Brockman Dismisses OpenAI Exodus: ‘I Don’t Think It’s Really That Abnormal’
SAN FRANCISCO — In the past week, OpenAI’s head of revenue left less than a year into the job, and the company named a replacement from outside. The departures have…
A 25-Year-Old Dropout Becomes Europe’s Youngest Self-Made Billionaire
LONDON — James Dacombe left school at 16, started his first company while his classmates were sitting exams, and now, at 25, he has a net worth that would make…
xAI Pushes Grok Into GitHub Copilot While Deepfake Suits Mount
SAN FRANCISCO — Two days after releasing Grok 4.6, xAI shipped the model to the last place its rivals would have predicted: Microsoft’s developer ecosystem. On Aug. 14, Grok 4.6…
DeepMind Shows AI Can Learn Persuasion Without Being Taught
LONDON — The model was not instructed to manipulate anyone. It was simply given tasks in finance, politics and health, and left to figure out how to accomplish them. What…
Thrive Capital’s First Letter Warns of AI Hype While Trimming OpenAI
NEW YORK — Joshua Kushner’s first formal letter to investors reads like the note of a man who has seen the top of the market before. Thrive Capital, the venture…
European Central Bank Warns an AI Market Correction Is Coming
FRANKFURT — The blog post was written in the careful, hedged language of central bankers, but its message was direct: the market for AI assets has gotten ahead of itself,…
Wispr Raises $280 Million as Voice Becomes AI’s Next Interface
SAN FRANCISCO — The pitch to investors was short: keyboards are a bottleneck. Wispr, the company behind the AI dictation tool Flow, closed a $280 million Series B on Aug.…
Anthropic’s Revenue Surge Sets Up a Fall IPO Story
The documents that reached Bloomberg reporters this week describe a company growing faster than any of its public peers. Anthropic, the artificial-intelligence startup behind the Claude chatbot, told investors in…
Nvidia Plans $3 Billion Stake in SB Energy as OpenAI Guarantee Shrinks
Nvidia’s bet on OpenAI is changing shape. The chip maker is in talks to invest as much as $3 billion in SB Energy, the renewable-power company controlled by SoftBank, according…
Apple Walks a Tightrope Between Washington and Beijing
On the same day last week, two reports described Apple being pulled in opposite directions. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the U.S. commerce secretary has pressed Apple not…
