OpenAI's nonprofit will control a $500B entity while owning $100B+ in equity—an unprecedented governance experiment. Microsoft formalizes partnership even as both companies hedge through diversification. Regulators hold the keys.
FTC orders seven AI giants to reveal how their companion chatbots affect children after teen suicide cases involving ChatGPT and Character.AI. Meta faces particular scrutiny over internal docs permitting romantic chats with minors.
Large U.S. companies just hit the brakes on AI—adoption fell from 14% to 12% in two months, the first decline since tracking began. MIT research explains why: 95% of enterprise pilots deliver zero ROI. The gap between AI hype and workflow reality is widening.
Explore our in-depth analysis of Apple's latest iPad Air. Uncover its features, performance, and where it stands in the competitive tablet market.
The iPad Air just got smarter. Apple quietly dropped its latest tablet via press release, packing it with the M3 chip and a dash of marketing pizzazz.
This isn't a revolution. It's a calculated evolution. The new Air comes in 11-inch and 13-inch flavors, starting at $599 and $799 respectively. The M3 chip promises to be twice as fast as older models – though Apple conveniently skips comparing it to last year's version.
The Magic Keyboard got an upgrade too. For $269 or $319 (depending on size), you'll get function keys and a bigger trackpad. Finally, your iPad can pretend to be a laptop just like its Pro siblings.
Tim Cook teased the launch with a cryptic "something in the Air" post on X. It's a surprisingly quick update, coming less than a year after the previous model. Bloomberg suggests Apple's riding high on recent tablet success and wants to keep the momentum going.
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OpenAI's nonprofit will control a $500B entity while owning $100B+ in equity—an unprecedented governance experiment. Microsoft formalizes partnership even as both companies hedge through diversification. Regulators hold the keys.
Oracle bets $300B on OpenAI's computing future, but the math is stark: OpenAI generates $10B annually while committing to $60B yearly. The deal either transforms Oracle into an AI infrastructure leader—or becomes a cautionary dot-com tale.
Oracle's stock exploded 40% after revealing a $455B AI contract backlog and projections for $144B cloud revenue by 2030. The surge made Larry Ellison briefly the world's richest person—but can the company turn massive bookings into sustainable margins?
Publishers like Reddit and Yahoo launched a new licensing standard to charge AI companies for training data. The Really Simple Licensing protocol lets sites demand payment per crawl or per AI response. No major AI company has agreed to comply yet.
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