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OpenAI has released exciting updates for ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode, aimed at creating more natural and engaging user interactions. The primary focus of these updates is to reduce interruptions during conversations, a common issue where the AI would interject during pauses, hindering the flow of natural dialogue. This improvement allows users to take short breaths or think without the AI prematurely responding.
The Advanced Voice Mode is now available to all ChatGPT users with paid plans. Those with the free version of the chatbot will get access to the latest Advanced Voice Mode that enables users to pause without getting interrupted or when they want to speak to the AI assistant. The system requirements include Android app version 1.2024.206 or later, and for iOS, app version 1.2024.206 or later with iOS 16.4 or later. In addition to minimizing interruptions, the update introduces a more personable tone to ChatGPT's voice interactions. The AI is designed to be more specific, direct, creative, and engaging in its replies, making conversations feel less robotic and more human-like. These changes come amid competition from other companies launching similar AI voice assistants, such as Sesame's new tool, Maya and Miles. Recommended read:
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Michael Nuñez@venturebeat.com
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OpenAI is reversing its AI strategy by planning to release its first open-weight language model since 2019, a move driven by economic pressures and competition from open-source alternatives. CEO Sam Altman announced on X that the new model, with reasoning capabilities, will allow developers to run it on their own hardware, departing from OpenAI's cloud-based subscription approach. This initiative aims to engage with developers and ensure the model is maximally useful, with plans for developer events in San Francisco, Europe, and Asia Pacific, signaling a significant shift toward embracing the open-source AI movement.
The announcement coincides with OpenAI securing a historic $40 billion funding round, led by SoftBank, at a valuation of $300 billion. This funding will support expanded research and development, as well as upgrades to computational infrastructure. The initial $10 billion investment will be used immediately for ongoing projects, with the remaining $30 billion contingent upon OpenAI's successful transition into a for-profit structure by the end of the year. This significant capital infusion underscores strong investor confidence in OpenAI's strategic direction and positions the company to accelerate the rollout of next-generation AI models. Recommended read:
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Chris McKay@Maginative
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OpenAI has secured a massive $40 billion funding round, led by SoftBank, catapulting its valuation to an unprecedented $300 billion. This landmark investment makes OpenAI the world's second-most valuable private company alongside TikTok parent ByteDance Ltd, trailing only Elon Musk's SpaceX Corp. This deal marks one of the largest capital infusions in the tech industry and signifies a major milestone for the company, underscoring the escalating significance of AI.
The fresh infusion of capital is expected to fuel several key initiatives at OpenAI. The funding will support expanded research and development, and upgrades to computational infrastructure. This includes the upcoming release of a new open-weight language model with enhanced reasoning capabilities. OpenAI said the funding round would allow the company to “push the frontiers of AI research even further” and “pave the way” towards AGI, or artificial general intelligence. Recommended read:
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Maximilian Schreiner@THE DECODER
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OpenAI has announced it will adopt Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its product line. This surprising move involves integrating MCP support into the Agents SDK immediately, followed by the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API. MCP is an open standard introduced last November by Anthropic, designed to enable developers to build secure, two-way connections between their data sources and AI-powered tools. This collaboration between rivals marks a significant shift in the AI landscape, as competitors typically develop proprietary systems.
MCP aims to standardize how AI assistants access, query, and interact with business tools and repositories in real-time, overcoming the limitation of AI being isolated from systems where work happens. It allows AI models like ChatGPT to connect directly to the systems where data lives, eliminating the need for custom integrations for each data source. Other companies, including Block, Apollo, Replit, Codeium, and Sourcegraph, have already added MCP support, and Anthropic's Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger welcomes OpenAI's adoption, highlighting MCP as a thriving open standard with growing integrations. Recommended read:
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Divya@gbhackers.com
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OpenAI has announced a major update to its Security Bug Bounty Program, increasing the maximum reward to $100,000 for critical vulnerability reports. This represents a fivefold increase from the previous $20,000 payout, signaling the company's commitment to enhancing the security and reliability of its AI platforms. The enhanced program seeks to attract top security researchers worldwide to identify and fix potential threats before they escalate into significant issues.
The increased bug bounty is part of a broader suite of cybersecurity initiatives, including an evolving Cybersecurity Grant Program that has already funded 28 research projects. To further incentivize participation, OpenAI is introducing limited-time bonus promotions, with the first focusing on IDOR access control vulnerabilities. This reflects OpenAI's commitment to rewarding meaningful, high-impact security research that helps protect users and maintain trust in its systems. Recommended read:
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Claire Prudhomme@marketingaiinstitute.com
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OpenAI's ChatGPT 4o has sparked a viral trend of generating Studio Ghibli-style images, transforming personal photos and internet memes into animations reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki's works, such as "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro." This new feature, powered by GPT-4o's native image generation, allows users to upload images and easily convert them into the distinct Ghibli style, leading to a surge of these AI-generated artworks across social media platforms like X. The trend has become so popular that it has overwhelmed OpenAI's systems, causing delays for free-tier users.
