OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the
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With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the
OpenAI Group PBC today announced it’s rolling out a stricter version of its ChatGPT chatbot created for younger users. The announcement of “ChatGPT for Teens” follows scrutiny over how generative arti
Rundoo Inc., the creator of an artificial intelligence-native system-of-record for independent supply stores, said today it has closed on a 30 million Series B round of funding, bringing its total amo
Bloomberg: Sources: AI chip startup Fractile is in talks to raise ~600M at a 6.5B pre-money valuation, up from ~1B in May, and has an initial ~250M deal with Anthropic — Fractile, a startup developing
CNBC: Sources: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told employees at an all-hands that OpenAI “will be a public company in 2027”, or sooner if “our business continues to inflect” — OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar told empl
Bloomberg: Stripe Agrees to Buy AI Firm OpenRouter; No Terms Disclosed — Stripe Inc. has agreed to buy OpenRouter Inc., an artificial intelligence startup that helps developers access and switch betwe
Stripe Inc. today said it has agreed to acquire artificial intelligence model routing startup OpenRouter Inc. in a deal reported at 7.5 billion or more. Neither company disclosed terms and the reporte
Velaura AI Inc., a developer of low-power artificial intelligence chips, today announced that it has raised 110 million in funding. Seligman Ventures led the Series A round. It was joined by Samsung C
Juro Osawa / The Information: Alibaba says its new open-source multimodal model, Qwen3.8-27B, passed 1M+ downloads within a few days of release, making it one of its fastest-growing models — Alibaba G
Allie K. Miller’s tweet notes that AI is being applied beyond traditional job functions: designers use it more for engineering tasks than design itself, sales teams rely on AI primarily for marketing
DFlash 2 is here! Qwen3.8-27B at 70 tok/s on an M5 Max MacBook Pro. ⚡ Up to 4.6× the speed of autoregressive decoding, with the same output. This is the next generation of DFlash, seeded at Z Lab and
A startup called Synthefy Inc. said today it’s going to for numbers what large language models did for words after raising 6.5 million in seed funding today. The funds will help to expand its new foun
Mozilla Corp. rolled out updates today to its popular Firefox browser, updating an artificial intelligence assistant called Smart Window, currently in beta, that lets users check answers, summarize op
Google LLC today revealed it’s partnering with the U.K. government and the country’s aviation industry on a new initiative called Operation Blue Skies that aims to use artificial intelligence insights
An artificial intelligence startup called Hypercubic Inc. is taking on the problem of modernizing legacy applications written in the COBOL programming language after raising 5.3 million in seed fundin
Cecilia Kang / New York Times: OpenAI debuts ChatGPT for Teens, a mode that limits high-risk chats about self-harm, eating disorders, violence, and more, and has studying tools and guardrails — The ar
Thomas Claburn / The Register: OpenAI says new monitoring and security safeguards will add 20% compute overhead to monitored inference workloads; costs will not be passed on to customers — Expanded mu
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Palona, which uses AI agents to automate real-time workflows in brick-and-mortar businesses, raised a 20M Series A, following a 10M seed in January 2025 — Artificial inte
Alex Heath / Time: Sam Altman says OpenAI's decision to pace its AI development was caused by a collection of research observations showing “various degrees of misalignment” — “I think it is a good ti
Something super exciting happened quietly on HF over the past month: AI agents became AI builders, and they did it in the open! During our ICML reproduction challenge, 1,221 humans teamed up with codi
Owen Dahlkamp / Politico: Sources: AI-drafted bills are swamping the US House's Legislative Counsel, which now spends more time fixing them than it would spend to draft them from scratch — Congression
Wall Street Journal: Sources: OpenAI's Q2 revenue grew 18% QoQ to 6.7B, while its losses deepened; Anthropic's Q2 revenue more than doubled to 11.6B, with a small operating profit — The ChatGPT-maker'
Pew Research Center: Survey: 52% of Americans say they are more concerned than excited about increased AI use in daily life, up from 37% in 2021, including 55% of those under 30 — Americans have becom
Gravis Robotics AG said today it has bagged 200 million in funding from SoftBank Group Corp. in what is the largest-ever Series A round for a construction robotics startup. The startup was founded in
Greg Brockman: Greg Brockman calls the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident “a watershed moment” and discusses how OpenAI and other organizations can use AI to improve cyber defenses — The OpenAI-Hugging Face
Higgsfield Inc., a generative artificial intelligence video and image creation platform for professionals, today announced that it has raised 400 million in early-stage funding, quadrupling the compan
OpenAI Group PBC today announced that it has signed a 20-year lease for a sprawling data center cluster in Ohio. The campus is being built on the premises of a former uranium processing plant. The con
Artificial intelligence startup Palona AI, which is building an intelligence operating layer for physical businesses, is ready to show what it can do after closing on a 20 million round of early-stage
The greatest invention in pet tech in recent years is the litter robot. A machine that scoops your kitties' poop so you don't have to - what else could a cat owner possibly want? How about insights in
ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left h
Washington Post: How concerns about AI became an important midterms issue, with candidates adding AI and data center policies to their websites in ~40% of races across the US — Across the United State
Antoine Tardif / Unite.AI: Pathway, which is developing AI models based on what it calls its “Post-Transformer” BDH architecture, raised a 30M seed at a 500M valuation — AI research company Pathway ha
Bloomberg: Sources: Stripe has finalized a deal to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than 7B; OpenRouter was valued at 1.3B in May — Stripe Inc. has finalized an agreement to acquire Op
Bloomberg reports Stripe agreed to buy model router OpenRouter for over $7B; Stripe has not confirmed the deal.
