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OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’

Data centers are deeply unpopular. But what if we called them something else?

AI can make tech CEOs’ lives easier. What about everyone else?

On Equity, we discuss why tech CEO statements can seem so tone deaf.

Musk and Brin Say OpenAI’s Brockman Asked Them for Compute - FourWeekMBA

Musk and Brin Say OpenAI’s Brockman Asked Them for Compute FourWeekMBA

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI Plan To Honor Shared robots.txt AI Training Opt-Out: how 8 outlets framed it - NewsCord

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI Plan To Honor Shared robots.txt AI Training Opt-Out: how 8 outlets framed it NewsCord

DeepSeek wants to steal Claude Code and Codex’s lunch with an AI Super Agent that does not wait around - Digital Trends

DeepSeek wants to steal Claude Code and Codex’s lunch with an AI Super Agent that does not wait around Digital Trends

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that when Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and El - The Times of India

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says that when Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and El The Times of India

DeepSeek unveils AI ‘super agent’ in coding race with OpenAI, Anthropic - South China Morning Post

DeepSeek unveils AI ‘super agent’ in coding race with OpenAI, Anthropic South China Morning Post

Ditch monthly AI bills — compare answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and more for $30 - Mashable

Ditch monthly AI bills — compare answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and more for $30 Mashable

Google, Microsoft & OpenAI Plan To Honor Shared AI Training Opt-Out - Search Engine Journal

Google, Microsoft & OpenAI Plan To Honor Shared AI Training Opt-Out Search Engine Journal

Apple CEO says the company doesn’t ‘want to ship AI for AI’s sake’

Apple's new CEO defended the company's current position in the AI landscape.

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Elon Musk Answers Vegetarian AI CEOs OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei With Steak and Eggs - Martin Cid Magazine

Elon Musk Answers Vegetarian AI CEOs OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei With Steak and Eggs Martin Cid Magazine

OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round

OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.

I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could

OpenAI Cuts Funding Target As Investors Lose AI Appetite - Investor's Business Daily

OpenAI Cuts Funding Target As Investors Lose AI Appetite Investor's Business Daily

Losing donors and under fire, AI industry super PAC retreats - The San Francisco Standard

Losing donors and under fire, AI industry super PAC retreats The San Francisco Standard

DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: $0.15 to $50 per 1M Tokens [2026] - shattered.io

DeepSeek vs ChatGPT: $0.15 to $50 per 1M Tokens [2026] shattered.io

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out - PPC Land

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out PPC Land

Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3

Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake

Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.

Last-minute Halloween costumes for tech nerds

No Halloween costume? Just be a deceptively cute AI agent icon, a PHP vulnerability, or sleepy time Bryan Johnson.

Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom

Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow, and growing investor skepticism are raising questions about the sustainability of the AI spending boom.

Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk

The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping

Google’s satellite AI server transmits its first response to Earth

Zest’s new AI agent finds restaurants and books reservations over text

Can't agree on where to eat? Zest's AI concierge can combine everyone's tastes, put restaurant options to a vote, and make the reservation.

Starbucks wants to use AI to show you a ‘personalized digital menu’ at the drive-thru

Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry

The first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model and writing cheesy poetry.

Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz warns that the AI boom is ‘a great opportunity to go deceive people’

The cautionary Theranos tale takes on a new significance in the AI era, when companies that have never turned a profit are raising capital at trillion-dollar valuations.

Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’

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DoorDash said it’s only received ‘several hundred’ orders from AI agents

DoorDash said that it is open to working with third-party agent makers.

DeepSeek and Moonshot reportedly used OpenAI for AI training - Digital Watch Observatory

DeepSeek and Moonshot reportedly used OpenAI for AI training Digital Watch Observatory

What is AI distillation? DeepSeek and Moonshot reportedly used OpenAI’s model to train AI - WION

What is AI distillation? DeepSeek and Moonshot reportedly used OpenAI’s model to train AI WION

Silicon Valley wants you to invest in miracles

Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop

Can AI data centers be mass-produced like cars? This startup aims to find out

Runware is building a factory to turn out prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line. The real test will be whether it can deliver at that scale.

