Week 32: GPT-5 Flops Hard, Calendar Invites Hack Your Home, Feds Buy AI for $1

THE CLEARANCE SALE BEGINS

AI had the week of a washed-up celebrity — desperately slashing prices, watching passion projects die, and taking any government gig that pays (even if it's literally one dollar). From GPT-5's spectacular face-plant to Tesla's supercomputer funeral, Silicon Valley's golden child is learning that potential doesn't pay the bills. The future arrived, took one look around, and asked for a refund.

REALITY HITS THE FAN
Users Stage GPT-5 Revolt as OpenAI's newest model proves so unpopular that paying customers demand their old AI back, forcing a humiliating rollback. OpenAI Starts Price War by releasing its first open-weight models since 2019 while aggressively slashing GPT-5 prices to undercut competitors.

SECURITY THEATER COLLAPSES
Calendar Invites Hijack Your House after researchers discover they can control smart homes by hiding commands in meeting requests. Office Documents Turn Traitor as experts warn that "poisoned" files can leak your Google Drive secrets through OpenAI's enterprise conn…