Top stories today:

1. OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch expected at 1:00 PM ET
2. ChatGPT offered by OpenAI to U.S. officials for $1/year
3. Tornado Cash co-founder convicted, escapes harshest charges
4. Google’s Gemini adds Guided Learning to take on ChatGPT
5. Apple boosts U.S. manufacturing with new $100B pledge

0. Data and calendar

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1. OpenAI’s GPT-5 launch expected at 1:00 PM ET

There’s a 95% chance GPT-5 launches today, according to Polymarket:

• OpenAI has teased the launch by posting “LIVE5TREAM THURSDAY” on X.

• Sun.: Sam Altman posted a screenshot with “ChatGPT 5” in the top-left corner.

• GPT-5’s early testers are impressed with its coding and problem-solving abilities.

• The leap from GPT-4 to GPT-5 is not likely to be as large as that from GPT-3 to GPT-4, though.

• Challenges for OpenAI include lack of new algorithms, data limitations, and hardware-induced failures during training.

2. ChatGPT offered by OpenAI to U.S. officials for $1/year

• OpenAI is offering ChatGPT’s enterprise version, which includes enhanced security and privacy features.

• The move is likely an attempt to get closer to the Trump administration.

• It follows GSA’s approval of OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic as vendors in its new AI marketplace.

• OpenAI has also formed a government user group, with tailored training and partners like Slalom and BCG.

• OpenAI said it won’t use data from federal workers to train or improve its models.

• “This is almost like it’s a trial run in some ways,” GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service commissioner Josh Gruenbaum said.

4. Tornado Cash co-founder convicted, escapes harshest charges