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Archives for November 2025

Hayden Field
Hayden Field
OpenAI rolled out GPT-5.1 Pro to all Pro users.

The company said that in early testing, users rated it “especially highly for writing help, data science, and business questions.” Enterprise users should receive access next Monday, per OpenAI. GPT-5 Pro, the new model’s predecessor, will be available via the legacy model dropdown menu for 90 days before OpenAI retires it.

Thomas Ricker
Thomas Ricker
OpenAI board member resigns over Jeffrey Epstein emails.

After communications between Larry Summers — who formerly held positions as Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard University — and the sex offender were made public, the current OpenAI board member now says he’ll resign from the position.

Cameron Faulkner
Cameron Faulkner
The mythological pantheon of Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron.

Gamers Nexus reports that the cost of many consumer DDR5 and DDR4 RAM kits has increased drastically recently.

But why? There’s a lot to it, but AI datacenter projects, like OpenAI’s Stargate (which the company expects to require 900,000 semiconductor wafers per month), might be contributing to this trend.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Elizabeth Lopatto
OpenAI board member calls pedophile Jeffrey Epstein his “wing man” in an email.

After CEO Sam Altman was fired and then unfired from OpenAI, Larry Summers was added to OpenAI’s board to replace the board members that had nixed Altman. In recently-released email messages, Summers seeks advice from Epstein on pursuing a woman he describes as a “mentee.” Hm!

The company at the heart of the AI bubble
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The Nvidia-backed data center company is part of a growing ecosystem of so-called neoclouds propping up the AI industry and its insatiable hunger for compute.

Nilay Patel
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
ChatGPT violated copyright, German court rules.

It’s the latest legal ruling that training on copyrighted materials without permission violates said copyright, ignoring OpenAI’s argument that users should be the ones held liable.

German music rights society GEMA filed the case on behalf of the lyricists behind nine of the country’s biggest hits, though OpenAI says it’s considering an appeal.

Robert Hart
Robert Hart
Seven more people are suing OpenAI.

The lawsuits, filed in California, are just the latest to claim ChatGPT harmed loved ones and led to mental health breakdowns. Four died by suicide after interacting with the bot.

Stevie Bonifield
Stevie Bonifield
ChatGPT just got two new apps.

Now you can plan a workout routine with Peloton or make vacation plans with Tripadvisor directly in ChatGPT. They’re the latest additions to the AI platform’s app library since it launched last month. More are still on the way, including Uber and DoorDash.

Screenshots of the Peloton and Tripadvisor apps in ChatGPT in front of a blue background
Image: OpenAI
Hayden Field
Hayden Field
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talked about how it will pay for about $1.4 trillion in infrastructure commitments.

Addressing concerns about OpenAI’s revenue growth, he wrote that the company expects to end this year “above $20 billion in annualized revenue run rate and grow to hundreds of billion by 2030,” and that though that may be tough to square with its “commitments of about $1.4 trillion over the next 8 years,” the company is “feeling good about our prospects there” due to its upcoming enterprise offering, consumer devices, and robotics.