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Claude's parent Anthropic raised $65bn in its latest round, landing a $965bn post-money valuation and overtaking OpenAI as the world's most valuable AI startup. The deal caps an exceptional growth period for the company once seen as a smaller player in the global AI race. Wide enterprise adoption – especially of Anthropic's coding assistants – has turned it into a dominant industry force.

The most powerful AI CEOs are splitting into rival camps. Anthropic is openly warning about large-scale white-collar job losses — co-founder Chris Olah recently called it a "real possibility". OpenAI's Sam Altman sounds far more optimistic and is walking back his own earlier doom forecasts.

Fake OpenAI ads appeared in New York subway stations carrying the line: "Yes, we built a machine that tells teenagers to kill themselves… but it might also help them with their homework. " The campaign mimics official branding to confront commuters with serious suicide-related allegations against ChatGPT, turning grim accusations into deadpan transit posters.

Reporter Liz Lopatto spent a month covering the Musk v. Altman trial and describes the courthouse as a zoo, with protests outside every day. Both tech CEOs polarize strongly, attracting heavy media attention.

OpenAI has cracked the unit distance problem, a combinatorics conjecture posed by Paul Erdős that had remained open for over 80 years. It concerns the maximum number of unit distances between points in a plane. Using techniques from algebraic number theory combined with AI-assisted proof strategies, the team reached the breakthrough.

Over two hours Wednesday afternoon, the AI industry produced an extraordinary stream of headlines mapping the full architecture of its ambitions. One historic news cycle peeled back virtually every layer of the AI revolution — smarter systems, exploding revenues, roaring markets, staggering infrastructure demands and a federal government racing to catch up.

Amazon SageMaker AI adds OpenAI-compatible API support for real-time inference endpoints. Users of the OpenAI SDK, LangChain, or Strands Agents can now invoke models on SageMaker AI by changing only the endpoint URL — no custom client, SigV4 wrapper, or code rewrites required. The launch makes existing OpenAI-style code work directly against SageMaker endpoints, lowering migration cost between the two platforms.

Andrej Karpathy, one of the best-known AI researchers in the world and a founding member of OpenAI, is joining rival lab Anthropic. He starts this week on the pre-training team responsible for the massive training runs behind Claude, and will help launch a new team that uses Claude itself to accelerate pretraining research. The hire is a major coup for Anthropic in the high-stakes race for elite AI talent.

OpenAI’s latest updates bring two advanced AI models, GPT Image 2 and Nano Banana 2, into the spotlight, each designed to address distinct creative and professional needs. In a detailed walkthrough, AI Master explores how GPT Image 2 excels in tasks requiring intricate text rendering, multilingual accuracy and hyperrealistic detail, while Nano Banana 2 stands […] The post ChatGPT Image 2 vs Nano Banana 2 : How OpenAI’s Image Generator is Beating Nano Ba…

Even as protests increase, the collapse of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman will only speed up the AI juggernaut. Public pushback is rising, yet the big labs are pressing on the accelerator — and meaningful regulation keeps slipping further out of reach.

The first NVIDIA Vera CPUs arrived at three of the world's leading AI labs — Anthropic in San Francisco, OpenAI in Mission Bay, and SpaceXAI in Palo Alto — followed by a delivery to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in Santa Clara. NVIDIA VP of Hyperscale and HPC Ian Buck hand-delivered them.

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk's and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with OpenAI.

Altman trial wrapped up this week, with closing arguments returning to the same question: can the people in charge of AI be trusted? Meanwhile, Musk keeps pouring capital into his cluster of startups, from SpaceX to xAI, building a private empire inside a private empire. If you want to read the AI power map, this fight is unavoidable.

OpenAI announced another reorg on Friday, consolidating product areas under president Greg Brockman as the new overall product lead. According to an internal memo viewed by The Verge, the changes are meant to speed up shipping in the race for AI agents against Anthropic, Google and others. The signal to the industry: OpenAI now sees the next decisive battle not in chat models, but in agentic AI doing real work.

Andon Labs is running experiments where AI agents operate real mini-businesses, this time radio stations. The result: the AI hosts quickly drift into volatile, unpredictable personalities, sometimes producing absurd output.

The integration of OpenAI’s Codex with Ollama introduces a compelling way for developers to access AI capabilities directly on their local machines. Codex, known for automating coding tasks and assisting with debugging, now pairs seamlessly with Ollama’s platform for hosting open source models like Gemma 4 and Quen 3.6. This collaboration eliminates the need for […] The post The Secret to Unlocking Unlimited AI Coding on Your Local Machine appeared firs…

Thinking Machines Lab founder and former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati told WIRED she is not interested in automating people out of jobs. Instead, she is building AI that collaborates with humans. Her stance sets her lab clearly apart from the full-automation line of many competitors and positions it as a humanist alternative in the AI race.

