OpenAI Technical Staff Member Fabian Ponce presented at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta how his applied observability team returned about 30,000 CPU cores to their Kubernetes clusters processing nearly 10 petabytes of logs per day by disabling a single function in Fluent Bit

Weekly recap of what happened with OpenAI and Anthropic (Week 46, 2025)

The recordings of the first TED Talks from TEDAI Vienna 2025 have already been published

OpenAI is piloting group chats (codenamed "calpico") in ChatGPT in Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, and Taiwan for logged-in Free, Go, Plus, and Pro users on mobile and web, where you can invite up to 20 people by sharing a link and anyone in the group can share that link to bring others in

OpenAI released GPT-5.1 in the API, the next model in the GPT-5 series that balances intelligence and speed by dynamically adapting how much time it spends thinking based on task complexity

OpenAI announced Reddit AMA on GPT-5.1 and the new customization features for tomorrow 2PM PT - I'll try to share a summary afterwards as usual

OpenAI upgraded the GPT-5 series with the release of GPT-5.1 Instant and Thinking, which are trained using the same stack as reasoning models and score higher on factuality and complex problem-solving than GPT-5 while introducing a more natural, conversational tone

The first preview of "Group chats" in the ChatGPT web app - the top navigation bar now has a "Start a group chat" button which allows you to generate a link and share it with others to join this group chat shown in the new sidebar section "Group chats"

This past week was pretty hectic on my end and I didn't have time to keep up with everything, so if you missed these updates like me here's what happened with OpenAI and Anthropic

Anthropic is apparently working on a new "interviewer" tool, where Claude will act as your interviewer and perform a research interview for Anthropic by starting a conversation on topics like "work and AI", allowing you to "contribute to the discourse on work and AI"

Claude web app has a new "Haystack" announcement - "Get instant answers from your org's docs, tools, and data."

ChatGPT web app has a hidden new promo for veterans - "One year of ChatGPT Plus free for eligible military members (Offer valid for eligible active duty service members and veterans)"

Weekly recap of what happened with OpenAI and Anthropic (Week 44, 2025)

OpenAI expanded ChatGPT Go (low cost subscription) to Austria, Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden, and introduced purchasable credits usable with Codex and Sora at $40.00 per 1,000 credits

OpenAI announced Aardvark, an agentic security researcher powered by GPT-5 now available in private beta that continuously analyzes source code repositories to identify vulnerabilities, assess exploitability, prioritize severity

If you'd like to support my work and give AIPRM for ChatGPT & Claude a try, we have a Halloween deal for 30% off annual Plus (basically 5 free months) - use HALLOWEEN25, thank you

ChatGPT Go is probably coming for these countries next - Czech Republic (249 CZK), Sweden (129 SEK), Poland (34.99 PLN), Norway (129 NOK), and Denmark (69 DKK) (added to feature gates config in ChatGPT web app)

ChatGPT Pulse is now available on web and in ChatGPT Atlas for Pro users

All browser addons on chatgpt[.]com stopped working with ChatGPT Atlas version 1.2025.295.4 - disappointing decision if it's not just a defect

OpenAI livestream "OpenAI Update and Q&A with Sam Altman" "Join Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO, for a brief presentation and open Q&A session."

OpenAI completed its recapitalization where the nonprofit foundation holds equity in the for-profit company that is currently valued at approximately $130 billion

ChatGPT Go is now available in Brazil as well (R$ 39.99/month)

Anthropic will have an interesting webinar with Netflix engineering leaders on November 20, 2025 about how Netflix scales AI agent development across 3,000+ developers, covering their internal AI infrastructure strategy that delivers quality context through centralized infrastructure, configuration

Anthropic just sent the next model, codenamed Neptune V6, to red teamers and launched a 10-day challenge with extra bonuses for confirmed universal jailbreaks

OpenAI published details about the GPT-5 Instant update that rolled out on October 3, 2025 that better recognizes and supports people in moments of distress, updated the Model Spec guidelines, and launched new synced connectors for workspace plans

Anthropic released Claude for Excel in beta as a research preview for Max, Enterprise, and Teams users with 1,000 initial users before broader rollout, where Claude works in a sidebar to read, analyze, modify, and create Excel workbooks with full transparency about the actions it takes

