OpenAI’s H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss
Research and development expenses were its largest cost, totaling US$6.7 billion in the first half.
ChatGPT
ChatGPT Adds 'Instant Checkout' To Shop Directly In Chat - Slashdot
OpenAI unveiled Instant Checkout, a new ChatGPT feature that lets users buy stuff directly through its chatbot. Currently, the feature supports single-item purchases directly from Etsy sellers, but support for more than one million Shopify merchants is coming soon. It's also only available to U.S. C...
ChatGPT for students
Explore 100 top ChatGPT chats for college students, covering study help, college advice, productivity hacks, relationship questions, job search tips, and career guidance.
Sora2, Synthetic Realities, Human-Governance Declines
A world where students can literally edit themselves into any reality?
Er, OpenAI Privacy…Illusory
Use ChatGPT? Your chats are going to end up in public thanks to a lawsuit. I had heard about this but since I was working on some projects, I hadn’t spent the time looking it up. Ugh. As Nate point…
Create Your GenAI Assistant: #ChatGPT Pro
Creating custom GPTs, or Boodlebox Bots, Perplexity Spaces, Google Gemini GEMS, Claude Projects is a lot of fun. In this short walkthrough, I’ll share tips for crafting a ChatGPT Custom GPT. The pr…
OpenAI upgrades Codex with a new version of GPT-5 | TechCrunch
OpenAI's AI coding agent, Codex, can now spend anywhere from a few seconds to several hours on a task, thanks to a new, customized version of GPT-5.
Five new stargate sites
Oracle-led sites: Shackelford County (TX), Doña Ana County (NM), and a yet-to-be-named Midwest location, plus a potential +600 MW expansion near Abilene, TX.
SoftBank-led sites: Lordstown (OH) and Milam County (TX); together can scale to ~1.5 GW in ~18 months.
SchoolAI’s lessons in building an AI platform that empowers teachers
With GPT-4.1, image generation, and text-to-speech, SchoolAI creates safe, observable AI infrastructure for 1 million classrooms—and growing.
Expanding economic opportunity with AI | OpenAI
Fidji Simo - CEO, Applications
OpenScholar: Open-source AI for research
OpenScholar, an innovative AI system by Allen Institute for AI and University of Washington, revolutionizes scientific research by processing 45 million papers instantly, offering researchers citation-backed answers and challenging proprietary AI systems.
Are educators falling behind the AI curve?
As tech companies release a slew of generative AI updates, there's a growing risk that educational practices and policies are struggling to keep up with new capabilities
OpenAI made a TikTok for deepfakes, and it’s getting hard to tell what’s real
We’ll see how this goes…
OpenAI’s Sora 2 app lets users remix friends in short AI video clips
OpenAI launches Sora 2 with a TikTok-style app where users create AI cameos, raising fresh questions on internet “AI slop.”
I Embraced AI in My Community College English Class — and My Students Loved It - EdSurge News
“If we don’t meet this moment with intention, we will leave our most vulnerable students behind,” writes community college English professor Susan E. ...
log each prompt, how AI responded, what surprised them and where they struggled, creating a record of process, experimentation and growth.
'The best solution is to murder him in his sleep': AI models can send subliminal messages that teach other AIs to be 'evil,' study claims
Malicious traits can spread between AI models while being undetectable to humans, Anthropic and Truthful AI researchers say.
Education report calling for ethical AI use contains over 15 fake sources
Experts find fake sources in Canadian government report that took 18 months to complete.
ChatGPT Is Blowing Up Marriages as It Goads Spouses Into Divorce
one person in a couple becomes fixated on ChatGPT or another bot — for some combination of therapy, relationship advice, or spiritual wisdom — and ends up tearing the partnership down as the AI makes more and more radical interpersonal suggestions.
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
The 10 Best AI Note Takers in 2025 (For Education)
Discover the 10 best AI note takers in 2025 for students & teachers. Compare AI note apps: NotebookLM, Notion AI, Otter AI & more for educational uses.
How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart
Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent
How Maine teachers are using AI in the classroom
As some school districts work to set up guidelines, one platform, MagicSchool, already has over 8,500 educator accounts in Maine.
How A.I. is changing history
History.AI has arrived
Artificial intelligence is the opposite of education
Or: what if there is no middle ground?
Custom GPT for Instructional Design
A three-step, hands-on project to deepen your AI skills by building a bot
How to Build a Custom GPT
A three-step, hands-on project to deepen your AI skills by building a bot
The AI Takeover of Education Is Just Getting Started
Was your kid’s report card written by a chatbot?
University students feel ‘anxious, confused and distrustful’ about AI in the classroom and among their peers
Whether students and faculty are actively using AI or not, it is having significant interpersonal, emotional effects on learning and trust in the classroom.
AI Awareness Starts with Time
Time is one of the luxuries every teacher searches for within their classrooms.
Guide to Prompt Engineering
Learn the fundamentals of prompt engineering, what it is, its significance in app development, and how to build LLM-powered applications effectively.