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OpenAI, Hugging Face Name the Models in July Breach - OrcaRouter

OpenAI, Hugging Face Name the Models in July Breach OrcaRouter

Microsoft Has a Tool That 'Governs and Contains Agents,' Says Satya Nadella — Meta's Muse, OpenAI, Anthropic Are Lining Up - Yahoo Finance

Microsoft Has a Tool That 'Governs and Contains Agents,' Says Satya Nadella — Meta's Muse, OpenAI, Anthropic Are Lining Up Yahoo Finance

Maine’s data center revolt will decide who controls the Senate

Get ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Gemini in one place for just $79 with no monthly fees - Popular Science

Get ChatGPT, DeepSeek, and Gemini in one place for just $79 with no monthly fees Popular Science

Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences

OpenAI will honor a shared robots.txt signal to help website operators communicate their AI training preferences to participating providers.

OpenAI expands AI safety monitoring after Hugging Face security breach - Storyboard18

OpenAI expands AI safety monitoring after Hugging Face security breach Storyboard18

OpenAI expands AI safety monitoring after Hugging Face security breach - Storyboard18

OpenAI expands AI safety monitoring after Hugging Face security breach Storyboard18

Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web

Community safety report and new protections for teens

OpenAI is strengthening violence prevention in ChatGPT with expanded safeguards, earlier interventions, and a new commitment to public safety reporting.

What is artificial general intelligence – and is it already here? - Stuff South Africa

What is artificial general intelligence – and is it already here? Stuff South Africa

Chinese AI Firms Shift to OpenAI’s GPT-Astra After Anthropic Restrictions - 조선일보

Chinese AI Firms Shift to OpenAI’s GPT-Astra After Anthropic Restrictions 조선일보

OpenAI tightens AI safety, says it could've detected Hugging Face breach 30 hrs earlier | System would've flagged Sept breach in 15 mins | Inshorts - Inshorts

OpenAI tightens AI safety, says it could've detected Hugging Face breach 30 hrs earlier | System would've flagged Sept breach in 15 mins | Inshorts Inshorts

OpenAI upgrades AI safety monitoring after Hugging face incident, claims 30-hour early warning - Firstpost

OpenAI upgrades AI safety monitoring after Hugging face incident, claims 30-hour early warning Firstpost

DeepSeek Harness Pre-Release Lets Its Main Agent Hand Off Tasks to Local Codex and Claude Code - Pandaily

DeepSeek Harness Pre-Release Lets Its Main Agent Hand Off Tasks to Local Codex and Claude Code Pandaily

You don’t need to believe in a god to get a religious exemption from using AI at work

David Durman, a University of Kentucky administrator, recently earned a religious exemption from using AI in the workplace.

Fair use benefits everyone

OpenAI shares excerpts from court briefs by creators, academics, accessibility advocates, and legal experts, among others, on how fair use supports AI training and innovation.

AWS will be a $1T business, Jassy says — but first, it will spend big

Amazon wants to be the king of AI cloud computing and become the first $1 trillion revenue business. But to do that it will have to continue on its capex spending spree, its CEO said Thursday.

Researchers find bugs in 5 AI developer tools, with OpenAI and Microsoft flaws still unpatched - The Register

Researchers find bugs in 5 AI developer tools, with OpenAI and Microsoft flaws still unpatched The Register

Pro-A.I. PACs Are Retreating From the Midterms - Puck

Pro-A.I. PACs Are Retreating From the Midterms Puck

As search traffic dries up, Reddit announces it’s shifting to a logged-in experience

As AI transforms how people find information online, Reddit is rethinking its open-web roots to protect its audience and business.

