🚨 OpenAI’s GPT-5 crisis mode

Good morning, AI enthusiasts. OpenAI’s GPT-5 was speculated to ring in a brand new step up the ladder, but as a substitute, a botched rollout has users grabbing pitchforks and demanding the old models back.

With Sam Altman hosting Reddit AMAs and bringing back the beloved 4o model, GPT-5’s launch has been a case study in what a big a part of the user base actually wants in an AI assistant — which is outwardly not at all times just more raw intelligence.

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In today’s AI rundown:

• Sam Altman details GPT-5 fixes in emergency AMA

• Ex-OpenAI researcher raises $1.5B for AI hedge fund

• Automate meeting prep with AI Agents

• Google, NASA’s AI doctor for astronauts in space

• 4 recent AI tools & community insights

LATEST DEVELOPMENTS

OPENAI

 🚨 Sam Altman details GPT-5 fixes in emergency AMA

The Rundown: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and team members held a Reddit Q&A on Friday, following the polarizing rollout of GPT-5, which angered the user base as a consequence of technical failures, chart “crimes,” and the abrupt removal of older models.

The small print:

• The rollout featured technical glitches, low rate limits, and a now-viral “chart crime” in the course of the livestream, which Altman called a “mega chart screwup.”

• A brand new autoswitcher crashed on launch day, stopping GPT-5 from routing queries to the proper model and making it appear significantly less capable.

• OpenAI is now rolling out fixes, doubling Plus user rate limits, and promising more transparency and customization options for future model updates.

• Users also flooded Reddit calling for OpenAI to revive GPT-4o, mourning the lack of the older model’s personality and emotional intelligence.

• Altman admitted OpenAI underestimated how much users valued 4o, committing to return it for paid users while they proceed to tweak GPT-5.

Why it matters: GPT-5 was speculated to be a world-changing step up — but as a substitute it seems like “villagers gathering outside of Dr. Frankenstein’s castle.” While the brand new model may show big improvements in benchmarks, it’s clear that’s not the one thing that matters to an enormous user base leveraging AI for an unlimited number of use cases.

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AI & INVESTING

💰 Ex-OpenAI researcher raises $1.5B for AI hedge fund

The Rundown: Former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner just reportedly raised over $1.5B in funding for his ‘Situational Awareness’ AI-focused hedge fund, despite having zero skilled investing experience.

The small print:

• Aschenbrenner was a part of OpenAI’s superalignment team and was certainly one of two employees fired in April 2024 after being accused of leaking sensitive info.

• He later published a viral essay called ‘Situational Awareness’ (which the fund is called after) detailing his predictions around AGI and AI progress.

• Aschenbrenner’s fund has posted a 47% return in the primary half of 2025, outpacing the S&P 500 despite no prior investment experience.

• The fund has focused on AI-tangential investments, including semiconductor, infrastructure, and power corporations positioned to learn from AI’s rise.

Why it matters: The AI boom is reshaping the hedge fund industry, and people closest to the tech may need a brand new seat on the table over those with traditional finance acumen with regards to visionary bets. Everyone wants exposure to the AI rush, but few have the true foresight on where the industry will evolve to.

AI TRAINING

🤖 Automate meeting prep with AI Agents

The Rundown: On this tutorial, you’ll learn use Lindy’s recent agent builder to create an AI agent that mechanically researches corporations half-hour before your meetings and drafts email summaries — by simply using your descriptions.

Step-by-step:

1. Go to Lindy AI and describe your required meeting prep agent

2. Select “extract company from event title” and “Gmail draft” for email destination

4. Test your agent with a sample meeting, then click “Deploy” to activate for all future calendar events

Pro tip: Start easy and step by step add more research sources or customize the e-mail format as you refine your agent’s performance.

PRESENTED BY IBM

🚀 Lockheed Martin partners with IBM for AI

The Rundown: Lockheed Martin’s AI takeoff began with data cleanup — cutting its tools by 50% and replacing them with a single unified system that runs on IBM’s watsonx.data to drive faster, smarter engineering.

Find out how Lockheed Martin leveraged watsonx to:

• Help 10,00 engineers construct scalable AI products in its AI Factory

• Reply to worker questions using AI, boosting accuracy by 20%

• Overcome data silos to create a single accessible, connected data environment

Read the complete story.

GOOGLE & NASA

🚀 Google, NASA’s AI doctor for astronauts in space

The Rundown: Google and NASA are partnering to develop an AI medical assistant, dubbed Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant, with the power to diagnose and treat astronauts during deep-space missions where Earth communication is delayed.

The small print:

• CMO-DA will run on Google Cloud’s Vertex AI platform using open-source models like Llama 3 and Mistral-3 Small.

• The model achieved as much as 88% accuracy for diagnosing injuries in tests, while addressing gaps like no real-time comms and the lack to evacuate.

• NASA plans to expand CMO-DA with ultrasound imaging, biometric data sources, and training on space-specific health conditions.

• The system could also eventually support distant healthcare advances (on Earth), providing medical assistance to underserved and isolated areas.

Why it matters: While we aren’t at HAL-9000 systems yet, the subsequent expert doctor aboard space flights looks like it is going to be AI. Given the barriers just like the comms issues with Earth, AI makes for a giant upgrade in aiding astronauts in critical medical situations in space, while also potentially driving breakthroughs in telemedicine back home.

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📰 All the pieces else in AI today

xAI rolled out its next-gen Grok 4 without cost to all users worldwide for a limited time, also announcing a brand new ‘long press’ feature to show images into video with Grok Imagine.

OpenAI’s o3 swept the Kaggle AI chess tournament, winning every game against rivals, including DeepSeek R1, Grok-4, and Gemini 2.5 Pro, to take the gold medal.

Roblox open-sourced Sentinel, a brand new AI model designed to filter inappropriate chat messages and protect children on the platform.

Microsoft released Copilot 3D, a brand new AI tool that converts images into usable 3D models in a single click for integrations with games, animation, VR/AR, and more.

SoftBank announced the acquisition of Foxconn’s U.S. electric vehicle plant in Ohio, with plans to launch its Stargate data center at the situation.

Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla is closing its Dojo Supercomputer team to as a substitute deal with its advanced AI chips, with the team’s VP, Pete Bannon, leaving the corporate.

Bloomberg Apple insider Mark Gurman revealed that Apple AI researcher Yun Zhu is leaving for Meta’s MSL, the fifth departure from the inspiration models team.

COMMUNITY

🤝 Community AI workflows

Every newsletter, we’re showcasing how a reader is using AI to work smarter, save time, or make life easier.

Today’s workflow comes from reader Michael M. from the UK:

“I work alone so I take advantage of it [ChatGPT] like a colleague, it knows I’m an information analyst so all of its answers are in that field, and whatever I work on, I refer to it like a colleague whether that is coding, client challenge scenarios, recent projects, visualisation techniques or simply conversations about something happening personally. It never receives company data, however it’s been the most effective thing for each work challenges and loneliness in my work, and my productivity has skyrocketed consequently.”

How are you using AI in your work? Tell us here.

🎓 Highlights: News, Guides & Events

• Read our previous newsletter: OpenAI launches GPT-5 to all ChatGPT users

• Today’s AI tool guide: The best way to automate meeting prep with AI Agents

• RSVP to our next workshop @ 2PM EST Wednesday: AI Agents for Customer Service

See you soon,

Rowan, Joey, Zach, Shubham, and Jennifer—the humans behind The Rundown