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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Monday, December 23rd. I'm Danny Lewis for the Wall Street Journal.

Christmas is just two days away, so if you're still shopping for presents, our personal tech columnist has ideas for digital gifts and how to make them more personal than the dreaded gift card.

And later in the show, OpenAI is working on its next highly anticipated artificial intelligence

model, GPT5. But the journal reports that delays have pushed the launch back and the development

cost is skyrocketing. Our reporter Deepa Sitharaman joins us to explain why

and what the delays could mean for OpenAI's business.

But first, gift cards have a reputation for being the present of last resort.

But with more and more of our lives taking place on smartphones and online,

our personal tech columnist Nicole Nguyen says that's no longer the case.

And there are ways to make digital gifts just as personal and thoughtful as any other present.

Nicole, when we're talking about giving friends and family digital gifts,

aren't we really just talking about, you know, the dreaded gift cards? The answer is yes,

but gift cards really don't have to feel impersonal. And if you do your research and make sure you're getting the right kind of subscription that's actually helpful, that's

actually useful. Maybe you're chipping into one of the many digital subscriptions that they're

probably paying for every single month. It could feel as good as a coveted Lego set,

unwrapping a gift card. So what kinds of digital gifts would make thoughtful

holiday presents? Okay, well, listen, we spend nearly $1,000 a year on virtual goods by some estimates.

That's a lot of money. And so you won't go wrong with the staples. So that's Netflix, Apple credit for ICloud storage,

for the many thousands of photos that we're storing every year or for the Google app store.

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