
Stargate and Epoch AI: Mapping the New AI Factories
From Abilene’s Stargate campus to Microsoft and Meta sites, Epoch AI’s maps reveal how quickly AI data centers are eating power and capital.

From Abilene’s Stargate campus to Microsoft and Meta sites, Epoch AI’s maps reveal how quickly AI data centers are eating power and capital.

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT Images and hooks into Photoshop so users can generate and refine visuals faster with natural language control inside one space.

Sora, OpenAI’s AI-driven video app, debuts on Android in select regions, letting users create and share short, customizable AI-generated clips.

ChatGPT Atlas impresses with AI tools but lacks features, reliability, and broad support, making Comet the superior browser for most users.

OpenAI’s Atlas browser blends browsing with in-app AI support, offering page summaries, automated tasks, and memory for macOS users initially.

Sora’s rapid success faces backlash as deepfake videos of public figures raise serious legal and ethical concerns.

PromptLock, a PoC ransomware, uses a local AI model to generate cross-platform Lua scripts for file theft and encryption, evading detection.

A GitHub user leaked ChatGPT-5’s system prompt soon after release, raising concerns that disclosure may allow manipulation or security bypasses.

OpenAI's GPT-5, with “PhD-level knowledge,” brings faster replies, coding skills, app integrations, and AI personalities to 700M users.

GPT‑5, launching in August 2025, unifies o3 reasoning and GPT tech in a multimodal AI with memory & agentic capabilities; includes mini/nano versions.

GPT‑5 is expected by mid‑2025, boasting a 2 million‑token context window, multimodal support, long-term memory and advanced tool use.

Heavy ChatGPT use might dull memory and reasoning by reshaping brain habits. Experts urge moderation to protect creativity and critical thought.

OpenAI says a court order forcing it to save all ChatGPT logs is a "privacy nightmare," risking user data exposure. The mandate comes from copyright lawsuits, raising surveillance concerns.