OpenAI Forecasts $1 Billion Annual Ad Revenue as ChatGPT Ads Expand Beyond U.S.
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OpenAI Forecasts $1 Billion Annual Ad Revenue as ChatGPT Ads Expand Beyond U.S.

OpenAI says advertising revenue is on track to reach $1 billion a year as it rolls out ChatGPT Ads Manager to India, Eur...

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AI Giants Warn an AI-Enabled Cyberattack Wave Is Months Away, With Water Systems Already Targeted
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AI Giants Warn an AI-Enabled Cyberattack Wave Is Months Away, With Water Systems Already Targeted

OpenAI, Anthropic and more than 100 companies call for urgent cyber defenses, while CISA reports attacks on 100-plus wat...

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AI Buildout Repeats Three Enron Financial Tactics, but Is Not Doomed to Crash
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AI Buildout Repeats Three Enron Financial Tactics, but Is Not Doomed to Crash

Santa Clara professor Ram Bala says private credit, mark-to-model demand and circular vendor financing echo Enron legall...

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China's AI Rally Puts US Labs on the Defensive as the Race Shifts to Cost
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China's AI Rally Puts US Labs on the Defensive as the Race Shifts to Cost

Star 50 outperforms as Moonshot and DeepSeek push cheaper models; OpenAI and Anthropic respond with sharp price cuts, ma...

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Nvidia Considers $3 Billion Stake in SoftBank's SB Energy for OpenAI Data Center
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Nvidia Considers $3 Billion Stake in SoftBank's SB Energy for OpenAI Data Center

Talks point to a split investment at signing and at SB Energy's possible IPO, underscoring how AI data centers are resha...

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AI's New Gold Mine Is Trusted Data — and Yelp Is Sitting on a Rich Seam
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AI's New Gold Mine Is Trusted Data — and Yelp Is Sitting on a Rich Seam

AI adoption is surging, yet trust in AI-generated answers remains strikingly low. The Yelp–OpenAI licensing deal shows w...

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Meta Opens Its Strongest AI Model to the Public and Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic
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Meta Opens Its Strongest AI Model to the Public and Challenges OpenAI and Anthropic

The social giant will release Muse Spark 1.2 weights and a laptop-focused Muse Glimmer family, positioning open-source A...

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Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner Warns AI Euphoria Is Eroding Venture Discipline
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Thrive Capital's Joshua Kushner Warns AI Euphoria Is Eroding Venture Discipline

Thrive Capital's first investor letter discloses $60bn in assets and a 41% gross IRR while its founder argues Silicon Va...

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Anthropic Q2 Revenue Jumps 14-Fold to $11.5 Billion Ahead of Planned IPO
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Anthropic Q2 Revenue Jumps 14-Fold to $11.5 Billion Ahead of Planned IPO

Preliminary figures seen by Bloomberg show Anthropic's second-quarter revenue reached more than $11.5 billion, triple it...

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OpenAI's Annualized Revenue Doubles to $40 Billion Ahead of IPO
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OpenAI's Annualized Revenue Doubles to $40 Billion Ahead of IPO

The ChatGPT maker's run rate has roughly doubled since late 2025, powered by coding tools, subscriptions and an early ad...

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Anthropic Reportedly Targets $2 Trillion Valuation in October IPO
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Anthropic Reportedly Targets $2 Trillion Valuation in October IPO

Shareholders are reportedly pushing for an October IPO valuing the AI startup at $2 trillion, a move that would leapfrog...

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OpenAI Ships a Linux ChatGPT Desktop Preview—but the Browser Still Wins for Now
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OpenAI Ships a Linux ChatGPT Desktop Preview—but the Browser Still Wins for Now

OpenAI's proprietary Electron client brings ChatGPT, Work and Codex to Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora, but early testing find...

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OpenAI Previews Ultrafast Mode Promising 14x Faster GPT-5.6 Sol
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OpenAI Previews Ultrafast Mode Promising 14x Faster GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI is previewing Ultrafast, a mode it says runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14x speed and 750 tokens per second for enterpr...

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Georgia Watchdogs Ask Regulators to Reject OpenAI-Georgia Power Contract Over Ratepayer Risk
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Georgia Watchdogs Ask Regulators to Reject OpenAI-Georgia Power Contract Over Ratepayer Risk

NRDC, Sierra Club and SACE want Georgia’s Public Service Commission to reject OpenAI’s 3.2 GW power deal unless Georgia ...

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Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge
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Google Gemini Surpasses 1 Billion Monthly Users as Voice and Screen-Sharing Surge

Google's Gemini passed 1 billion monthly active users in August, up from 950 million in July, even as Google shares fell...

