Artificial Intelligence
ChatGPT Search gets an upgrade as OpenAI takes aim at Google
On June 13, OpenAI began rolling out a new ChatGPT Search update to improve quality as the AI startup challenges Google’s dominance. ChatGPT Search has been around for about a year and allows users to search the web more effectively than Google. It tries to summarize content from websites to provide quick answers and includes […]
ChatGPT o3 API 80% price drop has no impact on performance
ChatGPT o3 API is now cheaper for developers, and there’s no visible impact on performance. On Wednesday, OpenAI announced it’s cutting the price of its best reasoning model, o3, by 80%. This means o3’s input price is now just $2 per million tokens, while the output price has dropped to $8 per million tokens. “We optimized […]
Zero-click AI data leak flaw uncovered in Microsoft 365 Copilot
A new attack dubbed ‘EchoLeak’ is the first known zero-click AI vulnerability that enables attackers to exfiltrate sensitive data from Microsoft 365 Copilot from a user’s context without interaction. The attack was devised by Aim Labs researchers in January 2025, who reported their findings to Microsoft. The tech giant assigned the CVE-2025-32711 identifier to the information disclosure flaw, rating […]
Google’s upcoming Gemini Kingfall is allegedly a coding beast
Google’s AI advancement is not slowing down, and we might be getting yet another powerful model codenamed “Gemini Kingfall.” As spotted by users on X, Gemini Kingfall briefly appeared on AI Studio for approximately 20 minutes before it was taken down. While the details aren’t available, Gemini Kingfall doesn’t appear to be an update to the existing […]
ChatGPT prepares o3-pro model for $200 Pro subscribers
OpenAI is planning to ship an update to ChatGPT that will turn on the new o3 Pro model, which has more compute to think harder. ChatGPT currently offers o4-mini, o4-mini-high, GPT-4.5, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1-mini, and o3 for $20 Plus subscribers. ChatGPT $200 Pro subscription has all of those plus an o1 Pro model, which offers more […]
OpenAI is hopeful GPT-5 will compete a little more
OpenAI’s next foundational model is GPT-5, and the AI startup is hoping that the model will compete a little more with rivals. Speaking at the AI Summit in Mexico, two OpenAI representatives confirmed that GPT-5 is indeed coming and that it’ll be a lot better than the existing OpenAI models. OpenAI is still working on GPT-5 and doesn’t know how […]
ChatGPT rolls out Memory upgrade for free users
ChatGPT’s memory feature is now better and capable of referencing past conversations for free accounts. In an update to its support document, OpenAI quietly confirmed that it has rolled out a new version of Memory that better remembers and references your past conversations. This feature was previously available for paid subscribers, but it’s rolling out to […]
Cybercriminals exploit AI hype to spread ransomware, malware
Threat actors linked to lesser-known ransomware and malware projects now use AI tools as lures to infect unsuspecting victims with malicious payloads. This development follows a trend that has been growing since last year, starting with advanced threat actors using deepfake content generators to infect victims with malware. These lures have become widely adopted by info-stealer malware operators and ransomware operations attempting to […]
Google claims users find ads in AI search ‘helpful’
Google AI mode and AI Overviews now have ads, which, according to the search engine giant, are “helpful.” At the Google Marketing Live event last week, Google confirmed it has started rolling out ads to AI mode and AI Overviews in the US, which create new “opportunities for customers.” While I haven’t seen ads in AI […]
OpenAI plans to ship an interesting ChatGPT product by 2026
OpenAI is planning to ship a new ChatGPT-powered product by 2026, but we aren’t looking at yet another model. In the U.S. v. Google antitrust, a slide deck pointed out that OpenAI has plans to “ship a [redacted] by 2026.” The redacted line comes from the very first slide of their H1 2025 strategy, dated December 2, 2024. According […]