OpenAI says it started training its next frontier model.

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Welcome to Big Technology Podcasts, Friday edition where we break down the news in our traditional cool-headed and nuanced format.

We have Brian McCullough with us here in the house talking about everything from GPT5 potentially coming in to the Musk fundraising and of course what's going on with Apple and Open AI and how Microsoft feels all about it.

Brian is the host of the tech meme ride home show. It's a great show. You can find it in your podcast app of choice. He's also a partner at the ride home fund.

Brian, welcome back to the show. Great to see you. Great to see you again. I think,

you know, this is what the fourth or fifth time we've done this. But since Alex has been telling

you about TechMeme recently, I believe, you know, FYI, if you don't want to go to TechMeme every 30

seconds like most of us do to read the articles, you can just have me regurgitate the articles to you every day for about 15 minutes, a really quick podcast.

It goes well, as we always say, with big technology.

That's right. Definitely go to TechMeme right home to check out your daily tech news.

Come to us for, you know, on the weekends or on Wednesdays as we dive deep into the headlines.

And let's just do that right now. So Open AI had a very

interesting release this week, Brian. And by release, I mean press release, really. They talked about

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