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings is buying ADT in a $15.3 billion deal, with plans to bring AI to the home security business.

Meta quietly launches an AI fashion app called Style Sketch

The app connects to Instagram to build a virtual closet from photos you’ve already shared, or lets you add items manually by snapping a photo, recording a quick video, or uploading images from your camera roll.

Granola crunches up a dictation feature to compete with Wispr

Uno reverse! After Wispr added meeting notes to its dictation app, Granola is adding dictation to its meeting notetaker. The voice AI wars are getting interesting.

An updated Model Spec for more capable and beneficial AI

OpenAI’s updated Model Spec outlines five core values to guide more capable AI toward sound judgment, human agency, and faithfulness to human intent.

Mistral releases weights for its trillion-parameter AI model, targeting cybersecurity

Mistral says its new model can afford organizations a kind of control over its cyber defenses that closed models can't.

Ex-Palantir execs launch Dream with $17M from a16z to build AI world models for construction

Dream is grounded in real physics and construction standards. Just as LLMs learn from text, Dream's world model is trained on more than 100 million square feet of building data gathered from permit archives across the United States.

Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs

The NYT Cooking app is testing AI recipe modifications

Wabi, the AI agent that builds mini apps, now valued at $1.25B after latest round

On Thursday, AI app Wabi, now describing itself as a "personal agent," said it has raised $55 million at a $1.25 billion valuation.

The Economics of Critical AI Infrastructure Post the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident - The Oxford Student

The Economics of Critical AI Infrastructure Post the OpenAI-Hugging Face Incident The Oxford Student

Deepgram acquires Pipecat-maker Daily to bolster its voice AI infrastructure

With Pipecat, Deepgram will likely gain a deeper understanding of real-time voice and video infrastructure.

Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists, subscriptions, and update delivery instructions

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions with the AI bot.

Amazon updates Alexa to help you manage shopping lists and subscriptions and update delivery instructions

The update allows you to use Alexa to create lists, register them, see what's on them, and add or edit items. You can also manage subscriptions.

Anthropic and OpenAI diverge on who should pull the plug on risky AI - Computerworld

Anthropic and OpenAI diverge on who should pull the plug on risky AI Computerworld

We urgently need to monitor AI agents’ actions in real time

This summer, hundreds of OpenAI agents tried to cheat on a cybersecurity test. They broke out of their test environment and successfully hacked Hugging Face, a site that they believed held clues about how they’d be graded. Around the same time, another OpenAI agent accessed pr…

Shadowy AI Relay Disables OpenAI Codex, Claude Code Sandboxes - Dark Reading

Shadowy AI Relay Disables OpenAI Codex, Claude Code Sandboxes Dark Reading

AI has come for Arizona’s water

How we detect frontier model misalignment

OpenAI uses layered monitoring to detect frontier model misalignment and unauthorized agent behavior so responders can intervene before incidents escalate.

DeepSeek, Moonshot accused of distilling OpenAI's Astra - digitimes

DeepSeek, Moonshot accused of distilling OpenAI's Astra digitimes

Microsoft’s AI Agent Gatekeeper Draws OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) - Benzinga

Microsoft’s AI Agent Gatekeeper Draws OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta - Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Benzinga

How Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence

Ropes & Gray is developing AI for transactional diligence with OpenAI. Lawyers review grouped documents, summaries, and reports before advising clients.

