OpenAI
OpenAI is a San Francisco AI lab, the maker of ChatGPT, the GPT model family and the Sora video generator. Its releases set the pace for the entire industry, and its partnership with Microsoft puts its models inside Copilot and Azure. This page gathers all our coverage of OpenAI: product launches, research and company news.
Perplexity Personal Computer turns an old Mac into a local AI agent 24/7
Perplexity has launched Personal Computer, a tool that turns a spare Mac into a personal AI assistant with full access to files and control
Google Maps gets Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered feature for complex questions about places
Google has added Ask Maps to Maps, powered by Gemini: users can now ask unconventional questions about places and get detailed personalized
Google Maps launches Ask Maps — a Gemini-powered conversational interface for place search and trip planning
Google has added Ask Maps, a Gemini-powered chat assistant, to the Google Maps mobile app: it answers questions about places and plans route
xAI starts from scratch again: Musk builds an AI coding tool with a team from Cursor
Nyne raises $5.3 million to give AI agents personal user context
Handshake hires improv actors to teach OpenAI human emotions
OpenAI to launch an adult mode for ChatGPT: text only, no porn
Merriam-Webster and Encyclopedia Britannica Sue OpenAI Over 100,000 Articles
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster accuse OpenAI of unlawfully using nearly 100,000 copyrighted articles to train language models —
Memories.ai is developing a visual memory layer for wearables and robots
Startup Memories.ai is building a large visual memory model that will allow wearables and robots to index and retrieve video recordings of r
Rana el-Kaliouby: "boys' club" in AI threatens to entrench the gender income gap
Google Expands Personal Intelligence to All US Users
Google makes personal Gemini with Gmail and YouTube access available to everyone in the US
Gary Tan’s Claude Code setup: thousands tried it, opinions split
Patreon chief called AI companies' fair use argument untenable
Jack Conte said platforms must pay creators for training data — and licensing deals with publishers prove it.
ChatGPT did not cure a dog's cancer: how a viral story turned out to be exaggerated
An Australian entrepreneur claimed that ChatGPT saved his dog from cancer — the story spread around the world, but the reality turned out to