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Nvidia led a $30 million extension to Gradium's seed round, pushing the total past $100 million for the seven-month-old Paris voice AI startup. The investment signals Nvidia's strategy to gain equity in AI application co…
OpenAI is discontinuing ChatGPT Atlas, its standalone desktop browser, in favor of the new ChatGPT desktop app, which includes a ChatGPT Work agent and ChatGPT Codex. The deprecation is targeted for August 9, with more d…
A developer compared 26 AI models across cost, quality, and speed, revealing that intelligent routing can cut AI bills by up to 90%. The guide categorizes models into three tiers: free local models, cost-optimized cloud …
OpenAI is integrating its Codex AI coding tool into the ChatGPT app, directly competing with Anthropic's Claude Cowork. The move aims to streamline developer workflows by combining code generation and conversational AI i…
OpenAI merged its Codex AI coding tool into the ChatGPT desktop app and introduced a Work setting, aiming to create a super app for professionals. The company also released its GPT-5.6 model family as it competes with An…
OpenAI and Anthropic have both confidentially filed for IPOs, positioning themselves for historic public offerings. The two AI companies differ in valuation, revenue growth, and corporate strategy, with OpenAI valued hig…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol (max) scores 59 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, well above the average of 30 for comparable models, but is priced at $5.00 per 1M input tokens and $30.00 per 1M output tokens, making i…
Matt Shumer, co-founder of OthersideAI, demonstrated on July 9th that OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol autonomously generated a voxel-based Manhattan scene over nearly a week without human intervention, showcasing the model's agenti…
A developer critiques AI model verbosity and sycophancy, sharing their use of Strunk & White's "omit needless words" instruction in AGENTS.md. They note OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 docs advise against generic brevity instructio…
OpenAI released ChatGPT 5.6 on Thursday after delaying the public rollout over White House cybersecurity concerns. The Trump administration had requested that OpenAI limit the initial release to government-approved users…
Meta plans to design its own AI chips starting in September under the internal project "Iris," aiming to reduce dependence on Nvidia and cut costs amid strained supply chains. The social media giant is working with Broad…
Brands are making a strategic mistake by treating generative engine optimization (GEO) like traditional SEO, focusing only on visibility rather than the customer intent insights revealed through AI interactions. GEO prov…
Meta launched Muse Spark 1.1, its latest AI model, and will begin charging for API access at roughly 25% of the cost of competitors like OpenAI and Anthropic, marking a strategic shift from its previous open-source appro…
Google is introducing a new feature in its My Ad Center panel that will disclose when ads are created or edited with AI. The disclosure will be automatic for ads made with Google's own AI tools, but advertisers using thi…
Truckstop.com launched AVA, the freight industry's first voice-native AI carrier assistant, enabling truck drivers to search loads, check rates, and initiate broker negotiations hands-free while driving. The assistant in…
Smartphones are evolving into 'agent phones' that automate multi-step tasks, with Counterpoint Research forecasting that over 80% of premium smartphones will have agentic AI capabilities by 2027. Chipset vendors MediaTek…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol scored 59 points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, one point behind Anthropic's Claude Fable 5, while costing $1.04 per task—a third of Fable 5's price. Sol also outperformed all competi…
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9, 2026, alongside the GPT-5.6 model family, enabling multi-step task execution across applications for Pro and Enterprise users. The GPT-5.6 family includes three variants—Sol, Terra…
A Redfin analysis estimates that employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, with post-tax IPO equity totaling $198 billion, could theoretically purchase 29% of homes in the San Francisco metro area. OpenAI employees hold about $…
Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Meta is exploring an AI cloud business to rent out spare computing power, aiming to monetize its over $100 billion AI infrastructure investment. The move would pit Meta against AWS, Azure, and G…