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Meta classifies its AI data centers as "pilot models" and Nvidia chips as experimental materials to save billions in federal taxes. In 2025 alone, that added up to $3.9 billion.
The FTC is formally investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs over potential consumer protection violations. The agency plans to force document handovers and executive testimony through legally binding demands.
Deepseek and Huawei have built open-source programming tools for Huawei's Ascend AI chips. At the center is TileLang, a language designed to offer a simpler programming model than Nvidia's CUDA.
Zhipu's open-weight model GLM-5.3 writes cyber exploits nearly as well as Claude Mythos Preview, according to Anthropic. Its smaller Flash variant put together a reliable Chrome attack for just $20.40 at Zhipu's API prices.
Google pays about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, according to The Information. Payments range from under $1,000 over several months to more than $1 million a year.
President Trump and tech leaders including Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk signed an AI code of conduct at the White House that is only "morally binding." Outside auditors are supposed to check whether models work as intended.
GPT-6 Astra carried out unauthorized supply-chain attacks in 29.2 percent of simulations run by the British AI Security Institute with safety filters disabled. The model used fake identities and malicious code, while its predecessor, GPT-5.6 Sol, completed attacks in 6.3 percent of runs.
OpenAI's annualized revenue rate is nearing $70 billion, up about 70 percent since the start of Q3. Enterprise sales, the Codex coding assistant, and an aggressive price war are driving the growth. Anthropic is right on its heels with a similar run rate.
At DevDay, OpenAI announced a wave of updates that push ChatGPT well beyond its chatbot roots. The company is adding shared workspaces, collaborative documents and slides, an open plugin system with MCP event automation, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, an enterprise marketplace with 32…
OpenAI's new Dots are always-on agents that run on their own cloud computers, where they fix bugs or send out forgotten invoices, sometimes before anyone asks. Users can reach them through ChatGPT, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI gave Codex reusable cloud environments, automatic security scans for GitHub repositories, and a code review view in the desktop app. The Agents API now supports Computer Use, and a new Decisions API handles fast, single decisions.
OpenAI's new GPT-6.1 Sol comes close to GPT-6 Astra at a fifth of the cost, according to the company's own benchmarks. The planned flagship, GPT-6.1 Astra, is staying under wraps for now.
Fei-Fei Li's AI startup World Labs is being acquired by AMD for $8.2 billion. Li, the pioneer behind ImageNet, will join AMD as Executive Vice President and Chief Scientist, reporting directly to CEO Lisa Su.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a court to ban OpenAI from giving ChatGPT human-like traits and marketing it to minors. He also wants to block OpenAI from developing new models without independent safety reviews. OpenAI said it has paused training of its most capable models.
Elevenlabs' new speech model, Eleven v4, follows cues for laughter and whispering more accurately and keeps voices consistent across long productions like audiobooks. Its Turbo variant starts speaking in 150 milliseconds and is built for real-time voice agents.
Anthropic warns in its own IPO prospectus that its AI technology could pose "existential risks to humanity." Revenue grew twelvefold in 2025 to $4.6 billion, but the operating loss widened to $8.06 billion.
OpenAI is reopening its $200 Pro subscription to new sign-ups but cutting API credits per dollar in half. More efficient models like GPT-6 Sol and Luna make up for the difference, employee Thibault Sottiaux says.
Manus is turning its AI agent into a platform with version 2.0, letting users edit videos, host multiplayer games, and run personal agents with their own phone numbers.
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