Who’s the real winner when OpenAI becomes a public benefit corporation?
Last week, OpenAI announced that it’s giving up its plans to change up its weird corporate structure . The company’s new plan: to convert its for-profit LLC into a public benefit corporation (PBC). Le...
Perplexity is in talks to raise again, as the battle for second in the AI chatbot race heats up
Like a lot of AI startups, Perplexity isn’t having a hard time finding new investors. According to exclusive reporting by The Wall Street Journal , the company is in closing talks for a new $500 milli...
Report: OpenAI seeks to revise Microsoft deal to clear the way for IPO
After ditching its plan to demote its controlling nonprofit arm last week, OpenAI is busy haggling with partner to make changes to its agreements as it looks toward a future IPO, according to reporti...
Apple defends its $20 billion Google deal by downplaying its importance
searches on iPhones are declining for the first time ever as people — and — move to AI, so there’s no need to worry about our fusty old Google Search contract. That’s roughly the argument Apple Senio...
OpenAI reportedly seeks big cuts to Microsoft revenue share
OpenAI is making some big changes. On Monday, the company announced it was abandoning its plan to restructure itself, and is now moving forward with a more modest changes to clear the way for future m...
Traffic to ChatGPT hits an all-time high
If you really need to ask an AI chatbot who would win in a battle between 100 men and a gorilla , or use it to dream up an image of President Trump as the next pontiff, you have many options today. Yo...
A single comment from an Apple exec about AI search is upending the tech pecking order
bigwig Eddy Cue’s comments Wednesday about potentially adding AI-powered search to his company’s Safari browser could be a massive blow for decades-long dominance in web searches. Investors ran for t...
Google tanks, dragging market lower, after Apple says it’s considering adding AI search in its browser
These headlines from Eddy Cue, senior VP of services at , are tanking shares of — and the entire US stock market: *APPLE’S CUE: SEARCHES IN BROWSER FELL FOR FIRST TIME IN APRIL *APPLE’S CUE: APPLE EX...
Palantir’s tumble creates another gut-check moment for AI momentum trade
The V-shaped recovery in US stocks off the lows has been a story of “meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” The has rallied nearly 20% since its April 8 lows, recovering not just the losses suffer...
OpenAI’s nonprofit to remain in charge
Late last year, ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced it was restructuring its company to go from a for-profit controlled by a nonprofit “with a capped profit share for investors and employees” to a public b...
OpenAI web search not a threat to Google Search... yet
Yesterday OpenAI announced that ChatGPT would gain some new shopping features, like recommended products, review roundups, and listing links to buy items at different websites. OpenAI told TechCrunch ...
Meta launches stand-alone AI app
If you want to use Meta AI today, you can find it tucked into a zillion weird places across all of Meta’s apps. Like when you’re searching on Facebook, making a post in Instagram, writing a message in...
Altman and Nadella rift may put $14 billion partnership at risk: Report
A deepening rift is emerging in one of the biggest partnerships of the AI boom . The $14 billion deal between and OpenAI paired a hot startup with a legacy giant, giving each party something that the...
OpenAI aims at Google with shopping addition to ChatGPT Search
Though ChatGPT doesn’t appear to be threatening juggernaut search business just yet, you can see where things are heading. Today, OpenAI announced new shopping features coming to ChatGPT’s search res...
Can you spot the real AI model names?
The revolution in AI has brought us incredible technology, dramatic leaps in performance... and some terrible product branding. OpenAI sits atop the competition in brand recognition with its ChatGPT a...
Apple plans to use your emails to make its AI better
It’s no secret that Apple’s AI is not very good . The iPhone maker’s AI assistant Siri has been lagging the industry, as the company experiences executive shakeups and feature delays . Now , which has...
FT: Sources say OpenAI cutting corners on AI safety
OpenAI has drastically cut the amount of time allocated for safety testing of its AI models due to competitive pressure from rivals like and , according to a report in the Financial Times. OpenAI is ...
Meta scrambling to defend its AI after Llama 4 benchmark bungle
This weekend, surprised everyone and released two flavors (“Maverick” medium and “Scout” small) of its highly anticipated Llama 4 AI model. Llama 4’s release is a big deal, as the company has been hy...
Meta’s Llama 4 model behind schedule, underperforming: Report
has bet a ton — some would even say the future of the company — on AI. It has poured massive resources into building its AI infrastructure to train and run its Llama 3 AI model, including city-sized d...
OpenAI’s record-breaking test score might have cost $30,000 per puzzle
In December, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that its new o3 “reasoning” model had, for the first time, achieved a winning score on the ARC-AGI benchmark, a notoriously difficult test that had stumped...