OpenAI releases GPT-5.4 with more “professional work” skills
Feeling the heat from Anthropic’s success with enterprise customers, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, a new model that excels at “professional work.” OpenAI says the new model has improved capabilities for “p...
Musk says Tesla will be one of first companies to reach AGI
In a post early Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk said would be “one of the companies” to first reach artificial general intelligence — a squishy term that he typically uses to describe technology that’s smarter...
OpenAI’s new GPT-5.3 Instant: Less “cringe” tone, no more “over-caveating” responses
OpenAI has released GPT-5.3 Instant, a conversational model that the company says will have smoother conversations more to the point. It seems OpenAI is walking back from its cautious guardrails, allo...
OpenAI’s Altman: Our rushed deal with the Pentagon “looked opportunistic and sloppy”
The fallout from Anthropic’s messy breakup with the US government, and OpenAI’s hasty deal to take its place, is still settling across the AI industry. Last night, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shared an inte...
Claude is still top of the US free App Store, as users defect from ChatGPT following Pentagon deal
Last Friday, President Trump directed federal agencies to cease using all Anthropic products owing to its very messy , very public dispute with the Department of War ( née Defense ), which had centere...
OpenAI secures blockbuster $110 billion funding round valuing company at $730 billion
OpenAI has finalized a blockbuster $110 billion funding round, which values the company at $730 billion, not including the money raised. Per the ChatGPT maker’s announcement, this investment includes ...
Google drops new Nano Banana
is hoping to recapture the viral boost it received when it released its Nano Banana image generation model. Nano Banana 2 arrives today, which Google has rolled into its Gemini app. The new model prom...
IonQ reports big Q4 revenue beat and better-than-expected sales guidance
is rising in after-hours trading after posting much better-than-expected Q4 sales. For Q4, the trapped-ion quantum computing company reported: Revenue of $61.9 million (estimate: $40.38 million). An a...
Nvidia and AMD’s different deals show that while AI chatbots may be commoditized, the chips aren’t
One enigma I’m noticing in the AI boom? The publicly available chatbots, effectively the best universal manifestation of artificial intelligence we have, feel more or less the same to me. That is, com...
xAI’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI dismissed
In September, xAI sued rival OpenAI, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets by hiring away key employees. After a key employee was poached by OpenAI, xAI filed its lawsuit in Northern Californ...
Anthropic follows OpenAI in rolling out agentic tools for enterprise
Just a day after OpenAI rolled out its agentic platform for enterprise, Anthropic has announced its own. Built from existing pieces of Anthropic tech that have already been previewed, the new platform...
Stocks sink amid AI and tariff fears
The S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and Russell 2000 all sank as stocks slumped amid AI anxiety and tariff turmoil after President Trump announced a 15% global tariff rate on Saturday. On the AI front, a researc...
IBM sinks as Anthropic positions Claude Code as the ideal tool for code modernization
is sinking as Anthropic touts Claude Code’s ability to modernize COBOL code bases. COBOL, or Common Business-Oriented Language, is a programming language for business functions. Code written in this l...
OpenAI’s planned cash burn was unlike anything we’d ever seen — now they’re doubling it
Many of the world’s most successful tech startups burned cash for years before they got out of the red. Lighting tens of millions of dollars — or even a few billion in the most extreme cases, like Ube...
OpenAI boosted its revenue and cash burn forecasts, The Information reports
According to a new report from The Information, OpenAI is boosting both how much cash is expected to come in the door and how much they’ll be sending out of it. The ChatGPT maker increased its revenue...
Nvidia nears $30 billion investment in OpenAI’s funding round, the FT reports
is close to investing $30 billion in OpenAI as part of its long-discussed funding round, per the Financial Times . Bloomberg had previously reported that Nvidia would be investing $20 billion in this ...
Record labels dip as Google adds AI music generation to its Gemini app
on Wednesday said it’s rolling out the ability for Gemini app users aged 18 and up to generate 30-second AI music tracks. The tool is available globally, as Google launches beta access to its Lyria 3 ...
Video game experts say Google’s Project Genie isn’t an industry killer. Investors don’t seem convinced.
Video game stocks have been getting repeatedly KO’d in recent weeks, following the launch of new generative-AI tool, Project Genie. The tool, a “general-purpose world model” available to Google AI Ul...
Apple doesn’t have an AI spending problem. It has an AI execution problem.
While all of the Magnificent 7 fell yesterday, one of them is decidedly not like the others. fell harder than the rest Thursday, down 5% and notching its worst day since last April. Yet it’s arguably ...
Anthropic raises $30 billion, now valued at $380 billion
Anthropic is now valued at $380 billion, after closing on its latest round of fundraising, taking in $30 billion from a wide range of investors. The Series G round was co-led by D. E. Shaw Ventures, D...