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AI research and deployment company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, and DALL-E. Leading the frontier of large language models.

Recent News about OpenAI

• We tested AI shopping chatbots. This is what we found.

  As big-box retailers lean into OpenAI-powered shopping assistants, the Star Tribune ran a hands-on test of AI chatbots positioned as “gift finders” and product discovery tools. The big takeaway: the bots can be genuinely helpful at narrowing choices quickly, but they’re still inconsistent—sometimes overconfident, sometimes vague, and occasionally steering users toward generic bestsellers rather than truly personalized picks. The piece also spotlights the tradeoff retailers are implicitly asking customers to make: better recommendations in exchange for more behavioral and preference data, at a moment when shoppers are increasingly privacy-sensitive. The deeper story is competitive: if AI becomes the front door to e-commerce, whoever controls the agent layer (and the underlying data partnerships) could reshape search, advertising, and how brands win the digital shelf.

  Source: The Minnesota Star Tribune2025-12-13T17:00:00.000Z

• US stocks slide as Broadcom outlook rekindles fears of an AI investment bubble

  US markets fell as investors reacted to signals that AI infrastructure growth may be running into margin pressure and capex reality checks, with Broadcom’s outlook amplifying concerns. The move dragged other AI-adjacent names and put the spotlight back on whether today’s spending pace can translate into durable profits, not just revenue growth. A key takeaway is that the AI trade is maturing: the market is starting to separate “AI demand exists” from “AI demand is profitable at scale,” especially for hardware/system sellers. For builders and buyers of AI, this kind of volatility tends to accelerate interest in efficiency—cheaper inference, better utilization, and more defensible unit economics.

  Source: Reuters2025-12-12T17:36:00.000Z

• BBVA and OpenAI strike a strategic deal to roll out ChatGPT Enterprise across BBVA’s workforce

  BBVA and OpenAI announced a strategic agreement to scale generative AI adoption across BBVA, including making ChatGPT Enterprise available to more than 120,000 employees. The rollout follows an earlier internal deployment and is positioned as a foundation for broader AI-native banking workflows—customer support, banker assistance, and operational automation. The big implication is that genAI is moving from pilots to institution-wide standardization in regulated industries, where governance, auditability, and security controls matter as much as model quality. This kind of deployment also tends to create a flywheel: once thousands of employees build internal GPTs/agents, the organization’s process maps get rewritten around AI-first defaults.

  Source: LA NACION2025-12-12T15:43:00.000Z

• Trump signs executive order aimed at curbing state AI laws in favor of a national standard

  President Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to push back on what the administration calls the most “onerous” state-level AI regulations, arguing that a patchwork of rules across 50 states could slow innovation and investment. The order sets up a path for federal action—via legal challenges and agency reviews—to preempt or contest state measures, while claiming it will not oppose child-safety-related rules. This is a major governance pivot for the U.S. AI ecosystem: it shifts the battlefield from state legislatures toward federal agencies, courts, and ultimately Congress, raising the stakes for national standards on transparency, risk mitigation, and model accountability. For AI companies, a single federal regime could reduce compliance fragmentation—but it could also harden into a high-impact procurement and enforcement framework if the federal government becomes more prescriptive. The strategic subtext is international: the administration explicitly frames regulatory speed as part of competing with China, making AI policy a competitiveness tool rather than purely a consumer-protection tool.

  Source: Reuters2025-12-12T01:12:00.000Z

• Time magazine names the ‘Architects of AI’ as its 2025 Person of the Year

  Time named the “Architects of AI” as its 2025 Person of the Year, highlighting the people behind major advances in the field rather than the technology itself. Reuters reported that the recognition centers on how AI has rapidly transformed work, media, and broader society—while also raising new risks and controversies. The selection reflects AI’s mainstreaming: frontier model labs and enabling hardware companies are now treated as central institutions shaping global outcomes. For the AI industry, this kind of cultural canonization can accelerate adoption and investment, but it also intensifies scrutiny over safety, accountability, and societal impacts.

