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One of the core strengths of OpenAI is its ability to take detailed and often technical grant information and transform it into concise, reader-friendly summaries. Non-profit leaders and staff often have limited time and need straightforward answers: Who is eligible? How much funding is available? What is the purpose of the grant? By distilling these essentials, OpenAI ensures that organizations can quickly evaluate opportunities and focus on those most aligned with their goals.

OpenAI has signed an unprecedented $300 billion (€256 billion) contract with Oracle for computing power over five years. The deal, with a required capacity of 4.5 gigawatts, is one of the largest cloud contracts ever. Oracle's stock shot up by no less than 43 percent after the company announced in its quarterly figures that it had signed contracts worth $317 billion with three customers.

And if Walmart U.S. CEO John Furner's instincts are right, that number will hold steady in the coming years, despite all the talk of how the growing use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) might decimate jobs across the economy. "When we look out two years, three years, five years, where I think we'll be is we'll have roughly the same number of people we have today,"

Nevertheless, it seems OpenAI, the maker of Chat GPT, saw potential in the 'nature documentary turned comedy'. It's putting its name behind the experimental short's expansion into a feature-length movie intended for a debut at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2026 followed by a full cinema release. Will it show that AI is ready to take on Hollywood and slash the costs of filmmaking, or will it do the opposite like 'Netflix of AI' Showrunner?

Now, if ChatGPT-maker OpenAI has its way, finding work is going to change too. On Thursday, the San Francisco-headquartered company announced that it's building both a jobs site and a skills-certification system, in what look like direct attacks on jobs juggernaut LinkedIn. OpenAI plans to open the jobs site in mid-2026, it told TechCrunch. LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, making this new competition another wrinkle in OpenAI's rocky relationship with the Redmond, Washington, tech giant.

OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team, a small but influential group of researchers that shape how the company's AI models interact with people, TechCrunch has learned. In an August memo to staff seen by TechCrunch, OpenAI's Chief Research Officer Mark Chen said the Model Behavior team - which consists of roughly 14 researchers - would be joining the Post Training team, a larger research group responsible for improving the company's AI models after their initial pre-training.

If OpenAI succeeds in training a state-of-the-art LLM with its own AI chip, it will be a first. China's DeepSeek has already attempted to produce a successor to the DeepSeek-R1 model without Nvidia's hardware, but has so far failed due to inadequate hardware and software tooling. As a rule, the AI industry is tied to Nvidia, albeit in different forms. Google, for example, is the only party that can make its mark as both a hardware and model builder with its own Tensor Processing Units.

Paranoia is as natural to Silicon Valley as lip fillers are to Los Angeles. In the Bay Area, you can't throw a rock without hitting a startup founder convinced everyone is out to steal his ideas or poach his staff - a state of mind reaffirmed by the fact that sometimes, people very much are trying to rip off their competitors.

Over a few months of increasingly heavy engagement, ChatGPT allegedly went from a teen's go-to homework help tool to a "suicide coach." In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, mourning parents Matt and Maria Raine alleged that the chatbot offered to draft their 16-year-old son Adam a suicide note after teaching the teen how to subvert safety features and generate technical instructions to help Adam follow through on what ChatGPT claimed would be a "beautiful suicide."

It was a tough decision not to continue with the new Superintelligence TBD lab, especially given the talent and compute density,

OpenAI isn't a publicly-traded company - yet, at least - and as such, the company's express written consent is necessary for the sale or transfer of its equity. But that massive caveat has not, apparently, stopped sleazy operators from trying to rip would-be investors off with shady promises of buying into the red-hot artificial intelligence giant. In a new blog post, OpenAI warned that there are bad actors out there attempting to make "unauthorized opportunities to gain access" to the company.

Earlier we reported that ChatGPT from OpenAI seems to be using parts of Google search results for its answers (kudos to the SEO community for spotting it first). Well, according to The Information, OpenAI has been partially using Google search results scraped by a startup called SerpApi for ChatGPT responses on current events like news and sports. The article says, "OpenAI is getting the data from SerpApi, an eight-year-old web-scraping firm,"