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Sam Altman is hiring someone to worry about the dangers of AI - The Verge
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CNBC
Oracle shares on pace for worst quarter since 2001 as new CEOs face concerns about AI buildout
Investors want to know if Oracle, under new CEOs Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia, can pay for and deliver data centers packed with Nvidia chips for OpenAI.
CNBC
Amazon faces 'leader's dilemma' — fight AI shopping bots or join them
Agents like OpenAI's Instant Checkout and Perplexity's Instant Buy threaten to reshape the e-commerce landscape.
TechCrunch
OpenAI says AI browsers may always be vulnerable to prompt injection attacks
Since Google launched its AI Overviews in May 2024, the percentage of news searches that don't lead to clicks on news websites has increased from 56%...
Bloomberg
China’s OpenAI Rivals Unveil Sales Details Ahead of Stock Debuts
Chinese OpenAI contenders MiniMax and Zhipu AI offered the first look into their business models and profit prospects in listing filings, revealing revenue constraints compared with their deep-pocketed Silicon Valley peers.
Bloomberg
OpenAI Sees Better Margins on Business Sales, Report Says
OpenAI has squeezed better margins out of its enterprise business this year, as it races to maintain its pole position in artificial intelligence, according to a report in The Information.
Reuters
Exclusive: SoftBank races to fulfill $22.5 billion funding commitment to OpenAI by year-end ...
SoftBank has sold Nvidia, T-Mobile stakes to fund OpenAI commitment · SoftBank could tap undrawn margin loan backed by Arm shares...
CNBC
Google was at risk of losing its dominance — until it promoted this AI executive
Josh Woodward, a 16-year Google veteran, is tasked with running the Gemini app and going head-to-head with OpenAI in the booming generative AI market.
Bloomberg
Inside Disney and OpenAI’s Billion Dollar Deal
Today on the Big Take: Why Disney cut a deal with OpenAI after decades of safeguarding its intellectual property, what it stands to gain — and why now.
PYMNTS.com
OpenAI Rolls out AI Academy for News Organizations | PYMNTS.com
The initiative arrives as generative AI companies face rising legal scrutiny from major news publishers, highlighting both opportunities and tensions...
Reuters
With freebies, OpenAI, Google vie for Indian users and training data | Reuters
Illustration shows message reading "AI artificial intelligence", keyboard and robot hands ... Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters,...
Bloomberg
OpenAI Inks Deals With Colleges, Seizing Early Lead in Education Market
OpenAI has established a beachhead at many US colleges, overcoming university administrators’ wariness of artificial intelligence and giving ChatGPT a headstart on becoming the go-to assistant for the next generation of workers.
Bloomberg
Anthropic, OpenAI Seek More Office Space to Expand in Europe
OpenAI and Anthropic are looking to expand their office footprints in Dublin, a move that underscores both firms’ growing presence in Europe and the race to boost global uptake of their artificial intelligence services.
CNBC
SoftBank leads decline in Japanese tech stocks as worries over AI spending spill over to Asia
The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slipped 1.81%, dragged by losses in Oracle, Broadcom, Nvidia and other AI names.
Bloomberg
First Time in 30 Years the US is Ahead of China in Tech Says Ives
Dan Ives, Global Head of Technology Research at Wedbush Securities joins Bloomberg Intelligence to discuss the latest in the tech industry.
OpenAI is in initial discussions to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon.com Inc. and use its chips, a potential win for the online retailer’s effort to broaden its AI industry presence and compete with Nvidia Corp. Blue Owl Capital will not back a $10 billion deal for Oracle’s next data center after negotiations stalled, according to a report by the Financial Times (Source: Bloomberg)
SCMP
Tencent restructures AI operations, promotes high-profile recruit to chief AI scientist
Tencent Holdings has initiated a major restructuring at its artificial intelligence group with the promotion of recent high-profile recruit Vinces Yao Shunyu, a former researcher at OpenAI.
Without mentioning his Chinese name, Shenzhen-based Tencent’s announcement on Wednesday came with a photo of Yao. He was tasked to lead the company’s new AI infrastructure efforts, including the development of large language models (LLMs).
Yao’s official position is chief AI scientist under the CEO’s office...
