Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims in a CNBC interview that AI no longer hallucinates. At best, that’s a massive oversimplification. At worst, it’s misleading. Either way, nobody pushes back, which says a lot about the current state of the AI debate.
AI-generated fake videos are spreading rapidly across Japanese social media during the lower house election campaign. In a survey, more than half of respondents believed fake news to be true. But Japan is far from the only democracy facing this problem.
OpenAI is working with Abu Dhabi-based G42 on a custom ChatGPT for the UAE, Semafor reports. The version will speak the local Arabic dialect and may include content restrictions. One source said the UAE wants the chatbot to project a political line consistent with the monarchy's. Global ChatGPT will stay available but adapted to local laws, notifying users when content violates regulations. OpenAI is fine-tuning rather than retraining to cut costs.
G42 is led by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan—the UAE President's brother, National Security Advisor, and head of the largest sovereign wealth fund. The companies have been partners since October 2023.
These adaptations show AI models are cultural products as much as technical tools. Generated content flows into every corner of society, and even small changes to cultural narratives can have lasting effects; which is why both China and the US are working to control their AI models' output to shape domestic conversations and spread their worldviews abroad.
By combining Waymo’s real-world driving data with Deepmind’s Genie 3, Alphabet is showing the kind of AI leverage that few companies can match: using one subsidiary’s world model to supercharge another’s autonomous driving simulations.
"Every company is an API company now, whether they want to be or not," says OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, repeating a phrase that's stuck with him recently. Altman made the comment while discussing how generative AI could reshape traditional software business models.
AI agents will soon write their own code to access services even without an official API, Altman believes. If that happens, companies won't have a say in joining this new "platform shift." They'll simply be integrated, and the traditional user interface will lose value.
Some SaaS companies will remain highly valuable by leveraging AI for themselves, according to Altman. Others are just a "thinner layer" and won't survive the shift. Established players with strong core systems who use AI strategically are best positioned, he says.
Recent advances in AI agents and tools like Cowork have already driven down valuations for some software companies. The thinking: AI will handle more tasks directly, making niche solutions unnecessary.
OpenAI has released GPT-5.3-Codex, its latest coding model. The company says it combines GPT-5.2-Codex's coding capabilities with GPT-5.2's reasoning and knowledge, while running 25 percent faster. Most notably, on Terminal-Bench 2.0 it beats the just-released Opus 4.6 by 12 percentage points—a significant gap by current AI standards—while using fewer tokens than its predecessors. On OSWorld, an agentic computer-use benchmark, it scores 64.7 percent versus 38.2 percent for GPT-5.2-Codex. On GDPval, OpenAI's benchmark for knowledge-work tasks across 44 occupations, it matches GPT-5.2.
OpenAI also claims the model played a role in its own development, with the team using early versions to find bugs during training, manage deployment, and evaluate results. The company says the team was "blown away by how much Codex was able to accelerate its own development."
GPT-5.3-Codex is now available to paying ChatGPT users in the Codex app, CLI, IDE extension, and on the web. API access will follow. OpenAI has classified the model as its first with a "High" cybersecurity risk rating, though the company says this is precautionary, as there's no definitive proof such a classification is necessary.
OpenAI’s new Frontier platform gives AI agents in companies their own identities, shared context, and the ability to learn from experience. The software launches first with selected enterprise customers.
OpenAI’s Sam Altman fires back at Anthropic’s anti-ad campaign, but his own warnings about AI persuasion, which came true, make the criticism hard to dismiss.
