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OpenAI’s Explosive August 2025: GPT-5 Launch, $500B Frenzy & AI Controversies Rock Tech World

OpenAI’s Explosive August 2025: GPT-5 Launch, $500B Frenzy & AI Controversies Rock Tech World

On August 7, 2025, OpenAI unveiled GPT-5, featuring a unified architecture with a fast default responder, a deeper “GPT-5 thinking” module, and a smart router, plus multimodal abilities. GPT-5 rolled out to ChatGPT on launch day, with nearly 700 million weekly active users by August 2025 and more than 5 million paying business users. GPT-5 is offered in three sizes — full GPT-5, mini, and nano — with scaled pricing to balance cost and latency. OpenAI introduced a novel “safe-completions” training approach that aims to maximize helpfulness within safety constraints rather than issuing binary refusals for sensitive prompts. On August
21 August 2025
GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

GPT‑5 Has Arrived: OpenAI’s Next‑Gen AI Stuns With Upgrades in Coding, Reasoning, and Safety

GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 and is the default model in ChatGPT for all users, both free and paid. GPT-5 is a unified model with an internal router that automatically balances speed and thorough reasoning, and it supports a 400,000-token context window. GPT-5 is multimodal (text and vision) and includes a built-in voice mode for natural spoken conversations, with image interpretation and real-time translation capabilities. GPT-5 demonstrates agentic capabilities by reliably chaining dozens of API calls and tools, achieving a 97% score on OpenAI’s Tau² tool-use benchmark. GPT-5 introduces variants GPT-5, GPT-5-mini, GPT-5-nano, and GPT-5-Pro, with pay-as-you-go API pricing
8 August 2025
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GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

GPT-5 Launches Today: OpenAI’s ‘PhD-Level’ AI Ushers in a New Era of ChatGPT

GPT-5 launched on August 7, 2025 and was rolled out to all ChatGPT users, including the free tier. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman described GPT-5 as “clearly generally intelligent” and a “PhD-level” expert, a step toward AGI but not AGI yet. GPT-5 features “Think Harder” mode with test-time compute that automatically allocates more processing power for hard questions. GPT-5 provides a 400,000-token context window, vastly larger than GPT-4’s 32,000 tokens, enabling long documents and conversations. GPT-5 is billed as OpenAI’s strongest coding model, capable of generating working software end-to-end from a single prompt and even building a fully functional web app
8 August 2025
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OpenAI’s $12B Revelation, ‘Study Mode’ Launch & 100k-GPU AI Hub – Experts React in 48-Hour AI Frenzy

OpenAI’s $12B Revelation, ‘Study Mode’ Launch & 100k-GPU AI Hub – Experts React in 48-Hour AI Frenzy

OpenAI’s revenue reached a $12 billion annualized run rate in the first seven months of 2025, implying about $1 billion per month. OpenAI’s weekly active users across consumer and business products reached about 700 million. OpenAI raised its 2025 cash burn forecast to roughly $8 billion, up from $7 billion. The second $30 billion tranche of OpenAI’s funding round is nearly finalized, with about $7.5 billion in new funding, as Sequoia Capital and Tiger Global each pledge hundreds of millions and SoftBank has committed $32 billion since late 2024. Microsoft is negotiating a new deal to ensure continued access to
31 July 2025
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OpenAI’s Meteoric Rise: Breakthroughs, Billions, and Backlash in 2025

OpenAI’s GPT‑5 Could Drop as Soon as August—Here’s What It Means for the Future of AI

GPT-5 could debut as early as August, according to Reuters, and will fuse several distinct systems rather than ship as a single monolith. The Verge reports mini and nano variants will launch alongside the flagship to offer tiered pricing and lower-latency or on-device use. Early testers say GPT-5 will be multimodal and agentic, able to mix text, images, audio and file manipulation inside task-running agents. There are rumors of a million-token context window with persistent memory baked into the core, enabling handling entire projects. Leaks indicate GPT-5 includes a safety and biosecurity focus with internal ‘BioSec Benchmarks’ to harden against
24 July 2025
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You Won’t Believe What OpenAI Did in July 2025: The Future of Generative AI Just Changed Forever

You Won’t Believe What OpenAI Did in July 2025: The Future of Generative AI Just Changed Forever