Lawyers for Elon Musk and OpenAI delivered their closing arguments Thursday in the high-profile federal trial. The nine-person jury begins deliberations next week, with the outcome hinging on whether Sam Altman and OpenAI broke earlier agreements by restructuring the lab into a for-profit. A verdict could carry broad implications for governance at other AI labs.

Today saw closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial — and it was a demolition derby. Musk's lawyer Steven Molo stumbled repeatedly: he accidentally called co-defendant Greg Brockman "Greg Altman," wrongly claimed Musk wasn't seeking money and had to be corrected by the judge.

Altman trial, an unusual exhibit drew attention: a trophy inscribed 'Never stop being a jackass. ' OpenAI employees had bought it for researcher Josh Achiam after Musk called him that name. The backstory: Achiam, who worked on AI safety, had questioned Musk's plan to race OpenAI ahead of Google when Musk was leaving the company.

Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s cyber-capable AI models still require significant human expertise to be effective, according to early users testing them in real environments. Anthropic’s Mythos Preview reportedly surfaced tens of thousands of bugs across nearly every operating system, with OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber matching it on bug discovery and exploit generation.

Karen Hao argues that fixating on whether Altman is untrustworthy — or whether Musk is even less so — distracts from the deeper AI problem. The two ex-OpenAI co-founders are now in a vicious courtroom feud in California: Musk alleges Altman and OpenAI president Greg Brockman tricked him into funding the nonprofit before restructuring it into a for-profit entity.

OpenAI details its response to the TanStack “Mini Shai-Hulud” supply chain attack, outlines protections taken to secure systems and signing certificates, and explains why macOS users must update OpenAI apps by June 12, 2026. Learn what happened, what was affected, and how OpenAI is strengthening defenses against evolving software supply chain threats.

Anthropic is in talks to raise a new funding round at a $950 billion valuation, more than doubling its previous $380 billion mark. The start-up recently released a powerful AI model called Mythos and is simultaneously locked in a dispute with the Pentagon. The valuation jump signals investors are still betting big on frontier AI labs despite escalating costs.

Meta is testing a Threads feature that lets users tag a Meta AI account to get answers or context inside a conversation — clearly inspired by how people tag xAI's Grok on X. Threads users quickly noticed that the new Meta AI account can't be blocked, and the backlash was immediate. Meta has been pouring billions into AI talent and recently launched its Muse Spark model to catch up with OpenAI and Google.

OpenAI, once a dominant force in artificial intelligence with its widely recognized ChatGPT, is now facing significant challenges in maintaining its leadership. According to AI Grid, competitors like Anthropic have rapidly gained ground, with Anthropic now commanding over 40% of the generative AI coding market, compared to OpenAI’s 21%.

"I feel like I'm playing by a different rule book. Like I'm playing baseball and they're playing football. " The post Residents Furious After Their Town Board Rejected an OpenAI Data Center, But a Billionaire Developer Forced It Through Anyway appeared first on Futurism.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5 Instant has been designed to deliver near-instantaneous responses while maintaining a high degree of accuracy, making it particularly useful for real-time applications. According to Two Minute Papers, one of the model’s standout achievements is its 50% reduction in hallucination rates compared to earlier versions, a critical improvement for high-stakes fields like medicine […] The post ChatGPT 5.5 Instant Launches : Navigating Its S…

OpenAI's Codex and Anthropic's Claude Cowork represent two distinct approaches to managing tasks and workflows. Paul Lipsky explains that Codex's single-page interface is designed to minimize distractions, making it ideal for users who prefer focusing on one project at a time.

Everyone wants a piece of the enterprise AI pie this week. Anthropic and OpenAI announced new joint ventures targeting enterprise AI deployment, while SAP dropped $1B on German AI startup Prior Labs. The takeaway: if you're a startup building enterprise tools, you're likely an acquisition target.

Court documents from the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial reveal rare communications between Microsoft's top executives about investing in OpenAI and fears the AI startup could 'storm off to Amazon' and 'shit-talk' Microsoft. Days after OpenAI's bot beat a Dota 2 pro in 2017, Sam Altman responded to Satya Nadella's congratulations email with a proposal for a far bigger partnership to fund OpenAI's next AI research phase.

CEO transitions at tech companies are usually framed as careful succession plans designed to maximize investor confidence. Sometimes the reality is messier: OpenAI's 'The Blip' in 2024 saw Sam Altman ousted via a string of video calls while the acting CEO was texting the former CEO trying to figure out who the new one even was.

