OpenAI Levels Up to GPT-5 & ‘Buffett Premium’ Gone for Berkshire?

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🗓️ 8 August 2025

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Episode 644: Neal and Toby sit down with Brian McCullough, the host of Morning Brew’s tech-focused show, Tech Brew Ride Home, to dive into OpenAI’s all-new powerful GPT-5 AI model. Then, a new CDC study reveals that more than half of Americans rely heavily on ultraprocessed foods in our diet. Meanwhile, parent company of Tinger and Hinge posts strong earnings and is doing all they can to lure back Gen Z daters. And, as Warren Buffett plans to step down as the leader of Berkshire Hathaway, investors are worried the ‘Buffett Premium’ is good and gone too. LinkedIn will even give you a $100 credit on your next campaign so you can try it yourself. Check out LinkedIn.com/mbd for more. Subscribe to Morning Brew Daily for more of the news you need to start your day. Share the show with a friend, and leave us a review on your favorite podcast app. Listen to Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.swap.fm/l/mbd-note⁠⁠⁠ Listen to Tech Brew Ride Home: https://swap.fm/l/tbrh Watch Morning Brew Daily Here:⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/@MorningBrewDailyShow⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.0	Good morning, Brew Daily Show. I'm Neil Pryman.
0:41.6	And I'm Toby Howell. Today, you'll want a banana for breakfast after hearing these
0:45.1	stats on ultra-processed foods. Then smarter, faster, more human-like, open AI launched
0:51.1	GPT5 yesterday. It's Friday, August 8th.
0:54.8	Let's ride.
1:02.5	Good morning.
1:03.7	Happy Friday.
1:04.7	Just a bizarre cornucopia of movies in theaters this weekend.
1:08.9	Weapons starring Josh Brolin arrives as one of the most
1:12.1	hyped horror movies in a minute notching a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Ice Cube's War of the
1:18.5	World is the complete opposite with a 4% rating on the tomato meter. It's in its second week. And
1:24.4	then there's Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis reprising their roles in the Freaky Friday sequel, Freakier Friday. I love this take from Jeopardy Champ Amy Schneider
1:33.0	on X. She goes, Freakier Friday? Terrible title. The same thing happened to them once before,
1:38.3	which makes this Friday inherently less freaky than the first one. That's the most Jeopardy Champion
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