2026-02-11
Abandon your status quo bias. The next few years are going to be wild.
Matt Shumer
GPT-5.3-Codex and Claude Opus 4.6 can meaningfully contribute to the improvement of AI models, a sign of what's coming for most knowledge work within five years
Think back to February 2020. — If you were paying close attention, you might have noticed a few people talking about a virus spreading overseas.
Abandon your status quo bias. The next few years are going to be wild.
The Decoder
OpenAI updates ChatGPT's deep research tool with GPT-5.2, a full-screen report view, an option to focus research on specific websites, and search interruption
The feature now runs on the new GPT-5.2 model, as OpenAI announced on X. A key addition is that users can connect apps to ChatGPT and—potentially very useful—search specific websit...
Abandon your status quo bias. The next few years are going to be wild.
Sources
Q&A with Fidji Simo on ChatGPT ads, OpenAI's efforts to ship a new model soon to end Sam Altman's Code Red, Anthropic's Super Bowl ads, Sora, Codex, and more
How ads in ChatGPT will work, what will end the Code Red, those Anthropic attack ads, working with Sam Altman, and much more...
2026-01-19
A year ago we at @HalcyonFutures made a grant to @Miles_Brundage to find and launch his Next Big Thing. Today he unveiled @AVERIorg. And he was kind enough to invite me to join the org's board. Congrats Miles!! Honored to be on your team.
Fortune
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage, who has just founded a new nonprofit institute called AVERI that is advocating …
2026-01-18
A year ago we at @HalcyonFutures made a grant to @Miles_Brundage to find and launch his Next Big Thing. Today he unveiled @AVERIorg. And he was kind enough to invite me to join the org's board. Congrats Miles!! Honored to be on your team.
Fortune
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage, who has just founded a new nonprofit institute called AVERI that is advocating …