OpenAI complained to EU regulators about Microsoft's anticompetitive conduct—despite Microsoft being its largest investor with $13 billion committed. The move signals OpenAI's shift from AI supplier to platform owner, using regulators as leverage.
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Washington promotes AI in classrooms. New data shows 19% of high schoolers report romantic AI relationships, 42% use it for mental health support. The more schools deploy AI, the more students feel disconnected from teachers—and from reality.
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An AI studio created a photorealistic digital actress and announced agencies were negotiating to sign her. Within 48 hours, SAG-AFTRA condemned it and actors revolted. The speed of rejection reveals where Hollywood draws the line on AI.
Marc Andreessen says Elon Musk's management playbook produces impossible results—but he can count on one hand the founders who could execute even 10% of it. As AI hardware startups raise hundreds of millions, that gap matters more than ever.
OpenAI's new video app requires consent to use your face but lets studios opt out of copyright protection. Disney already blocked its catalog. Meanwhile, the TikTok clone faces a problem its marketing won't mention: the servers can't handle viral growth.
OpenAI's Sora 2 demands permission for your face but lets Spider-Man appear unless studios opt out. The split policy arrives as year-end conversion deadlines loom and competitors launch rival video feeds—testing fair use through product, not precedent.
Amazon launches new Echo devices with its generative AI assistant baked in—seven months after Alexa+ debuted to cautious early access. The hardware is ready. The question is whether daily use has actually improved enough to justify the rebuild.
CoreWeave landed a $14.2 billion Meta contract, its second massive deal in a week. The customer list is diversifying. The risk profile isn't. All growth still depends on the same AI flywheel—and the debt markets that fund it.
Anthropic launched Sonnet 4.5 claiming it's the best coding model, with 30-hour autonomous runs and major infrastructure updates. Released days before OpenAI's event, early tests reveal a gap: benchmark wins don't automatically translate to deployment success.
OpenAI added buy buttons to ChatGPT's 700 million weekly users. Merchants get sales but lose website visits, email lists, and retargeting. The real story isn't checkout convenience—it's who controls commerce when AI becomes the primary shopping interface.
OpenAI launched parental controls for teen ChatGPT users Monday—but also quietly routes emotional prompts from paying adults to more restrictive models without notice. The humanized design that drove adoption now creates safety risks the company is retrofitting.
DeepSeek's sparse attention technique cuts long-context AI inference costs by 10x while slashing API prices over 50%. The technical breakthrough intensifies pressure on OpenAI and Chinese rivals as architectural innovation becomes pricing power.
Tech giants are pouring billions into "world models"—AI that navigates physical space, not just text. World Labs raised $230M. Nvidia's betting its $4.3T valuation on it. The pitch: a $100 trillion market. The reality: 20-40% success rates on simple tasks.
Nvidia commits $100 billion to fund OpenAI's expansion—money that flows right back to Nvidia through chip purchases. Smart strategy or dangerous circular financing? Analysts split on whether it's brilliant or bubble territory.
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