Image created with OpenAI GPT-Image-1. Image prompt: mid‑1990s web‑browser screenshot, CRT glow, 256‑color dithering — Rainbow “NEW!” GIF next to every hyperlink — hidden footer link “openai.mil – restricted” — crisp pixel edges, screen‑door scan‑lines, phosphor glow

OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off — and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/openai/705999/google-windsurf-ceo-openai

Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/openai-release-web-browser-challenge-google-chrome-2025-07-09/

xAI gave us early access to Grok 4 – and the results are in. Grok 4 is now the leading AI model. We have run our full suite of benchmarks and Grok 4 achieves an Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index of 73, ahead of OpenAI o3 at 70, Google Gemini 2.5 Pro at 70, Anthropic Claude https://x.com/ArtificialAnlys/status/1943166841150644622

Grok 4 Pricing: Input Token Price: $3.00 Output Token Price: $15.00 more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro and o3″” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1943168223102321003

WIRED on X: “OpenAI has hired four high-profile engineers away from rivals, including David Lau, former vice president of software engineering at Tesla, to join the company’s scaling team, WIRED has learned. https://t.co/I2YmXF51Ah” / X
https://x.com/WIRED/status/1942713783157141505

An example of the type of search (would require reading multiple sites, balancing multiple constraints) where o3/Gemini 2.5 Pro has completely replaced Google for me. https://x.com/emollick/status/1941684036612571529

The io Products, Inc. deal has officially closed and we’re thrilled to welcome the team to OpenAI. Jony Ive & LoveFrom remain independent. They’ll have deep design & creative responsibilities across OpenAI. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1942997166060114166

To use a PDF with the OpenAI API, you can just pass its URL now—no upload needed! 📄🔗 https://x.com/OpenAIDevs/status/1943428227801977037

OpenAI’s open language model is imminent | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/702848/openai-open-language-model-o3-mini-notepad

The best open-source reasoning model will be dropped next Thursday if everything goes well. OpenAI hasn’t open-sourced an LLM since GPT-2 in 2019, so I’m excited. We’re hosting it on Hyperbolic. Buckle up. https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1943005122793214267

ChatGPT for solving a longstanding medical problem:”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1941567568155902397

Design systems aren’t just for Figma. I built a full brand & design spec for my Life Calendar hackathon project. Next step: feed it into GPT to generate a token-efficient prompt version to drop into the project prompt in Bolt, so every AI output stays on-brand. See below 👇 https://x.com/cnnrsmth/status/1931044615609581817

we’re also building out our physical infrastructure team — welcome to many amazing new team members!”” / X https://x.com/gdb/status/1943043253009551608

Sam Altman was asked how he felt about Zuck and Meta poaching OpenAI’s top talent. “Fine… good…” he said. Behind Jony Ive–designed glasses, I couldn’t see his eyes. But I could feel the pain. It’s not hard for Zuck to poach OpenAI talent, not just because he has the money, https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1942707579119100224

OpenAI tightens the screws on security to keep away prying eyes | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/07/openai-tightens-the-screws-on-security-to-keep-away-prying-eyes/

It’s unethical (and reeks of desperation) to give people “exploding offers” that expire within hours, and to ask them to sign before they even have a chance to tell their current manager. Meta, you know better than this. Put people first.”” / X https://x.com/jquinonero/status/1940926946705395943

I’m not big on identities, but I am extremely proud to be American. This is true every day, but especially today—I firmly believe this is the greatest country ever on Earth. The American miracle stands alone in world history. I believe in techno-capitalism. We should encourage”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1941151234775511328

Incredible model. 12 minutes thinking and $0.50 later, to respond with “”base64″” It’s so over for GPT-5 https://x.com/scaling01/status/1943339529236287952

The previously discovered new ChatGPT system hint with codename “”tatertot”” has started showing up as a “”Study together”” tool (although I’m not sure if it’s working already since it still has the description “”internal prototype””) https://x.com/btibor91/status/1941887545354416558

Working with 400,000 teachers to shape the future of AI in schools | OpenAI https://openai.com/global-affairs/aft/

Product idea for OpenAI (I know a lot of you follow me): an entirely paper-based LLM. Just 780 volumes and only 30 person years to do the math for the first token using the paper version of GPT-1 Give the weights actual weight. Plus an excellent setup for science fiction stories https://x.com/emollick/status/1940629256234836036

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