A high school dropout who got hired at OpenAI says he used ChatGPT to learn Ph.D.-level AI

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A high school dropout says ChatGPT helped him learn PhD-level AI. Now at OpenAI's Sora team, he says credentials matter less than results.

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I asked ChatGPT and Gemini to tell me what my job will look like in 5 years. Here's what they told me.

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I'm trying really, really hard to be excited about the secretive new OpenAI device. But I just can't do it.

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Sam Altman and Jony Ive are working on a mystery hardware device for OpenAI.

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I tried China's hot new vibe coding app. One feature is light-years ahead of ChatGPT.

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China's new vibecoding app, LingGuang, has real-time camera analysis and instant mini-apps.

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Salesforce's Marc Benioff says Google's Gemini 3 just blew past ChatGPT: 'I'm not going back'

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff says Gemini 3 is so advanced that he has stopped using ChatGPT.

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The godfather of Meta's AI thinks the AI boom is a dead end

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Yann LeCun is a high-profile AI researcher at Meta who thinks Meta, and the rest of the AI industry, are taking the wrong approach to AI.

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Fidji Simo says OpenAI can't afford not to strike massive compute deals: 'What's much riskier would be to not lean into compute'

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OpenAI CEO of Applications Fidji Simo

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I tried ChatGPT-5.1's personality presets. Cynical and Quirky are my favorites.

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OpenAI has launched ChatGPT-5.1, featuring seven new personality presets for user customization.

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Google's Gemini 3 is imminent. It could reshape the AI race.

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai, at the Sun Valley conference, July 2025
For years, we were told American regulators were going to rein in Google CEO Sundar Pichai and his fellow big tech bosses. That didn't happen.

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OpenAI lost a court battle against the New York Times — now it's taking its case to the public

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has criticized The New York Times after its lawyers asked to see ChatGPT user logs as part of the legal discovery process.

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