🤖 OpenAI o3, OpenAI o4-mini, and Agentic Coding

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In today’s Daily Report:

• 🚀OpenAI o3, OpenAI o4-mini, and Agentic Coding

• 🇨🇳U.S. Government Plans to Ban Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek?

• 🛠Trending Tools

• 🥪Brief Bites

• 💰Funding Frontlines

• 💼Who’s Hiring?

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🗞RECENT NEWS

OPENAI

🚀OpenAI o3, OpenAI o4-mini, and Agentic Coding

OpenAI’s been busy this week, and keeping track of all of it can be challenging. So, we did it for you!

Key Details:

1. GPT-4.1 Family: A new family of advanced AI models explicitly built for developers. It’s comprised of GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and GPT-4.1 nano, which all excel at complex coding workflows and boast a 1 million token context window to process and understand large codebases.

2. OpenAI o3: A new Reasoning Engine that mimics a human’s decision-making abilities to solve harder problems in math and science. It deploys Chain-of-Thought (CoT) techniques to break down complex tasks into manageable steps. It was trained using Reinforcement Learning (RL), which imitates the “trial-and-error” process humans use to learn, where actions that lead to desired outcomes are reinforced.

3. OpenAI o4-mini: A smaller, faster, and cheaper Reasoning Engine designed to process both text and images, which enables it to integrate visual inputs into the reasoning process. For example, it can process images of paintings at an art gallery to analyze each painting’s subject matter and discuss each artist’s creative vision.

4. Agentic Reasoning: OpenAI o3 and OpenAI o4-mini can Agentically use and combine every feature within ChatGPT, including Search, Canvas, Operator, Deep Research, and Advanced Voice Mode.

5. Codex CLI: An open-source, local AI Agent that turns brief text descriptions into functioning code. It can autonomously build, fix, or explain your code.

6. Image Library: A new feature within ChatGPT that allows you to store, view, and manage all of your AI-generated images.

Why It’s Important:

• Equipping Reasoning Engines with Agentic capabilities has transformed ChatGPT from a reactive chatbot into a proactive companion.

• The GPT-4.1 Family is available through OpenAI’s Developer Platform. OpenAI o3 and OpenAI o4-mini are available to Pro, Plus, and Team users.

THE AI COLD WAR

🇨🇳U.S. Government Plans to Ban Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek?

The U.S. government is reportedly exploring a nationwide ban and new export controls to enforce on Chinese AI Lab DeepSeek.

Key Details:

• The Select Committee on the CCP (SC CCP) alleges that:

  1. DeepSeek funnels personal data on Americans directly to the People’s Republic of China (PRC).

  2. DeepSeek covertly manipulates outputs to align with the viewpoints of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

  3. DeepSeek appears to have violated U.S. trade policy by illegally acquiring NVIDIA’s Graphics Processing Units (GPUs).

• In essence, DeepSeek threatens America’s national security and subtly spreads the CCP’s falsehoods to distort the outside world’s perception of China.

Why It’s Important:

• DeepSeek is now viewed as a national treasure in China. The President of China, Xi Jinping, and the Premier of China, Li Qiang, are reportedly closely monitoring DeepSeek.

• NVIDIA will also produce GPUs in America for the first time. This announcement coincides with the Trump Administration’s U.S. tariffs on imports of electronics like smartphones and laptops.

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👷Latitude builds self-improving AI Agents for your workflows.

💻Screen Studio creates professional screen recordings in minutes.

🧠Tanka retains critical information from chats, emails, and meetings.

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🥪BRIEF BITES

OpenAI rolled out a massive update for ChatGPT’s memory, enabling the conversational chatbot to recall all your past conversations.

12 Former OpenAI Employees just filed an Amicus Brief supporting Tech Billionaire Elon Musk’s lawsuit challenging OpenAI’s non-profit origins.

After cheating on AI Benchmarks, the actual version of Meta’s Llama 4 Maverick is now available on the LMArena Chatbot Arena Leaderboard (LMArenaCAL), landing in 32nd place.

OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever reportedly raised a $2 billion Series B funding round for his AI Research company, Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI), which hasn’t launched a single product or service.

💰FUNDING FRONTLINES

• Rondah AI secures a $1.8M Pre-Seed Round to deploy an AI Receptionist for every dental practice.

• Glimpse raises a $10M Series A to help CPG Brands automatically identify, categorize, and dispute deductions.

• Rescale lands a $115M Series D to accelerate the development of AI-Enabled Engineering Tools.

💼WHO’S HIRING?

• MoneyLion (New York, NY): AI Content Intern, Summer 2025

• Scale AI (San Francisco, CA): Strategic Projects Lead, Entry-Level

• Anthropic (San Francisco, CA): Public Policy, Demos, Mid-Level

• Hedra (San Francisco, CA): Senior Full-Stack Engineer, Senior-Level

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