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's Codex AI model is causing excessive write operations on SSDs due to a clumsy logging implementation, leading to millions of dollars in unnecessary costs. The issue stems from the model's inef…
Sierra co-founder Bret Taylor predicted consumers will prefer businesses using AI phone agents over traditional call centers within three to four years, setting a 2029-2030 deadline for a major labor …
Oracle laid off 21,000 workers, a 12.9% reduction, partly due to AI adoption and a restructuring plan to focus on cloud offerings. The company plans to raise $45–50 billion in 2026 to expand AI data c…
New York's 12th congressional district primary has become a battleground for the AI industry, with outside groups spending over $40 million. Assemblymember Alex Bores, an AI safety advocate, faces opp…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Beijing conference, a video generation model that produces 30-second native 4K clips from up to 50 multimodal reference inputs. The company skipped four version …
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed SpaceX's orbital AI data center plan as overpriced, arguing that terrestrial infrastructure is more cost-effective. Son's critique comes days after SpaceX's $1.7 t…
ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates 30-second 4K clips from a single prompt, at a Beijing conference on Tuesday. The model accepts up to 50 reference pieces, up from 12 i…
Three of the largest IPOs in history—SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI—are arriving, with valuations tied to token consumption and model pricing. However, enterprise customers are adopting model routing t…
An unconfirmed leak claims OpenAI's GPT-5.6 release has slipped to mid-July, while Google DeepMind is holding Gemini 3.5 Pro past its June launch window due to quality concerns. The alleged delays, if…
Google faces a crisis as search volume hits an all-time high but the company struggles with user backlash against AI integration and a decline in ad revenue. Competitors like ChatGPT and DuckDuckGo ga…
Anthropic updated its privacy policy to require age or identity verification for Claude users under certain circumstances, sparking concerns about digital surveillance and government overreach. Critic…
Oracle cut 21,000 jobs in fiscal 2026, reducing its workforce to 141,000, and explicitly blamed AI in its SEC filing, stating that the adoption and deployment of AI technologies resulted in workforce …
Google posted $109.9 billion in Q1 2026 revenue, its fastest growth since 2022, and still controls 90% of search, but talent defections, rising competitors like ChatGPT and Bing, antitrust remedies, a…
Amazon walked away from an OpenAI movie deal, likely due to the $50 billion valuation gap versus a $50 million budget and concerns the film could be anti-AI. Meta launched $299 AI glasses without the …
The era of subsidized AI API usage is ending as platform providers like OpenAI and Anthropic face unsustainable losses, with OpenAI reporting a $38.53 billion net loss in 2025. Hardware costs, particu…
Anthropic launched Claude Tag, a virtual employee chatbot that operates within Slack to autonomously complete tasks for teams. The tool, designed for enterprise use, allows multiple employees to colla…
AI companies including OpenAI and Anthropic are pouring millions into US midterm elections through super PACs, spending $37 million so far on both Republican and Democratic candidates. The funding aim…
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son dismissed Elon Musk's plan for orbital data centers, saying the costs would outweigh the benefits and that the AI race will be decided on Earth. Son's comments came as Space…
Amazon-owned MGM Studios dropped Luca Guadagnino's nearly completed Sam Altman biopic "Artificial," which reportedly portrays the OpenAI CEO as a pathological liar. The decision follows Amazon's $50 b…
A major outage at Anthropic on June 23, 2026, disrupted Claude AI services, highlighting the risks of relying on a single LLM provider. The incident, caused by demand outpacing infrastructure capacity…