OpenAI said that it would be "making GPT-5 warmer and friendlier based on feedback that it felt too formal before."

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.

Many fears of an AI bubble had hit a fever pitch at the start of this year when Chinese start-up DeepSeek released a competitive reasoning model.

OpenAI boss Sam Altman will receive the Axel Springer Award in recognition of his "contribution to digital transformation and his belief that technology should serve humans, not the other way around," the Axel Springer media group announced on Monday.

OpenAI's CEO called AI both the most important technology in decades and an overhyped bubble — warning that some investors are bound to get burned

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. Instead of dismissing the backlash, Altman responded by flipping the switch: GPT-4o was restored as an option within days.

OpenAI, known for its artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, has tapped a roster of Democratic operatives to lobby California officials as the company pushes to restructure, Politico reported Sunday.

During a recent online clash with Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, Elon Musk experienced an unexpected twist when his own AI chatbot, Grok, publicly sided with Altman. The confrontation began after Musk accused Apple of unfairly promoting OpenAI’s ChatGPT in the App Store.