Bloomberg
UK Inflation Drops, OpenAI in Talks to Raise $10B From Amazon | The Opening Trade 12/17
UK inflation slipped to its lowest level in eight months, a bigger-than-expected drop that traders saw as all but sealing an interest-rate cut at the Bank of England on Thursday.
OpenAI is in initial discussions to raise at least $10 billion from Amazon and use its chips, a potential win for the online retailer’s effort to broaden its AI industry presence and compete with Nvidia.
The Opening Trade has everything you need to know as markets open across Europe. With analysis you won't find anywhere else, we break down the biggest stories of the day and speak to top guests who have skin in the game. Hosted by Anna Edwards and Lizzy Burden. (Source: Bloomberg)
SCMP
Xiaomi launches open-source model to compete against DeepSeek, Moonshot, OpenAI systems
Chinese smartphone and electric vehicle (EV) giant Xiaomi has released and open-sourced a new artificial intelligence model, MiMo-V2-Flash, that is expected to match up well against the latest systems from DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Anthropic and OpenAI.
Available worldwide on Xiaomi’s developer site MiMo Studio, Hugging Face and the API Platform, MiMo-V2-Flash “particularly excels in reasoning, coding and agentic scenarios, while also serving as an excellent general-purpose assistant for everyday...
CNBC
OpenAI in talks with Amazon about investment that could exceed $10 billion
OpenAI is in discussions with Amazon about a potential investment and an agreement to use its artificial intelligence chips, CNBC confirmed.
Axios
OpenAI, Mattel won't release AI toys in 2025 - Axios
Taking you inside the AI revolution, and delivering scoops and insights on the technologies and regulations reshaping our lives. Sign up for Axios AI+...
Bloomberg
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Updated to Make Images Better and Faster
OpenAI is rolling out an update to ChatGPT that’s intended to generate images better and faster, the latest move by the artificial intelligence developer to bolster its flagship chatbot amid heated competition from Alphabet Inc.’s Google. The new version of ChatGPT Images, announced on Thursday, is designed to make and edit images more precisely, as well as to spit out pictures as much as four times faster than its previous AI image-generation model. The company is also creating a new section w
CNBC
OpenAI poaches Google executive to lead corporate development
Albert Lee previously led corporate development for Google Cloud and Google DeepMind.
CNBC
Trump admin to hire 1,000 specialists for 'Tech Force' to build AI, finance projects
A slew of tech giants, including Amazon Web Services, Apple, Google Public Sector, Dell Technologies, Microsoft, Nvidia and OpenAI, are listed as partners.
Bloomberg
Disney Picks a Side in the OpenAI-Google Rivalry
Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg’s journalists around the world. Today, Austin Carr looks at the different ways Disney has responded to AI companies using images of its copyrighted characters.
Bloomberg
OpenAI-Backed Chai Discovery Raises $130 Million for AI-Designed Molecules
Chai Discovery, an artificial intelligence drug-discovery company backed by OpenAI, has raised $130 million to build a “computer-aided design suite” for molecules.
Bloomberg.com
Wall Street Sees AI Bubble Coming and Is Betting on What Pops It - Bloomberg
The tech giants that account for much of the AI spending have vast resources, but the enormous cost of developing AI ... Provide news feedback or report...
SCMP
China narrows AI gap with US 3 years after initial ChatGPT shock
US start-up OpenAI’s launch of ChatGPT on November 30, three years ago, sent China’s technology industry scrambling to get up to speed on the latest artificial intelligence developments.
Chinese government authorities sent urgent requests to various experts, including professors from Tsinghua University, to provide briefings on the implications of generative AI technology, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
China’s Big Tech firms and ambitious start-ups rushed to roll out their...
CNBC
Oracle says there have been 'no delays' in OpenAI arrangement after stock slide
Oracle pushed back against a report that said the company will complete data centers for OpenAI, one of its major customers, in 2028, rather than 2027.
TechCrunch
Google launched its deepest AI research agent yet — on the same day OpenAI dropped GPT-5.2
... AI news of its own. Topics. AI, deep research, gemini ai, Google, google ai. Julie Bort. Venture Editor. Julie Bort is the Startups/Venture...
CNBC
Altman and Musk launched OpenAI as a nonprofit 10 years ago. Now they’re rivals in a trillion-dollar market
As OpenAI turns 10, the former nonprofit AI lab is at the center of a roughly $1.4 trillion bet on AI infrastructure.