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OpenAI Codex Deserves Flowers, Preferably Delivered by a Passing Build Agent
A very positive SiliconSnark love letter to OpenAI Codex, the coding agent that turns software work into supervised parallel magic.
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OpenAI Just Budgeted $250 Million for the “Oops, We Automated Your Job” Fund
OpenAI Foundation is committing $250 million to help workers and economies adapt to AI disruption. The money is real; the hard part is governance.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Should Stop Building AI Consulting Armies and Open the Genius Bar for Intelligence
The frontier labs are building deployment companies for enterprise AI. OpenAI should steal the better Apple playbook: make AI physical, approachable, and easy to try.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.