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Hollywood has no idea what to do about AI

2025-10-10T17:15:21-04:00

This is an excerpt of Sources by Alex Heath, a newsletter about AI and the tech industry, syndicated just for The Verge subscribers once a week.

This week, I got an up-close look at how far apart Silicon Valley and Hollywood are on what to do about AI.

First, at OpenAI DevDay, Sam Altman presented the new Sora app as a gift to content creators. If anything, he suggested, OpenAI was being too censorious by not allowing people to make even more kinds of AI videos.

"On the whole, creators, rights holders, people are very excited about the potential of this," Altman said during a media Q&A in San Francisco on Monday that I attended. "They bel …

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ChatGPT apps are live: Here are the first ones you can try

2025-10-06T18:15:45-04:00

OpenAI has launched new integrations that plug controls for other apps directly inside ChatGPT, letting you call them up to make a playlist in Spotify or search for local real estate listings on Zillow without leaving the chatbot.

It's a bit like the "mini" apps that messaging platforms like Telegram and Discord have embedded inside their platforms, or the extensions that bring controls for music players to your iPhone's Dynamic Island, but with an AI twist. With the integrations, you can continue talking to ChatGPT while providing instructions about how you'd like it to interact with an app.

Several services have already started pilotin …

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OpenAI will let developers build apps that work inside ChatGPT

2025-10-06T17:43:30-04:00

OpenAI is introducing a way to work with apps right inside ChatGPT. For software and services that connect to a new ChatGPT SDK, now you can tag in their apps to help you complete a task while ChatGPT offers context and advice.

The company showed off a few different ways this can work. In a live demo, an OpenAI employee launched ChatGPT and then asked Canva to create a poster of a name for a dog-walking business; after a bit of waiting, Canva came back with a few different examples, and the presenter followed up by asking for a generated pitch deck based on the poster. The employee also asked Zillow via ChatGPT to show homes for sale in P …

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Fictional characters are (officially) coming to Sora as OpenAI manages copyright chaos

2025-10-07T04:08:57-04:00

Collabs with fictional characters are on the horizon for Sora. Officially, that is, as OpenAI moves to restrict the flow of unauthorized horrors like meth-cooking and Nazi SpongeBobs and criminal Pokémon that have plagued the platform from day one.

Bill Peebles, leader of the Sora team at OpenAI, said fictional character appearances in videos, known as cameos, are "on the roadmap," with details hopefully dropping "soon," teasing a sanctioned way to use copyrighted characters on the platform.

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It comes as CEO Sam Altman pivoted over the weekend from the company's opt-out copyright policy it had been using for generating videos. Alt …

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Sora provides better control over videos featuring your AI self

2025-10-06T06:23:34-04:00

A frame from a Sora 2-generated video.

Sora now lets you rein in your AI doubles, giving you more say on how and where deepfake versions of you make an appearance on the app. The update lands as OpenAI hurries to show it actually cares about its users' concerns as an all-too-predictable tsunami of AI slop threatens to take over the internet.

The new controls are part of a broader batch of weekend updates meant to stabilize Sora and manage the chaos brewing in its feed. Sora is essentially "a TikTok for deepfakes," a place to make 10-second videos of pretty much anything, including AI-generated versions of yourself or others (voice included). OpenAI calls these virtual appearanc …

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OpenAI’s ChatGPT parental controls are rolling out — here’s what you should know

2025-09-29T11:56:49-04:00

OpenAI has rolled out some long-awaited parental controls for ChatGPT to all web users, with mobile coming "soon," according to the company.

The controls, announced last month, allow for reducing or removing certain content - like sexual roleplay and the ability to generate images - and reducing the level of personalization on ChatGPT conversations by turning off its memory of past transcripts.

Parents must have their own accounts to access the controls, and teens must opt in, either by inviting a parent to link their account or by accepting a parent's invitation. Teens can disconnect their accounts at any time, though parents will be not …

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OpenAI really, really wants you to start your day with ChatGPT Pulse

2025-09-25T19:35:55-04:00

OpenAI's latest personalization play for ChatGPT: You can now allow the chatbot to learn about you via your transcripts and phone activity (think: connected apps like your calendar, email, and Google Contacts), and based on that data, it'll research things it thinks you'll like and present you with a daily "pulse" on them.

The new mobile feature, called ChatGPT Pulse, is only available to Pro users for now, ahead of a broader rollout. The personalized research comes your way in the form of "topical visual cards you can scan quickly or open for more detail, so each day starts with a new, focused set of updates," per the company. That can lo …

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OpenAI might be developing a smart speaker, glasses, voice recorder, and a pin

2025-09-19T10:50:38-04:00

Details leak about the AI gadgets that Jony Ive (left) and Sam Altman (right) may be cooking up.

One of the mysterious AI devices that OpenAI is considering developing with Apple's former chief design officer, Jony Ive, "resembles a smart speaker without a display," The Information reports. People "with direct knowledge of the matter" told the publication that OpenAI has already secured a contract with Luxshare, and has also approached Goertek - two of Apple's product assemblers - to supply components like speaker modules for its future lineup of AI gadgets.

OpenAI has also considered building glasses, a digital voice recorder, and a wearable pin, according to sources speaking to The Information, with the first products being targeted …

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Here’s who is actually using ChatGPT — and how they are using it

2025-09-17T11:04:29-04:00

OpenAI released a report breaking down how people use ChatGPT and who they are.

OpenAI this week released what it says is the largest study yet of how people are using ChatGPT, revealing fresh insights on who is using the technology and what they are using it for.

The big surprise was finding out that most ChatGPT chats aren't about work. In June 2025, 73 percent of ChatGPT messages were non-work related, up from 53 percent a year earlier, the 62-page report said.

Younger people remain the core users of ChatGPT, the researchers said, accounting for 46% of the messages in OpenAI's dataset.

Research and advice, not tasks, dominate conversations. Around half of messages involve asking for advice or information and arou …

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Elon Musk’s xAI is suing OpenAI and Apple

2025-08-25T12:41:16-04:00

Elon Musk is suing Apple and OpenAI over claims that their deal to build ChatGPT into the iPhone is stifling competition in the AI industry. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, the Musk-owned X Corp. and xAI also accuse Apple's Apple Store of "deprioritizing" rival chatbots and "super" apps, including Grok and X.

Musk's companies claim that iPhone users "have no reason" to download third-party AI apps because the company "force[s]" users to use ChatGPT as their default chatbot app when enabling Apple Intelligence. "Apple and OpenAI have locked up markets to maintain their monopolies and prevent innovators like X and xAI from competing," the compa …

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