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While OpenAI acknowledges that some people have an unhealthy relationship with its chatbot ChatGPT, the company doesn’t think those problems are particularly widespread. (It also thinks its product will eventually be good enough to deal with those dicey situations.)

CEO Sam Altman, in a rare on-the record dinner with journalists, told The Verge that “way under 1 percent” of users have problematic relationships with it.

Even if that’s true, let’s hypothetically say 0.5% of users have acutely negative outcomes from their conversations with ChatGPT. For a product that now has 700 million weekly users, that’s still 3.5 million people.

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A new analysis by Bloomberg looked at wholesale electricity prices and found that in the past five years, areas near data centers saw their prices spike as much as 267%. More than 70% of the price increases took place in areas less than 50 miles from a data center.

As tech companies race to build colossal data centers, unprecedented energy demands from the projects are passing some of the costs on to consumers.

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OpenAI’s first-half 2025 sales were 16% higher than all of 2024

OpenAI brought in $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of this year, 16% higher than its total revenue in 2024, The Information reports, citing financial disclosures to shareholders. The ChatGPT maker also burned through $2.5 billion in the same time frame.

Currently the company is generating more than $1 billion in revenue each month, which puts it on track to reach its full-year projection for $13 billion in revenue and $8.5 billion in cash burn — a paltry sum compared to the $115 billion it expects to burn through 2029.

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Wired: OpenAI plans to launch a TikTok-like app for its AI videos

OpenAI is planning to launch its own social media app to showcase AI videos generated by its Sora 2, Wired reports. The Sora 2 stand-alone app apparently looks a lot like TikTok with vertical videos, a For You page, and the ability to remix videos — which, unlike TikTok, are all created by AI. So far it’s only available internally.

The drawn-out TikTok negotiations have given OpenAI a window to launch a short-form video app without ties to China, sources told Wired.

The Sora 2 app also includes an identification verification feature that would let users confirm their likeness and let others use it as well.

The Sora 2 app also includes an identification verification feature that would let users confirm their likeness and let others use it as well.

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