor Trouble?

Robinhood is the latest to offer investors a novel, and risky, investment opportunity: crypto that’s meant to give exposure to the likes of OpenAI.

Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI signs $30bn data centre deal with Oracle

Stargate joint venture with SoftBank seeks more computing power to run powerful AI models

Tuesday, 1 July 2025

The Times 🇬🇧

Microsoft and OpenAI tech bromance under pressure

Satya Nadell and Sam Altman are still talking — they’re not Trump and Musk — but tensions are evident as they start to renegotiate their partnership

The Times of India 🇮🇳

Who is Trapit Bansal, the Indian-origin ex-OpenAI engineer behind Meta’s AI push?

Financial Times 🇬🇧

AI talent wars lead to superstar salaries for top tech staff

OpenAI says it will review its compensation to high-profile engineers after being targeted by Meta

Friday, 27 June 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

The A.I. Frenzy Is Escalating. Again.

Companies like OpenAI, Amazon and Meta have supersized their spending on artificial intelligence, with no signs of slowing down.

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

Trump Understands Importance of A.I., OpenAI Chief Says

Sam Altman, who leads the artificial intelligence company, discussed President Trump and other topics in an interview with the Times tech podcast Hard Fork.

Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI and Jony Ive accused of trying to ‘bury’ rival start-up in trademark dispute

CEO of iyO won restraining order forcing Sam Altman-led group to pull marketing materials about $6.4bn venture

The Independent 🇬🇧

Elon Musk claims he ‘does not use a computer’ in OpenAI lawsuit

Monday, 23 June 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI takes down mentions of Jony Ive’s io amid trademark row

Thursday, 19 June 2025

The Economist 🇬🇧

Mark Zuckerberg is spending megabucks on an AI hiring spree

Meta engages in a high-stakes battle to unseat OpenAI

Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Microsoft prepared to walk away from high-stakes OpenAI talks

ChatGPT maker’s plans to convert into a for-profit leads software giant to make contingency plans

The Times 🇬🇧

Meta wooing ChatGPT staff with $100m bonuses, Sam Altman claims

OpenAI’s chief accuses Meta of making ‘giant offers’ to its staff to beef up its roster of AI engineers

BBC News 🇬🇧

OpenAI boss: Meta offering $100m plus to poach my staff

Sam Altman said so far none of his "best people" had jumped ship to his big tech rival.

Tuesday, 17 June 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

OpenAI wins $200m defence contract for ‘warfighting’ AI

Thursday, 12 June 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Barbie-maker Mattel partners with OpenAI to make artificial intelligence child’s play

Toymaker and tech group team up to ‘bring the magic of AI to age-appropriate play experiences’

Monday, 9 June 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI’s expected subscription revenue doubles to $10bn

Company behind the ChatGPT tool is still lossmaking, as are its biggest rivals

Saturday, 7 June 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

Will OpenAI’s ‘trillion-dollar’ mystery gadget change the world?

Tuesday, 3 June 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

Luca Guadagnino set to direct fact-based drama about OpenAI

The Intercept 🇺🇸

Whose National Security? OpenAI’s Vision for American Techno-Dominance

In a paper submitted directly to the Trump administration, OpenAI outlines a Cold Warrior exhortation to divide the world into camps.

Financial Times 🇬🇧

The US government has most to gain from ‘OpenAI for countries’

Imagine how much leverage it will have if it can turn off artificial intelligence capabilities around the world

Monday, 2 June 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

‘Humanity deserves better’: iPhone designer on new partnership with OpenAI

Friday, 30 May 2025

The Parliament Politics 🇬🇧

US Newspapers Take Legal Action Against OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Chatbots

In a move that signifies a significant clash between traditional media and tech giants, eight prominent US newspapers, including The New York Daily News and The Chicago Tribune, have taken legal action against OpenAI and Microsoft.

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI risks being undercut by cheaper rivals, says star investor

Competition from groups including China’s DeepSeek suggest big AI models will be ‘commoditised’, warns Mary Meeker

Thursday, 29 May 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

The emerging reality of the OpenAI-SoftBank grand plan for data centres

The financing and future of the Stargate project hailed by Trump are far from straightforward

The Guardian 🇬🇧

The OpenAI empire

Friday, 23 May 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Oracle to buy $40bn of Nvidia chips for OpenAI’s new US data centre

The 1.2 gigawatts infrastructure project will be one of the largest in the world

Thursday, 22 May 2025

The Guardian 🇬🇧

iPhone design guru and OpenAI chief promise an AI device revolution

The New York Times 🇺🇸

OpenAI Says It Will Build Massive Data Centers in the U.A.E.

As part of a new partnership, G42, an Emirati A.I. firm, will also help fund OpenAI’s new computer facilities in the United States.

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Will the Jony Ive-Sam Altman show challenge Apple?

OpenAI CEO has forecast an end to the era of smartphone dominance

Wednesday, 21 May 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

Famous Apple designer Sir Jony Ive joins OpenAI

OpenAI is moving into hardware, in a threat to giants such as Sir Jony's former firm.

The Times 🇬🇧

Sir Jony Ive’s tech start-up to merge with OpenAI in $6.5 billion deal

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI buys iPhone architect’s startup for $6.4bn

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI to buy Jony Ive’s io for $6.4bn in hardware push

Ex-Apple design chief is working on AI-powered alternatives to smartphones and laptops

The New York Times 🇺🇸

OpenAI Unites With Jony Ive in $6.5 Billion Deal to Create A.I. Devices

OpenAI said it was buying io, a start-up founded by Mr. Ive, the designer of the iPhone, to usher in a new era of artificial intelligence hardware.

Tuesday, 20 May 2025

The Economist 🇬🇧

Sam Altman is a visionary with a trustworthiness problem

Two books tell a similar tale about OpenAI. It is worrying 

Monday, 19 May 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

Microsoft to offer Elon Musk’s xAI models to cloud customers

Tech giant’s move is latest signal of cooling relations with OpenAI

Sunday, 18 May 2025

The Economist 🇬🇧

Schumpeter: Will OpenAI ever make real money?

Friday, 16 May 2025

The New York Times 🇺🇸

OpenAI Unveils New Tool for Computer Programmers

Sunday, 11 May 2025

Financial Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI negotiates with Microsoft to unlock new funding and future IPO

High-stakes talks to revise terms of multibillion-dollar partnership are key to plans to adopt for-profit model

Thursday, 8 May 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and other US tech leaders testify to Congress on AI competition with China

Tuesday, 6 May 2025

The Times 🇬🇧

OpenAI rows back on for-profit plan after backlash

Monday, 5 May 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

OpenAI says non-profit will remain in control after backlash

The move follows a bitter power struggle over the business.

The Guardian 🇬🇧

OpenAI reverses course and says non-profit arm will retain control of firm

The New York Times 🇺🇸

OpenAI Backtracks on Plans to Drop Nonprofit Control

Tuesday, 29 April 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

ChatGPT users can now shop with the AI bot, as OpenAI takes on Amazon

Thursday, 24 April 2025

The Independent 🇬🇧

OpenAI wants to buy Google’s Chrome and turn it into ‘AI experience’

Wednesday, 23 April 2025

BBC News 🇬🇧

ChatGPT-maker wants to buy Google Chrome

An OpenAI executive told a US judge the company would be interested in buying the popular browser.