AI Daily Brief — 29 March 2025

A quiet Saturday. The Ghibli viral wave kept cresting, OpenAI’s rate limits stayed in effect, and the weekend press absorbed Friday’s xAI/X merger and CoreWeave IPO. No fresh primary launches.

Top stories

• OpenAI rate limits + Free-tier delay persist into the weekend. Altman’s Friday throttling stayed in effect: paid tiers retained image gen, Free remained delayed. Coverage on Saturday highlighted that each image-gen request requires dedicated GPU power equivalent to processing thousands of text tokens. via TechRadar
• Miyazaki copyright debate intensifies over the weekend. Hayao Miyazaki’s resurfaced 2016 quote — ‘I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself’ — kept circulating alongside the AI-generated Ghibli images. Commentators questioned OpenAI’s training-data posture. via Fortune

Quiet corners

No model releases, no funding rounds, no policy actions dated to the day. The OpenAI $40B / SoftBank round was telegraphed in weekend press but officially announced Monday.

By the numbers

• 2 days — into the Ghibli viral wave; ~1M+ ChatGPT users added in a single hour at peak
• Most-mentioned company: OpenAI

Compiled by AI Feed’s editor from verified web sources for 29 March 2025.