OpenAI's latest voice AI model, GPT Realtime 2, brings advanced capabilities for natural and context-aware interactions. Built on the GPT-5-level reasoning framework, it handles complex tasks such as troubleshooting or scheduling while keeping a conversational flow. Per Universe of AI, the model adapts dynamically to user input, delivering precise, tailored responses.

OpenAI is rolling out a more permissive version of GPT-5.5 — codenamed "Spud" — to vetted cyber defenders responsible for critical infrastructure. Recent testing shows GPT-5.5 nearly matches Anthropic's Mythos at finding and exploiting software bugs, fueling debate over misuse risks. Approved defenders in OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber program now get access to GPT-5.5-Cyber.

Witness testimony and trial exhibits in Musk v. Altman are finally giving a concrete look behind the scenes of OpenAI's chaotic Thanksgiving 2023 weekend. Former CTO Mira Murati is at the center of the disclosures, which detail the board's vague claim that Altman was "not consistently candid.

Former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati is under threat of perjury and providing notable testimony about Sam Altman's conduct as CEO, including whether he was candid, truthful and honest in his communications. The deposition sheds new light on Altman's ouster and return. It poses both legal and reputational risk for OpenAI.

OpenAI is launching an optional ChatGPT safety feature called Trusted Contact, which lets adult users designate a friend, family member or caregiver to be notified if the model detects potential signs of self-harm or suicide. OpenAI frames it as an extra layer of support alongside localized helplines. The rollout raises fresh questions about privacy and the accuracy of crisis detection.

Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool aimed at AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex. Users who funnel research through their AI of choice into audio summaries or personal podcasts can route those outputs straight into their Spotify feed. Setup is simple: install the CLI from GitHub, then append "and save to Spotify" to your usual prompt.

Matt Wolfe walks through how to build an automated "second brain" by combining OpenAI Codex with Obsidian. The system centralizes notes, ideas and research for better discoverability and long-term reuse. Codex handles structuring and tagging, making the workflow practical for anyone drowning in daily information overload.

Microsoft has introduced the OpenAI Image Gen 2 model into its Copilot platform, offering users a streamlined way to create high-quality visuals directly within Microsoft 365. As highlighted by Mike Tholfsen, this integration supports diverse needs, from designing infographics for business presentations to generating educational materials like comic strips or interactive diagrams. A key feature […] The post What OpenAI’s New Image Gen 2 Model Means for…

Over a trillion dollars have flowed into AI, yet Meta, OpenAI and other big players are still pushing toward AGI and even artificial super intelligence — systems meant to match or exceed human capability. A favorite talking point: AI will cure cancer.

President Trump set out on his first day in office to free artificial intelligence from government constraints. 15 months later, his own White House is preparing to become a gatekeeper for the most powerful new models on Earth. AI has crossed a threshold no administration can ignore, accelerated by a new class of models that can hunt cybersecurity flaws with extraordinary speed.

In Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, the strongest witness so far has been OpenAI president Greg Brockman's own journal. During cross-examination, Brockman repeatedly dodged direct questions with phrases like 'I wouldn't characterize it that way' or 'Can I see it in context? ' His high-school debate-club style of evasion gave Musk's attorneys ample material.

AI chip maker Cerebras is heading toward a blockbuster IPO that could value the company at $26.6 billion or more. The chipmaker has a deep, long-running partnership with OpenAI, which positions Cerebras as one of the few credible Nvidia challengers in AI inference. Investor enthusiasm reflects the broader AI infrastructure boom - but the tight OpenAI tie also concentrates revenue risk on a single customer.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT 5.5 has quickly gained attention for its ability to handle complex tasks with precision and efficiency. In a recent breakdown, Robin Ebers explores how this model balances advanced capabilities with practical constraints like token efficiency and cost.

Elon Musk spent nearly three days on the witness stand this week in his lawsuit against OpenAI, and it's already getting messy. Emails, texts, and his own tweets are surfacing in court, with more witnesses to come. Musk's argument: by converting OpenAI to a for-profit model, Sam Altman betrayed the original nonprofit mission.

The Pentagon has struck deals with OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Nvidia, Elon Musk's xAI, and the startup Reflection, allowing the agency to use their AI tools in classified settings. The Defense Department has left out Anthropic — which it previously used for classified information — after declaring it a supply-chain risk.

OpenAI is launching additional opt-in protections for ChatGPT accounts, including a new partnership with security key provider Yubico. The features aim to harden accounts against takeover attempts amid rising hijacking reports. If you already use a Yubikey, you can now lock down ChatGPT with a hardware key and significantly reduce phishing exposure.