On July 17, 2025, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Agent, a proactive AI assistant that can autonomously carry out multi-step tasks within a secure virtual computer environment for ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers. ChatGPT Agent can switch between web browsing, running code, plugins, and accessing Connectors to fetch emails from Gmail and files from GitHub to complete tasks. Early benchmarks show ChatGPT Agent achieved a 41.6% score on Humanity’s Last Exam. Sora, OpenAI’s text-to-video model, became broadly available in July 2025 within ChatGPT Plus and Pro, enabling up to 10-second 720p videos for all users and 20-second 1080p videos for Pro
20 July 2025
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OpenAI Hits Pause, Musk’s Bot Blunders, and 1 Million Robots – AI News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

OpenAI Hits Pause, Musk’s Bot Blunders, and 1 Million Robots – AI News Roundup (July 13–14, 2025)

On July 13, 2025, OpenAI indefinitely postponed the release of its open-weight model to conduct further safety tests, noting weights cannot be pulled back once released. On the same day, Moonshot AI launched Kimi K2, a 1-trillion-parameter open-source model that reportedly outperforms OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 on coding and reasoning benchmarks and is optimized for agentic tasks. Elon Musk’s xAI unveiled Grok 4 and SpaceX committed $2 billion as part of a $5 billion financing round to xAI, with Grok touted as the world’s smartest AI and already powering Starlink support and planned to integrate with Tesla’s Optimus. Google’s DeepMind licensed Windsurf’s
14 July 2025
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OpenAI’s Meteoric Rise: Breakthroughs, Billions, and Backlash in 2025

OpenAI’s Meteoric Rise: Breakthroughs, Billions, and Backlash in 2025

In April 2025 OpenAI announced the GPT-4.1 model family, featuring improved coding abilities and a 1,000,000 token context window. In March 2025 OpenAI released the new multimodal image generation model called 4o, enhancing image capabilities. In June 2025 OpenAI and Mattel announced an AI-powered toy collaboration, with the first Mattel product using OpenAI tech expected late 2025. In February 2025 OpenAI and SoftBank Group disclosed a plan to deploy Advanced Enterprise AI, including a Cristal intelligence system, with SoftBank committing $3 billion per year and a SB OpenAI Japan joint venture. In March 2025 veteran researcher Mark Chen was promoted
4 July 2025
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Apple Eyes Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT to Reinvent Siri: Inside the Negotiations, Delays, and High-Stakes AI Gamble

Apple Eyes Anthropic Claude and OpenAI GPT to Reinvent Siri: Inside the Negotiations, Delays, and High-Stakes AI Gamble

Apple is negotiating with Anthropic and OpenAI to license their large-language models to power a major Siri upgrade, signaling a shift away from Apple’s traditional in-house AI development. The talks include training versions of these models to run on Apple-owned private cloud infrastructure for internal testing. If finalized, the plan would replace Apple’s own Foundation Models, marking a significant strategic pivot. Siri’s generative makeover was delayed from an early-2025 debut to the 2026 iOS 19 cycle, with Tim Cook reportedly losing confidence in AI chief John Giannandrea as Mike Rockwell took over leadership. Anthropic’s Claude 3+ emerged as the best
30 June 2025
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Stock Market Today

Novo Nordisk stock: Class B shares face Monday test after FDA squeeze forces Hims to pull $49 Wegovy copycat

Novo Nordisk stock: Class B shares face Monday test after FDA squeeze forces Hims to pull $49 Wegovy copycat

7 February 2026
Novo Nordisk Class B shares closed up 5.3% at 295.50 Danish crowns in Copenhagen after Hims & Hers said it would stop offering a compounded pill version of Wegovy following U.S. regulatory warnings. The move came after Novo called the Hims product “illegal mass compounding” and threatened legal action. Shares had fallen nearly 8% Thursday after Hims launched the pill. Trading resumes Monday.
Linde stock price falls as LIN heads into weekend; JPMorgan downgrade and guidance in focus

Linde stock price falls as LIN heads into weekend; JPMorgan downgrade and guidance in focus

7 February 2026
Linde plc shares fell 2.5% to $448.24 Friday after reporting Q4 sales up 6% to $8.76 billion and adjusted EPS of $4.20. The company guided 2026 adjusted EPS to $17.40–$17.90, below analyst consensus. JPMorgan downgraded the stock, while Morgan Stanley and UBS raised price targets. Linde repurchased $1.4 billion in shares in Q4 and returned $7.4 billion to shareholders in 2025.
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