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OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been dropped. On Monday morning, Microsoft announced a handful of big changes to its long-standing OpenAI deal. Microsoft will remain OpenAI's "primary cloud partner, and OpenAI products will ship first on Azure, unless Microsoft cannot and chooses not to support the necessary capabilities." But OpenAI can "now serve all its products to customers across any cloud provider." That lets Open...

Senator Josh Hawley questions Helen Toner (former OpenAI) on AI labor displacement and existential risk, signaling congressional scrutiny of frontier AI development.

Sam Altman and Elon Musk are set to face off in a high-stakes trial that could alter the future of tech’s leading AI startup, OpenAI. The trial begins with jury selection on April 27th, as Musk pushes forward his 2024 lawsuit that accuses OpenAI of abandoning its founding mission of developing AI to benefit humanity and shifting focus to boosting profits instead. Musk was a cofounder of OpenAI and claims that Altman and co-founder Greg Brockman tricked him into giving the company money, only to turn their backs on their original goal. However, OpenAI says that “This lawsuit has always been a ...

OpenAI rumored to develop AI smartphone to compete with iPhone; unconfirmed report from social media.

OpenAI achieves FedRAMP Moderate authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and API, enabling U.S. federal agency deployment.

Microsoft-OpenAI partnership restructured: non-exclusive IP license, Azure remains first-ship partner, Microsoft stops revenue share to OpenAI.

The phone could go in mass production in 2028, an analyst says.

OpenAI and Microsoft amend partnership agreement to clarify governance, extend commitment, and enable scaled AI development.

User reports visual glitch in OpenAI app; isolated technical support request unrelated to frontier AI development.

Choco uses OpenAI APIs to automate food distribution logistics via AI agents, improving productivity.

OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source orchestration spec enabling issue trackers to function as autonomous agent systems for software engineering workflows.

Reddit user showcases OpenAI's image generation capabilities via an infographic prompt about meme history.

Reddit post expressing skepticism about OpenAI's communication transparency; lacks substantive technical or policy detail.

OpenAI publishes five guiding principles for AGI development under Sam Altman's leadership, emphasizing broad humanity benefit.

Unverified allegation that OpenAI created fake news site with fictitious reporters; lacks credible sourcing and appears to be social media speculation.

Reddit user reports account suspension risk from OpenAI after attempting to automate YouTube downloads; anecdotal account of API guardrail enforcement.

OpenAI releases PII detection and masking model on Hugging Face.

User reports positive results using OpenAI's 2.0 image generator with a personal photo prompt.

Reddit thread listing OpenAI's historical model releases without new analysis or announcement.

In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law enforcement about the suspect in a recent mass shooting.

Sam Altman apologizes for OpenAI's failure to report mass shooter threat to authorities; governance/safety process issue.

OpenAI unified Codex into main model at GPT-5.4; GPT-5.5 shows gains in agentic coding and computer use, no separate Codex variant planned.

Reddit post expressing frustration with OpenAI governance; lacks substantive technical or business content.

OpenAI performance analysis chart generated via GPT image generation; lacks methodology and context.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 prompting guide with techniques for multi-step tasks, including sending early user-visible updates to improve perceived responsiveness.

Reddit speculation about unreleased OpenAI image generation model; no official announcement or evidence.

Reddit post claiming GPT-5.5 SimpleBench scores released; unverified claim lacking official OpenAI confirmation or substantive detail.

llm CLI tool v0.31 adds GPT-5.5 support, verbosity control, and image detail settings for OpenAI models.

OpenAI and Anthropic job listings show unexpectedly high go-to-market hiring relative to engineering and research roles.