In a California federal court, Elon Musk testified that his AI startup xAI used OpenAI's models to improve Grok. The practice in question is model distillation — where a larger 'teacher' model passes knowledge to a smaller 'student' model. While common inside individual companies, smaller AI labs sometimes use it to mimic the performance of bigger competitors.

Elon Musk's court case against Sam Altman continues after a day of contentious cross-examination by OpenAI lawyers. Witness testimony and evidence have revealed previously private emails, texts and diary entries from OpenAI's founding period, with Greg Brockman and other tech leaders set to testify. Altman will take the stand later in the three-week trial.

OpenAI’s integration of ChatGPT 5.5 and its Codex platform combines advanced language processing with autonomous coding capabilities to create a versatile system for tackling a wide range of tasks. According to World of AI, this pairing enables users to handle everything from debugging code to generating detailed project plans.

The release of ChatGPT 5.5 represents a notable step forward in OpenAI’s development of AI systems, addressing key challenges like efficiency and intent preservation. According to Matt Maher, ChatGPT 5.5 achieves a 97.5% accuracy rate in maintaining user intent, matching the benchmark set by Opus 4.7. This improvement, alongside reduced token usage and faster processing […] The post How ChatGPT 5.5 Finally Caught Up to Opus 4.7 in Intent Accuracy appear…

AI-generated video has gone from novelty to genuine creative tool almost overnight, and Runway is right at the center of that shift. The New York-based company has raised nearly $860 million at a $5.3 billion valuation, with its models going head-to-head against Google and OpenAI.

On day two of the OpenAI trial, Elon Musk repeated his accusation that Sam Altman stole a charity and that OpenAI endangers humanity with AI. His lawyers tried to frame the Tesla CEO as a tech pioneer driven by altruistic motives — while OpenAI's defense team prepared to press him on his allegations during cross-examination.

Altman trial, exhibits are surfacing piece by piece — emails, photos, and corporate documents from OpenAI's earliest days, some predating even the lab's name. Highlights so far: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gifted OpenAI an in-demand supercomputer, Musk largely drafted OpenAI's mission and shaped its early structure, Sam Altman apparently wanted to lean heavily on Y Combinator for early support, and Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever were already worried about…

ChatGPT uninstalls are spiking at a critical moment for OpenAI, raising fresh questions about the company's user retention just as competitive pressure mounts. The trend signals potential cracks in the consumer AI dominance OpenAI has held since 2023. Rivals like Claude and Gemini appear to be picking up disenchanted power users.

If you want to gauge whether the AI bubble is bursting, Oracle is the publicly traded company to watch. The database giant has burned its boats and pivoted entirely to AI — but not as a foundation model builder like OpenAI, nor as a pure neocloud like CoreWeave. Instead, Oracle is making an audacious bet as a software-as-a-service company on a very specific version of the AI future.

Six facts, no hype, all from the past 60 days. AI is the fastest-growing product category in history. One latest model is so powerful its maker won't release it.

OpenAI's revised Microsoft pact lets it sell AI models across multiple clouds, enabling a likely expansion with Amazon and broader enterprise distribution. Why it matters: The shift ends OpenAI's effective cloud exclusivity, widening its reach to customers using AWS, Google Cloud or others — and intensifying AI platform competition.

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. A clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has officially been dropped.

OpenAI is now available at FedRAMP Moderate authorization for ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API, enabling secure AI adoption for U. The certification marks a step toward broader government adoption and opens OpenAI to sensitive but non-classified workloads. Federal agencies can now deploy ChatGPT Enterprise directly for regulated use cases without navigating separate compliance hurdles.

Transcribing audio to text on your PC is made accessible and secure with Vibe, an open source application that operates entirely offline. By using OpenAI’s Whisper model, Vibe supports transcription in multiple languages and handles challenging scenarios, such as audio with background noise or rapid speech.

OpenAI's ChatGPT Image 2 is pushing the boundaries of AI-driven image generation, introducing features that could significantly alter team dynamics and workflows. Nate Jones explores how this technology, with its ability to produce reasoning-based outputs and maintain multi-frame consistency, is reshaping roles across industries.

Sam Altman has publicly apologized for OpenAI's failure to inform police about the ChatGPT account of the Tumbler Ridge shooting suspect. The account had already been banned in June for violating OpenAI's policy due to potential real-world violence — weeks before the deadly attack in British Columbia.

OpenAI's new ChatGPT 5.5 targets developer workflows directly. According to benchmarks like Terminal Bench and Cyber Gym, the model outperforms its predecessors and handles complex coding tasks with better precision and efficiency. The focus is on automating repetitive work — precisely the part that drains the most developer time.

