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ChatGPT now tracks users for ads by default as OpenAI looks for new revenue

OpenAI has turned on marketing cookies by default for free ChatGPT users. In an email dated April 30, the company said it now shares limited data like cookie IDs and email addresses with advertising ...
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Big tech's AI spending balloons to $725 billion this year

Google posted standout numbers in its latest quarterly report, with cloud revenue growing 63 percent. Rising prices for memory chips and other components are pushing costs even higher. Even with these ...
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OpenAI lands on AWS one day after Microsoft deal restructuring

One day after Microsoft and OpenAI ended their exclusivity agreement, AWS rolled out three new OpenAI services on its Bedrock platform. The new offerings launch as a limited preview and include OpenAI ...
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Anthropic reviewing investor offers that would value the company at over $900 billion

Anthropic is reviewing investor offers for a new funding round that would value the AI company at over $900 billion, Bloomberg reports. That would let Anthropic overtake rival OpenAI as the world's ...
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With Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, Nvidia reveals what really goes into a modern multimodal model

Nvidia has released Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, an open AI model that processes text, images, video, and audio and is built for agentic applications. Training involved 717 billion tokens. Much of the ...
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Google rolls out Gemini memory in Europe and wants you to bring your ChatGPT data along

Google is rolling out personalization features for Gemini in Europe. The main one, "Memories," lets Gemini learn from past chats to tailor future responses. It's on by default and can be turned off in ...
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OpenAI misses revenue targets as Anthropic and Google close in

OpenAI missed internal revenue and user targets for the first quarter of 2026, with fast-growing competition from Google and Anthropic as a key factor. Massive future spending commitments of around ...
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OpenAI says old prompts are holding GPT-5.5 back and developers need a fresh baseline

OpenAI has released a prompting guide for GPT-5.5 with one major takeaway: don't reuse your old prompts. Start fresh with minimal, result-focused instructions. And role definitions, once dismissed as ...
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Musk and Altman face off in court over OpenAI's for-profit pivot

The trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is underway. Musk is seeking $150 billion in damages and a reversal of OpenAI's restructuring. Musk accuses Altman of stealing what was originally ...
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Anthropic says stronger AI models cut better deals, and the losers don't even notice

In a week-long experiment, Anthropic let Claude agents buy and sell goods for employees. The result: stronger models negotiated better prices. The catch: the people stuck with weaker agents had no ...
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Sam Altman outlines five principles that double as justification for OpenAI's business decisions

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has published five principles to guide the company's future work. They frame OpenAI's role as decentralizing power over AI through broad user access. The principles cover ...
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Meta wants to power AI data centers with solar energy from space

Meta has signed a deal with startup Overview Energy for up to one gigawatt of space-based solar power to feed the massive energy demands of its AI data centers. Satellites would collect sunlight in ...