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Week of August 04, 2025 - AI News Roundup

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Sam Altman addresses ‘bumpy’ GPT-5 rollout, bringing 4o back, and the ‘chart crime’

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 August 08, 2025

The Reddit AMA got spicy as users peppered OpenAI with questions, and some asked the company to bring back its previous model.

Meta acquires AI audio startup WaveForms

📰 TechCrunch AI | 📅 August 08, 2025

WaveForms, founded just eight months ago, last raised $40 million in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz that valued the company at $160 million pre-money, per PitchBook data. It’s the company’s latest buy to strengthen its new AI unit, Superintelligence Labs, and Meta’s second major AI audio acquisition in the last month after it bought PlayAI.

Introducing GPT-5

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 August 07, 2025

OpenAI introduced GPT‑5, their best AI system yet. GPT‑5 is a significant leap in intelligence over all OpenAI's previous models, featuring state-of-the-art performance across coding, math, writing, health, visual perception, and more.

Tesla Disbands Dojo Supercomputer Team

📰 Bloomberg | 📅 August 07, 2025

Tesla Inc. is disbanding its Dojo team and its leader will leave the company, according to people familiar with the matter, upending the automaker’s effort to build an in-house supercomputer for developing driverless-vehicle technology. Elon Musk confirmed the change in approach, stating that Tesla will focus on its next-generation AI chips, which "will be excellent for inference and at least pretty good for training".

Providing ChatGPT to the Entire U.S. Federal Workforce

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 August 06, 2025

OpenAI for Government announced a new partnership with the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) to launch a transformative initiative. For the next year, ChatGPT Enterprise will be available to the entire federal executive branch workforce at essentially no cost.

Introducing gpt-oss

📰 OpenAI News | 📅 August 05, 2025

OpenAI released gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, two state-of-the-art open-weight language models that deliver strong real-world performance at low cost. Available under the flexible Apache 2.0 license, these models outperform similarly sized open models on reasoning tasks, demonstrate strong tool use capabilities, and are optimized for efficient deployment on consumer hardware.