Now It’s Amazon’s Turn To Invest In OpenAI

This next one's for all you CarMax shoppers who just wanna buy a car your way. Wanna check some cars out in person. Uh-huh. Wanna look some more from your house. Okay. Wanna pretend you know about engines? Nah. I'll just chat with CarMax online instead. Wanna get prequalified from your couch? Woo. Wanna get that car? Hey. I said, Pete. You wanna do it your way. Wanna drive? CarMax. Welcome to the Tech Brew Ride Home for Wednesday, 12/17/2025. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, ChatGPT ups its image generation game. Now it's Amazon's turn to invest in OpenAI. WBD says it still wants to go with the Netflix offer. Waymo's raising money again and the new AI sort of newsletter that Google wants to put in your box every morning. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. You may have noticed that your CRM system has become crazy with bots and agents of late. At the Tech Brew ride home, we love AI, but not when it's used to commit fraud or launch ransomware. Fortunately, Momoto, the creator of continuous verification, now offers the next generation of continuous CAPTCHA. Momoto Continuous CAPTCHA diverts only the agents and bots attempting to gain access to your CRM through registration forms. With Momoto, good agents can do what agents do best, enable your customers to have more productive experiences on your website or app while stopping the bad agents from defrauding you and your customers. It's a win for everyone except the cyber criminals. Right now, our listeners can purchase a year of Momoto Continuous Captcha for $5,000, a 20% discount on their lowest price plan. To learn more, head to momodo.ai/ridehome. That's momodo.ai/ridehome. OpenAI has updated ChatGPT images to generate images up to four times faster and edit more precisely and added a new section in ChatGPT's app and website specifically for images. Quoting Bloomberg, the updated software aims to let users make a number of edits to uploaded images such as by changing the style from photo realistic to watercolor or by giving each person pictured a new hat, all without losing track of details in earlier versions. In particular, OpenAI said the new model can keep the lighting, a person's appearance, and a scene's composition steady through a variety of edits and changes. The company's previous image models sometimes tripped up keeping track of such details, particularly across multiple edits, end quote, and quoting TechRadar. There are a lot of other subtle improvements to the new model as well. It can produce denser text without developing into nonsense, show a crowd of small faces without producing too many oddballs, and it can keep track of elements across multiple edits so you can change one aspect of an image without the AI deciding to mess with the other bits. Past models were easily confused by chain edits or overlapping instructions. The upgrade also makes for better combining and transforming of images. You can ask it to blend styles, …