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Pew have updated their ChatGPT polling from a year ago. Usage has roughly doubled since summer 2023. The share of employed adults who use ChatGPT for work has roughly tripled over the same period to 28%. Two thirds of US adults have still not yet used ChatGPT. https://x.com/AndrewCurran_/status/1948018411470291027

Stargate advances with 4.5 GW partnership with Oracle | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/stargate-advances-with-partnership-with-oracle/

OpenAI’s study mode isn’t perfect, but it is a step forward for a couple reasons: 1) Shows labs taking educational use & misuse seriously (Google also has LearnLM) 2) Addresses a key issue with trying to use AI in education – that AI gives answers rather than tutoring and helping”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1950413896432443439

As ChatGPT becomes a go-to tool for students, we’re committed to ensuring it fosters deeper understanding and learning. Introducing study mode in ChatGPT — a learning experience that helps you work through problems step-by-step instead of just getting an answer. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1950240348695072934

Introducing study mode | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/chatgpt-study-mode/

Introducing study mode in ChatGPT — step by step guidance for students rather than quick answers: https://x.com/gdb/status/1950309323936321943

RT @anshitasaini_: study mode in chatgpt is now rolling out to all free, plus, pro, and teams users! 📚🚀 this has been in the works for a w…”” / X https://x.com/sama/status/1950299705751327149

Study mode in ChatGPT is designed to be interactive, using Socratic questioning and scaffolded responses to help guide users. Available to logged-in Free, Plus, Pro, Team users, with availability in ChatGPT Edu coming in the coming weeks. https://x.com/OpenAI/status/1950240350129574358

OpenAI hits $12 billion in annualized revenue, The Information reports | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-hits-12-billion-annualized-revenue-information-reports-2025-07-31/

Introducing Stargate Norway | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/introducing-stargate-norway/

OpenAI’s Stargate data center project hits speed bumps https://archive.md/1oW1s

Scoop: Anthropic revoked OpenAI’s API access to its models on Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell WIRED. OpenAI was informed that its access was cut off due to violating the terms of service. https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/1951399513291166132

This is the first (small) controlled study I have seen of GenAI on industrial quality control. Here, engineers commissioning new trains took part in an experiment using a GPT-3.5 powered troubleshooting system. Those who used the chatbot had significant increases in work quality https://x.com/emollick/status/1948923874399195189

Exclusive | SoftBank and OpenAI’s $500 Billion AI Project Struggles to Get Off Ground – WSJ https://archive.md/Aadh3

Enterprise AI Transformation Powered by Globant & OpenAI
https://www.globant.com/partnership/openai

Proud to announce our multi-year collaboration with OpenAI as a global services partner. Together, we’ll deliver transformative, scalable AI solutions—combining Open AI’s AI models with Globant’s digital engineering and AI delivery frameworks. Learn more here: https://x.com/migoya/status/1948751958010937549

OpenAI turned a fresh PhD into Meta’s Chief Scientist in just 3 years. A 30-year-old in that role at a big corp is unheard of. Alexandr Wang proposed MEI hiring principle at Scale AI: merit, excellence, intelligence. Zuck’s putting it into practice. Skill >> Seniority”” / X https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1948949960877375662

the bigger story is not that Zuck is giving out 400M offers, it’s that people are turning them down. what might that mean?”” / X https://x.com/willdepue/status/1950253835064086979

We are excited to announce that @shengjia_zhao will be the Chief Scientist of Meta Superintelligence Labs! Shengjia is a brilliant scientist who most recently pioneered a new scaling paradigm in his research. He will lead our scientific direction for our team. Let’s go 🚀 https://x.com/alexandr_wang/status/1948834974205182454

There are far too few careful studies of the progress of AI in key professions and fields that may be most impacted Example: there are only a couple of good controlled studies on lawyers working with AI, the most recent used (now obsolete) o1-preview & even that had big effects.”” / X https://x.com/emollick/status/1949495067309133836

UK and ChatGPT maker OpenAI sign new strategic partnership | Reuters https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-chatgpt-maker-openai-sign-new-strategic-partnership-2025-07-21/

And @Microsoft!”” / X https://x.com/Yoshua_Bengio/status/1951270687957553235

EU AI Act: General-Purpose AI Code of Practice · Final Version
https://code-of-practice.ai/?section=safety-security

Yoshua Bengio on X: “I’ve been thrilled to see the support for the Safety & Security Chapter of the Code of Practice. Most frontier AI companies have now signed on to it: @AnthropicAI, @Google, @MistralAI, @OpenAI, @xAI Why this is important: 🧵 1/6” / X
https://x.com/Yoshua_Bengio/status/1951263044056588677

Sam Altman | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #599 – YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYn8VKW6vXA&t=1847s

