
GPT-5 shipped — what actually changes at your desk
Brandi ReedOpenAI's August 2025 launch replaced model-picking with automatic routing and rationed its deepest reasoning; here's the overlooked part.
AI News records what changed and when: model releases, version deprecations, pricing revisions, rate limits, licensing terms, regulation and outages. Each entry states the effect on people already building on a product. For readers whose tools depend on somebody else's release calendar.
Model launches, version changes, price moves, deprecations, safety policy revisions and outages, reported with the practical effect on existing users.

OpenAI's August 2025 launch replaced model-picking with automatic routing and rationed its deepest reasoning; here's the overlooked part.

A voluntary rulebook now sits behind the EU AI Act's toughest deadlines for OpenAI, Google, Anthropic and the rest. Here's what it actually asks of them, and who's still holding out.

The frontier gets the headlines while the small models quietly take the work — economics, latency, and on-device privacy explain the shift, and vendors' own routing announcements document it.

Chat settings that stop your conversations training models, creators' content controls, site owners' robot blocks — the documented opt-out landscape is three different tools at three different layers, none total.

Hallucination isn't a bug awaiting a patch — it's how next-word prediction behaves when knowledge runs out, and the documented mitigations reduce it without repealing it.