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The rollout was even messy enough to spill into betting markets. One 27-year-old day trader, Foster McCoy, pocketed $10,000 in just a few hours by wagering that Google’s Gemini would beat GPT-5 in a popularity contest.

Oracle has embedded GPT-5 into its cloud infrastructure and SaaS apps, extending generative AI to databases, HR, finance, and supply chain tools for enterprise customers.

Oracle integrates OpenAI’s GPT-5 across its database suite and SaaS applications, enhancing coding, reasoning, automation, and enterprise insights with advanced generative AI capabilities.

On a call with reporters Wednesday previewing the new chatbot, Altman likened GPT-5 to a Ph.D.-level expert. The new chatbot is also "the biggest single step forward" that OpenAI has taken in worldwide accessibility, Altman said.

The new version of ChatGPT explains why it won’t generate rule-breaking outputs. WIRED’s initial analysis found that some guardrails were easy to circumvent.

OpenAI is in talks for a $6B employee share sale valuing the ChatGPT maker at $500B, making it the world’s most valuable private company.

OpenAI reversed the change on Tuesday, allowing the previous model to be accessible by paid users, but the episode illustrates what researchers are calling “AI Psychosis,” where overly-pleasing chatbots exacerbate delusions and create a false sense of romantic love.