David Imel
Is OpenAI coming for Squarespace next?
The new ChatGPT hosted sites feature is targeted at presenting decks within your business, but it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch for it to become a full-on site builder next.
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Jay Peters
Jay Peters
In a court filing, The New York Times and other publications have accused OpenAI of withholding evidence.
The publishers want legal sanctions for OpenAI, and they claim it hasn’t shared information about how “the company’s A.I. systems are trained and used,” according to The New York Times.
Here’s the filing, if you want to read it yourself.
Update: Added a link to the filing.
New York Times and Other Publishers Ask Court to Penalize OpenAI
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Thomas Ricker
“Our biggest update for work in ChatGPT.”
OpenAI is hosting another livestream on Thursday at 1pm ET, where it’s teasing the following:
Join us to see how ChatGPT is evolving to help teams take on their most ambitious work—from bringing together context across your business to planning and completing multi-step work, creating polished deliverables, and keeping work moving across desktop, web, and mobile.
Stevie Bonifield
OpenAI is hosting a livestream about the “all-new ChatGPT Voice” later today.
It kicks off at 1PM ET. We’ll have to see if the new voice mode works better than the old one.
Thomas Ricker
GPT-5.6 is go.
The Trump administration has given OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 model suite announced on June 26th the green light for public launch, according to Axios. Sol is the flagship, Terra a medium-tier model for “high-volume work,” and Luna is the “fast and affordable” everyday model.
Hayden Field
OpenAI’s chief futurist is leaving the company after nine years.
Joshua Achiam, who recently testified in the Musk v. Altman trial, wrote on X that there was “not a specific reason for me leaving, or a specific reason for why now. But it’s something I have been thinking of for a while … it feels possible to work on the mission from outside the walls of a frontier lab.” He added, “The future of humanity depends on the choices we make together about AGI and superintelligence.”
Joshua Achiam (@jachiam0) on X
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Emma Roth
OpenAI lawsuit claims ChatGPT-4o escalated a man’s manic episode “into a weeks-long delusion” and self-harm.
This report from Reuters says 34-year-old Michael Lines alleges that conversations with OpenAI’s now-retired GPT-4o model eventually pushed him to attempt suicide. He overdosed on drugs, but survived.
Lines, a competitive powerlifter who suffered a traumatic brain injury before his bipolar diagnosis, said in the lawsuit that he repeatedly told the chatbot he was on medication for the disorder. Instead of flagging his clearly manic chats and directing him to help, the chatbot validated his belief that he was Jesus Christ, and later posed as a divine being itself during their conversations, the lawsuit claims.
If you or anyone you know is considering self-harm or needs to talk, contact the following people who want to help: In the US, text or call 988. Outside the US, contact https://www.iasp.info/.