My kids have holidays this week and want to create Halloween cards - here is a simple prompt template I created to try out some ideas with the help of ChatGPT Just upload your photo or reference image, tell ChatGPT your ideas, and press Enter

Long overdue, but I finally took the time to answer everyone asking in my DMs - here are the macOS apps I actually use almost every day

Recap of what happened with OpenAI and Anthropic this past week (Week 43, 2025)

At the OpenAI Frontiers event in London this week, OpenAI demoed a new bidirectional speech model that was post-trained on translation data and can translate what you say into another language in real-time while you're still talking by waiting for complete verbs instead of going word by word

According to The Information, OpenAI is developing AI that generates music and has been working with Juilliard School students to annotate music scores, based on reports from two people familiar with the project

OpenAI has imported approximately 630 former Meta employees representing about 20% of its roughly 3,000 staff according to LinkedIn data analyzed by The Information, with OpenAI's Slack having a channel just for former Meta employees according to a current employee

A new "Ask your org" sidebar item showed up in the Claude web app, related to a new setting to "Allow your team members to search across your organization's connected data sources and knowledge bases for more comprehensive results" (codenamed "Haystack" - a type of project created by your admin)

Aura in motion

Anthropic is opening an office in Seoul in early 2026 following new offices in Tokyo and Bengaluru, as their run rate revenue in Asia-Pacific grew over 10x in the past year

Anthropic and Google confirmed earlier Bloomberg reporting about a deal worth tens of billions of dollars where Anthropic will use up to one million Google Cloud TPUs that are expected to bring well over a gigawatt of capacity online in 2026

OpenAI is rolling out shared projects to all ChatGPT users and introducing company knowledge for Business, Enterprise, and Edu customers

Claude Memory is now available for Max users and rolling out to Pro users over the next two weeks, with each project maintaining its own separate memory that you can view and edit, plus an incognito mode for chats that don't save to memory

OpenAI acquired Software Applications Inc., maker of Sky, a natural language interface for Mac that floats over your desktop, understands what's on your screen, and can take action using your apps, though Sky is not available to the public yet

If you are getting "Too many concurrent requests" in ChatGPT, it's not just you - ChatGPT appears to be experiencing an outage right now

"Update on October 22, 2025: The Midwest site mentioned in this blog post will be located in Wisconsin and be developed by Oracle in partnership with Vantage."

OpenAI updated the article "How we're responding to The New York Times' data demands in order to protect user privacy" with an update stating they are no longer under a legal order to retain consumer ChatGPT and API content indefinitely as of September 26, 2025

ChatGPT web app now links to a new document explaining OpenAI's ChatGPT Regulated Workspace, a pre-configured ChatGPT Enterprise workspace that turns off features not supporting HIPAA compliance by default

OpenAI announced a new agreement with the UK Ministry of Justice to provide 2,500 employees with access to ChatGPT Enterprise following a successful pilot showing time-saving benefits across writing support, compliance and legal work, data and research processes, and document analysis

OpenAI published an economic blueprint recommending South Korea adopt a dual-track strategy of building sovereign AI capabilities in foundation models, infrastructure, and GPU supply while pursuing strategic collaborations with frontier AI developers to accelerate adoption

ChatGPT web app has a new "ChatGPT Web Aura Announcement Banner" - "Try Atlas - ChatGPT’s new browser - Bring ChatGPT with you across the web for instant answers, smarter suggestions, and help with tasks."

OpenAI released an Economic Blueprint for Japan outlining how Japan can fully utilize AI's economic and social potential, with independent analyses estimating AI could add more than ¥100 trillion in economic value and raise GDP by as much as 16%

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Atlas (codename Aura), a new web browser with ChatGPT built right in - ChatGPT Atlas is based on Chromium, so Chrome extensions like AIPRM for ChatGPT and for Claude work with it, and you can import your passwords, bookmarks, and history from your current browser

"For the six-month period ending 30 September 2025, ChatGPT search had in combination approximately 120.4 million average monthly active recipients in the European Union" (compared to 41.3 million for the six-month period ending 31 March 2025)

OpenAI livestream "Introducing ChatGPT Atlas"