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SoftBank's Masayoshi Son says AI will need $5 trillion a year by 2040
The SoftBank founder dismissed bubble talk, arguing annual AI capital requirements will scale into the trillions within 15 years.
200 economists and AI leaders warn of jobs 'tsunami' from AI
Signed by Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI executives alongside Nobel laureates, the statement says AI could transform the economy faster than the Industrial Revolution.
Apple sues OpenAI, says ex-engineer used server bug to grab hardware files
Apple's complaint hinges on Chang Liu, an engineer who left for OpenAI in January and allegedly downloaded confidential files weeks later.
Nadella warns AI buyers 'pay twice' — with cash and proprietary data
Microsoft's CEO says enterprises are teaching OpenAI and Anthropic their trade secrets, and pitches open source and cloud-hosted models as the fix.
Apple's OpenAI complaint details 'show and tell' interviews and 400 hires
The 41-page filing alleges OpenAI coached Apple defectors past security checks and asked candidates to bring hardware parts to interviews.
Altman calls Musk's space data centers a short-term sales pitch
The OpenAI CEO's weekend jab lines up with what space-compute engineers have been saying: orbital AI inference is a 2030s business, not a near-term one.
Anthropic localizes Claude pricing in India, its second-largest market
Rupee pricing lands in India, which drives 5.8% of global Claude usage — but UPI payments still aren't supported.
OpenAI hires a product manager for families as ChatGPT ages up
The share of ChatGPT users 35 and older hit 31% in Q2, up from 26% a year earlier, and OpenAI wants a household product.
OpenAI safety head Johannes Heidecke exits amid research reorg
Heidecke's departure follows a restructuring that folds safety teams under research VP Mia Glaese, days after GPT-5.6's launch.
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging hardware trade-secret theft by ex-staff
Apple names OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan and engineer Chang Liu, alleging a pattern of theft as OpenAI races to ship its first device by April 2027.
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 is the 'preferred model' for Microsoft 365 Copilot
The declaration lands days after reports that Microsoft was quietly swapping in its own MAI models to power Word and Excel.
OpenAI faces sanctions bid after allegedly hiding 78M ChatGPT logs from NYT
News plaintiffs say OpenAI concealed pre-searched log samples for two years while claiming the searches were technically infeasible.
Fidji Simo steps down as OpenAI's applications chief, citing chronic illness
Simo will move to a part-time advisor role after a three-month medical leave, leaving Sam Altman without his designated No. 2 ahead of a 2027 IPO.
OpenAI releases Sol with no clear US government approval process
Eighteen months into the Trump administration, nobody — including frontier labs — can explain how AI models get cleared for public release.
Sequoia's David Cahn: AI industry needs $3T in revenue to justify 2026 buildout
Infrastructure spend hits $1.5T next year while Anthropic runs at $60B ARR and OpenAI at $20B — the payback math still doesn't close.
OpenAI shuts down Atlas browser, folds features into ChatGPT and Chrome
The nine-month-old AI browser is dead; its agent capabilities move to a Chrome extension and a beefed-up ChatGPT desktop app.
New York Times says OpenAI hid evidence in ChatGPT copyright case
Court filings allege OpenAI already searched its own training data and kept a 78 million-conversation database before claiming it couldn't.
Meta launches Muse Spark 1.1 to challenge Claude and GPT-5.6 on coding
The agentic coding model prices at $1.25 per million input tokens, slightly above Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5.6 Luna.
OpenAI clears GPT-5.6 for public rollout, launches ChatGPT Work agent
The GPT-5.6 suite — Sol, Terra, and Luna — powers a new agent that pulls context from Slack, Gmail, and Google Drive.
SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI exits to top 25 years of US venture returns
SpaceX went public at $1.77T; with Anthropic and OpenAI queued behind it, the trio will clear $4T in combined value.
OpenAI updates ChatGPT voice mode to interrupt users less often
GPT-Live-1 replaces the older turn-based voice model with full-duplex audio that can listen while it speaks.
Google's SynthID watermark debunks viral McConnell hospital deepfake
Snopes used Google's invisible watermark to confirm a widely-shared image of the ailing senator was AI-generated — a rare public win for detection tech.
xAI releases Grok 4.5, priced at less than half of Claude Opus 4.7
Elon Musk calls the new model Opus-class but faster and cheaper, at $2 per million input tokens and $6 per million output.
OpenAI ships GPT-Live-1, a full-duplex voice model that replaces Advanced Voice Mode
The new model listens and speaks simultaneously, routes to GPT-5.5 for reasoning, and now serves 150M weekly voice users.
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