Why do so many AI chatbots call themselves Nova? I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more to name themselves
Why do so many AI chatbots call themselves Nova? I asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more to name themselves

Users and alignment researchers have found that there’s a common name that most chatbots pick, guess which one went for it straight away?

Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs
Altman says four years of college may be more than the world now needs

Sam Altman told a summit of tech interns that two years of college was “the exact right amount of time” for him and that four years may be more than the world now requires. He made the case to an audience whose entry-level pipeline is already being clo…

How to tell if your AI platforms’ accounts have been hacked

A guide on how to check if hackers have broken into your accounts on the most popular AI platforms.

Nvidia halved its $250bn promise to OpenAI. Then it showed investors what it owns
Nvidia halved its $250bn promise to OpenAI. Then it showed investors what it owns

Anissa Gardizy reported the cut for The Wall Street Journal on 14 August. Under the new proposed terms Nvidia would initially backstop only half of the 10GW project, and it would decide about the rest later. A deal could be signed as soon as this weeke…

I stopped writing careful ChatGPT prompts and rambled at it for 10 minutes instead — the results changed how I use AI
I stopped writing careful ChatGPT prompts and rambled at it for 10 minutes instead — the results changed how I use AI

A messy, unfiltered conversation with ChatGPT produced more insightful answers than carefully crafted prompts

OpenAI CFO tells shareholders enterprise revenue has overtaken ChatGPT
OpenAI CFO tells shareholders enterprise revenue has overtaken ChatGPT

OpenAI’s enterprise business now generates more revenue than its consumer business, finance chief Sarah Friar told shareholders on Friday, months earlier than the company had forecast. Its annualised run rate has reached $40bn, roughly double a year ag…

Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run
Lightspeed is selling its OpenAI stake to a fund it will also run

The firm calls the deal Project Mercury, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with it. It gathers assets from two Lightspeed funds, Select V and Opportunity II, plus a separately managed account. OpenAI is the anchor. Coller Capital is the lead b…

Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it
Thrive Capital’s first investor letter shows how completely OpenAI has come to define it

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has sent its first formal letter to investors, and the standout figure captures the AI era in miniature. One of its funds has swelled to about $3.7bn in value, driven overwhelmingly by early bets on OpenAI and SpaceX. Th…

OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14 times faster, on Cerebras chips
OpenAI’s new Ultrafast mode runs GPT-5.6 Sol 14 times faster, on Cerebras chips

OpenAI wants its cleverest model to also be its quickest. The company has previewed Ultrafast, a new tier of its API that runs the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the usual speed, reaching around 750 output tokens a second, on hardware built by …