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Archives for October 2025

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
OpenAI’s head of ChatGPT said it will significantly evolve in the next six months.

During a Q&A with reporters at DevDay, Nick Turley referenced one of the event’s earlier announcements — that OpenAI is introducing a way to work with apps like Canva, Zillow, Coursera, and Spotify inside ChatGPT — and the chatbot’s next stage of growth. “What you’re going to see for the next six months is an evolution of ChatGPT from an app that is really, really useful into something that feels a little bit more like an operating system.” Within ChatGPT, he said, people will be able to access services and software — both existing software they’re used to using and new software built “natively” atop ChatGPT.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
OpenAI will eventually allow “mature” ChatGPT apps.

When creating apps for ChatGPT, developers must follow a set of guidelines that say apps must be appropriate for everyone, including people aged 13 to 17. However, OpenAI notes that it will support mature (18+) apps once it implements the “appropriate age verification and controls.”

App developer guidelines

[OpenAI Developers]

Elissa Welle
Elissa Welle
Sam Altman: “almost all new code written at OpenAI today is written by Codex users.”

Sam Altman announced that the company’s GPT-5-Codex-powered AI coding tool is now out of research preview and has a direct Slack integration, with more features coming soon.

Cisco, Duolingo, and Instacart are a few of the companies he mentioned that are already using Codex.

Screen: OpenAI
Screen: OpenAI
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Developers can bring Sora 2’s AI video generation into their own apps.

Mattel has already been using Sora 2 via OpenAI’s API to “bring product ideas to life more quickly,” says CEO Sam Altman.

Image: OpenAI / Mattel
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
OpenAI’s new AgentKit gives devs the tools to build AI agents.

The suite of tools includes an Agent Building platform, which offers a visual canvas for developers to create and deploy AI agents. AgentKit also includes access to a customizable chat interface that devs can embed into a website, along with tools to evaluate an agent’s performance. Box, Canva, and Evernote are already using the platform.

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Hayden Field
Hayden Field
I’m on the ground at OpenAI’s annual event, DevDay.

The San Francisco event will kick off with a keynote by CEO Sam Altman, followed by a media Q&A with OpenAI executives like Greg Brockman and Brad Lightcap, a developer state of the union, and a closing fireside chat between Altman and famed former Apple designer Jony Ive.

No word yet on exactly what will be announced, but we may hear updates about the buzzy AI device OpenAI is building with Ive and his team, as well as how OpenAI could change Sora, its new social media app for AI-generated video.

Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
Don’t be that guy.

There are a lot of reasons to be cautious about generative AI tools like OpenAI’s Sora — environmental, ethical, financial, and more — but let’s not forget the fact that it can also be really, really annoying.

ItWasRamirez:

Only one of my friends makes this slop and he’s easily the most annoying guy in my group chat

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Elissa Welle
Elissa Welle
OpenAI buys into personal investing.

OpenAI has acquired Roi, a personal investing startup backed by Kevin Durant that promised AI-driven “insights, education, and guidance.”

Roi will shut down its service, which offered traditional investment options alongside crypto and NFTs, on October 15th and says it’s deleting all user data.

OpenAI acquired personal investment app Roi.
OpenAI acquired personal investment app Roi.
Image: Roi / OpenAI
I’ve fallen into Sora’s slippery slop

OpenAI is the latest company filling your social media feed with AI — but are the memes worth the harms?

Hayden Field