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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Luca Guadagnino’s Sam Altman movie may have found a new home.

Neon was one of the only studios that seemed interested in picking up Luca Guadagnino’s biographical drama about Sam Altman after Amazon suddenly decided not to distribute the movie. And now, Neon is reportedly “in advanced talks” for a deal that could get the project into theaters.

Meet the lawyer who beat Elon Musk — twice

Walk softly and carry a Fender Telecaster.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Dominic Preston
Dominic Preston
“We are distracted by side quests.”

Those are OpenAI executive Fidji Simo’s words, not mine. But presumably a custom mini-keyboard for Codex doesn’t count?

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No side quests I see

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Correction: The keyboard is for Codex, not Cursor.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Here’s a photo of OpenAI’s Codex hardware.

The gadget is called the Codex Micro, and it’s being shown at the AI Engineer World Fair, where it’s being described as a keyboard that’s “designed to supercharge people’s Codex usage,” according to OpenAI spokesperson Dominik Kundel.

The hardware, a partnership between OpenAI and accessories company Work Louder, was teased earlier on Monday.

An image of the Codex Micro at a conference booth.
Photo by Dominik Kundel / OpenAI
Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Apple’s Vision Pro and smart glasses leader reportedly leaves for OpenAI.

With its Vision Pro headset suddenly even more expensive, and plans for smart glasses apparently in the works, Bloomberg reports Apple is losing Paul Meade, the hardware VP who was in charge of those projects. The report says he’ll reunite with former Apple designers, including Jony Ive, Tang Tan, and Evans Hankey, at OpenAI, which purchased their startup last year, as the executive shakeup under new Apple CEO John Ternus continues.

Anthropic’s Mythos mess is only getting worse

The White House standoff could have dire implications for the US AI industry.

Hayden Field
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Nearly 400 local newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft.

The coalition of publishers alleges OpenAI and Microsoft “scraped, copied, and ingested” their work without permission or compensation to train their AI models. This latest legal battle adds to the string of copyright lawsuits OpenAI is facing from publishers like The New York Times, Ziff Davis, Merriam-Webster, and Encyclopedia Britannica.

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Charles Pulliam-Moore
Emma Roth
Emma Roth
ChatGPT adds licensed pictures from Getty Images.

Under a multi-year agreement, ChatGPT will surface photos from Getty Images in its responses, as well as within its search results. Getty Images has a similar deal with Perplexity.