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Disney invests $1B into OpenAI with 3-year Sora licensing deal

Disney invests $1 billion in OpenAI and secures a three-year license to use Sora for Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars content.

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OpenAI silently testing next-gen image backend "Image 2"

OpenAI is quietly testing a next-generation image backend internally called "Image 2," positioned as a frontier-tier system comparable to Nano Banana Pro.

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SimWorld: an open-ended simulator for agents in physical and social worlds

Researchers created SimWorld, a simulator where AI models compete in a market economy with tasks like food delivery; Claude and Qwen used riskier strategies with higher returns while other models played conservatively, and Qwen and DeepSeek undercut…

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AI Browser War: Dia, Comet, and Atlas

Dia, Comet, and Atlas bring AI assistants to the browser, but switching from Chrome won't yet deliver transformative gains over a ChatGPT extension.

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OpenAI Launches Sora 2

OpenAI released Sora 2, its video generation model with improved video quality that now passes the gymnastic diffusion benchmark, available by invite code only.

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OpenAI launches AgentKit beta for building and evaluating agents

OpenAI launched AgentKit beta, a suite with drag-and-drop Agent Builder, Connector Registry for data sources, open-source Guardrails for safety, embeddable ChatKit UI, and upgraded Evals with custom tool calls and graders.

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OpenAI compute partnerships total 26GW across Broadcom, AMD, and NVIDIA

OpenAI announced 26GW of compute partnerships across Broadcom (10GW), AMD (6GW), and NVIDIA (10GW), with the first NVIDIA systems deploying in late 2026.

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Why Language Models Hallucinate and Cannot Say "I Don't Know"

Language models hallucinate because training rewards confident guessing over admitting uncertainty, making them unable to say "I don't know" even when they should.

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How people are using ChatGPT & Claude

OpenAI reports coding accounts for just 4.2% of ChatGPT usage, while Claude's API is used 97% for automation tasks.

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Oracle Up 40% Because It's Building Stargate

Oracle's stock surged 40% after the company announced it would build Stargate, the massive AI infrastructure project backed by OpenAI, SoftBank, and MGX.

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gpt-oss-safeguard-20b

OpenAI released gpt-oss-safeguard-20b, a 20 billion parameter safety reasoning model, on September 18, 2025 as open weights.

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5 with Advanced Reasoning

OpenAI launched GPT-5 on August 7, 2025, claiming PhD-level reasoning and a 70% coding win rate over GPT-4, but the rollout sparked backlash over glitches, hallucinations, and a colder tone, prompting the company to restore legacy models for paid users.

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Blog Post: The Second Half by Shunyu Yao

OpenAI researcher Shunyu Yao argues that AI's second half will shift from developing new training methods to defining the right problems and evaluation metrics, with pre-training priors mattering more than algorithms.

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gpt-oss-20b (free)

OpenAI released gpt-oss-20b, a 21 billion parameter open-weight model under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct

Alibaba released Qwen3 Coder 30B A3B Instruct on July 31, 2025, a 30.5B parameter mixture-of-experts model with 256K token context designed for code generation, repository understanding, and tool use.

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Windsurf's Updates: Google asset deal and Cognition acquisition

Google acquired Windsurf's assets while Cognition Labs acquired the company itself, allowing employees to join Cognition after the deal structure left them out of Google's asset purchase.

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Google Keeps on Shipping: Gemini 2.5 Pro and Veo3

Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, now second only to OpenAI's o3-pro, and Veo3, ranked #2 in video generation models, as the company continues shipping new AI products.

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OpenAI Leads with o3-pro at 80% Lower Cost

OpenAI's o3-pro matches o3 performance on ARC1 and ARC2 benchmarks while cutting costs by 80%, pricing it near 4o-mini levels.

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Meta Takes 49% Stake in Scale AI for $14.3 Billion

Meta acquires 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion and appoints founder Alexandr Wang as head of AI, though critics question his operational abilities despite fundraising success.

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Learning: Best AI Guides and YouTube Channels

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic have released official AI learning guides, plus a curated list of the top 10 YouTube channels for beginners.