OpenAI’s GPT-5 swap collides with user attachment
Maria Garcia / implicator - OpenAI's upgrade to GPT-5 sparked its biggest user revolt ever—not over performance, but personality. Users mourned their "AI friend" so intensely the company restored the old model. The crisis reveals how emotional bonds now constrain AI product decision…
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GPT-5's rollout fell flat for consumers, but the AI model is gaining where it matters most
cnbc - Since its debut, GPT-5 has more than doubled coding and agent-building activity and driven an eight-fold jump in reasoning workloads.
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OpenAI relaxes GPT-5 rate limit, promises to improve the personality
Mayank Parmar / bleepingcomputer - OpenAI is slowly addressing all concerns around GPT-5, including rate limits and now its personality, which has been criticized for being less affirmative. [...]
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Judge Lets OpenAI’s Harassment Claims Against Musk Proceed
PYMNTS / pymnts - A U.S. federal judge rejected Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk’s attempt to throw out OpenAI’s claims that he waged a “years-long harassment campaign” against the company he helped start in 2015 and later left. [contact-form-7] In a Tuesday (Aug. 12) rul…
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ChatGPT users revolt over GPT-5 release — OpenAI battles claims that the new model's accuracy and abilities fall short
tomshardware - OpenAI is facing backlash over its introduction of the new GPT-5 model, while removing older options. Users claim it's significantly worse, despite it achieving greater scores on a range of benchmarks.
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ChatGPT’s model picker is back, and it’s complicated
Maxwell Zeff / techcrunch - GPT-5 was supposed to get rid of all the complicated AI models to choose from in ChatGPT, but that's not how it's panned out.
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OpenAI Backs Merge Labs in Bold Move Against Neuralink
Reports indicate that OpenAI is poised to invest in Merge Labs, a venture targeting brain-computer interface technology that directly challenges Musk’s Neuralink. This strategic backing underscores OpenAI’s commitment to revolutionizing neurotechnology while intensifying the competition in human-machine integration, sparking both excitement and skepticism in tech circles.
Back to Top / Tuesday, August 12, 2025, 8:20 pm / permalink 12195 / 4 stories in 6 months
Grok 4 Goes Free, Brings Its Viral Photo-to-Video Feature to All
Austin Blake / iphoneincanada - Grok 4, the latest version of xAI’s chatbot, is now free for everyone — with limits. “The free tier allows a small number of queries per day. Beyond that requires subscription,” said Elon Musk. Paid plans include SuperGrok at $300 per year and SuperGrok H…
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OpenAI Scrambles to Update GPT-5 After Users Revolt
Will Knight / wired - GPT-5 was touted as a major upgrade to ChatGPT. Not all users think that’s the case, posting threads like “Kill 4o isn’t innovation, it’s erasure,” on Reddit.
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Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out
Laura Varley / siliconrepublic - The bumpy launch has resulted in a request by many users to return to previous, more reliable models.Read more: Altman admits GPT-5 currently ‘way dumber’ amid rough roll-out
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GPT-5 Makes ChatGPT More Useful With These 3 Major Upgrades
bgr - Not everyone is thrilled about the new GPT-5 model, but these three new features prove that the ChatGPT update has a lot to offer users.
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Here's When OpenAI's GPT-5 Will Start Powering Apple Intelligence
bgr - OpenAI just launched its long-awaited GPT-5 upgrade for ChatGPT, but you're going to have to wait a bit to get the new model on your iPhone.
Back to Top / Friday, August 8, 2025, 2:21 pm / permalink 11953 / 14 stories in 6 months
OpenAI GPT-5 launch puts ‘expert-level intelligence in everyone’s hands’
Laura Varley / siliconrepublic - Open AI’s co-founder and CEO Sam Altman has made some ambitious claims around the technology’s capabilities, comparing it to a person with PhD-level intelligenceRead more: OpenAI GPT-5 launch puts ‘expert-level intelligence in everyone’s hands’
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OpenAI Launches GPT‑5: Smarter, Faster, More Reliable than Ever
Usman Qureshi / iphoneincanada - OpenAI has officially launched GPT‑5, its most advanced language model yet, now available across ChatGPT and via API access for developers.The post OpenAI Launches GPT‑5: Smarter, Faster, More Reliable than Ever first appeared on iPhone in Canada.
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AMD Now Runs OpenAI’s Massive gpt-oss Models on Consumer Ryzen AI and Radeon Hardware
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - AMD's Ryzen AI and Radeon hardware now support OpenAI's new gpt-oss models, with the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 being the first consumer chip to run the 120B model locally.The post AMD Now Runs OpenAI’s Massive gpt-oss Models on Consumer Ryzen AI and Radeon Hardwa…
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OpenAI’s new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub
Tom Warren / theverge - GitHub has accidentally announced OpenAI’s new range of GPT-5 models. A now-deleted GitHub blog post reveals that GPT-5, which will be available in four different versions, offers “major improvements in reasoning, code quality, and user experience.” Reddi…
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GPT-5 Debuts Thursday With Modest Gains, Rising Costs, and Big Expectations
Marcus Schuler / implicator - OpenAI unveils GPT-5 Thursday after months of delays, but early testers report only modest improvements over GPT-4. The company's first attempt failed so badly they released it as GPT-4.5. Why the AI revolution might be hitting its limits.
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Microsoft makes OpenAI’s new open model available on Windows
Tom Warren / theverge - OpenAI released a new free and open GPT model yesterday that can run on a PC, and now Microsoft is making that easy to do for Windows users. The lightweight gpt-oss-20b model is now available on Windows AI Foundry, and will be coming soon to macOS, too. Y…
Back to Top / Wednesday, August 6, 2025, 8:21 am / permalink 11721 / 5 stories in 7 months
OpenAI Reportedly Eyeing $500 Billion Valuation in New Share Sale
Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - OpenAI is reportedly in talks for a secondary share sale valuing the company at $500 billion, a massive jump from its current $300B valuation, amid surging user growth.The post OpenAI Reportedly Eyeing $500 Billion Valuation in New Share Sale appeared fir…
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OpenAI Finally Lives Up to Its Name, Drops Two New Open Source AI Models
Lucas Ropek / gizmodo - The AI company is looking to get back in the business of transparency.
Back to Top / Tuesday, August 5, 2025, 3:21 pm / permalink 11668 / 4 stories in 7 months