EY chief economist warns AI is creating a winner-take-all economy
Gregory Daco argues that AI-driven productivity gains protect margins, not income
The company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models. It sparked the current AI boom with ChatGPT's launch in 2022. As of August 2026, its flagship model lineup is GPT-5.6, with an improved Sol for paying users and Luna assigned to free users. Around the same time, it released a new model called Astra, which came with warnings about potentially catastrophic cyber capabilities. The company also published an agent plugin standard together with AWS, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and others. It unveiled a GPT-Live design for seamless voice conversations, and announced plans for a smart speaker slated for release in 2027.
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Gregory Daco argues that AI-driven productivity gains protect margins, not income
Microsoft, Meta, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all adopted the model Palantir pioneered, with pay reaching as high as $400,000.
In a new test that hands AI a year of running an online store, GPT-5.6 Sol took first place while an older Alibaba model went bankrupt four times
For six months, OpenAI will give under-resourced organizations — water utilities, power grid operators, local governments, community banks — access to frontier cyber AI
OpenAI's ARC-AGI-3 results sheet lists 62.7% and 99.9% side by side for the same model. Tracing why one model ends up with two scores reveals who actually deserves credit for this result.
OpenAI begins rolling out Astra, a model that handles computer tasks on your behalf, starting today
One grey-box level produced three finished prototypes with different themes, and first-try success rates jumped sharply
Across 7.1 million verification images, a training-free discriminator matched or beat existing detectors
AI scores from a 24-person startup got a major publisher to cancel a book deal, and now a research collaborator's ties to the company are drawing scrutiny too
After being brushed off five times, a job seeker sent ChatGPT to interview for him — but no human ever showed up
At a small gathering in London in the summer of 2025, a man stood up and introduced himself as a "Claude addict." Three months later, the program he posted online under a lobster icon sent developers worldwide into a frenzy, and nearly every AI assistant we now recognize by name traces back to that moment.
A two-person founding team handed everything from event-listing checks to inventory management and AI search visibility over to ChatGPT Work