OpenAI

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I was scrolling through AI news last week and realized something unsettling: the two biggest AI companies in the world can’t release their own models anymore without government sign-off. Not in the EU. Not in China. In the United States. If you’ve been following the AI landscape this year, you know tensions have been building — but this is a different kind of problem. It’s not about which company is winning. It’s about whether any of them can ship. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. OpenAI filed an S-1 with the SEC on June 8, 2026, to take the company public at a valuation of roughly $852 billion. The filing is confidential, and OpenAI hasn’t set a listing date. If it goes through at that price, it would be the largest tech IPO in history — nearly ten times Facebook’s $104 billion debut in 2012. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. I’ve been testing voice AI for over a year now, and the gap between what it could do six months ago and what it can do today is genuinely surprising. GPT-5 shipped in August 2025, but the voice capabilities that came with it — and the specialized models OpenAI released alongside it — have quietly changed what’s possible when you talk to AI instead of typing. Here’s what’s actually new, what’s useful, and what’s still more demo than product. ...

🎧 Prefer to listen? Your browser does not support the audio element. Microsoft’s OpenAI Split: What It Means for AI Users | NCR — No Code Required Microsoft invested over $13 billion in OpenAI and built Copilot on GPT models for three years. At Build 2026, they announced seven in-house AI models, custom silicon, and a restructured non-exclusive deal that lets both companies compete independently. The partnership runs until 2032, but Microsoft no longer depends on OpenAI for its AI capabilities. ...

Last week, my friend held up a handwritten recipe card during a video call. “Can you read this? I can’t figure out my grandmother’s handwriting.” I took a screenshot, pasted it into ChatGPT, and typed “What does this say?” It transcribed the entire recipe in three seconds flat. She stared at me like I’d performed some kind of magic trick. That moment captures exactly what ChatGPT can do with images — it reads, describes, analyzes, and creates them right inside your chat window. No special software. No account upgrades. No learning curve. If you’ve been curious about AI but felt overwhelmed by the options, this is where I’d tell you to start. It’s free, it’s visual, and you’ll see results immediately. ...

Apple buried the ChatGPT integration. OpenAI feels burned. Now they might sue. Here’s what it means for your phone.

OpenAI just added something to ChatGPT that makes it way more useful — and way more concerning at the same time. You can now connect your bank accounts directly to ChatGPT. Your balances, your transactions, your subscriptions — all visible to the AI. You ask it “have I been spending more lately?” and it actually knows the answer. Convenient? Absolutely. But before you click “connect,” there’s something you should understand. ...