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.
OpenAI spent $34bn in 2025, more than double its $13bn revenue, as it prepares for a potential $1tn IPO. The company's massive spending on R&D, infrastructure, and staffing reflects the high cost of l…
South Korean AI firm Upstage announced it will integrate its AI model, workplace tools, and web portal into a single platform, betting on a home-grown stack to compete without relying on US or Chinese…
Visa partnered with OpenAI to integrate its payment network into ChatGPT, enabling AI agents to research, compare, and purchase products on behalf of users with customizable controls. The move positio…
A developer built GetCiteFlow, an AI visibility scanner that uses a hybrid analysis architecture combining LLM evaluation with deterministic checks to measure how well websites are cited by AI search …
AI training startup Mode Inc has acquired two consumer apps, Trimbox and QR Code Reader, bringing its total buyouts to seven in the past year. The company pays users for their data, including receipts…
General-purpose large language models (LLMs) including GPT-5.2, Gemini 3.1 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.6 outperformed specialized clinical AI tools OpenEvidence and UpToDate Expert AI across three evaluati…
Russian and Chinese actors are using AI to enhance influence operations on X, improving content quality, multilingual reach, and visuals rather than increasing volume, according to a GBHackers analysi…
A developer warns that internal Slack runbook bots sending incident prompts to OpenAI's servers can expose sensitive operational data, leading to compliance failures during SOC 2 audits. The post prov…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) defines forward-deployed engineers (FDEs) as cross-functional teams that embed with customers to deploy AI solutions, a model that predates the generative AI boom. Taimur Ras…
The FIRST Forecasting team revised its 2026 vulnerability projection to ~66,000 CVEs, a 46.3% increase over the original forecast, driven by AI-assisted discovery tools like Anthropic's Mythos and Ope…
Cursor benchmarked its Composer 2.5 and Composer 2.5 Fast models across 11 engineering skills, finding that the fast model scored higher, ran 32% quicker, and costs the same. The fast model achieved a…
DeepSeek is raising $7 billion at a $50 billion valuation, the largest AI funding round in China, with founder Liang Wenfeng personally contributing 40% of the round and owning 90% of the company. The…
The AI revolution is shifting the tech industry's center of gravity from traditional FAANG companies (Meta, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) to AI-native organizations like OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDI…
An audit by NewsGuard found that Mistral AI's chatbot, Le Chat, repeated state-sponsored disinformation from Russia, China, and Iran 50% of the time in English and 56.6% in French, marking a significa…
A new initiative aims to connect young rationalists aged 16-20 for high-leverage discussions on philosophy and alignment, addressing the lack of formal infrastructure for talented youth. The project s…
Tyler Cowen and Alexander Tabarrok published a Marginal Revolution post on June 16, 2026, warning that regional AI champions like France's Mistral could create political leverage and cross-border depe…
A U.S. federal judge dismissed with prejudice a trade-secret lawsuit by Elon Musk's xAI against OpenAI, ruling that xAI failed to show OpenAI induced a former engineer to disclose confidential informa…
OpenAI projected $34 billion in spending on R&D, sales, and marketing in 2025 as it prepares for an IPO that could value it at $1 trillion, according to the Financial Times. The AI company reported $1…
A developer built Lynkr, an open-source LLM gateway that provides a single OpenAI-compatible endpoint for multiple model providers, and configured it to work with LibreChat, an open-source AI chat pla…
Tyler Cowen warns that Europe's AI nationalism could lead to intra-European dependencies, as France's Mistral AI may dominate the EU market, giving France and Mistral leverage over other European coun…