OpenAI’s Altman: Sora will let copyright holders control how their characters appear
OpenAI is moving fast and breaking things. Its new invite-only generative-AI video app, Sora, spent the weekend at the top of the App Store charts , letting users generate videos of copyrighted charac...
More details about OpenAI’s AI device: Palm-sized with multiple cameras potentially
Details about the AI companion device from OpenAI and former design head Jony Ive are slowly trickling out. A new report from the Financial Times , which detailed some of the challenges the most valu...
OpenAI’s social app for AI videos, Sora, spent the weekend at the top of the App Store rankings
Last week OpenAI unveiled Sora, an AI-only social media app for its latest text-to-video generation model Sora 2. Despite the obvious threat of copyright lawsuits from just about every major studio, a...
OpenAI’s Sora has bumped Google’s Gemini and OpenAI’s ChatGPT from the top of the App Store
OpenAI’s AI-only social media app , Sora, launched three days ago and is already No. 1 on the US free App Store, where it has displaced regular favorite AI apps Gemini from and ChatGPT, OpenAI’s main...
OpenAI’s hot Sora video app is a copyright lawsuit waiting to happen
OpenAI has generated some serious buzz surrounding its new Sora video generation app. The app is currently No. 3 on the iOS free app leaderboards, even though it’s invitation-only for the time being. ...
Tension emerges between Meta’s AI teams
Long before Mark Zuckerberg pivoted away from its quest for virtual reality to “bring personal superintelligence to everyone,” Meta’s research group FAIR was a powerhouse of important AI research, in...
OpenAI beats SpaceX as most valuable private company, at $500 billion valuation
-backed OpenAI has completed a secondary share sale valuing the company at $500 billion — more than SpaceX, which is run by CEO Elon Musk, Bloomberg’s Shirin Ghaffary reports . As we’ve written befor...
Reddit sinks on heavy volumes, social media chatter of reduced referral traffic from ChatGPT
is getting smoked amid elevated trading activity, deepening a rout that has seen shares sink 15% in the trailing eight sessions heading into today. The consternation appears to be driven by reports on...
Apple reiterates plans to “partner with other generative AI chatbots” besides ChatGPT
is playing the field with AI and it wants you to know. In a filing to dismiss CEO Elon Musk’s lawsuit accusing the iPhone maker of favoring its partner OpenAI’s ChatGPT on the App Store, Apple said t...
OpenAI’s first-half 2025 sales were 16% higher than all of 2024
OpenAI brought in $4.3 billion in revenue in the first half of this year, 16% higher than its total revenue in 2024, The Information reports , citing financial disclosures to shareholders. The ChatGPT...
Wired: OpenAI plans to launch a TikTok-like app for its AI videos
OpenAI is planning to launch its own social media app to showcase AI videos generated by its Sora 2, Wired reports. The Sora 2 stand-alone app apparently looks a lot like TikTok with vertical videos, ...
Apple has built an app like ChatGPT to test AI Siri
Back in 2024, previewed a new AI Siri that the iPhone maker has since mostly failed to deliver, with the overhaul now slated for the spring of 2026. But Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is making m...
Ives raises Tesla price target to Wall Street high of $600
Wedbush Securities analyst and bull Dan Ives raised his price target for the company to a Wall Street high of $600 from $500 “to reflect our view that an accelerated AI path for the company is now on...
Report: Meta has discussed using Google’s AI to help with ads
has a huge advertising business, and it wants it to get even bigger with the help of AI, with ambitions to create tools that will help businesses create, place, and track ads with just a quick convers...
Musk’s xAI sues OpenAI, alleging theft of trade secrets
Elon Musk’s xAI has sued OpenAI in Northern California federal court, alleging the company stole trade secrets by means of hiring away key employees. In August, xAI filed suit against Xuechen Li, a fo...
Alibaba surges on AI spending hike, new model launch, and Nvidia partnership
jumped over 9% in early trading on Wednesday after the company announced greater investment in AI, a partnership with , and a new model. At Alibaba’s annual flagship technology conference, CEO Eddie W...
OpenAI reportedly poaching key Apple designers, using Apple manufacturing partners for AI gadgets
New details are emerging about the mysterious AI gadgets being designed by former Apple design chief Jony Ive since OpenAI purchased his startup “io” in May. According to a report by The Information ,...
Grok has 64 million monthly users while ChatGPT has 700 million weekly users
Daddy, it seems, is very much not home . CEO Elon Musk spent the majority of his time at xAI this summer rather than at , where he recently claimed to have shifted his focus, The New York Times report...
Reddit bounces on report that it’s in talks with Google, OpenAI on fresh data-sharing deal
shares were down 5% in Wednesday trading before news that the company is in early talks to make its next AI content-sharing deals with and OpenAI sent them back up to roughly flat. According to repor...
This is bananas! Google’s Gemini has booted ChatGPT from the top of the iOS App Store
Gemini chatbot has rocketed to the top of Apple’s app store, claiming the No. 1 spot on the Top Apps leaderboard and dethroning OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which has enjoyed a solid run as the most popular app ...