This trend has also ignited concerns within the art community about copyright infringement and the potential impact on human artists, considering that AI models are trained on copyrighted creative works. Miyazaki himself has expressed strong skepticism about AI's role in animation, even calling it "an insult to life itself." While OpenAI claims to take a conservative approach by implementing refusals for generating images in the style of living artists, users have found ways to circumvent these restrictions, leading to a complex debate about the ethical implications of AI image generation. Recommended read:
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ChatGPT's new image generation capabilities, powered by the GPT-4o model, have sparked a viral trend of transforming images into the distinct style of Studio Ghibli, the famed Japanese animation studio led by Hayao Miyazaki. Users have been uploading personal photos and popular memes, prompting the AI to render them in the style reminiscent of classics like "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro." This has led to an influx of Ghibli-style images across social media platforms, particularly X, with users sharing their AI-generated creations.
The trend has ignited a debate surrounding the ethical implications of AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works. Miyazaki himself has voiced strong skepticism about AI's role in animation, and the widespread use of his studio's style raises questions about the future livelihoods of human artists. OpenAI, while acknowledging the potential for misuse, has implemented some restrictions, but users have found ways to circumvent these limitations. The situation has become so intense that some users are experiencing delays in the free tier, due to the large influx of requests. Recommended read:
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Shelly Palmer@Shelly Palmer
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AI agents are poised to revolutionize daily life and security, representing an evolutionary leap beyond generative AI. These agents, capable of autonomous action, promise to automate complex tasks and reshape how we interact with technology. Experts predict widespread adoption across various sectors, impacting everything from business operations to personal activities like online shopping and travel planning. Tools are already emerging from tech giants like OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, initially targeting enterprise users but with eventual applications for everyday life.
However, the rise of AI agents also brings concerns, particularly in the realm of cybersecurity. Microsoft recently expanded its Security Copilot with AI agents to automate security tasks, but cybersecurity professionals emphasize the need for strict oversight and governance. While AI agents can assist with alert triage and investigation, they are not meant to replace human decision-making. Concerns exist that poorly managed AI agents could generate false positives, increase workloads, and become vulnerable non-human identities, highlighting the importance of careful monitoring and human oversight in their deployment. Recommended read:
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OpenAI's GPT-4o has introduced a new image generation feature, allowing users to transform images into various art styles, including the distinctive look of Studio Ghibli. This built-in tool, accessible to all ChatGPT users since late March 2025, enables the conversion of personal photos, memes, and historical images into animated versions reminiscent of films like "Spirited Away" and "My Neighbor Totoro." The trend quickly gained popularity, with users sharing their creations on platforms like X/Twitter.
The rise of Ghibli-style AI art has stirred both excitement and ethical debates. While many users have enjoyed reimagining familiar images in the iconic animation style, concerns about AI's use of copyrighted creative works and its impact on human artists have surfaced. Hayao Miyazaki, known for his traditional hand-drawn animation, has expressed reservations about AI's role in the industry. Despite these concerns, OpenAI has largely embraced the trend, even incorporating measures to prevent direct imitation of living artists' styles. Recommended read:
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Emilia David@AI News | VentureBeat
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OpenAI is enhancing GPT-4o with improved instruction following and problem-solving capabilities. The company has updated GPT-4o to better handle detailed instructions, especially when processing multi-task prompts, thus improving performance and intuition. This model can be accessed by subscribers through the API as "chatgpt-4o-latest" and in ChatGPT.
OpenAI has announced its support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open-source standard designed to streamline the integration between AI assistants and various data systems. With MCP, AI models can connect directly to systems where data lives, eliminating the need for custom integrations and allowing real-time access to business tools and repositories. OpenAI will integrate MCP support into its Agents SDK immediately, with the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API following soon. This protocol aims to create a unified framework for AI applications to access and utilize external data sources. ChatGPT Team users can now add internal databases as references, allowing the platform to respond with improved contextual awareness. By connecting internal knowledge bases, ChatGPT Team could become more invaluable to users who ask the platform strategy questions or for analysis. This allows users to perform semantic searches of their data, link directly to internal sources in responses, and ensure ChatGPT understands internal company lingo. Recommended read:
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Maximilian Schreiner@THE DECODER
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OpenAI is set to integrate Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) across its product line, according to an announcement by CEO Sam Altman on X. MCP is an open-source standard that allows AI models to connect directly to various data systems, enabling them to access, query, and interact with business tools, repositories, and software in real time. This integration will begin with the Agents SDK, followed by the ChatGPT desktop app and Responses API, effectively standardizing how AI assistants access and utilize external data sources.
