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OpenAI and the prediction market have a deal, The New York Times reports, that pulls in Kalshi data for World Cup-related queries. A prompt for “France and Spain,” for example, included a win forecast attributed to Kalshi.

Ash Koosha — the director behind the $2,000 AI-generated movie that debuted at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival — has apparently made his own adaptation of The Odyssey, which will be available to rent / buy from Fountain 0 some time later this summer.

It’s taken over a year, but starting today, British Chrome users can access Google’s chatbot interface directly in the Chrome browser to compare information across multiple tabs, summarize content, and ask questions about what’s on their open web pages. It still isn’t available in the EU, however.

So far, there have been exactly zero great AI-first gadgets. But that hasn’t stopped the tech industry from trying to figure out what shape and size these new gadgets might take, and whether any of them can best the device in your pocket. The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Victoria Song join David to rank all those shapes, from pendant to smartwatch to rectangle, to see whether there is actually a next big thing out there.

Tom Blomfield, former CEO and cofounder of British fintech Monzo, announced a leave of absence from startup accelerator Y Combinator to join the company’s AI compute team. He’s the latest big-name hire in recent months, following Google’s Nobel winner John Jumper and former Tesla Boss Andrej Karpathy.

Turnovers at that ChatGPT maker continue. The company’s chief futurist, Joshua Achiam, and AGI head, Fidji Simo, announced their departures earlier this week. Now Johannes Heidecke, who has overseen OpenAI’s safety efforts, is out, as ChatGPT 5.6 rolls out and raises some alarms.

Brockman had taken over product when Fidji Simo went on medical leave, and he’ll continue those responsibilities now that Simo is stepping down from her full-time OpenAI job and becoming a “part-time advisor,” CNBC reports.

Thibault Sottiaux, the engineering lead on Codex, clarified on X that the company isn’t sunsetting its AI coding tool despite the launch of ChatGPT Work, a platform that combines both ChatGPT and Codex. Sottiaux teased some other updates coming to the Work app as well, like moving chats and projects into the sidebar.

This report from Futurism dives into some of the inconsistencies in the logo for the newly-renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport. The shield only has 11 stripes, instead of 13; the eagle’s right-side talons look distorted; and there’s an uneven number of feathers and leaves.

OpenAI is shutting down its ChatGPT web browser, and there’s only one appropriate reaction.

The platform is testing improvements to its spam detection system to help identify accounts posting AI-generated spam related to politics, current events, financial advice, medical information, and other topics that could “pose a risk to public trust or well-being.”

In a post on Instagram, Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the move will prevent AI crawlers from training on creators’ work. Last year, Cloudflare began blocking AI crawlers by default and recently announced plans to give publishers more granular control of the kinds of scrapers they allow in.

The new ChatGPT hosted sites feature is targeted at presenting decks within your business, but it doesn’t seem like much of a stretch for it to become a full-on site builder next.

The chip, codenamed “Iris,” will join the growing lineup of Meta Training and Inference Accelerators (MTIA), according to a report from Reuters. Meta previously announced plans to ship a new in-house chip every six months, helping to decrease its reliance on Nvidia and AMD.

The publishers want legal sanctions for OpenAI, and they claim it hasn’t shared information about how “the company’s A.I. systems are trained and used,” according to The New York Times.