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Monday, November 10, 2025
OpenAI wants Trump to fund its data centers
OpenAI's playing the long game with the Trump administration, lobbying hard to expand the Chips Act tax credits for AI data centers (bold move, but the infrastructure bill is real). Meanwhile, ChatGPT keeps expanding its grip on everyday life with fresh integrations into Peloton and Tripadvisor, while OpenAI simultaneously dropped GPT-5-Codex-Mini to give developers 4x more affordable code generation. On the measurement front, Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Harbor are standardizing how we test autonomous agents in containers - wild timing as OpenAI warns that AI is nearing human-level discovery and needs coordinated safety frameworks. Would you bet on AI regulation keeping pace with progress?
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OpenAI is pushing the Trump administration to expand federal tax credits and infrastructure support for AI data center construction, arguing such policies would accelerate U.S. AI infrastructure development while maintaining market competition principles.
ChatGPT's expanding app library now includes Peloton and Tripadvisor integrations, transforming the platform into a multi-purpose service hub with more partners like Uber and DoorDash coming soon.
VentureBeat
Terminal-Bench 2.0 and Harbor framework launch to standardize AI agent evaluation in developer environments, with improved task quality and scalable cloud infrastructure enabling reproducible testing across frontier models.
OpenAI
OpenAI argues AI has crossed a capability threshold where systems match human performance on hard problems, requiring coordinated safety research and adaptive regulation that distinguishes between current and superintelligent systems.
OpenAI
OpenAI expands Codex accessibility through a lightweight mini model (4x more usage), higher rate limits, and developer tooling improvements like prompt management and webhooks, making AI coding assistance more scalable and efficient.
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Industry Voices
Jan Leike
Alignment Researcher at Anthropic
Led OpenAI's superalignment team before dramatically resigning over safety concerns, now building scalable oversight methods at Anthropic that could determine whether we can control superintelligent AI.
Mira Murati
Former CTO at OpenAI
Orchestrated the launches of DALL-E, ChatGPT, and GPT-4 as OpenAI's CTO and briefly served as CEO during the Sam Altman crisis, making her one of few people who've shaped AI products used by hundreds of millions.
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