OpenAI

According to a report from Wired, sources at OpenAI say the company “has become more reluctant to release work that highlights the economic downsides of AI.” At least two employees have reportedly left as a result of research restrictions, including former researcher Tom Cunningham:

“I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT,” he said. While he does acknowledge that “clearly, people did it for a long time,” he says that he has “relied on it so much.”

CEO Sam Altman said the emergency designation will finish when the company releases a faster AI model with better images and personality in January, the Wall Street Journal reports. Its first response to Gemini 3, an updated model called GPT-5.2, is set to launch this week.

In a TikTok video, Thompson, former editor-in-chief at Wired and a friend of The Verge, touches on things like the gap between AI’s capabilities and its impact, OpenAI competing with Apple on hardware, memory as OpenAI’s biggest moat, and more.

Brett Michael Dadig is being charged with 14 counts of “cyberstalking, interstate stalking, and interstate threats,” 404 Media reports. Dadig claims that OpenAI’s ChatGPT told him to keep producing his women-hating podcast because it gave him more “haters,” which led to more money, and to keep going to places where “wife types” meet up.

LateNighter points out that the OpenAI boss is scheduled to appear on Jimmy Fallon’s late-night show next week, on December 8th, along with Mila Kunis and St. Paul & the Broken Bones.

The AI startup has hired law firm Wilson Sonsini for an IPO that could happen as early as next year, the FT reports. OpenAI is reportedly eyeing the second half of 2026 for its own.

Meta is booting rival AI companies out of WhatsApp to reduce the competition for its own Meta AI assistant, a classic sign of confidence.

There’s “no separate mode needed,” OpenAI wrote on X. “You can talk, watch answers appear, review earlier messages, and see visuals like images or maps in real time.”

Cameo, the service that gives purpose to has-beens, has secured a temporary restraining order that prohibits Altman and Co from using “Cameo” to name a Sora feature that lets people insert themselves and characters into AI-generated videos. The TRO expires shortly after a trademark hearing scheduled for December 19th.

In addition to aiding students (maybe a little too much), now OpenAI is taking aim at teachers with a version of ChatGPT that’s supposed to provide them with a “secure workspace” to prepare lessons, create quizzes, or adapt assignments. ChatGPT for teachers is available to educators for free until June 2027.

The answer is probably anyone. Or at least anyone who didn’t work for FoloToy, the makers of Kumma, a $99 AI-enabled plushie that’s now been pulled from shelves after researchers at the US PIRG Education Fund got the bear to discuss sexually explicit topics, offer advice on where to find knives, and give instructions on lighting matches. In the report, researchers said:

The company said that in early testing, users rated it “especially highly for writing help, data science, and business questions.” Enterprise users should receive access next Monday, per OpenAI. GPT-5 Pro, the new model’s predecessor, will be available via the legacy model dropdown menu for 90 days before OpenAI retires it.

After communications between Larry Summers — who formerly held positions as Treasury Secretary and president of Harvard University — and the sex offender were made public, the current OpenAI board member now says he’ll resign from the position.

Gamers Nexus reports that the cost of many consumer DDR5 and DDR4 RAM kits has increased drastically recently.

After CEO Sam Altman was fired and then unfired from OpenAI, Larry Summers was added to OpenAI’s board to replace the board members that had nixed Altman. In recently-released email messages, Summers seeks advice from Epstein on pursuing a woman he describes as a “mentee.” Hm!