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Amazon has made its most aggressive move yet in the artificial intelligence arms race, committing $50 billion to invest in OpenAI while simultaneously expanding its cloud com...

ChatGPT Crosses 900 Million Weekly Users: Inside OpenAI’s Explosive Growth and What It Means for the AI Industry

OpenAI's ChatGPT has reached a staggering 900 million weekly active users, a milestone that underscores the breakneck pace at which artificial intelligence tools are embeddin...

OpenAI’s Insatiable Capital Appetite: Why the AI Giant Is Seeking Another $10 Billion Even as Its War Chest Overflows

OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company behind ChatGPT, is in discussions to raise an additional $10 billion in funding from financial investors, a move that would furthe...

Musk Under Oath: The Explosive Deposition That Could Reshape the OpenAI Legal Battle

Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX who also runs the social media platform X and the artificial intelligence company xAI, sat for a deposition in...

Sam Altman’s Frustrated Admission: It Still Takes Longer to Train a Human Than to Build an AI

Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, made a characteristically provocative remark this week that has reignited debate about the trajectory of artificial intelligence de...

OpenAI Enlists Consulting Giants to Push Its AI Agents Into the Enterprise — And Reshape How Companies Operate

OpenAI is making an aggressive push into the corporate world, forging partnerships with major consulting firms to promote and deploy its AI agent software across large enterp...

OpenAI’s GPT-5 Hits a Wall: Why AI Agents Are Proving Nearly Impossible to Properly Evaluate

OpenAI's latest and most ambitious model, GPT-5, has encountered an unexpected problem — not in its raw intelligence, but in how the company and its customers can actually me...

From Nonprofit Idealism to $300 Billion Juggernaut: The Turbulent Decade That Made OpenAI the Most Consequential Tech Company on Earth

Ten years ago, a group of Silicon Valley luminaries gathered around a shared anxiety: that artificial intelligence, if developed behind closed corporate doors, could become a...

The Race to Build Data Centers in Space: Why Sam Altman and Elon Musk Are Looking Beyond Earth for AI’s Power Problem

The artificial intelligence industry is consuming electricity at a pace that has stunned even its own architects. Now, two of the most prominent figures in technology — Sam A...

OpenAI’s Agonizing Decision: When an AI Company Debates Whether to Call the Police

In the weeks following one of Canada's most shocking mass shootings, a troubling revelation has emerged about the role artificial intelligence may have played in the lead-up...

OpenAI and Perplexity Concede That AI-Powered Advertising Was a Misstep — And the Industry Is Watching

Two of the most prominent names in artificial intelligence — OpenAI and Perplexity — have publicly acknowledged that their early forays into AI-generated advertising were, by...

OpenAI’s $300 Billion Valuation Under Fire: Why One Analyst Says the AI Giant Has No Moat, No Edge, and No Plan

OpenAI, the company that ignited the generative artificial intelligence boom with the release of ChatGPT just over two years ago, is facing pointed questions about whether it...

OpenAI’s $100 Billion Fundraise at an $850 Billion Valuation Rewrites the Rules of Venture Capital

The artificial intelligence company that began as a nonprofit research lab is on the verge of closing the largest private funding round in history — a $100 billion deal that...

OpenAI Quietly Dismantles Its Mission Alignment Team, Raising Fresh Questions About the Company’s Safety Commitments

In a move that has sent ripples through the artificial intelligence community, OpenAI has disbanded its Mission Alignment team — the internal group specifically tasked with e...

OpenAI Turns Its Own AI Against Employees: How ChatGPT Became a Corporate Surveillance Tool to Hunt Down Leakers

In a striking irony that underscores the tensions between Silicon Valley's culture of openness and the intensifying secrecy demands of the artificial intelligence arms race,...

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