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OpenAI completes its recapitalization to a for-profit company, and most human eyes can’t see all the detail shown on 4K TVs in the living room.

Starring Jason Howell and Robb Dunewood.

JASON: This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, October 28, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, give you the important context, and help each other understand.

Today Adobe brings a lot more AI to its Creative Suite at Adobe Max 2025.

I’m Jason Howell,

I’m Robb Dunewood.

Let’s start with what you need to know with the big story.

BIG STORY

Photoshop and Premiere Pro’s new AI tools can instantly edit more of your work
Adobe Now Lets You Generate Soundtracks and Speech in Firefly
YouTube Shorts will integrate Adobe Premiere's video editing tools

JASON: Adobe Max 2025 is happening now and the company announced a bunch of new features for its Creative Cloud Suite and, you guessed it, most of the news has to do with AI.

Firefly version 5, Adobe's generative AI tool, now supports:

• 4-megapixel, photorealistic results

• Custom AI model training for individuals

• Layered image editing

• Move, resize, replace, and harmonize visual elements without artifacts

Firefly expands into audio as well, so users can now:

• Generate Soundtrack using a mad-libs style prompt system

• Also generate fully licensed soundtrack to a given video for matching tone and energy

• Generate speech with support for 15 languages, including emotional inflections

• Use Firefly's web-based video editor to use text for editing clips on a timeline including removal of pauses and filler words

Adobe also announced Project Moonlight, AI assistants that work together across all Adobe apps for ideation and coordination with a private beta.

YouTube Shorts will soon let creators use Adobe Premiere's edit tools directly within the mobile app, granting them “exclusive” access to many of the AI features, effects, and transitions directly.

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JASON: There’s more we need to know today, let’s get to the briefs.

BRIEFS

OpenAI completes its for-profit recapitalization
Built to benefit everyone
The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership

ROBB: OpenAI has officially and formally completed its recapitalization as it is restructured into a for-profit corporation under the oversight of a non-profit foundation. The new structure lets OpenAI Group raise funds freely as well as acquire companies, while the OpenAI Foundation retains legal control.

Microsoft now holds about 27% of OpenAI while the foundation owns 26%. The rest is held by investors and employees.

What Changed?
OpenAI was a non-profit with a “Capped profit” subsidiary. Meaning it could only disperse profits to shareholders up to a certain point then had to put the rest of the money back into the nonprofit company.
OpenAI maintains its nonprofit parent company, now called OpenAI Foundation. It maintains control of the for profit company and owns 26% of it with terms that can increase its share if the stock price increases grows more than tenfold after 15 years. Its mission will focus on Health and Curing Disease as well as “Technical Solutions to AI resilience,” aka keeping AI from ruining everything from jobs to the planet.
The capped profit company is now, OpenAI Group PBC, a “B Corp” which means it is a Public Benefit company. It has a duty to benefit the public that supersedes its fiduciary duty to shareholders.

What changed for Microsoft?
Ownership reduced to 27% from 32.5%.
Microsoft still gets a 20% cut of revenue as it did before and OpenAI may increase that now since there is not a revenue cap. However, that revenue share will end if/when OpenAI discovers Artificial General Intelligence. The determination of what qualifies as AGI will be determined by an independent expert panel.
Microsoft also gets exclusive access to OpenAI’s new tech, including AGI, until 2032. It does not get access to OpenAI hardware though.
Microsoft loses its exclusivity as cloud provider to OpenAI but OpenAI commits to purchasing an additional $250B in Azure services.
OpenAI is also free to develop products with third parties without Microsoft’s approval.

What changed for Sam Altman?
Not much. He’s still CEO of the for profit OpenAI and holds no stock in either organization.

JASON: Tom’s Analysis – This keeps Microsoft benefiting from OpenAI’s rise without being the only company to benefit while giving OpenAI the freedom to act like a normal public company. It also tries to preserve the spirit of protecting humanity that was the foundation of the organization. Hence the Public Benefit designation. Altman not taking any stock in the PBC and the charter for the non-profit parent company which remains in control.

Amazon to Cut 14,000 Jobs as Jassy Looks to Reduce Bureaucracy
JASON: Amazon announced it is cutting around 14,000 corporate jobs, about 4% of its office workforce, one of its biggest job cuts in company history, as it moves to integrate AI on a deeper level and "innovate much faster." Senior VP Beth Galetti shared that the company needs to operate "like the world's largest startup," with an emphasis on fewer management layers and increased agility. Though Amazon continues to perform well, the company is doubling down on efficiency, similar to competitors like Microsoft and Meta. Impacted staff will receive severance, internal job assistance, and benefits.

Elon Musk launches a Wikipedia rival that extols his own ‘vision’
ROBB: Elon Musk launched Grokipedia, his take on an AI-powered online encyclopedia driven by xAI. The platform claims to offer a less biased alternative to Wikipedia, with a goal of the "truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." The site resembles Wikipedia's minimalistic appearance with a single search bar and around 885,279 articles at launch. The exact process for creating and editing Grokipedia articles is unclear, and critics are questioning the information on the site's reliability and transparency.

Ultra-HD televisions not noticeably better for typical viewer, scientists say
JASON: A new study by researchers at the University of Cambridge and Meta have found that ultra-HD TVs with 4K or 8K resolution show little to no noticeable improvement in image sharpness over standard 2K screens in average-sized living rooms. They found that the human eye has its own resolution limits meaning most eyes can't detect all those extra pixels at typical viewing distances within those spaces. The testing was done with participants using fine patterned imagery and text to give the team an idea of the threshold at which those extra pixels become essentially wasteful. They released a useful chart and even an online calculator so you can pick the right combination of specs and hardware for your own space.

JASON: And finally, some quick headlines that are just good to know if you want to understand the news in the future.

Windows will soon prompt for memory scans after BSOD crashes
ROBB: Windows 11 will soon prompt users to run a memory scan after a BSOD crash in an attempt to catch and address memory-related issues before they cause further problems.

Microsoft’s Next-Gen Xbox May Drop Multiplayer Paywall
JASON: Microsoft's next-gen Xbox may eliminate its online multiplayer paywall for the first time according to a report by Windows Central's Jez Corden.

AI-powered search engines rely on “less popular” sources, researchers find
ROBB: Researchers from Ruhr University and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems found that AI-powered search engines regularly surface sources far outside Google's top organic search results, often prioritizing lesser-known websites and alternative information sources.

Google Play Store now wants proof you’re 18 or older
JASON: Google Play Store now requires users to prove they're 18 or older with options like ID upload, snapping a selfie, credit card authorization, or third party checks using verifymy.io.

Samsung shows off its trifold phone in person
ROBB: As reported yesterday, Samsung did end up showing off its Trifold phone design at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit yesterday, though no release date was mentioned and no one was allowed to touch it or fold it.

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HELPING EACH OTHER UNDERSTAND

JASON: We end every episode of DTNS with some shared wisdom. Today W wanted to add to the discussion from Friday.

ROBB: On the discussion about Apple App Tracking Transparency, you alluded to the fact that the regulators assert Apple doesn’t apply ATT to their own apps. However, that’s neglecting the fact that Apple’s apps don’t track users across third party apps—what ATT addresses. Apps can still use the activity within their own apps to target users with ads, since that’s beyond the control of the user and Apple.
Also, on the other topic of Slim phones, the report about iPhone Air was about Apple reportedly reducing production, not shelving the Air entirely. You repeated the assumption that they were done with the Air entirely just as Samsung has reportedly done. These are two different things.
I’m a regular listener and I enjoy the show. Keep up the good work.
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