  Source: Reuters2025-12-11T19:15:00.000Z

• Oracle shares slide after weak outlook and soaring AI-related capex, fueling ‘AI bubble’ concerns

  Oracle shares fell sharply after the company issued a dour forecast while highlighting significantly higher spending plans, intensifying investor scrutiny of whether AI infrastructure bets will pay off soon enough. Reuters described the move as sparking broader pressure on AI-linked equities, reflecting market sensitivity to capex-driven business models and uncertain near-term returns. Oracle’s positioning as a major cloud and infrastructure partner for large-scale AI deployments has tied its narrative closely to AI demand and the pace of monetization. The episode underscores a key industry tension: AI-driven growth is pushing unprecedented datacenter investment, but public markets are increasingly demanding clearer profit timelines and cash-flow discipline.

  Source: Reuters2025-12-11T19:08:00.000Z

• OpenAI launches GPT-5.2, pushing harder into agentic workflows

  OpenAI launched GPT-5.2, a new flagship model family positioned for everyday professional use and multi-step “agentic” work (e.g., spreadsheets, presentations, code, tool-use, and long-context tasks). The release underscores the competitive pressure among frontier labs, with OpenAI framing GPT-5.2 as a direct response to a rapidly intensifying benchmark and product race. The rollout includes multiple variants (e.g., faster “Instant” and more deliberate “Thinking/Pro” modes), signaling continued segmentation by latency/price/reasoning depth for enterprise and power users. Strategically, GPT-5.2 strengthens OpenAI’s claim that the next battleground is dependable end-to-end task execution, not just raw benchmark scores, and it foreshadows more “assistant/agent” features being productized across ChatGPT and the API.

  Source: Reuters2025-12-11T18:57:00.000Z

• Disney escalates AI copyright fight with cease-and-desist against Google over Gemini and generative tools

  Disney issued a cease-and-desist letter accusing Google of large-scale copyright infringement tied to generative AI outputs and alleged use of Disney works in AI development and distribution. The dispute spotlights a widening enforcement trend by major rights holders that combines legal pressure with demands for transparency on training data and stronger safeguards against infringing outputs. Coming alongside Disney’s licensed partnership with OpenAI, the move suggests studios may be converging on a dual strategy: monetize opt-in licensing while litigating or threatening action against unlicensed AI use. For AI platform operators, the case raises the stakes for dataset governance, output filtering, and product-level indemnity/controls as generative content becomes more deeply embedded in consumer platforms.

  Source: The Verge2025-12-11T17:02:00.000Z

• Disney invests $1B in OpenAI and licenses 200+ characters for Sora videos

  Walt Disney announced a $1 billion equity investment in OpenAI alongside a three-year licensing agreement that allows Sora to generate short, user-prompted videos featuring Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars characters. The deal is a notable shift from Hollywood’s mostly adversarial posture toward generative AI, establishing a high-profile template for “licensed generative” workflows rather than unlicensed scraping and imitation. The agreement also positions Disney as a major OpenAI customer, implying deeper integration of OpenAI APIs and ChatGPT tooling inside Disney’s production and corporate operations. For the broader AI market, this is a consequential signal that premium IP holders may increasingly monetize via opt-in licensing, potentially reshaping competitive dynamics for video generators and the future economics of training data and synthetic media distribution.

  Source: Reuters2025-12-11T16:14:00.000Z

• OpenAI’s new Chief Revenue Officer is Slack CEO Denise Dresser

  OpenAI has hired Denise Dresser, currently CEO of Slack, as its first Chief Revenue Officer to lead global revenue strategy, including enterprise sales and customer success, as the company pushes deeper into business markets. Coverage notes that Dresser’s Salesforce and Slack background in scaling large SaaS businesses and AI‑driven workplace tools signals OpenAI’s intent to become an enterprise‑first platform, while Salesforce installs an interim CEO at Slack. ([openai.com](https://openai.com/index/openai-appoints-denise-dresser/?utm_source=openai))

  Source: OpenAI2025-12-11T14:08:16.755Z