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🛎️ GPT-5

From “breakthrough” to breakdown in under 24 hours.

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They called it “the most capable model yet.” The internet called it “mid with a longer memory.”



NEW LAUNCH

GPT-5 Launches: Roasted Across the Internet

📌 What’s happening: GPT-5 went live on August 7, 2025, promising “breakthrough” upgrades in writing, coding, health, and visual perception, plus a 256k-token context window, Gmail/Calendar integration, voice, and personalized “smart routing”.

On launch day, social media went nuclear: users mocked, “This is the most advanced? Really?” and “Expert-level? Not buying it.” Meanwhile, Elon Musk hit X with, “Grok 4 Heavy was smarter two weeks ago,” and warned Satya Nadella that “OpenAI will eat Microsoft alive” .

🧠 How this hits reality: The real fight shows fast: no matter how glossy the packaging, GPT-5 still lacks continuous learning and remains far from AGI. That means in the era of “intelligent co-creation,” OpenAI’s selling points—extra-wide context, tool integrations, and personalization—are mostly about “looking the part.” Musk’s trash talk hits the core truth: OpenAI’s swagger masks the fact that, against xAI’s open challenge, “strongest on the AGI road” sounds more like pre-coronation self-hypnosis.

🛎️ Key takeaway: GPT-5 is a flashy “expert-level” pageant, and Musk’s jabs cleanly pop the gilded bubble.


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CODING

GPT-5 Lands, Cursor Finally Gets Its Oxygen Mask

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📌 What’s happening: Minutes after OpenAI dropped GPT-5, Cursor lit up its homepage, forums, and socials with a “Now Available” banner — plus free trial credits for paying users. For a platform long hitched to Anthropic’s pricey Claude pipeline, this wasn’t just fan service. It was a public pivot toward a "second" supply line.

🧠 How this hits reality: Anthropic’s technical lead in AI coding has kept Cursor deeply tied to Claude. But premium pricing and API throttling have turned that reliance into a costly constraint. OpenAI claims GPT-5 matches Claude’s reasoning and context depth, but real-world proof was missing — until Cursor wired it straight into production on day one. The integration doubles as a stress test: if GPT-5 holds up, Cursor gains the leverage to route traffic dynamically, contain costs, and stop negotiating from a corner. Now Anthropic’s largest single traffic source has a Plan B.

🛎️ Key takeaway: For Cursor, GPT-5 isn’t a feature drop — it’s a jailbreak from single-vendor captivity.


NEW LAUNCH

Chart Blunder Puts OpenAI’s Messy Core on Display

The left one was used at the launch; the right one is the corrected version.

📌 What’s happening: At GPT-5’s big reveal, OpenAI flashed a “deception eval” chart so mis-scaled it turned a lower score into a longer bar. CEO Sam Altman called it a “mega chart screwup,” staff apologized for the “chart crime,” and the blog quietly swapped in the fixed version. The irony? This was meant to showcase reduced hallucinations.

🧠 How this hits reality: A botched chart isn’t just a design fail—it’s a symptom. In a company already notorious for reorg churn, executive spats, and shifting product narratives, even the launch-day decks aren’t immune to sloppy oversight. For teams watching, it’s a reminder: if OpenAI can’t keep a bar chart straight, what’s slipping elsewhere?

🛎️ Key takeaway: When your “hallucination-free” demo hallucinates the chart, the problem isn’t just the model—it’s the management.


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  • GitHub's CEO confronts the rise of 'vibe coding' as new rivals challenge the company's dominance in AI development tools.
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  • Microsoft is tapping the brakes on releasing Elon Musk's Grok 4, citing major safety concerns after the chatbot's pro-Hitler output.

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