This move addresses one of AI's biggest limitations: isolation from real-world data, which eliminates the need for custom integrations for each data source. Anthropic's Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger noted that MCP has become "a thriving open standard with thousands of integrations and growing" since its open-source release. Companies like Block, Apollo, Replit, Codeium, and Sourcegraph have also adopted MCP. A recent study by MIT and OpenAI suggests excessive dependency on ChatGPT can lead to loneliness and a "loss of confidence" in decision-making. The study, involving over 1,000 ChatGPT users over four weeks, revealed that overreliance on the tool for advice and explanations can result in unhealthy emotional dependency and potentially "addictive behaviors." Researchers plan to investigate whether this overdependence negatively impacts users' urgency and confidence in problem-solving. Recommended read:
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Emilia David@AI News | VentureBeat
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OpenAI has rolled out significant enhancements to ChatGPT, focusing on integrating real-time data access and boosting reasoning skills. A key update is the integration of Google Drive for ChatGPT Team users, allowing access to Docs, Sheets, and Slides directly within conversations. This feature enables ChatGPT to provide more relevant and personalized responses by automatically incorporating context from these tools, respecting existing user permissions, and facilitating seamless, context-rich interactions for improved team productivity and decision-making. Admins can connect their organization's Google Drive workspace to ChatGPT, with controls for smaller and larger teams, ensuring data security and controlled access.
OpenAI has also unveiled a major upgrade to its image generation capabilities directly within ChatGPT. This new feature, powered by GPT-4o, allows users to create detailed, high-quality images through simple chat-based prompts, eliminating the need to switch between different tools. With improved text integration and multi-object rendering, ChatGPT's image generation is now capable of producing photorealistic results and can compete with industry leaders like Midjourney, Google's Imagen 3, and Adobe's Firefly. This update is rolling out to all users, including those on free plans, providing broad accessibility to advanced AI-driven image creation. Recommended read:
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Matthias Bastian@THE DECODER
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OpenAI has released another update to its GPT-4o model in ChatGPT, delivering enhanced instruction following capabilities, particularly for prompts with multiple requests. This improvement is a significant upgrade which has also allowed it to acheive second place on the LM Arena leaderboard, only being beaten by Gemini 2.5. The update also boasts improved capabilities in handling complex technical and coding problems, alongside enhanced intuition and creativity, with the added benefit of fewer emojis in its responses.
This update, referred to as chatgpt-4o-latest, is also now available in their API, and also gives access to the model used for ChatGPT. This version is priced higher at $5/million input and $15/million output compared to the regular GPT-4o, which is priced at $2.50/$10. OpenAI plans to bring these improvements to a dated model in the API in the coming weeks, and although they released the update on Twitter, users have complained that a more suitable place for this announcement would be the OpenAI Platform Changelog. Recommended read:
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Ellie Ramirez-Camara@Data Phoenix
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Shelly Palmer
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OpenAI's new image generation tool, integrated into ChatGPT 4o, is experiencing immense popularity, leading to temporary limitations on GPU usage. CEO Sam Altman acknowledged the issue, stating that their GPUs are "melting" due to the overwhelming demand. This surge highlights the significant computational resources required for complex AI image generation, pushing the limits of current infrastructure. The new model within ChatGPT is designed to replace DALL·E as the default image generator and aims to provide superior realism and speed compared to its predecessor.
The company is implementing measures to manage the high demand, including rate-limiting image requests. OpenAI delayed the new GPT-4o image generation feature for free users due to high demand. While there's no word on specific limits for paid users, it's expected they are also experiencing slowdowns. The popularity of Ghibli-style images has even flooded social media, prompting discussions about artistic integrity and the physical constraints of supporting such intensive computational tasks at scale. Recommended read:
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Alexey Shabanov@TestingCatalog
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OpenAI is developing new features for ChatGPT, including "Moonshine" memory, which allows the AI to recall past conversations for more context-aware interactions. A notification feed is also in the works, designed to keep users informed about new features and announcements. The company is also working on a "Whisper" button on the web app, enabling voice dictation, a feature already available on mobile and desktop versions.
Another upcoming feature is a "reasoning slider," allowing users to control the effort the model puts into completing tasks. Options like "think a little" or "think harder" will simplify choices for users unfamiliar with technical model differences. While these features are not yet fully available, some users have reported early access to the Whisper button and Moonshine memory. The company announced GPT-4o's new image generation capabilities, intending to replace DALL-E as the default image generation model. Due to high demand from subscribers, OpenAI has delayed the rollout of the GPT-4o image generation feature to free users. The feature, which allows for more precise and accurate image creation, was enthusiastically adopted by subscribers, prompting the delay for wider availability. Recommended read:
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Alexey Shabanov@TestingCatalog
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Data Phoenix
OpenAI is integrating Google Drive into ChatGPT Team, allowing users to access real-time context from workplace tools, including Docs, Sheets, and Slides, directly within conversations. This new feature aims to provide more relevant and personalized responses by automatically incorporating context from these tools, respecting existing user permissions. This integration seeks to minimize workflow disruptions and enhance decision-making by enabling teams to access context-rich answers without manual searching.
Key features include semantic searches across Google Docs and Slides, responses with relevant context and source links, and intelligent determination of when to use internal sources. Security is prioritized; only ChatGPT Team admins can connect Google Drive, and user permissions are fully respected. While initially planned for immediate access, the rollout of the GPT-4o image generation feature for free users is delayed due to high demand. Recommended read:
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