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September 26, 2025
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OpenAI just rolled out ChatGPT Pulse, a $200/mo Pro feature that builds your morning briefings while you sleep. At the same time, Musk’s xAI is suing OpenAI over alleged talent poaching and leaked code.
In today’s issue:
🤯 ChatGPT Releases ChatGPT Pulse
🧠 xAI sues OpenAI over Talent Heist
⚡ 5-4-3-2-1 hits you just can't miss
📰 What Else Happened in AI
😂 Your AI-Powered Laugh
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What Happened (Sept 26, 2025):
OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Pulse, a feature that curates overnight briefings for users. It launches first for Pro subscribers at $200/month, with Plus users expected to follow soon.
What You Need to Know:
Pulse generates 5–10 daily cards from Gmail, Calendar, chat history, and feedback.
Cards are personalized and adaptive, learning from thumbs up/down and topic requests.
Each briefing ends with “that’s it for today” to avoid endless scrolling.
Launch is limited to Pro users; Plus subscribers are next in line.
Marketed as one of OpenAI’s “compute-intensive features,” signaling it will anchor premium tiers.
Why It Matters:
If adoption takes off, Pulse could transform how millions start their mornings — shifting attention from newsletters like Morning Brew (6M+ readers) and apps like Apple News to AI-curated briefings. It’s also a strategic move: boosting retention for OpenAI’s $200/mo Pro tier (already up 22% in revenue last quarter) while forcing rivals like Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude to race toward their own proactive briefing tools.
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What Happened (Sept 26, 2025):
xAI has filed a lawsuit in California accusing OpenAI of running a coordinated recruitment drive that lured away eight of its engineers while allegedly copying source code and sensitive trade secrets. The case also names a senior executive said to have knowledge of xAI’s infrastructure “secret sauce.”
What You Need to Know:
The lawsuit claims eight engineers left xAI for OpenAI while transferring code to personal devices, breaching confidentiality.
Among them are Xuechen Li (already sued by xAI last month) and Jimmy Fraiture, both accused of carrying sensitive technical knowledge.
xAI alleges a single recruiter coordinated the campaign, targeting employees with direct access to proprietary systems.
A senior executive with oversight of xAI’s infrastructure allegedly ignored warnings and joined OpenAI despite knowing its trade secrets.
OpenAI denies the claims, dismissing the lawsuit as Musk’s “latest harassment move” and saying it has no interest in xAI’s code.
Why It Matters:
The case underscores how fiercely competitive the AI race has become. Beyond technology, companies are battling over talent and intellectual property — and a legal precedent here could reshape recruitment, tighten IP safeguards, and pressure rivals like Google, Anthropic, and others to rethink aggressive hiring strategies.
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WHAT ELSE HAPPENED IN AI 📰
🏗️🎶 Spotify Blocks 75M AI Spam Tracks
Spotify rolled out new safeguards — spam filter, impersonation policy, and AI disclosure credits — after removing 75M+ AI spam uploads.
📹 Meta Launches Vibes
A new AI video feed inside the Meta AI app lets users create, remix, and discover short-form videos with visuals, music, and styles.
📰 Microsoft Eyes Publisher Marketplace
Microsoft is developing a content marketplace to pay news outlets and creators when Copilot and AI tools use their articles.
🇺🇸 xAI Strikes U.S. Gov Deal
xAI will provide Grok models to U.S. government orgs at just $0.42 each through 2027 under a new access agreement.
💻 Meta Drops Code World Model
Meta open-sourced a model that simulates how programs execute before running, designed for research in code understanding.
Funding 💰️
British AI firm Nscale raises $1.1 billion in Nvidia-backed funding round
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