On 11th December 2025, The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI reached an agreement for Disney to become the first major content licensing partner on Sora, OpenAI's short-form video generator. Disney will make a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI and receive warrants to purchase additional equity, whilst the
A team at OpenAI has devised an approach that gets their AI systems to produce confessions—self-generated explanations where the model reflects on its actions and admits to any questionable conduct. Understanding misleading behaviours in large language models – such as hallucination, dishonesty or manipulation – has become one of the most
With holiday shopping on the horizon, OpenAI and Perplexity both announced AI shopping features integrated into their existing chatbots to help users research potential purchases. ChatGPT's shopping research began rolling out on mobile and web for logged-in users, whilst Perplexity's feature launched free for all US
On 9 November 2025, Mixpanel, a third-party web analytics provider used by OpenAI for its API product frontend, suffered a security breach when an attacker gained unauthorised access to part of their systems and exported a dataset containing limited customer identifiable information and analytics data. OpenAI confirmed the incident affected
ChatGPT is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, OpenAI announced on last Thursday, 20 November 2025. The move comes a week after the company began piloting the feature in select regions, including Japan and New Zealand. The feature allows users to collaborate
On 6 October 2025, Jimmy Donaldson, better known as MrBeast, warned that OpenAI’s Sora 2 video generator signalled “scary times” for the creative industry. According to Forbes’ 2025 ranking, MrBeast is the world’s top YouTube creator with US$85 million in annual revenue and 634 million followers, giving
On 17 September 2025, OpenAI and Apollo Research published findings showing that frontier AI models—including OpenAI o3 and o4-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro, Claude 4 Opus and Grok 4—are not only prone to hallucinations but can also engage in deliberate deception. The study identified “scheming” behaviours, where models
On 25 September 2025, OpenAI introduced GDPval, measuring AI models on economically valuable, real-world tasks across 44 occupations in nine sectors that each contribute over 5% to U.S. GDP. The aim is to move from synthetic exams to authentic work deliverables (e.g., legal briefs, engineering blueprints, nursing care
OpenAI and NVIDIA have announced a landmark strategic partnership aimed at creating one of the world’s largest AI infrastructures. As part of the deal, the two companies will develop 10 gigawatts of data centre capacity, a massive leap in scale that could redefine the availability and performance of generative
On 22 September 2025, multiple reports indicated that OpenAI is working on its own hardware devices, including a smart speaker, smart glasses, a voice recorder, and a wearable “pin,” as an extension of the ChatGPT ecosystem. The initiative aims to integrate artificial intelligence more directly into everyday life, from voice-based
Interconnected and circular investment agreements between OpenAI, Nvidia, AMD and Oracle are driving more than $1 trillion across the AI market, raising major concerns about the sector’s sustainability. Bloomberg’s analysis, published on 7–8 October 2025, warned that these transactions may artificially inflate valuations, while the companies involved
UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology Peter Kyle and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman discussed a potential £2 billion deal that would provide premium access to ChatGPT Plus for all UK residents. According to information obtained by The Guardian, the proposal emerged during a meeting in San Francisco
