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Parloa builds service agents customers want to talk to

Parloa leverages OpenAI models to power scalable, voice-driven AI customer service agents, enabling enterprises to design, simulate, and deploy reliable, real-time interactions.

OpenAI Blog May 7
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Five architects of the AI economy explain where the wheels are coming off

Earlier this week, five people who touch every layer of the AI supply chain sat down at the Milken Global Conference in Beverly Hills, where they talked with TechCrunch about everything from chip shortages to orbital data centers to the possibility that the whole architecture that undergirds the tech is wrong.

TechCrunch AI May 7
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Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT

Introducing Trusted Contact in ChatGPT, an optional safety feature that notifies someone you trust if serious self-harm concerns are detected.

OpenAI Blog May 7
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Testing ads in ChatGPT

OpenAI begins testing ads in ChatGPT to support free access, with clear labeling, answer independence, strong privacy protections, and user control.

OpenAI Blog May 7
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Simplex rethinks software development with Codex

Simplex boosts software development with ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, reducing design, build, and testing time while scaling AI-driven workflows.

OpenAI Blog May 7
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Musk’s biggest loyalist became his biggest liability

I sat down in the Musk v. Altman trial courtroom today, painfully aware that no one was going to ask Shivon Zilis the question on everyone's minds: Girl, what the fuck are you doing? Zilis, who testified under oath that she is the mother of four of Musk's children, was… what's the best way to characterize this? A Musk advisor? She denies she was a "chief of staff" but says she worked for Musk's "entire AI portfolio: Tesla, Neuralink, and OpenAI" starting in 2017. The two met through OpenAI, a...

The Verge AI May 6
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Is xAI a neocloud now?

xAI's real business may be more about building data centers than training AI models.

TechCrunch AI May 6
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Google shuts down Project Mariner

Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired's Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: "Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May 4th, 2026 and its technology voyaged to other Google products." Google first revealed Project Mariner in December 2024 and later announced an update allowing it to perform up to 10 tasks at a time. Over...

The Verge AI May 6