Microsoft Nears OpenAI Agreement for Ongoing Tech Access – Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-29/microsoft-s-access-to-openai-tech-is-focus-of-contract-talks?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc1MzgwOTgwNywiZXhwIjoxNzU0NDE0NjA3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTWkxJNVFHUTFaMTIwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJEQjlFREYyREVCMkE0OTVGOTgzMjczRUQxRjk1MTg0NSJ9.ihpLTp_ifD0GiwGJ06jNaLQvUUXCwr1u_sIrNVz1bsk

Lisan al Gaib on X: “horizon-alpha is by OpenAI, but extremely weak on LisanBench, even though it had 5 trials per word instead of just 1 it gets beaten by qwen3-30b-a3b you can tell it’s a very small model https://t.co/Lv6mrNbB9k” / X
https://x.com/scaling01/status/1950730582104604964

not even remotely close to o3-mini level”” / X https://x.com/scaling01/status/1950730792251891948

RT @Teknium1: Looks like OpenAI’s been using Nous’ YaRN and kaiokendev’s rope scaling for context length extension all along – of course ne…”” / X https://x.com/jeremyphoward/status/1951368366943510739

I gave ChatGPT agents access to ChatGPT and asked it to evaluate the other ChatGPT models. Here is what it said (interestingly, it “”hated”” seeing the chain of thought from o4-mini-high as those “”shouldn’t be shared directly with the user””). And it didn’t want to wait for o3-pro. https://x.com/emollick/status/1948228409655460341

Right now, AI adoption in organizations is constrained by the need to figure out how to integrate AI with the complex & often poorly-understood processes inside companies But ChatGPT agent suggests that The Bitter Lesson of AI may come for real work, too. https://x.com/emollick/status/1949811458243531254

RT @OpenAI: ChatGPT agent is now fully rolled out to all Plus, Pro, and Team users. Sorry about the delay! https://x.com/josh_tobin_/status/1948881083308933410

OpenAI agent is blocked by OpenAI captcha. https://x.com/gneubig/status/1948915714955641159

ChatGPT users send 2.5 billion prompts a day | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/21/chatgpt-users-send-2-5-billion-prompts-a-day/

I tested Grok 4 and ChatGPT-o3 with same critical prompts. The results will blow your mind. Grok 4 Vs. ChatGPT-o3 (Video demos are included) https://x.com/alex_prompter/status/1943231978779877514

The Epic Battle for AI Talent—With Exploding Offers, Secret Deals and Tears – WSJ https://archive.md/rrOI9

i fondly recall arguing in 2019 with another researcher about how whether models understand negation. this really was a major sticking point at the time, GPT-2 couldn’t reliably distinguish between “”I did like that”” and “”I didn’t like that””. at some point we fully blew by the”” / X https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1950229423849869672

Me and the gang discussing the leaked OAI details https://x.com/code_star/status/1951174402198086057

OpenAI’s New CEO of Applications Strikes Hyper-Optimistic Tone in First Memo to Staff | WIRED https://archive.md/y6mWG

horizon-alpha is by OpenAI, but extremely weak on LisanBench, even though it had 5 trials per word instead of just 1 it gets beaten by qwen3-30b-a3b you can tell it’s a very small model https://x.com/scaling01/status/1950730582104604964

closed-source AI vs. open-source AI which way western man? https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/1951123624334860428

I can’t stop playing with this tool that GPT-5 made it’s so mesmerizing https://x.com/scaling01/status/1949212878822891783

i usually think articles like this miss the mark, but this one really captured the spirit of mark and jakub’s partnership https://x.com/sama/status/1950936581810041143

I’m told zenith is gpt-5 fwiw”” / X https://x.com/Teknium1/status/1949116545936110035

OpenAI prepares to launch GPT-5 in August | The Verge https://www.theverge.com/notepad-microsoft-newsletter/712950/openai-gpt-5-model-release-date-notepad

horizon-alpha reasons for a ridiculous long time o3 usually gets up to ~20-30k tokens https://x.com/scaling01/status/1951048818897613069

horizon-alpha is pretty good on SVGs https://x.com/scaling01/status/1950847124146704780

🚀 The Singapore Tourism Board partners with @OpenAI to drive the future of tourism with Advanced AI. A first in Asia, this collaboration marks a bold step toward an AI-powered travel future. 🌏 Read more: https://x.com/CountryBranding/status/1948643566215201114

Beijing‑based Moonshot AI released the Kimi K2 LLM family, providing open‑weights access (under a modified MIT license) to a one trillion‑parameter model. The fine‑tuned Kimi‑K2‑Instruct scores 53 percent on LiveCodeBench and 76.5 percent on AceBench, surpassing other https://x.com/DeepLearningAI/status/1950183277161005418

AI as the greatest source of empowerment for all | OpenAI https://openai.com/index/ai-as-the-greatest-source-of-empowerment-for-all/

God is hungry for Context: First thoughts on o3 pro https://www.latent.space/p/o3-pro

On the OpenAI oss model leaks – the issue with sliding window is that you don’t have special tokens to “hold” attention values. Attention sinks solves this – The fact that a single sink token replicated across heads works is v interesting – shallow model – pretty sparse”” / X https://x.com/nrehiew_/status/1951259416113648028

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