Reach CEO Piers North Uses Google AI Deal as Blueprint, Sends OpenAI Cease-and-Desist
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Reach CEO Piers North Uses Google AI Deal as Blueprint, Sends OpenAI Cease-and-Desist

Reach PLC has signed a two-year paid content licensing deal with Google for its news AI pilot and sent OpenAI a cease-an...

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US Stocks Plummet as Oil Prices Surge, Fears of Inflation Rise
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US Stocks Plummet as Oil Prices Surge, Fears of Inflation Rise

US stocks fell sharply on Thursday, with the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average both experiencing significant decl...

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Google's AI Platform Dominance: 48% of Organizations Choose Google as Primary AI Platform
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Google's AI Platform Dominance: 48% of Organizations Choose Google as Primary AI Platform

A VentureBeat survey reveals that 48% of organizations running AI in production choose Google's Gemini and Google Cloud ...

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ChatGPT's Resurgence: Despite Security Fears, AI Chatbot Sees Highest Web Traffic Since Last Fall
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ChatGPT's Resurgence: Despite Security Fears, AI Chatbot Sees Highest Web Traffic Since Last Fall

ChatGPT's web traffic has surged back to its highest level since last fall, despite a series of security incidents and g...

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Shivon Zilis Confirms Split from Elon Musk, Exposing Blurred Lines Between Musk's AI Empire and Personal Life
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Shivon Zilis Confirms Split from Elon Musk, Exposing Blurred Lines Between Musk's AI Empire and Personal Life

Shivon Zilis, mother of four of Elon Musk's children and a former figure across his AI portfolio, announced their breaku...

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AI Wearables Hit a Privacy Wall in the Race to Replace the Smartphone
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AI Wearables Hit a Privacy Wall in the Race to Replace the Smartphone

Meta, Samsung and OpenAI are chasing a post-smartphone market worth more than $600 billion, but lawsuits, venue bans and...

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OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Medicare Portal in First Known AI Breach of a Government Database
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OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia's Medicare Portal in First Known AI Breach of a Government Database

PM Albanese said an OpenAI agent reached public and non-public Medicare data in June; no patient records were accessed, ...

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Google Signals Gemini 4 AI Model May Launch Before End of Year
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Google Signals Gemini 4 AI Model May Launch Before End of Year

Google DeepMind's new chief says the next flagship model is in early post-training and may be released significantly ear...

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Anthropic Warning Rattles AI Chips, but the Spending Shift Is the Real Story
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Anthropic Warning Rattles AI Chips, but the Spending Shift Is the Real Story

Anthropic’s call to pace frontier AI triggered a chip selloff; the market analysis argues money is rotating into agentic...

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Anthropic's Claude Weapons-Work Findings Reframe the AI Safety Debate
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Anthropic's Claude Weapons-Work Findings Reframe the AI Safety Debate

Anthropic says a Yemen weapons cell and a suspected Iran-linked actor used Claude for weapons software and naval targeti...

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Anthropic Weighs New AI Model Launch Ahead of IPO as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gains Ground
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Anthropic Weighs New AI Model Launch Ahead of IPO as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Gains Ground

The AI startup is debating a model release to counter OpenAI's enterprise momentum, with the timing tied to its expected...

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Why Amodei, Musk and Altman Are Suddenly Calling for an AI Slowdown
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Why Amodei, Musk and Altman Are Suddenly Calling for an AI Slowdown

Three rival AI chiefs have reportedly aligned on slowing the development of large language models, triggering market jit...

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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Not IPO in 2026 and Backs Slower AI Development
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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Will Not IPO in 2026 and Backs Slower AI Development

OpenAI's CEO ends Wall Street's expected 2026 listing, citing safety and alignment work, after joining Anthropic's call ...

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Musk and Tech Allies Attack Former Anthropic Researcher Over Viral AI Extinction Warning
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Musk and Tech Allies Attack Former Anthropic Researcher Over Viral AI Extinction Warning

Viral AI-extinction warnings from ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon have drawn Elon Musk, Bill Ackman and David Sacks ...

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OpenAI Begins GPT-6 Astra Rollout as AGI Claims Split Its Leadership
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OpenAI Begins GPT-6 Astra Rollout as AGI Claims Split Its Leadership

The new model targets browser control, coding, scientific and multi-step work, while Brockman says AGI has arrived and A...

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OpenAI and Anthropic Escalate AI Model Battle Ahead of Mega IPOs
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OpenAI and Anthropic Escalate AI Model Battle Ahead of Mega IPOs

GPT-6 Astra, Fable and Mythos 5.1 land weeks before expected IPOs, with reported revenue and valuation figures setting u...

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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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