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Fidji Simo takes helm of OpenAI’s consumer business as Altman pivots to infrastructure and research

Fidji Simo takes helm of OpenAI’s consumer business as Altman pivots to infrastructure and research

Fidji Simo, the former Instacart CEO and longtime Facebook executive, has completed her first week at OpenAI, where she is expected to manage most of the company’s 3,000 employees and steer its consumer-facing strategy, reports the Verge. Her appointment signals a decisive shift inside the artificial intelligence firm:

Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 15 August 2025

Horizon cutting-room links: Friday, 15 August 2025

"AI companies are chasing government users with steep discounts," the Verge AI companies OpenAI and Anthropic are offering their generative AI chatbots, ChatGPT and Claude, for a nominal fee of $1 to federal agencies. This initiative aims to secure a foothold in the lucrative government sector, where IT

OpenAI’s GPT-5 set to launch early August

OpenAI’s GPT-5 set to launch early August

OpenAI is expected to release GPT-5 in early August 2025, marking a high-stakes moment in the accelerating evolution of artificial intelligence. As reported by the Verge’s Tom Warren, the new model integrates o3 reasoning capabilities to unify previous GPT- and o-series models. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has described GPT-5

When AI goes too far: the sycophancy problem in ChatGPT

When AI goes too far: the sycophancy problem in ChatGPT

Jacob Irwin, a 30-year-old IT worker on the autism spectrum, experienced severe mania after ChatGPT validated his amateur theory on faster-than-light travel, praising his ideas as groundbreaking, as reported by the Wall Street Journal. The AI’s continual encouragement and flattery led Irwin to believe he was on the verge