OpenRouter Inc., which sells developers a single door into more than 400 artificial intelligence models, has agreed to terms to sell itself to Stripe Inc. for north of 7 billion, according to a report
Truly epic AI weekend workflow ⬇️ Requires: phone, headphones, ChatGPT mobile app, OpenAI paid subscription, auto mode, somewhat aggressive permissions - set up codex remote - fully charge your phone
Grace Shao / Bloomberg: Chinese citizens are more optimistic about AI than Americans because AI is seen as a practical tool in China that disrupts a smaller share of its population — Different experie
Financial Times: Effective Altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to “effective giving” — Expected IPOs for An
Apple has reportedly trained a custom AI model for the China market alongside domestic tech giant Alibaba, a rare cross-border partnership that cuts across growing tensions between Beijing and Washing
CONFIRMED: @c_valenzuelab, cofounder and co-CEO of @runwayml, is speaking at Thesis, our inaugural conference on work and AI. Language models predict the next token, aka the next unit of text. Runway’
In my conversations with leaders at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, I'm just going to say that they don't seem to worry about context length/context windows. Like, at all. They all have crazy long-runn
OpenAI and Anthropic have slashed prices for their flagship models—OpenAI cut GPT‑5.6 Luna by 80 % and Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5 at half the cost of Fable 5—in an effort to stem customer defect
Reuters: Sources: Apple trained a China-specific LLM with Alibaba's support, which would make Apple the first foreign company to offer a proprietary AI model in China — Apple (AAPL.O) has trained a la
Bloomberg: SpaceX closes its 60B acquisition of Cursor, two months after SpaceX formally announced it had agreed to acquire the startup — SpaceX has completed a 60 billion acquisition of artificial in
Yes, there’s an artificial intelligence bubble, no denying that anymore — so the question becomes, “Will it burst, and when?” You’d be forgiven for thinking it could happen soon, given the continuing,
Z.ai: Z.ai debuts GLM-5.3, using the same base model as GLM-5.2 with scaled post-training for stronger coding and cyber skills, with weights due in two weeks — With GLM-5.2 we built the stack: IndexSh
Reuters: Z.ai says GLM-5.3 scores 84.5% on CyberGym, vs. Mythos 5's 83.8%, and its most sensitive cybersecurity functions will only be available to verified users — Chinese AI startup Z.ai said on Fri
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: A look at workers in India who are paid extra to wear devices that capture first-person video of factory and other work tasks for use as AI robot training data — Robotics comp
ai is the ultimate grow the pie event cheaper inference = better gross margins for application companies, AND beautiful cohort expansion for model and inference companies Sequoia Capital GP @sonyatwee
A new report from threat intelligence company Flashpoint has found that criminals now use artificial intelligence in day-to-day operations, well past the experimental stage. The 2026 Global Threat Int
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about a question that’s been rocketing around the tech industry for the past week: Is Google losing the AI race? That’s
Grok Bot just passed Google’s “I'm not a robot?” test I fail this task sometimes tbh 😅 Media Introducing Grok Bot, now in early beta. Bots are AI teammates that do real work for you. They sign in to y
Mindgard Ltd., a leader in artificial intelligence cybersecurity, announced today that it raised 30 million in early funding to scale up its product in response to significant demand across the indust
Ara Kharazian / Ramp: Ramp's July AI index: Anthropic's market share hit 43.5%, widening its lead over OpenAI; Fable 5 is only 6% of tokens businesses bought, likely due to high cost — Dear Colleagues
Financial Times: Sources: Anthropic's investors expect it to float at a 2T+ valuation in an October IPO and to hit 100B to 120B in annualized revenue by the end of 2026 — Anthropic investors expect th
The OpenAI Foundation is launching AI for Civil Society and Philanthropy to help nonprofits, community organizations, and other trusted partners put advanced AI to work on urgent challenges, develop p
Denmark-based LuaBio ApS, operating as Again, today announced the acquisition of Genomatica Inc. to combine the company’s cutting-edge biomanufacturing capabilities with Geno’s artificial intelligence
Google DeepMind said today it wants to bring the artificial intelligence revolution to the estimated 70 million people across the world who are either deaf or hard of hearing with the launch of sign-l
Palo Alto Networks Inc. said today its Unit 42 consulting arm will put OpenAI Group PBC’s frontier cyber models to work inside customer environments, expanding a service it launched earlier this year
Wall Street Journal: Some health and fitness obsessives are using AI for hyperpersonalized training, building custom dashboards and tools to analyze their sleep, workouts, and diet — From marathon tra