Stargate Michigan, a.k.a. "The Barn": a $16B, 1GW+ campus broke ground in Saline Township, putting Stargate above 8GW planned and $450B+ committed. Sources: OpenAI, Oracle press release, CNBC interview
GPT-Rosalind got the GPT-5.5 brain, with Novo Nordisk joining the trusted-access program. Sources: official announcement, TechTimes
Free-tier brownouts: capacity incidents on June 1, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 11, concentrated on the free tier and the cheap Go plan. Between this and Claude's outage cluster, frontier compute scarcity is no longer a rumor; it's a status page. Sources: OpenAI status, StatusGator
Florida sued OpenAI and Altman personally. Sources: TechCrunch, NPR
ChatGPT starts dreaming: memory was rebuilt on the "Dreaming V3" architecture. Sources: OpenAI, Engadget
Economic Research Exchange: grants plus privacy-safe usage data for external economists studying AI's labor-market impact. Applications close July 5. Sources: OpenAI
Buy OpenAI through Oracle: OCI customers can now burn Oracle Universal Credits on OpenAI models and Codex. Sources: OpenAI
ChatGPT ads landed in the UK: first European market, Free and Go tiers only, with explicit opt-in for personalized targeting. Japan, South Korea, Brazil and Mexico are next. Sources: Digiday, PPC Land
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