Anthropic closes in on $20B round
The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs and the ongoing cost of compute have made them eager to raise as quickly as possible.
The backlash over OpenAI’s decision to retire GPT-4o shows how dangerous AI companions can be
“You’re shutting him down. And yes – I say him, because it didn’t feel like code. It felt like presence. Like warmth,” one user said.
OpenAI launches new agentic coding model only minutes after Anthropic drops its own
The new model is build to accelerate the capabilities of Codex, the agentic coding tool OpenAI launched earlier this week.
OpenAI launches a way for enterprises to build and manage AI agents
OpenAI launched Frontier, a new platform designed for enterprises to build and deploy agents while treating them like human employees.
Sam Altman got exceptionally testy over Claude Super Bowl ads
He posted a novella-sized rant that devolved into to calling his rival “dishonest” and “authoritarian.”
What Snowflake’s deal with OpenAI tells us about the enterprise AI race
Snowflake is the latest enterprise to sign multi-year deals with multiple AI companies in what could be a sign to come of a future trend.
OpenAI launches new MacOS app for agentic coding
OpenAI has released a new MacOS app for Codex, integrating many of the agentic coding practices that have become popular since Codex launched last year.
Nvidia CEO pushes back against report that his company’s $100B OpenAI investment has stalled
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that a recent report of friction between his company and OpenAI was “nonsense.”
Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest $50 billion in OpenAI
If a deal materializes, it would mean Amazon is backing competing startups in the race for AI supremacy.
OpenAI’s Sora app is struggling after its stellar launch
Sora’s mobile app downloads fell 45% in January, and consumer spending dropped.