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AI plush toys for toddlers run on adult chatbots with almost no vetting
Over 1,500 AI toy makers are now active in China, and tests show the bears discuss BDSM, knives and CCP talking points to children as young as three.

Musk Seeks $134B and Altman's Ouster in OpenAI Nonprofit Lawsuit
Elon Musk's suit over OpenAI's for-profit conversion lands in court, with Anthropic lawyers watching and the company's IPO timeline at stake.

OpenAI adds GPT-Realtime-2, Translate and Whisper to its Realtime API
The new voice stack handles 70 input languages and 13 output languages, pushing the API beyond simple call-and-response.

Murati deposition exposes the 78 texts behind Sam Altman's 2023 ouster
Trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman show the former OpenAI CTO helped trigger the firing, then spent 14 hours texting to reverse it.

OpenAI adds Trusted Contact alerts to ChatGPT amid self-harm lawsuits
Adult users can now designate a friend or family member who gets pinged when ChatGPT detects signs of self-harm in a conversation.

Musk lawsuit puts OpenAI safety record on trial as ex-staffer testifies
Former AGI readiness lead Rosie Campbell told a federal court OpenAI shifted from research to product, with the Super Alignment team shut down in 2024.

Musk tried to move OpenAI's founders into Tesla, 2018 emails show
Court testimony reveals Musk pitched Altman, Brockman and Sutskever on running AI inside Tesla — or making OpenAI a Tesla subsidiary.

OpenAI's Compute Bill Hits $50 Billion as Brockman's Stake Reaches $30 Billion
Greg Brockman testified under oath that OpenAI will spend $50 billion on compute in 2026, up from $30 million in 2017.

Brockman Tells Court OpenAI Will Spend $50B on Compute in 2026
OpenAI president's sworn testimony reveals a compute bill that has ballooned from $30 million in 2017 to $50 billion this year.

OpenAI Opens Self-Serve Ads Platform With $2.5B Revenue Target
OpenAI's ads manager goes live for all US advertisers at $3 to $5 per click, with internal goals of $100 billion in ad revenue by 2030.

OpenAI Opens Self-Serve Ads Platform, Targets $100B by 2030
OpenAI scraps its $50,000 minimum spend and opens ads.openai.com to all US advertisers, chasing YouTube-scale revenue.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant Cuts Hallucinations 52% as Default ChatGPT Model
OpenAI replaces GPT-5.3 Instant with a new default model touting sharper accuracy in medicine, law, and finance, plus user-visible memory controls.

Barry Diller backs Sam Altman but warns 'trust is irrelevant' as AGI nears
The IAC chairman says OpenAI's CEO is sincere, but the real risk is that AI's creators don't understand what they're building.

Nvidia opens Spectrum-X's MRC protocol via OCP after OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle deployments
The Multipath Reliable Connection transport, proven on Blackwell training runs, is now an open spec through the Open Compute Project.

Trump officials revive Biden-era AI safety reviews after Anthropic's Mythos spooks the White House
Google, Microsoft, and xAI agreed Tuesday to give the Commerce Department early access to frontier models — a year after the administration mocked the same idea.

Nvidia opens Spectrum-X's MRC protocol to the industry after OpenAI, Microsoft, Oracle deployments
The Multipath Reliable Connection protocol, co-developed with OpenAI and Microsoft, reroutes failed network paths in microseconds across gigascale GPU fabrics.

Cerebras Targets $26.6B Valuation in IPO as OpenAI Emerges as Top Shareholder
The AI chip maker plans to raise about $3.5 billion, while a December loan converts into a multi-billion-dollar stake for OpenAI.

OpenAI's o1 Beats ER Doctors at Triage Diagnosis in Harvard Study
A Harvard Medical School study found OpenAI's o1 preview diagnosed ER triage cases correctly 67% of the time, ahead of attending physicians.

OpenAI phone targets early 2027 mass production on a custom MediaTek chip
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says OpenAI is fast-tracking a ChatGPT phone aimed at 30 million units across 2027–2028.

OpenAI makes GPT-5.5 Instant the default ChatGPT model, claims 52.5% fewer hallucinations
The new default cuts hallucinated claims by more than half on medical, legal, and financial prompts and scores 81.2 on AIME 2025 math.

Etsy launches a native ChatGPT app after Instant Checkout flopped in March
The handmade marketplace returns to ChatGPT with a conversational app spanning over 100 million listings, two months after its first integration ended.

Medical student spends six months reverse-engineering Cortex, the AI tool screening 30% of US residency applications
Chad Markey applied to 82 residency programs and got rejections. Then he learned 1,500 hospitals were using an OpenAI-powered screener called Cortex.

Eric Schmidt's office publishes a blueprint for AI in democracy
Andrew Sorota and Josh Hendler argue personal AI agents are about to mediate citizenship — and US institutions are not ready.

Cerebras IPO targets $26.6B valuation with OpenAI holding warrants on 33M shares
The Wafer-Scale Engine 3 maker is pricing 28 million shares at $115 to $125, with banks already fielding $10 billion in orders.
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