OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, files for IPO; Meta AI removes face-recognition code

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, made a big financial move, and Meta AI removed a privacy-related feature from its smart glasses app.

ChatGPT

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OpenAI, the company that makes ChatGPT, has confidentially filed paperwork to become a publicly traded company.

OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has started the process to become a publicly traded company.

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This means they are starting the process to sell shares to the public, similar to other big tech companies.

OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab and disrupted the world of AI when it released ChatGPT in 2022, sparking a wave of large language model advancements acro…

OpenAI was founded in 2015 as a nonprofit research lab and disrupted the world of AI when it released ChatGPT in 2022, sparking a wave of large language model advancements across the industry.

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This move could bring more money to OpenAI, which might help them build even more new features for ChatGPT in the future.

OpenAI confirms a confidential S-1 submission to the SEC and has not yet determined timing for further action.

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Meta AI

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Meta AI has removed a face-recognition system from the app that works with its smart glasses.

One day after WIRED revealed that Meta had quietly embedded an unreleased face-recognition system into an app installed on more than 50 million phones, the company removed it, according to a WIRED analysis of the latest version’s code. The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses, strips out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called Nam…

The most recent version of Meta AI, a companion app for its line of smart glasses , strips out the unactivated software components that powered the system Meta internally called NameTag.

The company decided to take out the code for this system to address privacy concerns.

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Gemini

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Apple’s drastic overhaul of Siri , announced Monday at WWDC 2026 , attempts to make the smartphone voice assistant more helpful, attuned to iPhone users’ personal data, and action-oriented.

After extended delays, Apple is moving forward with a dynamic repositioning of Siri that changes how the voice assistant appears on iPhones and gives people a new way to access… After extended delays, Apple is moving forward with a dynamic repositioning of Siri that changes how the voice assistant appears on iPhones and gives people a new way to access it: a stand-alone Siri app.

Other voice assistants like Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and OpenAI’s ChatGPT were able to eclipse Apple’s efforts in a…

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