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Codex has averaged 10k pull requests per day over the past 35 days:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1935874544931324325

Meta poaches three OpenAI researchers, WSJ reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-hires-three-openai-researchers-wsj-reports-2025-06-26/

OpenAI is building collaborative document editing and chat features inside ChatGPT, that would position the company as a competitor to Google. These tools extend the chatbot into a productivity suite. They mirror functions in Workspace and Office 365. These updates fit Sam https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1937740008053424168

Web search is now available with OpenAI o3, o3-pro, and o4-mini. The model can search the web within its chain-of-thought! 🧠🌐 $10 / 1K tool calls https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1938296690563555636

Exclusive | Meta Hires Three OpenAI Researchers – WSJ https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-poaches-three-openai-researchers-eb55eea9

Sam Altman on Stargate, Humanoid Robots and OpenAI’s Future | The Circuit with Emily Chang – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTu0ak4GoyM

Sam Altman says he’s excited about a future where signing up for ChatGPT’s highest tier gets you a free humanoid robot. ⦿ The mechanical engineering and AI for humanoids are quite hard but feel within grasp. ⦿ Making a billion humanoid robots will take a while; maybe the first https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1936494676770803837

ChatGPT drafted a California renter-law rebuttal, nullifying a $275 cleaning fee. Fee waiver granted within five minutes. Such cases are plenty. Personally, ChatGPT is my best lawyer over the last 1 year. https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/1938107456242270595

Two new additions to the API: 📚 Deep research 🪝 Webhooks”” / X https://x.com/openaidevs/status/1938286704856863162?s=46&t=jDrfS5vZD4MFwckU5E8f5Q

Worldwide iPhone App Store downloads over the last 28 days: ChatGPT: 29,551,174 TikTok + Facebook + Instagram + X: 32,859,208 https://x.com/Similarweb/status/1937403925461610629

Reddit considers iris-scanning Orb developed by a Sam Altman startup | Semafor https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025/reddit-considers-iris-scanning-orb-developed-by-a-sam-altman-startup

Microsoft Word – IYO versus IO – Draft Complaint(529731408.15).docx https://business.cch.com/ipld/IYOIOProdsComp20250609.pdf

We’re starting to get a clearer picture of the mission of Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by ex-OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. Investors who have spoken to her are describing it as “”RL for businesses.”” w/ @erinkwoo @rocketalignment: https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/1937284120062706004

How Ex-OpenAI CTO Murati’s Startup Plans to Compete With OpenAI and Others — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex-openai-cto-muratis-startup-plans-compete-openai-others

jason rugolo had been hoping we would invest in or acquire his company iyo and was quite persistent in his efforts. we passed and were clear along the way. now he is suing openai over the name. this is silly, disappointing and wrong. https://x.com/sama/status/1937606794362388674

ChatGPT connectors for Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, and Box are now available to Pro users (excluding EEA, CH, UK) in ChatGPT outside of deep research. Perfect for bringing in your unique context for everyday work.”” / X https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1937681383448539167

Sam Altman says the timeframe for GPT-5 release isn’t clear yet — maybe sometime this summer OpenAI is internally debating whether to go with GPT-5, then 5.1, 5.2, or keep doing updates like GPT-4o to avoid confusion “”we’ve gotta figure something out here”” https://x.com/slow_developer/status/1935454978564366350

Deep Research API with the Agents SDK https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/deep_research_api/introduction_to_deep_research_api_agents

Introduction to deep research in the OpenAI API https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/deep_research_api/introduction_to_deep_research_api

RT @sydneyrunkle: 🔬 OpenAI just released new deep research models. 🤖 You can build agents with those models TODAY in langgraph! https://t.…”” / X https://x.com/hwchase17/status/1938599423732482107

Wow! Tencent dropped Hunyuan A13B – 256K context, competitive to Qwen A22B & OAI O1, optimised for tool calling (agents) AND coding 🤩 https://x.com/reach_vb/status/1938509495405035718

The mention of RL in OAI’s DeepResearch has inadvertently been such a psyop for many. RL for DeepResearch is a cherry on top. Your LLM is a wonderful prior that can already do these behaviors—you don’t need to fully specify the full reward. Just reinforce some right factoids,”” / X https://x.com/lateinteraction/status/1936945373387321475

our engineering and compute teams do incredible work to rapidly scale to meet customer demand for chatgpt. a lot of blood sweat and tears go into this, and they make it look relatively easy. i have never seen a team handle a 2.5 year sprint with such grace!”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1937514123912491317

A quote from FAQ for Your Brain on ChatGPT https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/faq-for-your-brain-on-chatgpt/

My favorite thing an old OpenAI buddy of mine told me is, whenever he hears that someone is a “great AI researcher”, he just directly spends 5 minutes looking at that person‘s PRs and wandb runs. People can do all kinds of politics and optical shenanigans, but at the end of the”” / X https://x.com/_jasonwei/status/1936523909815542112

A day after Google X spinout iyO sued OpenAI for trademark theft, Sam Altman shared emails showing iyO’s founder pushed for an acquisition—OpenAI declined. Altman called the lawsuit “silly, disappointing, and wrong,” saying it’s not cool to sue over rejection. https://x.com/rowancheung/status/1937785879918977229

OpenAI Quietly Designed a Rival to Google Workspace, Microsoft Office — The Information https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-quietly-designed-rival-google-workspace-microsoft-office

what year do you think an o3-mini level model will run on a phone?”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1937607691519819863

Wow, Zuck basically acquired the whole OpenAI Zurich office! I still remember this @giffmana’s tweet last December. They don’t even want to wait for their OpenAI equity to vest, wonder how big Meta’s signing bonus is. Congrats Lucas! Make Llama 5 great again! https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1938077153733800075

OpenAI DevDay Oct 6, 2025 in San Francisco Our biggest one yet: – 1500+ developers – Livestreamed opening keynote – Hands-on building with our latest models & tools – More stages & more demos https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1938277642014494980

RFT, DPO, SFT: Fine-tuning with OpenAI — Ilan Bigio, OpenAI – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfaLQqfXqPA&t=547s

Introducing the OpenAI Podcast—a series of conversations with the people shaping AI. @sama joins @andrewmayne on the first episode to talk about AGI, (wen) GPT-5, privacy, and what comes next. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1935357512011890815

RT @ns123abc: George Hotz explains his thoughts on working at OpenAI vs. META: > why would any researcher want to work at openai? > pape…”” / X https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1938415744796299705

o3 for analyzing your health data:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1935522209382187381

just so everybody is clear this is @sama’s way of announcing that the openai open-source model will be around o3-mini level.”” / X https://x.com/corbtt/status/1937757709241311531

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