OpenAI Declares Code Red, Delays Ads While Google’s Gemini 3 Flexes Muscles

KEY POINTS

•OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a 'code red' on Monday urging urgent improvements to ChatGPT.
•The company is delaying ads, shopping, health agents, and Pulse personal assistant to focus on core chatbot capabilities.
•Google’s AI, especially the Gemini 3 model, grows rapidly and leads in several benchmarks.
•OpenAI is orchestrating daily calls and temporary team transfers to speed up ChatGPT development amid heavy spending.

On a mysterious Monday that probably felt like The End Times for OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman waved the 'code red' flag, demanding all hands on deck to turbocharge ChatGPT. To sharpen their chatbot's speed, reliability, and questionable charm, OpenAI hit the brakes on juicy side projects like health agents, shopping, Pulse (their allegedly personal assistant), and—cringe alert—ads. This desperate sprint comes as Google's Gemini 3 AI not only catches up but sprints ahead, flaunting dazzling benchmark wins and growing user base thanks to viral hits like the bizarre Nano Banana image model. Meanwhile, daily calls and temporary team swaps sound like a corporate zombie apocalypse, all while burning through hundreds of billions chasing a profitable future.

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OpenAI throws a 'code red' like it's the apocalypse to fix ChatGPT, while Google flexes Gemini 3 muscles and makes bananas into art. Someone tell the AI race it’s not a marathon but apparently a corporate sprint in chaos.

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