AI
OpenAI Launched a Consulting Firm. The AI Was Not Consulted.
OpenAI built the AI. Now they've built a consulting firm to explain it. They named it 'the OpenAI Deployment Company.' McKinsey signed on.
AI
OpenAI Is Sharing Its Cyber Weapon With Europe—and Would Like a Gold Star for Not Being Anthropic
Sam Altman called Anthropic’s AI secrecy “fear-based marketing.” Then he did the same thing. Now OpenAI wants credit for being the generous one.
AI
GPT-5.5 Instant: Now with 52.5% Fewer Hallucinations, Zero Gratuitous Emojis, and Full Access to Your Gmail
OpenAI's new default ChatGPT model is smarter, less emoji-addicted, and reading your inbox. Progress!
Big Tech
OpenAI and Anthropic Both Invented the Same Company This Morning. Palantir Wants Royalties.
Two rival AI labs. One identical idea. Announced hours apart. Enterprise AI’s great leap forward looks suspiciously like a group project where nobody checked the shared doc.
Big Tech
Microsoft and OpenAI Are Now 'Official but Non-Exclusive.' The AGI Clause Got a Quiet Funeral.
After five years of exclusivity, Microsoft and OpenAI just announced an open relationship. They also buried the clause about what happens when AI becomes smarter than us. No big deal.
OpenAI
Sam Altman Has Started Posting Like He Bought a Tech Talk Show Because He Did
OpenAI bought TBPN on April 2, and by the April 23 GPT-5.5 rollout, Sam Altman's launch posts suddenly sounded less like lab comms and more like a founder-host who knows how the feed works.
Big Tech
OpenAI Drops GPT-5.5 Seven Weeks After 5.4. The Previous Four Were Just Practice, Apparently.
OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 — its "smartest and most intuitive model yet" — seven weeks after saying the same about 5.4. This time they mean it.
AI
OpenAI Is Killing DALL-E. Its Replacement Was Tested Under the Name “Maskingtape-Alpha.” This Is Not a Screenshot.
DALL-E dies May 12. Its replacement was secretly A/B tested under tape-themed codenames. OpenAI announced this with a cryptic tweet and zero ceremony.
Big Tech
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google Just Formed an Alliance — The Enemy Learned Everything From Them
Three companies that built empires on other people’s data just united against someone using theirs.
Guides
The Definitive 2026 Guide to AI's GPTs and Friends
A longer, up-to-date field guide to the chatbots, model families, open-weight contenders, copilots, companions, and AI oddballs shaping 2026.
Big Tech
Sam Altman Bought His Favorite Tech Show. The Editorial Independence Is Definitely Going to Be Fine.
OpenAI just acquired TBPN — Sam Altman's admitted fave — and pinky-promised independence. The show now reports to a lobbyist.
Startups
SoftBank Borrowed $40 Billion to Invest $30 Billion in OpenAI, and I Have So Many Questions
Masayoshi Son took out a $40B bridge loan to double down on AI. The bridge leads to an $850B valuation and a lot of faith.