Jay Peters
OpenAI’s open source AI model is delayed.
CEO Sam Altman says to expect it “later this summer but not June,” as reported by TechCrunch. Altman teased the model earlier this year.
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Jess Weatherbed
Hayden Field
Apple’s new research paper says AI reasoning isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
Right before WWDC 2025, Apple researchers published a paper called The Illusion of Thinking (PDF) that made waves. The researchers wrote that popular and buzzy AI models “face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities,” especially with things they’ve never seen before.
They presented models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek with new and complex puzzle games and found their reasoning ability “increases with problem complexity up to a point, then declines.”
Image: Apple
Hayden Field
There’s going to be a movie about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s ouster (and subsequent rehire).
Amazon MGM Studios is reportedly making a movie that will depict the rollercoaster couple of days in November 2023 when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was ousted by the board, then pulled an “Uno Reverse” and was re-hired, after which nearly all of the board members in question subsequently departed.
Luca Guadagnino is in talks to direct, according to The Hollywood Reporter, with Andrew Garfield in talks to play Sam Altman. Production could begin as soon as this summer, per the report, with filming locations in San Francisco and Italy.
Luca Guadagnino to Direct True-Life OpenAI Movie ‘Artificial’ for Amazon MGM
[hollywoodreporter.com]
Hayden Field
ChatGPT gets more personalization for free users.
OpenAI says it’s rolling out a “lightweight version” of the memory improvements it launched in April for paying customers to its free user tier. From now on, ChatGPT will reference both saved memories and recent conversations in chats.
Jess Weatherbed
Elizabeth Lopatto
ChatGPT has fun new incel problems.
Over the weekend, Molly White noted the existence of a chatbot called “Looksmaxxing GPT.” It told one user he was “subhuman” and began recommending surgeries. Body dysmorphia has been on the rise among men and boys, and a chatbot featured on ChatGPT’s front page that makes things worse seems like a bad idea. White reported it, but OpenAI thinks this chatbot is fine.
Jess Weatherbed
Thomson Reuters is building AI agents with OpenAI.
The first is CoCounsel for tax, audit, and accounting professionals, which can perform tasks like client file reviews, memo drafting, and compliance checks. An agentic tax prep application that can draft tax returns is also in the works, called Ready to Review.
Thomson Reuters’ embrace of generative AI was noted by Reuters president Paul Bascobert on Decoder last month. The CoCounsel launch is “just the start” according to Thomson Reuters’ announcement, with agentic workflows for legal, risk, and compliance “coming soon.”
Thomson Reuters Ushers in the Next Era of AI with Launch of Agentic Intelligence
[thomsonreuters.com]
