A good day to bury bad news. Those were the words a British Labour Party spin doctor controversially emailed to colleagues on 9/11, immediately after the Twin Towers collapsed.
If you were conspiratorially minded, you might think the same thing about how OpenAI – the Silicon Valley startup that launched ChatGPT – used the distraction of the Christmas holidays to slip out seismic news about the giant leaps forward made by its latest AI model.