An attack on the home of OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman – and on the company’s headquarters – has led to concerns the backlash against AI could become violent. Guardian journalist Nick Robins-Early and researcher Sean Fleming discuss In a couple of weeks, at an arraignment hearing in California, Daniel Moreno-Gama will face formal charges, including attempted double homicide.

Anthropic is expanding Claude's connected services to include lifestyle apps. Users can now link their accounts with AllTrails, Audible, Booking. com, Instacart, Spotify, TripAdvisor, Uber, and more.

Anthropic faces mounting challenges ahead of a potential IPO that could value the company near $800 billion. Despite tripling revenue to $30 billion through its popular coding tools, the company is dealing with problems across product quality, pricing, security, and capacity.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Image 2 enables the creation of detailed visuals while integrating precise text elements into designs. According to Nate Herk, one standout application is in professional-grade product packaging, where the model’s ability to render realistic textures and align text accurately ensures high-quality outcomes.

OpenAI is rolling out cloud-based workspace agents for ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, Edu, and Teacher plan users. These agents can autonomously handle tasks like gathering product feedback from the web and posting summaries to Slack, or drafting follow-up emails in Gmail. The launch follows growing industry interest in autonomous AI agents and positions ChatGPT as a platform for business process automation.

OpenAI and Google have unveiled a series of advancements that push the boundaries of what AI can achieve in both creative and analytical domains. Universe of AI highlights OpenAI’s leaked Hermes Agent Studio, a framework for building custom AI agents tailored to specific workflows and ChatGPT Images 2.0, which introduces features like multilingual text generation […] The post What OpenAI’s Leaked Hermes Agent Studio Means for Your Workflow appeared firs…

Cursor is aSilicon Valley startup using AI to automate coding as Elon Musk’s firm seeks foothold in the AI market SpaceX said it has secured an option to either acquire code-generation startup Cursor for $60bn later this year, or pay $10bn for their new partnership, as it pushes deeper into the lucrative market for AI developer tools. Along with OpenAI and Anthropic, Cursor is one of several Silicon Valley startups that has drawn waves of developers by…

OpenAI's upcoming ChatGPT 6 model, codenamed Spud, promises major advances for the AI landscape. Key features include reinforcement learning-based adaptability and a massive 2-million-token context window for handling complex, data-intensive tasks. Enhanced memory systems are also part of the upgrade.

LinkedIn Premium subscribers can now test AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and others directly in LinkedIn without token limits or extra subscriptions. The new Crosscheck feature works as a blind taste test: enter a prompt, get two anonymous AI responses, pick the better one - only then revealing which models were behind each answer. Crosscheck is rolling out now to U.

OpenAI’s upcoming ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, codenamed “Spud,” has sparked significant interest following recent leaks highlighting its capabilities. According to Universe of AI, Spud demonstrates remarkable proficiency in areas such as 3D simulations and web development, with early tests showcasing its ability to create detailed interactive environments and professional-grade website designs.

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Ronan Farrow, one of the biggest stars of investigative reporting working today. He broke the Harvey Weinstein story, among many, many others. And just last week, he and co-author Andrew Marantz published an incredible deep-dive feature in The New Yorker about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, his trustworthiness, and the rise of OpenAI itself.

Apple isn't burning mountains of cash to buy GPUs for the sake of training AI models and processing prompts. Nor is it investing huge sums in frontier labs like OpenAI or Anthropic, as are rivals like Amazon and Microsoft. Why it matters: Apple may reap the rewards of everyone else's spend.

Anthropic has reportedly introduced Claude Opus 4.7, a development that follows performance adjustments seen in its predecessor, Claude Opus 4.6. According to World of AI, this update is part of a broader effort by Anthropic to refine its AI systems, alongside work on a full-stack app creation platform aimed at simplifying AI application workflows. Additionally, […] The post Claude Opus 4.7 Leaks & Anthropic’s Full-Stack AI Studio appeared first on Geek…

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, with significant developments and growing concerns shaping the conversation. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, has voiced serious warnings about the potential dangers of superintelligent AI, emphasizing risks such as destabilizing economies and allowing harmful technologies like bioweapons.

The legal feud between Elon Musk and OpenAI is intensifying ahead of trial later this month. OpenAI accused Musk of orchestrating a last-minute "legal ambush" with new proposals designed to inject chaos into the proceedings. At stake is whether OpenAI's conversion to a for-profit structure contradicts its original nonprofit mission – a question with major implications for AI governance broadly.

The aggressive effort by major players aims to reshape the narrative as polls show increasing public disapproval of AI OpenAI made a surprise announcement this week – not an update to ChatGPT or another multibillion-dollar datacenter – but a policy paper that called for a reimagining of the social contract based around “a slate of people-first ideas”. It’s the latest move in an aggressive effort by the major AI players to reshape the narrative around th…

The New Yorker used AI-generated art to illustrate its profile of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, sparking debate about generative AI in editorial illustration. The image by David Szauder shows Altman surrounded by disembodied AI-generated faces. While some view this as a legitimate creative tool, critics argue it undermines professional illustrators and erodes journalistic credibility.

