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EPISODE · Apr 28, 2026 · 22 MIN

ChatGPT 5.5: ‘This is just a software update’ | Meredith Broussard

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“Let’s be honest, this is a software update.”Author of More Than A Glitch and NYU data journalism professor Meredith Broussard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to unpick the marketing surrounding OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5 and how AI developers use selective and limited benchmarking to “rig” their numbers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Let’s be honest, this is a software update.”Author of More Than A Glitch and NYU data journalism professor Meredith Broussard joins The Tech Report’s Isaac Pound to unpick the marketing surrounding OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5 and how AI developers use selective and limited benchmarking to “rig” their numbers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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