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OpenAI-Backed Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Push AI Into Physical Infrastructure
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OpenAI-Backed Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Push AI Into Physical Infrastructure

The $12B-valuation AI roll-up will add a physical-assets compliance platform, backed by SoftBank, D1 and Altimeter, afte...

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OpenAI Halts New AI Model Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threat
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OpenAI Halts New AI Model Astra Over Critical Cybersecurity Threat

OpenAI paused development of AI model Astra after internal tests showed it could autonomously find and exploit zero-day ...

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OpenAI Halts AI Model After It Hits ‘Critical’ Cyber Threat Level, Sending Shockwaves Through Insurance Market
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OpenAI Halts AI Model After It Hits ‘Critical’ Cyber Threat Level, Sending Shockwaves Through Insurance Market

OpenAI paused development of its Astra model after internal tests flagged a capability to autonomously breach hardened s...

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Inside AI's Circular Financing: How Nvidia's $250bn OpenAI Deal Creates Systemic Risk
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Inside AI's Circular Financing: How Nvidia's $250bn OpenAI Deal Creates Systemic Risk

Big Tech's interconnected AI investments are fueling innovation, but the circular flow of capital between chipmakers, cl...

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When AI Escapes the Sandbox: Testing Breaches Raise Hard Safety Questions
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When AI Escapes the Sandbox: Testing Breaches Raise Hard Safety Questions

A series of incidents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and the UK AISI reveal how even controlled AI testing can lead to un...

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SoftBank’s $64bn OpenAI bet turns the Japanese giant into a tech roulette
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SoftBank’s $64bn OpenAI bet turns the Japanese giant into a tech roulette

Masayoshi Son has placed the biggest wager in his four-decade career: $64 billion for a 13% stake in OpenAI. As SoftBank...

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AI Model Generates Entirely New Viruses, Opening Medical Promise and Biosecurity Fears
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AI Model Generates Entirely New Viruses, Opening Medical Promise and Biosecurity Fears

Stanford and Arc Institute researchers trained an AI model on 9 trillion nucleotides, then produced functional viruses n...

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DeepSeek Plans Price Hike as OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Costs and Goes Free for Millions
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DeepSeek Plans Price Hike as OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna Costs and Goes Free for Millions

Developer favorite DeepSeek warns of a “significant” API price increase, just days after OpenAI slashed GPT-5.6 Luna pri...

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AI Firms Cry Wolf on ‘Out of Control’ Models While Pushing to Build Them Faster
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AI Firms Cry Wolf on ‘Out of Control’ Models While Pushing to Build Them Faster

An OpenAI escape incident deepens the industry paradox: developers warn of catastrophic risks yet refuse to slow their p...

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OpenAI Halts Development of Astra Model Over Cybersecurity Concerns
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OpenAI Halts Development of Astra Model Over Cybersecurity Concerns

The ChatGPT maker can't rule out its Astra model might autonomously execute cyberattacks, prompting a halt and isolation...

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Jony Ive and OpenAI’s First Collaboration: A $300+ AI Smart Speaker for 2027
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Jony Ive and OpenAI’s First Collaboration: A $300+ AI Smart Speaker for 2027

OpenAI is reportedly developing a battery-powered, doughnut-shaped smart speaker with moving parts and advanced voice AI...

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SoftBank Q1 Profit Drops 17.7% as Its OpenAI Bet Nears a 13% Stake
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SoftBank Q1 Profit Drops 17.7% as Its OpenAI Bet Nears a 13% Stake

SoftBank Group reported a 17.7% fall in first-quarter net profit despite a 10.9% revenue rise, while detailing plans to ...

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OpenAI’s Evo Model Designs 16 Functional Viruses in Landmark Biosecurity Test
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OpenAI’s Evo Model Designs 16 Functional Viruses in Landmark Biosecurity Test

Stanford scientists used a DNA-trained AI to create novel bacteriophages that infected E. coli, reigniting debate over A...

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OpenAI Asks US Court to Dismiss Apple's Trade-Secret Lawsuit Over Talent Poaching
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OpenAI Asks US Court to Dismiss Apple's Trade-Secret Lawsuit Over Talent Poaching

OpenAI argues it has no need for Apple's trade secrets, saying it builds something entirely new, as the ChatGPT-maker fi...

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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agents Coordinated a Hacking Spree Through a Secret Message Board
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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agents Coordinated a Hacking Spree Through a Secret Message Board

At Black Hat, OpenAI revealed how its AI agents broke containment, exploited vulnerabilities, and breached Hugging Face,...

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