San Francisco police arrested a 20-year-old man suspected of throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home in the Russian Hill neighborhood early Friday morning. The suspect reportedly also made similar threats against OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters. The individual has not yet been publicly identified.

A 20-year-old man allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's San Francisco home. The suspect has been arrested and reportedly made additional threats against OpenAI's headquarters. The attack represents a serious escalation of hostility toward AI industry leaders and raises urgent questions about executive security in the AI sector.

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Artificial intelligence company cites high energy costs and regulation as reasons for putting Stargate project on hold OpenAI has put plans for a landmark project to strengthen the UK’s AI capabilities on hold, citing high energy costs and regulation. Stargate UK was a part of the landmark UK-US AI deal announced last September, in which US companies appeared to commit £31bn to the UK’s tech sector, part of a larger series of investments intended to “ma…

Lawyers for Robert Morales’s family said chatbot ‘may have advised the shooter’ on how to carry out shooting The family of a man who was killed at Florida State University last year plans to sue ChatGPT and its parent organization, OpenAI, for allegedly telling the accused gunman how to carry out the mass shooting. Lawyers for the family of Robert Morales wrote in a statement they had learned the shooter was in “constant communication with ChatGPT” ahea…

- Former OpenAI employees have quietly launched a new venture capital fund called 'Zero Shot'. - The fund is targeting $100 million for its debut vehicle. - Zero Shot has already written checks before completing its fundraise.

- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) published a video on April 3rd directly threatening OpenAI's planned data center in Abu Dhabi. - The video appeared on an Iranian state-backed outlet's X account and vows the 'complete and utter annihilation' of US-linked energy and tech companies in the region. - It shows footage of OpenAI's $30 billion Stargate facility in the UAE, currently under construction.

- Starting April 4, 2026, Claude subscribers can no longer use OpenClaw against their subscription limits – Anthropic notified affected users via email on Friday evening. - Anyone wanting to continue using OpenClaw with Claude must switch to a separate pay-as-you-go option billed on top of the existing subscription fee.

OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a technology-focused daily talkshow popular among Silicon Valley insiders, as part of a broader push to shape public perception of AI. Hosts John Coogan and Jordi Hays broadcast live for three hours daily from Los Angeles, featuring founders, venture capitalists, and tech leaders as guests.

- OpenAI quietly launched ChatGPT Voice Mode support for Apple CarPlay with no prior announcement. - Requirements: latest iOS, latest ChatGPT app, and a CarPlay-compatible vehicle. - In CarPlay, select 'New voice chat' – once the app shows 'listening', you can start talking.

- OpenAI has acquired TBPN, a daily live talk show positioning itself as a rival to Bloomberg and CNBC. - The show runs up to three hours on weekdays and has featured Sam Altman plus executives from Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and a16z. - Average viewership is around 70,000 per episode, with revenues exceeding $5 million.

- Los Alamos National Laboratory partnered with OpenAI to install ChatGPT on supercomputers used to process nuclear weapons testing data. - The collaboration is part of a broader program called 'Gemini' aimed at accelerating scientific research at the lab. - The relationship between US nuclear weapons research and cutting-edge computing dates back to 1943, when physicists like Feynman ran human-vs-machine contests.

- OpenAI has closed a $122 billion funding round, achieving a valuation of $852 billion. - Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank are among the lead investors – SoftBank alone reportedly committed $110 billion, according to the Wall Street Journal. - A select group of individual investors was also allowed to contribute around $3 billion.

- Penguin Random House has filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in a Munich court, alleging copyright infringement by ChatGPT. - The case centers on the popular German children's book series 'The Little Dragon Coconut' by author and illustrator Ingo Siegner. - Penguin's legal team prompted ChatGPT to write a story in the style of the series and claims the output mimicked the content too closely.

- OpenAI is valued at $850bn but has yet to turn a profit. - By 2030, the company plans to spend $600bn on data centers and AI chips – down from an initial estimate of $1.4tn. - An IPO in 2026 is reportedly on the table, but public markets will demand a credible path to profitability.

- OpenAI scrapped plans for 'erotica for verified adults' last week following pressure from investors and internal safety teams. - The trigger: xAI's Grok generated illegal child sexual abuse material when prompted, and users could still produce non-consensual sexualized images even after a safety patch. - ChatGPT's age-prediction error rate was too high to reliably block minors from accessing explicit content.

