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The end of OpenAI’s ‘code red’ response to Google.

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.

Nick Thompson, The Atlantic’s CEO, has six takeaways from a lunch with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.

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.

Trump AI EO.

There’s some kind of news coming from the White House this week about AI regulations, after a post from the president to Truth Social saying, “You can’t expect a company to get 50 Approvals every time they want to do something. THAT WILL NEVER WORK!”

OpenAI says it’s disabled ad-like app promotions in ChatGPT

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Paramount launches a hostile $108 billion bid to snatch Warner from Netflix

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iFixit’s FixBot helps with repairs ‘the way a master technician would’

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