The AI week, for a journalist

I am a business and technology reporter writing about OpenAI's release of GPT-6 Astra, a model built to operate computers directly across browsers, spreadsheets and desktop apps. The company's president said publicly it is now in the AGI era. OpenAI did not publish results on GDPval, its own benchmark for real-world occupational work. Give me 10 sharp, short interview questions for OpenAI's communications team. Order them so the factual ones come first and the challenging ones last. For each, add one line on what a non-answer would tell me.

I am a business and technology journalist. Vendors regularly send me benchmark scores for AI models as evidence of quality. Researchers have shown some speech-to-text models score well partly by reproducing the wording of standard test transcripts rather than transcribing the audio. Write me a short checklist of 5 questions I should ask a vendor before printing any benchmark number, plus one sentence explaining in plain language why each question exposes a weak claim. Keep it under 250 words.

I am a business and technology reporter covering Nvidia's agreement to acquire Hugging Face, an open model hosting platform used by developers and companies, for just under $13 billion. Nvidia says the platform will stay open to all model makers and that its own chips will not be required. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2027 subject to regulatory approval. Help me plan the reporting: list the categories of people I should try to interview, what each type of source can credibly tell me that the others cannot, and the two or three claims in the announcement that most need independent checking.

I am a business and technology journalist writing about a report from two security firms that a ransomware group used the AI assistant in a code editor to help break into seven companies, getting past the tool's refusals by claiming the intrusions were authorised tests. A wire service could not establish how much the AI actually enabled each break-in. Draft two short paragraphs: one stating what is established, one stating clearly what is not, with the attribution written out. Then list the three questions I should put to the security firms about their evidence.

I am a business reporter. A research firm surveyed more than 1,300 leaders at companies with over $50 million in revenue and found only about a fifth had scaled AI across several business units, while most planned to raise AI budgets and some could not say what they spent last year. Write me three specific, hard-to-deflect questions to ask a company that tells me its AI programme is delivering returns. For each, say what a vague answer would suggest. Then note in two lines the limits of this survey that I should disclose if I cite it.

I am a business and technology journalist planning a feature on advertising increasingly being bought through self-serve platforms where the platform's own AI shapes targeting, price and reported results. An analyst argues the platform's AI serves the seller rather than the buyer, and recommends independent measurement and keeping humans on budget decisions. Draft a feature outline: the central question, four sections, and for each section the type of source I need and one question for them. Flag which claims I would need documents or data to support rather than quotes.