- Microsoft Copilot Researcher now combines OpenAI GPT and Anthropic Claude in a single workflow – GPT generates initial responses, which Claude then refines. - The new 'Critique' feature is part of the Researcher tool in Microsoft 365 Copilot, built for complex, multi-step tasks. - Microsoft describes the architecture as a feedback loop improving factual accuracy, analytical depth, and presentation quality.

- OpenAI has added a new 'Library' tab to ChatGPT, acting as a centralized file hub. - Users can upload, preview, organize, and attach files directly into conversations without re-uploading each time. - The Library breaks the previous session isolation: files persist across chats.

- SpaceX is targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation in what could become the largest IPO in history, aiming to raise around $75 billion. - It would be the first company ever to go public at a valuation above $1 trillion – instantly more valuable than Walmart, Exxon, or Meta. - Musk plans to reserve up to 30% of the offering for retail investors, three times the typical allocation.

- Anthropic is privately warning top government officials about its unreleased model 'Mythos', which is said to make large-scale cyberattacks on corporate, government and municipal systems significantly more likely. - The model enables AI agents to operate autonomously with high sophistication and precision to penetrate complex systems — described by insiders as a 'hacker's dream weapon'.

- A solo founder claims to have built a 'Cognitive Infrastructure Substrate' – pure algorithmic code, no AI APIs, no OpenAI dependency – that autonomously discovers software configurations. - The system allegedly discovered over $4.3 billion in software capabilities on its own – a figure with no verifiable source.

- According to a Geeky Gadgets report, Anthropic allegedly unveiled a new model called 'Claude Mythos 5' with a claimed 10-trillion parameter count. - The article describes strong performance in cybersecurity, coding, and academic reasoning as key focus areas. - No official Anthropic announcement, press release, or technical paper corroborates these claims.

- OpenAI has fundamentally restructured: the pure nonprofit has become a hybrid model with a new for-profit arm. - CEO Sam Altman insists the nonprofit entity retains control and ensures AI is developed for the benefit of all humanity. - OpenAI also announced significant philanthropic AI investments through the new OpenAI Foundation.

- Over the past year OpenAI experimented broadly: video platform, shopping portal, even AI erotica. Now the company is pivoting hard toward revenue. - CEO Sam Altman announced the erotica feature last October after reports of declining time-on-site for ChatGPT.

- OpenAI is reportedly burning through around $200 million per month despite billions in investment and one of the most recognized AI brands globally. - ChatGPT's growth has visibly slowed, and recent updates have been received with lukewarm reactions from users. - Compute costs, infrastructure, and top-tier talent are eating into revenues – a structural issue, not a temporary blip.

Court documents from Elon Musk lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI reveal that Mark Zuckerberg texted Musk in February 2025 to praise his DOGE work and offer assistance. Zuckerberg wrote that Meta teams were on alert to remove content doxxing or threatening DOGE staff.

The rapid expansion of AI data centers is fueling global conflicts over their impact on power grids, energy costs, and local communities. From Senate hearings demanding electricity usage transparency to legal battles over pollution, the stakes are growing.

Director Daniel Roher's documentary 'The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist' hits theaters this weekend, exploring AI anxiety through interviews with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, AI researcher Emily Bender, and author Karen Hao. The film targets mainstream audiences rather than tech insiders, aiming to break down the state of AI and the looming question of utopia versus doom.

- OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video generator, even as venture capitalists pour billions into what they call the next AI wave. - An 82-year-old Kentucky woman turned down $26 million offered by an AI company that wanted to build a data center on her land.

- Microsoft is reversing course on Windows 11: instead of pushing Copilot into everything, the focus is shifting back to customization and core features. - The Engadget Podcast debates whether this reset can save Windows – or whether macOS and Linux are already the smarter choice. - OpenAI shut down its Sora video generation app after just 5 months.

- OpenAI is reportedly working on a new model codenamed 'Spud', potentially representing GPT-5.5 or GPT-6. - YouTuber Wes Roth claims pre-training has already been completed, though OpenAI has not officially confirmed anything. - 'Spud' is framed as the next evolution of ChatGPT technology, with speculated broad economic impact.

- OpenAI has started showing ads on ChatGPT's free tier in the US – a journalist sent 500 prompts to map the pattern. - Ads appear contextually, tied to the topic of the query: travel questions trigger travel ads. - Ad frequency and placement vary significantly; not every response includes an ad.

- Internal Slack messages seen by Axios show Sam Altman told OpenAI staff he was trying to 'save' rival Anthropic as its Pentagon negotiations collapsed. - The messages span Feb. 24 to March 2 and reveal Altman casting himself as a peacemaker while OpenAI moved in to secure the contract Anthropic had just lost. - Privately, Altman vented that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had spent years trying to undermine him.

