The company reportedly requested a full list of attendees from the memorial of the 16-year-old who died by suicide after increasingly confiding in ChatGPT, according to lawyers for his family, who are suing OpenAI. The request covered “all documents relating to memorial services or events in the honour of the decedent including but not limited to any videos or photographs taken, or eulogies given . . . as well as invitation or attendance lists or guestbooks,” the FT reported, citing a document.
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OpenAI’s new browser is great at providing AI-generated responses, but not so great at searches.
That means you can make AI videos with reusable characters of things like “your dog, guinea pig, favorite stuffed toy, and pretty much anything else you want,” according to OpenAI’s head of Sora. The app is also getting “basic” video editing capabilities, and an Android version will launch “soon.”

Photos of the UAE datacenter construction site released Thursday show the footprints of the big buildings that OpenAI and its Stargate partners, Oracle, NVIDIA, Cisco, and SoftBank say will house 16-gigawatts of compute power for everything from curing cancer to sexting. Thus far, construction of the first 200 megawatts is “well underway” to meet the 2026 deadline.
As OpenAI’s Sam Altman reveals the company is ready to let ChatGPT sext with verified adult users, one commenter points out that this may create some ambiguity in the future.
Lewise:
Soon we’ll need some disambiguation when OpenAI reports how many subs it has
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OpenAI wants to spend more than $1 trillion on its quest to build superintelligent AI, according to the Financial Times.
The figure dwarfs the roughly $13 billion it takes in each year, so the startup is counting on new shopping tools, consumer gadgets, online advertising, sales from Sora, and government deals to get it there. “Creative” debt arrangements are also on the table.
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