TNW 396: OpenAI's New ChatGPT Agent Is Here - OpenAI Unveils Its ChatGPT Agent
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
Leo Laporte
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🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Emily Forlini of PCMag joins Mikah Sargent this week! A look into Synchron's headquarters, Beeper relaunches its messaging services after being acquired by Automattic, OpenAI releases its new agentic AI service, and an AI service company is hosting over 5,000 nonconsensual AI models of real people.
- Emily shares her time checking out Synchron, a company developing brain-computer interface implants that is considered a significant competitor to Neuralink, founded by Elon Musk.
- Mikah talks about Beeper's relaunch of its messaging app, which runs on devices and offers premium services such as access to more accounts and power-user-type features.
- OpenAI launched its new agentic AI service, ChatGPT agent, Thursday morning. This service can complete work for you on your computer and perform a variety of tasks for you.
- And Emanuel Maiberg of 404 Media shares his reporting into Hugging Face and how it is hosting over 5,000 AI models of real people, without consent, following another company, Civitai, which previously banned these models.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Emily Forlini
Guest: Emanuel Maiberg
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Emily. For Lini is here. |
| 0:03.0 | We talk about Neurrelink's biggest competitor, then Beeper's new messaging app under the auspices of Automatic. |
| 0:11.3 | Before I talk about OpenAI's breaking new chat GPT agent and round things out with 404 medias, Emmanuel Myberg, whoes Hugging Face, hosting 5,000 non-consensual |
| 0:24.0 | AI models. |
| 0:25.6 | All of that coming up on Tech News Weekly. |
| 0:27.8 | Stay tuned. |
| 0:31.0 | Podcasts you love. |
| 0:32.7 | From people you trust. |
| 0:35.2 | This is Twitter. |
| 0:39.0 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 396, with Emily Forlini and me, Micah Sargent. Recorded Thursday, July 17th, 2025. |
| 0:50.1 | OpenAI's new chat GPT agent is here. |
| 1:00.1 | Hello and welcome to Tech Newsweekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:02.4 | I am your host, Micah Sargent, and I am joined this week by the Emily Forlini. |
| 1:09.6 | Hello, Emily. |
| 1:10.8 | Hello, how's it going?. Hello, Emily. Hello. |
| 1:11.5 | How's it going? |
| 1:12.6 | It's going well. |
| 1:14.5 | Right now, you sort of are, you're giving this very ethereal sort of, I've just walked into Rivendale kind of vibe. |
| 1:25.8 | Yes. |
| 1:26.0 | And I think it's pretty great. |
| 1:27.2 | Wow. That's exactly. I've been working my And I think it's pretty great. Wow. |
| 1:27.7 | That's exactly. |
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