About Those "Hackquisitions"...
Noam Shazeer, a star Google AI researcher, has left the company again to join OpenAI, just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back via a 'hackquisition' of Character.ai. The deal st…
OpenAI is an American AI research laboratory founded in 2015, known for creating ChatGPT, the GPT series of large language models, and DALL-E image generators. It is one of the most influential AI companies in the world.
Noam Shazeer, a star Google AI researcher, has left the company again to join OpenAI, just two years after Google paid $2.7 billion to bring him back via a 'hackquisition' of Character.ai. The deal st…
A cloud architect rebuilt their inference layer to slash AI API costs by 60% while maintaining sub-2-second p99 latency. By implementing a tiered model routing system that directs simple queries to ch…
A developer created a Python script that displays OpenAI Codex rate-limit reset credits with a live expiry countdown. The tool reads authentication from the Codex CLI's auth file and calls the OpenAI …
DigitalOcean published a tutorial and launched a public preview of server-side tools for its Inference Engine on June 19, 2026, moving tool execution into the inference layer to reduce latency and sim…
Sen. Marsha Blackburn is negotiating with the White House on a bill package that would trade child safety and deepfake protections for preemption over state AI laws. The Fable incident has spurred Con…
Platinum.ai launched a free 8-point scan that shows how AI agents perceive a website, offering a one-time $99 service to create structured AI-readable profiles so businesses get selected by agents ins…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act, which would require AI companies with over $200 million in annual revenue to transfer 50% of their equity to a federal fund…
Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and other tech companies launched the Appia Foundation to create modular specifications that help enterprises demonstrate their AI systems comply with global standards and r…
Sovereign AI is shifting from a software model race to a supply chain security issue, as governments and companies worry about access to frontier AI models. The real challenge lies in securing the ent…
A researcher at a frontier AI lab advises aspiring candidates to pursue rigorous mathematics and programming coursework, work intensely, and focus on high-value problems to compete for jobs at top lab…
Databricks is raising another massive round of private capital instead of going public, targeting a valuation between $165 billion and $175 billion. CEO Ali Ghodsi called 2026 a 'terrible year to go p…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation on Thursday that would impose a 50% stock tax on major AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI, giving the American public a half-stake in these firm…
Jeff VanderMeer's novel 'Annihilation' serves as a metaphor for how artificial intelligence alters human cognition, according to a new analysis. The piece argues that AI systems like ChatGPT, which no…
A data scientist reduced monthly AI inference costs from $3,200 to $580 by switching from GPT-4 to Chinese models like DeepSeek V4 Flash and DeepSeek R1. The switch leveraged OpenAI-compatible APIs fr…
Amazon MGM has dropped Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's 2023 firing and rehiring, stating the movie will be better served by a different studio. The studio is working …
In a head-to-head comparison of four text tasks, xAI's grok-4.3 scored 37.8 against OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b at 34.4, winning on precision in fact-based summarization. The models tied on two coding tasks…
OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, cofounder of Character.AI, which faces multiple lawsuits over teen suicides linked to its chatbots. Shazeer previously co-led Google's Gemini and was rehired by Google in a …
OpenAI has introduced spend controls and usage analytics for ChatGPT Enterprise, enabling organizations to monitor AI adoption, track consumption across teams, and set budgets. Analysts caution that t…
Amazon MGM Studios has dropped plans to release Luca Guadagnino's film 'Artificial' about Sam Altman and the OpenAI leadership crisis, months after Amazon deepened ties with OpenAI through a $50 billi…
The SEO industry must shift from rank-tracking-style AI prompt measurement to volatility and average response tracking, as traditional methods fail due to AI model updates and personalization. ChatGPT…