Focus Features is billingThe AI Doc: Or How I Became An Apocaloptimistas an “eye-opening” exploration of “the most powerful technology humanity has ever created.” You’d think the doc might feature some critical voices, but itsnew trailer makes it feel like it might beone big commercial. The film premieres on March 27th.

Lockdown Mode is “not necessary” for most people and “tightly constrains how ChatGPT can interact with external systems to reduce the risk of prompt injection–based data exfiltration,”according to OpenAI.

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In anop-ed forThe New York Times, Zoë Hitzig, a researcher who left OpenAI this week, expresses concerns about the company’s move toput ads in ChatGPT, while posing alternatives to a setup that could potentially harm users down the line:

So the real question is not ads or no ads. It is whether we can design structures that avoid both excluding people from using these tools, and potentially manipulating them as consumers. I think we can.

Members of the team — which was tasked with ensuring AGI benefits all of humanity — have been transferred to other areas of the company, and former team lead Joshua Achiam will take on a new role as OpenAI’s “chief futurist,”Platformerreported.

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Ryan Beiermeister, previously vice president of the product policy team, was reportedly fired in early January over alleged sexual discrimination against a male colleague. Beiermeister, who called the allegation “absolutely false,” had opposedadding adult content, and worried safeguards weren’t strong enough. OpenAI said her firing was “not related to any issue she raised.”

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We’d heard itsdevices could arrive this year, but in a court filing OpenAI vice president Peter Welinder said they won’t reach customers before March 2027.

The case is a trademark infringement suit from audio startup iyO, which sued after OpenAIbought Jony Ive’s company io — Welinder confirmed OpenAI has no plans to use the io name for its hardware.

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The round of Big Game ads Anthropic previewed earlier this weekset Sam Altman off, as he called them “clearly dishonest.”

Now, while theoriginal ad says, “Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude,” nodding to OpenAI’s plans, the one that aired replaced it with a new tagline: “There is a time and place for ads. Your conversations with AI should not be one of them.”

As OpenAI and Anthropicfeud over AI advertising, both companies are runningSuper Bowl ads for their AI products. After OpenAI boss Sam Altman said its ad would focus on “builders,” OpenAI debuted this ad about its AI coding agent, Codex.

ChatGPT is much more well-known, but enterprise use of tools likeCodex is probably where OpenAI’s money is.

GPT‑5.3‑Codex, its new coding and development model, is apparently the first “that was instrumental in creating itself.” No, that probably doesn’t mean ChatGPT is ready to build its own Skynet, but it can help in debugging and testing:

“The Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluations—our team was blown away by how much Codex was able to accelerate its own development.”

ChatGPT users who create designs via the Canva app can now connect to their Canva Brand Kits, allowing designs to draw from on-brand colors and assets. Anthropic’s good week continues, however —Claude got the same Canva Brand Kit feature first.

“Ads are coming to AI. But not to Claude,” is a clear shot at OpenAI’s decision tobring ads to ChatGPT without mentioning it by name. There arefour commercials in the campaign, withone trimmed to thirty-seconds to air during the Super Bowl at a cost of around $8 million.

OpenAI’s new “head of preparedness,” Dylan Scandinaro, came from an AGI safety role at the company’s chief competitor. “AI is advancing rapidly,” he wrote in apost on X. “The potential benefits are great—and so are the risks of extreme and even irrecoverable harm. There’s a lot of work to do, and not much time to do it!”

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In the middle of aForbesprofile of Altman’s journey through the AI world — which is just astoundingly chaotic, when you see it all laid out in a row — Altman says that “we basically have built AGI, or very close to it.” Which, uh, okay! But then he changes his mind, sort of. From the story:

A few days later, Altman dials things back. “I meant that as a spiritual statement, not a literal one,” he says. Achieving AGI, he concedes, will require “a lot of medium-sized breakthroughs. I don’t think we need a big one.”

Disney’sdeal with OpenAI includes a plan to allowSora users to create 30-second clips featuring over 250 Disney characters while some will appear in curatedvertical video feeds inside Disney Plus, CEO Bob Iger told investors on Monday. Iger said the feature could arrive “sometime in fiscal 2026,” adding the companyhopes to allow Disney Plus subscribers to create them directly on its platform:

What this deal does is by giving us the ability to curate what has been basically created by Sora onto Disney, is it jumpstarts our ability to have short form video on Disney Plus.

The deal, announcedin September, is “on ice,” according toThe Wall Street Journal, though there are apparently still talks about a deal of some kind:

Now, the two sides are rethinking the future of their partnership, some of the people said. The latest discussions, they said, include an equity investment of tens of billions of dollars as part of OpenAI’s current funding round.

[The Wall Street Journal]

After the launch of GPT-5, OpenAI brought GPT-4o back for paid subscribers becauseusers missed it, but now, “only 0.1% of users” are still choosing GPT‑4o “each day,”the company says.

OpenAI will retire GPT‑4o, GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini from ChatGPT on February 13th.

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An updatecoming today also introduces an “auto” mode that switches between ChatGPT’s responses and Google Search results based on your query. OpenAI isalso working on Windows support and a mobile version of the browser.