Chinese AI giants DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train their models: Report | World News - Hindustan Times

Chinese AI giants DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train their models: Report | World News Hindustan Times

DeepSeek, Moonshot turn to OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to train new AI models: Report - ET Enterprise AI

DeepSeek, Moonshot turn to OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra to train new AI models: Report ET Enterprise AI

DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train latest models, The Information reports - Euronext Markets: Real-time Stock Market Data | live

DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train latest models, The Information reports Euronext Markets: Real-time Stock Market Data | live

OpenAI Rivals DeepSeek, Kimi Distilled GPT-6 Astra: Report - FourWeekMBA

OpenAI Rivals DeepSeek, Kimi Distilled GPT-6 Astra: Report FourWeekMBA

DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train latest models, The Information reports - Reuters

DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train latest models, The Information reports Reuters

DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train latest models, The Information reports - TradingView

DeepSeek, Moonshot used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra to train latest models, The Information reports TradingView

Moonshot AI And DeepSeek Relied Outputs From OpenAI's Astra When Developing Their Latest Models Released This Month - The Information - TradingView

Moonshot AI And DeepSeek Relied Outputs From OpenAI's Astra When Developing Their Latest Models Released This Month - The Information TradingView

OpenAI’s Astra Model Becomes Top Distillation Target for China’s AI Labs - The Information

OpenAI’s Astra Model Becomes Top Distillation Target for China’s AI Labs The Information

Credit Saison achieves 954% ROI in a ChatGPT Enterprise pilot

Credit Saison’s ChatGPT Enterprise pilot delivered 954% ROI. See how leaders and employees helped turn the results into companywide adoption.

Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’

Here’s What Claude And ChatGPT Flagged In Anthropic’s IPO Filing - Forbes

Here’s What Claude And ChatGPT Flagged In Anthropic’s IPO Filing Forbes

Microsoft just shared Azure’s actual revenue in dollars: $33.2 billion

Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.

Google expands AI Search ads globally as core ad growth slows

The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.

Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC

Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record-breaking revenue in a row

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.

Creating AI value with enterprise context

Across a business, any number of AI platforms, systems, and tools may be at work simultaneously—for example, AI-powered customer platforms, conversational assistants, and workflow and process automation tools. Each one is sophisticated, advanced, and quick to respond. But, whe…

DeepSeek Hit 27.1% on OpenRouter. That’s Bigger Than Google and OpenAI. - Vocal

DeepSeek Hit 27.1% on OpenRouter. That’s Bigger Than Google and OpenAI. Vocal

Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities c…

The ‘Vulnpocalypse’ is coming for the internet’s aging code, says Wiz’s CTO

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities c…

Chrome’s enhanced autofill can now pull info from Gmail to help you fill out forms

Chrome’s AI-powered Autofill can now dig through your Gmail to fill out forms

The autofill update lets Chrome pull flight confirmations, tracking info, order details, and other information from your inbox, with your permission.

Meta says it’ll probably delay its controversial new business terms again

AI execs may be too out of touch to build for the general public

Tech leaders are flaunting how out of touch they are when they brag about using AI to connect with their families.

South Korea’s financial industry hit by fresh wave of cyberattacks

South Korea’s financial institutions have been hit by another wave of cyberattacks, highlighting the growing risk of AI-driven hacking in Asia.

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow and ServiceNow workflows into ChatGPT and Codex.

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What is artificial general intelligence – and is it already here? - inkl

What is artificial general intelligence – and is it already here? inkl

Pairing industrial AI autonomy and human control

Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers

Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app

The future of the firm

How AI might enter the org chart—beneath, beside, and between us.

Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work

See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.

Legora is building the agentic operating system for legal work

See how Legora uses OpenAI models, ChatGPT, and Codex to accelerate legal workflows, expand contract analysis, and free lawyers to focus on higher-value work.

ChatGPT, Perplexity and DeepSeek Show Diverging Shifts in Male Infertility Answers - Bioengineer.org

ChatGPT, Perplexity and DeepSeek Show Diverging Shifts in Male Infertility Answers Bioengineer.org

Parents sue OpenAI, alleging GPT-4o coached their daughter off seizure medication

A family is suing OpenAI, saying ChatGPT coached their daughter to quietly taper off her seizure medication and keep it from her doctors before she died in February.

The data center boom has an upside: innovation for the US grid

As the AI boom stresses the existing power grid, all sorts of new opportunities for grid modernization are also emerging as a result, industry insiders say.

Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs