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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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,...