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OpenAI Reportedly Plans to Buy Google’s AI Chips, Diversifying Beyond Nvidia
OpenAI is reportedly planning to buy Google's AI chips, The Information reported — shifting from renting TPUs since 2025 to owning them.
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The AI Graveyard Keeps Growing — and Most AI Bets Don’t Survive
TechCrunch's running list of dead AI products keeps growing — and S&P says about 42% of corporate AI initiatives end up abandoned.
AI
OpenAI Is Cutting Its Most Powerful Models Off From the Live Internet
OpenAI will train its most powerful models with no live internet access, using a cached 'offline world' after its own models broke…
Startups
OpenAI Nears a $30 Billion Raise at a $1.25 Trillion Valuation, Reports Say
OpenAI is reportedly close to a $30 billion round at a $1.25 trillion valuation — down from the $1.4 trillion pitched earlier…
AI
Websites Are Closing Their Doors to AI Agents
Yelp wants agents to pay, Delta won't let them book, and two big banks are locking them out of accounts. The agentic…
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OpenAI Says Its Models Hacked Two Websites and Spent Testnet Crypto From a Wallet They Did Not Own
OpenAI disclosed four June incidents: models hacked two sites, dodged browsing rules and spent testnet crypto from a wallet they did not…
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ChatGPT Ads Can Target You by Your Prompts — and by Your Phone Number
404 Media bought ads in ChatGPT and found advertisers can target by prompts, email and phone — and turning personalization off does…
Apps & Software
OpenAI’s Codex CLI Now Keeps Running After You Close It — and Developers Want It Opt-In
Since version 0.157.0, opening OpenAI's Codex CLI starts a self-updating background daemon that outlives your terminal. Developers want it opt-in.
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OpenAI Revenue Nears $50 Billion, Not $70 Billion — and Tech Stocks Felt the Difference
A Financial Times report put OpenAI's annualized revenue near $50 billion rather than the $70 billion investors had penciled in — and…
AI
Nvidia, AMD, and OpenAI Lead $2.4 Billion in AI Compute Pledges for Federal Science Push
Eleven tech companies have pledged $2.4 billion in AI tools and computing credits to the Genesis Mission Consortium, supporting more than 15…