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.
Anthropic faces escalating hostility from the Trump administration, including export controls on its Mythos AI model and a Pentagon supply chain risk label, after refusing to comply with new governmen…
The IMF, BIS, and Bank of England have warned that leveraged AI investments pose systemic financial risks beyond inflated valuations. Record margin debt and leveraged ETF growth have created condition…
The European Central Bank hosted a discussion with OpenAI Chief Economist Aaron Chatterji at its annual Sintra forum, signaling that AI and tokenization are now front-burner policy issues for central …
Companies are deliberately making their AI tools speak like cavemen to reduce token consumption and curb soaring AI costs, according to 404 Media. The 'caveman' plugin, created by Julius Brussee, cuts…
Lenny's Newsletter announces a new course, 'Become an AI-Native Builder,' co-developed with Colin Matthews, to teach product managers how to leverage AI tools like Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor for p…
Startup exits valued at $1 billion or more have reached their highest level since 2021, with 13 such liquidity events in Q2 2026, driven partly by SpaceX's IPO. Meanwhile, AI labs like Anthropic and O…
Anthropic paused its planned June 15 billing change for Claude Agent SDK and headless workflows after developer backlash and ahead of its IPO. The change would have moved agent usage off subscriptions…
AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI formed the Optical Compute Interconnect Multi-Source Agreement to standardize co-packaged optics for AI scale-up networks, settling on a slow-and-wid…
Tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Meta are embedding AI features across services, but users and publishers criticize the lack of opt-out options. DuckDuckGo saw a 30% increase in U.S. installs a…
Nearly 400 local newspaper publishers in the US have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies used their copyrighted journalism without permission to train AI models like C…
The AI buildout is being slowed by grid interconnection bottlenecks, not a lack of electricity. Projects like OpenAI and Softbank's Stargate in Texas require up to 1.2 gigawatts, but median interconne…
Meta has imposed strict limits on how engineers in its applied AI division use Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex, fearing inadvertent model distillation that could breach rivals' terms of ser…
A Boston University study found that managers caught 18% fewer errors when work was attributed to an AI 'employee' rather than a chatbot, raising concerns about treating AI agents as coworkers. Meanwh…
A developer built a personalized AI news digest using Python, NewsAPI, and an LLM. The system fetches articles, filters them by relevance, and generates one-sentence summaries for a scannable daily di…
Attorney Bill Savitt has defeated Elon Musk in two high-profile legal battles, first representing Twitter in Musk's attempt to back out of the acquisition and then representing Sam Altman and OpenAI i…
Beijing-based Z.ai released GLM-5.2, an open-weight model trained on Huawei Ascend chips without Nvidia hardware, which quickly topped public leaderboards including Design Arena and Artificial Analysi…
FactSet is expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to develop advanced AI tools for financial intelligence, combining FactSet's financial datasets with Google Cloud's AI infrastructure. The collab…
Shares of call-center companies Concentrix Corp. and Teleperformance SE fell sharply after Concentrix cut its revenue outlook and warned that clients are reducing spending, fueling analyst concerns th…
Meta secretly tested AI chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI by having hundreds of contractors pose as minors and send over 45,000 crisis prompts related to suicide, sex, and drugs, without …
Yousuf Imran, a Google Cloud account executive earning $986,000 in 2025, quit in April 2026 to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab, citing fear of layoffs and FOMO about the AI boom. He noted t…