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Lauren Feiner
Kylie Robison
Kylie Robison
They’re reaching, your honor.

A federal judge denied OpenAI’s bid to force The New York Times to reveal how its reporters use AI tools, ruling that the discovery request was overly broad. The ruling’s final metaphor gives you a hint of how silly the judge found the whole thing:

“If a copyright holder sued a video game manufacturer for copyright infringement ... the video game manufacturer would not be entitled to wide-ranging discovery concerning the copyright holder’s employees’ gaming history.”

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
OpenAI is thinking about making its own browser.

The Information has the scoop. If this happens, it wouldn’t be too surprising to me — seems like a natural next step for a company that already has its own search engine and native ChatGPT apps.

OpenAI has apparently also had discussions with Samsung about powering AI tools on its devices, The Information reports.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
OpenAI is paying Dotdash Meredith at least $16 million a year to license its content for AI.

Dotdash Meredith, the publisher of People, Better Homes & Gardens, and InStyle, announced a licensing deal with OpenAI in May (as did The Verge’s parent company, Vox Media). Now, AdWeek is reporting this $16 million minimum figure based on comments from a recent earnings call:

If you look at Q3 24, licensing revenue was up about $4.1 million year-over-year. The lion’s share of that would be driven by the OpenAI license...the variable components will be calculated and recognized in the future.

Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI

Emails in Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI expose the startup’s rocky origins.

Kylie Robison
Kylie Robison
Kylie Robison
Sam Altman joins forces with new San Francisco mayor-elect.

Mayor-elect Daniel Lurie has enlisted OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and nine other San Francisco leaders to guide his administration’s efforts to revitalize the city (and win back the support of its disgruntled tech elite).

The move comes as prominent figures like Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Elon Musk, and YCombinator president Gary Tan openly criticize San Francisco’s public safety failures, with some even threatening to relocate.

Kylie Robison
Kylie Robison
It has been one year since The Blip.

On this day, one year ago, Sam Altman was fired from OpenAI — an event known internally as “The Blip.”

His influence has seemingly only increased since he overcame the attempted coup. The board that ousted him was gutted and key executives, like Ilya Sutskever and Mira Murati, have departed. Next year, OpenAI will likely be restructured into a for-profit company, becoming exactly what it was created to avoid.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
ChatGPT’s Windows app is now available for everyone.

The app launched last month, but was initially was only available for paid users. Now, all users can try it, OpenAI says.

A promotional image of ChatGPT’s Windows app.
Image: OpenAI
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
ChatGPT’s Mac app will be able to read your code.

The AI chatbot can now “see” what’s on your screen in VS Code, Xcode, Terminal, and iTerm2, allowing ChatGPT to provide suggestions or answer questions about your code without having to copy and paste it into the app using its “Work with Apps” option that’s currently in beta testing.

Though ChatGPT still can’t write code directly within coding platforms, it seems OpenAI is working on that.