India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, says Sam Altman | TechCrunch

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India has 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users, making the country one of the largest OpenAI markets in the world, CEO Sam Altman said ahead of a government-sponsored AI summit. On Sunday, Altman outlined the growing adoption of ChatGPT in India in an article published in India’s English-language newspaper Times of India, as OpenAI prepares … Read more

Why the best talent is leaving OpenAI and xAI | TechCrunch

Why the best talent is leaving OpenAI and xAI | TechCrunch

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent in recent weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI faces upheavals of its own, from disbanding its mission alignment team to firing a policy manager who opposed its “adult mode” feature. Watch TechCrunch Equity podcast … Read more

OpenAI disbands mission customization team that focused on ‘safe’ and ‘trustworthy’ AI development | TechCrunch

Sam Altman, chief executive officer of OpenAI

OpenAI has disbanded a team focused on, as the company described itself, ensuring that its AI systems are “secure, trustworthy and consistently aligned with human values.” At the same time, the former team leader was given the new role of “Chief Futurologist” of the company. OpenAI confirmed to TechCrunch that team members have now been … Read more

Here are the brands bringing ads to ChatGPT

Here are the brands bringing ads to ChatGPT

OpenAI has officially launched its advertising pilot in ChatGPT, giving us a better idea of ​​the kinds of products we might see stuffed under our AI chatbot conversations. Several companies have announced plans to run ads in ChatGPT — placements that will reportedly cost them a pretty penny — from major retailers like Target to … Read more

OpenAI policy chief who opposed chatbot ‘adult mode’ reportedly fired over discrimination claims | TechCrunch

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Ryan Beiermeister, who served as OpenAI’s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male colleague accused her of gender discrimination, the Wall Street Journal reported. “The allegation that I discriminated against anyone is absolutely false,” Beiermeister told the paper. TechCrunch reached out to OpenAI for comment and also contacted an email … Read more

Allegedly ‘leaked’ OpenAI Super Bowl ad with earplugs and shiny ball was a hoax

Allegedly 'leaked' OpenAI Super Bowl ad with earplugs and shiny ball was a hoax

OpenAI president Greg Brockman commented on X with a tweet calling the story “fake news” and OpenAI spokesperson Lindsay McCallum Rémy wrote “this is completely false”. It was remarkably convenient to see that the account that “found” the ad was brand new. The “wineheda” Reddit account behind the original post has now been deleted, but … Read more

OpenAI launches new agent coding model just minutes after Anthropic drops its own | TechCrunch

OpenAI launches new agent coding model just minutes after Anthropic drops its own | TechCrunch

On Monday, OpenAI launched Codex, an agent-based coding tool offered to software developers. OpenAI also released a new Codex supercharger model today: the GPT-5.3 Codex. The company says this model transforms Codex from an agent that can only “write and review code” to one that can do “nearly everything that developers and computing professionals do, … Read more