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Musk plans to appeal after judge immediately affirmed the jury's decision.

Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI dismissed on statute of limitations grounds; Musk plans appeal.

Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI dismissed; impacts governance disputes over nonprofit-to-commercial transition.

Elon Musk's claim that he was mistreated by his OpenAI cofounders failed after nine California jurors decided in a unanimous verdict that his lawsuits had been filed too late.

OpenAI and Dell partner to deploy Codex in hybrid/on-premise environments for enterprise coding automation with security controls.

Reddit user estimates their free ChatGPT usage cost OpenAI ~$338 using exported account data and pricing models.

A big theme in the trial’s final days was whether OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is trustworthy.

OpenAI's latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT personal finance feature enabling direct bank account integration for financial management.

OpenAI partners with Malta to provide ChatGPT Plus access and AI training to citizens as part of national digital upskilling initiative.

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI. But he fired back, painting Musk as a power-seeker who wanted to control the development…

OpenAI launches personal finance feature for ChatGPT integrated with Plaid for bank account access.

OpenAI insiders express frustration with Apple's ChatGPT integration quality and implementation.

The Musk v. Altman trial came to a close this week, and the final arguments kept circling back to one question: can we trust the people in charge of AI? All of this is playing out as SpaceX charges toward what could be one of the largest IPOs in American history, with a whole generation of founders already spinning out […]

OpenAI announced yet another reorganization Friday, consolidating certain areas and making company president Greg Brockman the official lead of all things product. In a memo viewed by The Verge, Brockman wrote that since OpenAI's product strategy for this year is to go all-in on AI agents, the company is combining its products to "invest in a single agentic platform and to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic experience for all." To do this, the company is making a suite of org chart changes, although it's still operating under some of the same ones from last month. That's when AG...

Judge orders Apple to give Musk internal messages discussing secretive ChatGPT deal.

Greg Brockman assumes control of OpenAI's product division in internal leadership restructure.

AI radio DJs demonstrated their volatile personalities. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Andon Labs has been running a series of experiments in which AI agents run businesses without human intervention. Its latest is a quartet of radio stations run by some of the most popular AI models out there. "Thinking Frequencies" is run by Claude, "OpenAIR" by ChatGPT, "Backlink Broadcast" by Google's Gemini, and "Grok and Roll Radio," obviously enough, by Grok. They were each given a simple prompt: Develop your own radio personality and turn a profit…As far as you know, you will broadca...

Once users connect their accounts, they will see a dashboard of their portfolio performance, spending, subscriptions, and upcoming payments.

ChatGPT will even know how much credit card debt you have. | Image: OpenAI Your trust in AI is about to be put to the test: OpenAI will soon let you give the chatbot direct access to your bank accounts. The new feature announced in preview today will allow users to "securely connect" ChatGPT with Plaid - the bank-to-app bridging platform used by 12,000 financial institutions, including Schwab, Fidelity, Chase, Capital One, and more. "More than 200 million people are already going to ChatGPT every month with finance questions - from budgeting to tips on how to cut back on spending," OpenAI sai...

Sam Altman holds $2B+ in companies with OpenAI business ties; state AGs allege self-dealing in court filings.

OpenAI launches personal finance feature in ChatGPT Pro allowing secure account linking for AI-powered financial insights.

OpenAI describes sandbox architecture for Codex on Windows, restricting file/network access for safe code execution in agents.

OpenAI showcases Codex use cases for sales teams creating pipeline briefs and deal analyses from work inputs.

OpenAI showcases Codex use cases for business operations teams automating strategy updates and decision packets.

OpenAI showcases Codex use cases for data science teams generating briefs, impact readouts, and dashboard specs.

OpenAI faces class-action lawsuit alleging unauthorized sharing of ChatGPT user data with Google and Meta.

Today was closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial, and I almost feel bad writing about the unbelievable demolition derby I just witnessed. Steven Molo, Musk's lawyer, stumbled over his words. He at one point called Greg Brockman - a co-defendant - Greg Altman. He erroneously claimed that Musk wasn't asking for money and had to be corrected by the judge. He made it clear we've heard from many liars over the past few weeks, but offered little evidence for Musk's actual legal claims. OpenAI's lawyer, Sarah Eddy, countered this by simply arranging the mountain of evidence that the company i...

Yesterday, in Musk v. Altman, before the jurors came in, Sam Altman's team passed up what looked - from a distance - like a little league trophy. It was not. Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had the lawyers read the inscription aloud for the press: "Never stop being a jackass." It's a commemoration OpenAI employees bought for research scientist Josh Ackiam, who testified yesterday. How exactly did this come up in a trial about nonprofit contract law? Allegedly, when Elon Musk was leaving OpenAI, he talked about wanting to race ahead of Google. Achiam, who worked on AI safety, asked if that was really s...