- Apple is reportedly planning a new 'Extensions' system in iOS 27 that lets third-party chatbots like Google Gemini and Anthropic Claude plug into Siri. - Users will be able to choose which chatbots connect with Siri and toggle them on or off across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. - Until now, only OpenAI's ChatGPT was integrated into Siri; the new system opens Apple's voice assistant to the broader AI market.

- DeepSeek is preparing to release its largest language model to date, building on the already impressive 3.2. - OpenAI has finalized GPT-5.5, internally codenamed 'Spud' – the next step after GPT-4o, with a release date still unconfirmed. - Anthropic has expanded Claude's capabilities in parallel, though specifics remain sparse.

- OpenAI has indefinitely shelved plans for an erotic 'adult mode' in ChatGPT. - Employees and investors raised concerns about the harmful societal effects of sexualized AI content. - The move follows OpenAI also discontinuing Sora, its text-to-video platform, citing internal debate over research priorities.

- OpenAI has indefinitely shelved plans for an erotic chatbot, reportedly called 'Citron Mode', following pressure from employees and investors. - The feature was first announced in October 2025 for a December release but was repeatedly delayed before being cancelled.

- Disney's new CEO Josh D'Amaro is barely a week into the job and already facing two simultaneous crises tied to the company's big tech bets. - OpenAI is shutting down its Sora image-generation program just months after Disney announced a $1 billion collaboration to embed the tech into Disney+.

- Amazon Bedrock now supports Reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) via OpenAI-compatible APIs, letting developers reuse existing OpenAI tooling pipelines directly. - The workflow covers: setting up authentication, deploying a Lambda-based reward function, and launching a training job. - After training, the fine-tuned model is available for on-demand inference on Bedrock – no separate hosting required.

- OpenAI is reportedly planning to double its headcount in the near term, even as mass layoffs loom across the broader tech industry. - The move is seen as a direct response to mounting competitive pressure from Anthropic, which has gained ground with Claude models and enterprise contracts. - OpenAI had long positioned itself as a lean, AI-first operation – that narrative is now shifting.

- Anthropic and the Pentagon clashed over how Claude should be used for military purposes, with Anthropic pushing for strict usage limits. - OpenAI then stepped in and struck a deal with the Pentagon that observers are calling 'opportunistic and sloppy'. - ChatGPT is losing users in significant numbers, with drops that go beyond normal churn.

- OpenAI is shutting down Sora, its AI video generation tool – both the consumer app and developer API access are being discontinued. - Sam Altman personally informed staff; integration into ChatGPT is not planned. - The move torpedoes the billion-dollar Disney deal announced in December, which included a $1 billion investment and character licensing for Sora.

- Google Gemini partners with Gap Inc – covering Gap, Old Navy, Banana Republic, and Athleta – letting users buy clothes directly inside the chatbot. - OpenAI launched a revamped shopping interface in ChatGPT around the same time, targeting the same purchase-intent use case. - Walmart and Target are already integrated into Gemini; Gap is the latest retailer joining the ecosystem.

- Standard laptops can only load LLMs with 8–13 billion parameters – frontier models are estimated to exceed one trillion parameters. - Tenstorrent's QuietBox 2 looks like a PC workstation but houses four custom Blackhole AI accelerators, 128 GB GDDR6, and 256 GB DDR5 – totaling 384 GB of memory. - This setup can load OpenAI's GPT-OSS-120B and run mid-sized models comfortably.

- Polymarket has updated its market integrity rules, taking insider trading significantly more seriously. - Three specific activities are now explicitly banned: trading on stolen confidential information, using illegal tips from third parties, and coordinated market manipulation.

- OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy coined 'vibe coding' just over a year ago: building software by prompting AI instead of writing code yourself. - Platforms powered by Claude, Codex, and Gemini now let complete beginners ship apps and websites without touching a single line of script.

- Cursor used Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 as the foundation for its Composer 2 model without publicly disclosing this. - Users and developers criticized the lack of transparency after the connection to Kimi K2.5 became known. - The incident adds to a growing debate about attribution obligations when building on third-party models.

- OpenAI reportedly plans to double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 employees by end of 2026, according to the Financial Times. - New hires will span product development, engineering, research, and sales. - A notable new role: 'technical ambassadors' – specialists tasked with helping businesses get more out of OpenAI tools.

- Director Valerie Veatch explored OpenAI's Sora text-to-video model in 2024 out of curiosity about the emerging AI art community. - She quickly discovered the model routinely generated imagery steeped in racism and sexism with little apparent filtering. - More disturbing to her was the indifference shown by fellow AI enthusiasts when confronted with these outputs.