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OpenAI is reportedly in talks to hand the United States government a five percent stake in the company, with CEO Sam Altman apparently floating the idea as a way to smooth relations with the Trump administration. No deal exists yet, and any arrangement would require significant political buy-in, but the signal is clear — OpenAI is thinking carefully about its Washington relationships.
On a more technical front, developers working with GPT-five-point-five Codex are raising alarms about degraded performance, with a GitHub issue now drawing over one hundred points of attention on Hacker News. The suspected culprit is something called reasoning-token clustering, where the model's internal processing appears to bunch up in ways that hurt output quality. OpenAI has not yet formally responded.
And Tesla has quietly expanded its robotaxi service into a small section of Miami, adding another real-world testing ground to its autonomous vehicle program. The company's roadmap points toward Orlando and Tampa as future targets, suggesting a gradual, deliberate push through Florida rather than a dramatic nationwide rollout.
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